It was back in 1942 that a mysterious, silver-masked Luchador known only as El Santo appeared on the scene in Mexico City as an unknown contestant in an eight-man battle royale. He won that fight, but what was more important was that he would change wrestling forever — an influence…
These days, down the hill in the city, Aspen has the reputation of being a resort Mecca for mostly celebrities and the über rich — and anymore that’s mostly true, but it would seem there’s at least a few vestiges of the counterculture that for years sustained pseudo-pranks like Hunter…
Since time immemorial, man has dreamed of flight. We now know that was a stupid dream, because yesterday I proved once and for all — on behalf of myself and all mankind, except for Erin Roberts, who was wearing a chicken suit like some kind of fucking Benedict Arnold –…
With the half-exception of Pauly D, the entire case of The Jersey Shore is pretty repulsive — but none more repulsive than Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, whose very pores pretty much ooze the stink of date-rape. Like many insufferable douchebags, The Situation is an obvious fan of Abercrombie & Fitch,…
Update 2! The bicycle vs. pigeon vs. moped race results are in. “Victory is partially mine! How I defeated a pigeon but not a chicken on a moped (video).” Update! In the last hour, I’ve been informed to two grievous attempts to put me at a disadvantage: 1). MCA Denver…
Our bad. We haven’t checked our fave celeb website toofab.com in like, forever (that’s the more chill, fashion-oriented baby of TMZ.com, the best website for non-information since Perez got skinny and boring). Late last week, this photo surfaced of Ryan Gosling holding a baby. No explanation as to who the…
Pigeons, it seems, have at least one other use besides shitting on statues: racing. For its upcoming exhibit Thinking About Flying, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver partnered up with the Foothills Pigeon Racing Club to train a group of racing pigeons to fly from the homes of MCA visitors,…
The decorative arts — furniture, ceramics, glass and so on — are the stepchildren of the fine arts. In fact, they used to be known as the minor arts, distinguishing them from the major ones: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and architecture. This distinction fell by the wayside during the last…
It’s a well known fact that animals are people, too, which is why Morrissey doesn’t eat them. Less well known is that some animals are actually people, a rare and fascinating sub-genus of sapiens sapiens known as Furries, which work, play, hunt and mate unseen among the less heteroclite members…
For some of us in this errant world, it’s hard to choose between a best friend and a best guitar, and if you fall in that hardscrabble category, you’ll want to be up at Copper Mountain this weekend for the annual Guitar Town festival, which features big names doing axe…
With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we’ve got most of our survival…
In one of the more ridiculous recent examples of asinine government nitpickery, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a ruling of a lower court in a case alleging that the U.S. Forest Service was charging people $10 to drive up the Mount Evans Scenic Byway in violation…
How do you make these dog days pass by faster? At the East Colfax retro/modern-design emporium Mod Livin’, they’re literally putting the dogs on the block by bringing back the time-honored Best in Show Puppy Auction, featuring two sizes of Eero Aarnio white plastic puppies, all done up in style…
As someone who has long been a champion for art in Colorado, you can imagine how delighted I was when, on July 16, the Bureau of Land Management greenlighted — with many required changes and provisos — the building of Christo’s “Over the River” along the Arkansas River between Salida…
Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum is a truly awesome set of exhibits, and it’s something that every adult — and kid — can enjoy because of both its scope and its appeal to all ages. In fact, the DAM typically does a fantastic job of catering to kids…
Brian Bradley, a street artist who works under the name Frank Kwiatkowski, is a type 1 diabetic and his art focuses on his disease. He makes prints using traffic cones, a technique he came up with and has shared with other artists around town. He is this week’s cover story,…
Denver artist Marie Vlasic is no Shrinking Marie, and it shows in her striking work: full frontal, super-real portraits that don’t shy away from anything, make your jaw drop and sing the body electric. That considered, Vlasic is also an aficionado of the Burning Man experience and thinks everyone should…
As it did last summer, MCA Denver has given itself over to a single exhibit for the season rather than presenting multiple shows, and there are some obvious reasons why. First, it allows the powers-that-be at the museum to mount major exhibits, and second — and probably more important —…
Though Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre remains mum on the subject, it’s basically Internet fact at this point that Charlie Harper, Charlie Sheen’s character on the popular series he helped create, will be killed off in the show’s premier on September 19 — he’ll be replaced by…
It’s the most grueling professional bike race ever held on American soil. Beginning in Colorado Springs, winding up along treacherous passes through Gunnison, Avon, Aspen, Vail and eventually to the State Capitol in Denver, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge is like the Tour de France of America (literally: it’ll have…
Every time I go to the doctor’s office, it’s the same old story: I show up on time for the appointment I’ve made in advance and then wait for two hours, during which they make sure I’m going to pay them and provide six-month-old gossip magazines for me to read…
Waldo came and disappeared from the Arhaus Furniture store in Boulder back in April, but he wasn’t done yet; since then, a stencil of the famously elusive children’s cartoon character has been popping up in several hard-to-spot locations all over Boulder, steadily attracting the attention of Boulder blogger Blempgorf and,…
