At last night’s “Toys & Tupperware,” the opening program of the Feminism & Co. series, the purposeful juxtaposition of topics worked — to a certain extent. Placing an emphasis on women and work, the evening focused on women working in the billion-dollar multi-level marketing and in-home “party” industries (in this…
Here’s a fun fact: Bald cats can get sunburned. Like, really sunburned. I know this because I used to live with a bald cat; my ex-wife randomly decided she wanted one for reasons I never really figured out. His name was Frances. He was a bizarre creature, all wrinkled and…
Stepping into its fourth year, the Feminism & Co. lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver has touched on topics ranging from female bodybuilding to polyamorous relationships, all in an effort to engage conversation about feminism and gender roles within non-traditional topic pairings. In advance of tonight’s…
Glenn Beck may be crazier than Charlie Sheen, as I theorized yesterday in my post comparing the the two media darlings — both have a rich history of saying wacky shit and both lost their jobs as a result — but love him or hate him (and pretty much nobody’s…
This week’s browser game isn’t really much of a game in a traditional sense, it’s more of an experience. Okay, that sounds really stupid and you can punch us for saying it, but there isn’t a better way to describe Osada. Maybe you could call it an interactive music video,…
Whatever your opinions about him — and don’t lie; you have some opinions about him — there’s no doubt that Barry Bonds is one of the most polarizing figures in modern sports, almost universally either revered or reviled. The thing that polarizes people about him is his use of steroids,…
Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don’t believe in no ghosts. It just doesn’t make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my “logic,” suffice it to say…
When our esteemed art director (who we will decline to explicitly name for reasons that will become clear… now) designed the photo that accompanied Embattled Painting of the Virgin Mary fellating Christ appears to weep blood (at right), our fake April Fool’s day joke article, he mentioned he was pretty…
Remember those awesome commercials in the ’80s for Barbizon, the school where you could train to be a model, or just look like one? Well, Bettina May brings her version to Beauty Bar at 3 p.m. this afternoon, with a program that goes way beyond the model “look.” In fact,…
This week’s I-70 closures come just as some local ski resorts are getting into full Spring swing and as new snow continues to pile up: The Interstate will be closed from Empire (exit 232) to Silverthorne (exit 205) on Tuesday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for rock…
When this weekend’s Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city’s top local designers, to a special people’s choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But for at least one big expo…
I am a rabid feminist. (The adjective my mother likes to use is ‘foaming-mouth.’) This does not mean I devote my time to hating men and busting balls or consider women victims of society, but that I believe, to my core, that quality of life should not be determined by…
Because we at Westword pull hella clout in this town, we managed to snag 35 free tickets to the Denver Auto Show, which started yesterday and continues through Sunday — and because we’re pretty much benevolent gods over here, we decided to give them away to you. Tuesday, we asked…
Lewis Black will be in Denver this Friday. Wanna go? Prove it. Westword has two tickets to send you and a friend to Lewis Black’s In God We Rust tour at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. All you have to do to get them is whisper in our little ear…
Sometimes playing games is all about punishment. If you played QWOP, you know exactly what we’re talking about there, because that game was awkward, hard to control and awful in more ways than one could count — but it was also addictive as all hell. This is relevant because GIRP…
Old fairy tales have the potential for great movie fodder: They’re cute and quaint at first blush, but beneath the surface — especially in the originals, tend to nurse dark and disturbing undercurrents. That said, it’s a shame major movie studios have such a knack for screwing them up. In…
Whether you’re looking to buy a new car or just gawk at one, Westword has you covered. We’ve got 35 tickets to give away for the Denver Auto Show, which starts tomorrow. Expect to see the newest 2011 models, as well as sneak peaks of 2012 intros. All you autophiles…
Hawaii is probably the weirdest U.S. State, as Sarah Vowell observed when she interviewed with our Amber Taufen on Friday: The U.S. basically annexed it over the course of a summer, and even today, native Hawaiians recognize a strong loyalty to the former monarchy — something Vowell says, as an…
Nice Myspace photo, Charn.For the second time in a month, a multi-million dollar sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney has surfaced, this time by four former employees. This is hardly a surprise, but there is something to be said for the fact that…
Feathers. Coral. Corsets. All made of paper, all on display last night at the Paper Fashion Show competition at City Hall in downtown Denver. With over 60 jaw-dropping entries, the Paper Fashion Show was a spectacle unlike any other. Pieces went from chic to quirky to star-struck to hot mess,…
It was pretty damn lame on Tuesday when the Denver Art Museum cut down Talia Kauk’s unauthorized installation of 1,000 paper cranes in front of the Hamilton Building and threw it in the trash — and I said as much in the post I wrote on it, where bitched about…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado’s most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two “elders” on a mission trip to…
