It’s long been our position that the Evil Blue Horse that guards DIA is pretty much the baddest-ass public art maybe anywhere in the world — what other city would put something that fucking METAL right outside its airport? — and so when we put together a list of best…
For obvious reasons, many indie games tend to look the same. They’re simple, often created with pixel art and tend to attempt to showcase an idea more than graphical prowess. For those willing to deal with a simple look, Convergence is a very quick experience that fits into the indie…
Some people are bad winners. You know the kind: They win one thing and they get all gloaty and in-your-face and won’t shut up with their stupid self-aggrandizement. You know, people like us. In our post yesterday about Denver Roller Dolls B-team Bruising Altitude’s win over the Rat City Roller…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty,” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. As fun…
Contrary to popular cultural belief, not all cosplayers are mouth-breathing weirdos with no social skills — in fact, the vast majority of them are just normal folks who like to represent their fanhood by dressing up, and what’s so strange about that? That’s the gist of Thorin Klosowski’s post yesterday,…
Presumably because of the large cross-section of Star Wars and Star Trek fans within the nerd community, StarFest is at least in name dedicated to the stars — but if the costumes on display this weekend were any indication, it should probably just be called “EverythingFest.” Literally every type of…
In addition to no tomorrow, what you got at Denver’s Fashion First: A Weekend of F.A.M.E. at Suite 200 this weekend was (pay attention to the acronym here) Fashion, Art, Music and no shortage of Entertainment — and contrary to David Bowie’s well known assessment, it was not hard to…
Beaver Creek, Silverton Mountain and Echo Mountain all called it quits for the season yesterday, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still perfectly good skiing and snowboarding to be had: Copper Mountain, Vail, Winter Park, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass are all throwing rites of Spring bashes this week and Easter…
Anthony Michael Hall defined a subculture for an era once, back in the days of the Brat Pack, when over the course of two great years and three great movies he pretty much single-handedly made it (sort of) okay to be a nerd — at least, that’s what I argued…
If you’ve ever wondered what the future meets the past looks like, you might call to mind the antics of Marty McFly and the wonder DeLorean in the middle of the wild, wild west, or perhaps a robot tromping through the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. You’d be right on…
Now that IKEA and H&M have both signed on the dotted line in metro area, folks who’ve waited patiently for their first chance to walk in the door of either of those trendy Scandinavian outlets will finally have their day. But after those open, and we’re all done dancing in…
After nearly four months of intense contention, the semi-coherent debate continues to rage over Bree Davies’s assessment of the first episode of the MTV version of the popular U.K. series Skins, now drawing opinions from as far away, apparently, as Portugal. Yesterday, Portuguese reader (we’re just kind of excited about…
Although a date hasn’t been confirmed, the internationally renowned clothing store H&M is set to take over the current Nike Town location of the Denver Pavilions on the 16th Street Mall, Pavilions owner Gart Properties announced at a press conference this morning. Being in the heart of downtown Denver and…
Hands down, the Pierley/Redford Personality Test is the weirdest personality test out there. Showing you a series of shapes that blink softly like an old film projection, the test purports to ascertain aspects of your personality by asking you questions like “which shape wants to hurt you” and “where is…
Before there was Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars, there was Wizard of Wor, but nobody remembers that game, so instead we all get to smirk about what may end up being the best game title of year. It’s hard not to have a knee-jerk reaction to a title that includes the…
Samuel Schimek’s newest pop-up incarnation, I ♥ Denver, opened its doors over the weekend in a newly painted second-floor suite at the Denver Pavilions that’s been slicked up with serene ice-blue Scandinavian highlights befitting a city about to welcome IKEA and H&M into its retail fold. Unlike the previous Pavilions…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Though spring…
There are a million movies exactly like it: Promising athlete encounters diversity, gets discouraged, gets encouraged, overcomes diversity, wins something and everybody learns important lessons about life, family and love. That was my main point on Friday when I made fun of the trailer for Soul Surfer, a movie so…
What’s the world coming to? Yesterday Aspen/Snowmass slashed its single day adult lift ticket price to $49; take another $10 off if you have a season pass from another mountain. “Because Easter is two weeks later this year, we’re treating these two weeks as a special bonus,” says Aspen/Snowmass spokewsoman…
Adult Swim has always been Cartoon Network’s flawless answer to the demand of nostalgic man-children everywhere to be served bizarre, absurdist deconstructions of the entertainments they liked when they were actual children (look at the website and tell me that’s not what they do), but in the past, those entertainments…
Cats are weird. As a rule, they pretty much just do what they want all the time, and what they want to do is usually spastic and inscrutable and occasionally evil — which is why, when we heard about the Springtime in the Rockies Cat Show this weekend, we knew…
Amy Harrold, aka Pretty But Ruthless, thinks it’s high time Denver had its own roller derby boutique. Denver is, after all, the home of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club A-team, the top roller derby team in the nation. And Colorado is literally loaded down with leagues – there…
