Like graffiti, most adverts sloppily plastered to the screens of the technospere fall under the heading of worthless cultural detritus, but also like graffiti, some pop up out of nowhere and shock us with their inventiveness and brilliance. They cause us to take pause and reflect on our own humanness…
Someone is setting ‘hipster traps” in New York, as photographed by this Reddit user. The awesomely cartoonish bear trap surrounds a pack of American Spirits, a can of PBR and sunglasses. Please warn your jobless young friends to avoid these traps…
In every competition-based TV series, there eventually comes a point where each contestant is more or less qualified to win. After a while, everyone left in the running is good at what they do; they all dance with the same self-effacing vigor or sing at comparable degrees of awful or,…
Celebrating Chuck Norris’s birthday is kind of like celebrating the birthday of time itself: impossible. Nevertheless, several news outlets have reported that the noted martial arts expert and godlike figure of Spartan manliness turns 71 today. Because anything having to do with Chuck Norris is by definition dangerous (the word…
Phone sex is a dying, uh, breed, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a lucrative business. While many folks have turned to the slightly more anonymous internet to rock their socks off, plenty of people still desire a bit more of a human touch. We decided it was due…
It’s been ten years since University of Denver professor Lawrence Golan filed his copyright suit in Colorado District Court, seeking the revocation of copyrights retroactively placed on works previously in the public domain, and now, after a lot of batting around and dual ruling reversals from both the Court of…
Charlie Sheen has a lot going on right now; giving interviews to anyone with a camera and microphone, getting fired, battling for custody of his kids, going bat-shit crazy and winning, duh. But he’s not too busy to capitalize on his social media prowess. Sheen recently set the Guinness World…
For anyone who missed the opening salvo of Denver’s Month of Photography on First Friday, there’s yet time (a lot of time, actually) to check out the more than one hundred venues dedicated this month to showcasing one of the more underappreciated fine arts, and tonight brings yet another excellent…
Our world is full of advertising. Everywhere we look, it’s buy this; feel like that. That’s a given. We’ve come to expect it — maybe even enjoy it sometimes as a subtle reminder that we’re not alone. “Other people want excellent bleaching power from their laundry detergent too? Gosh, I…
March has been declared the Month of Photography in Denver, with many of the city’s different galleries and other art venues mounting shows of photos or other photo-based works. One unusual offering is the duet at Walker Fine Art (300 West 11th Avenue, #A, 303-355-8955, www.walkerfineart.com) titled Triggered Momentum, which…
When it comes to the fine arts, the artists themselves are rightly the main subjects of scholarly and critical interest. But collectors, so important but often overlooked, can actually make art history if they have enough money behind their acquisitions. What’s brought this to mind is a recent experience I…
The exquisite corps is an oddity generally only seen in literature. If you are an exceptionally obsessive lit nerd and/or have taken eighth grade English, you’ve probably encountered it somewhere: someone begins a story with a sentence and other people finish it, sentence by sentence, without seeing any part of…
The city’s Month of Photography has gone from a blip to a major event over the last few years; credit photographer Mark Sink for choreographing this year’s liftoff into the stratosphere. MOP has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, but how do you navigate through all the shows…
When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those PBS-style hist-umentaries with the vaguely English-sounding narrator, the scrolling/zooming over photos and…
When Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Machines Like Us at the Theatre Company of Lafayette come to town simultaneously tomorrow, it will set the stage for one of the most epic battles ever conceived by nerds, who are…
People are into questions right now (they always have been — just ask that Plato dude). It’s the new black. Watson’s recent run on Jeopardy brought them (what is) record ratings, and in case you haven’t heard, he won. Watson, of course, is the IBM super-computer built solely to answer…
In every romantic comedy, it all starts with a lie: a little lie that leads to zany antics, which in turn lead to more elaborate lies, which in turn lead to madcap misunderstandings, which in turn lead to love. And isn’t that what it’s all about? So today, because we…
It’s been almost a week since Charlie Sheen went off the fucking chain on the Alex Jones Show, where the insane rant he went on — in which he (among so many, many other things) called Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre “a contaminated little maggot” who “can’t…
The interview with Charlie Sheen on ABC’s Good Morning America is one of the finest pieces of television I’ve seen in a long time, in no small part to Charlie Sheen’s off-the-wall replies to a straight line of questioning. Here are some of our favorites, in a new meme we’re…
Photographer Mark Sink is one of the grand old men of the Denver cultural tableau, with a colorful past, deep roots in photography (his great-grandfather James L. Breese founded the Camera Club of New York, and Breese’s uncle Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, has been called “the…
Dear Carlos Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, How goes it, man? I saw you on Good Morning America and beyond the sweats, the wide red eyes, excessive talking, cigarette-smoking and orange liquid-consuming antics, you looked fucking great. Any cocaine and whores and stuff like that should obviously be kept far away…
Being a reality TV standby best known for getting kicked off his first gig on MTV’s Road Rules: South Pacific for attacking a black co-star with widely speculated racist motivations is not exactly the most admirable thing to be known for, but this weekend, Abram Boise managed to shit all…
