It’s First Friday, America – get out and celebrate the arts
All across the country people will be celebrating First Friday tonight.
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Speaking in tongues: Happy Equinox from S&R
Predator: One orchid’s descent into hell
Every picture tells two or three stories. At least. If you aren’t a photographer, you may not think about processing. But I have learned, over the past two and a half years, just how important those decisions can be. Everything from the basic choice of how to crop all the way to what kinds of heinous digital fuckery to employ
Read moreAttn Denver art and photo lovers: Light Rail Gallery grand opening in Olde Town Arvada tomorrow night
Hey Denver folks – tomorrow is First Friday. Time for some shameless self-promotion (although others are being promoted, too). Denver FFs are typically about the Santa Fe district, and perhaps the growing RiNo district.
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Wes Brown sent off: the utterly pathetic state of officiating in the Premier League #BREAKINGNEWS
Referee Roger East fucked it in today’s Manchester United/Sunderland match, clearly sending off the wrong player after a foul in the box on United Striker Radamel Falcao. Fine. It’s a fast game and mistakes get made, even by the best of officials. But no, that’s not good enough. Two hours after the match, the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL)
Read moreWhy the Chicago Bulls should have traded Derrick Rose two years ago
Rose will never be the same, but even healthy he’s never going to win an NBA title. My friend Otherwise is a Chicago Bulls fan. I’m a Denver Nuggets fan. So we commiserate sometimes. Back in 2009, Bulls point guard Derrick Rose won the Rookie of the Year award. The next year he was an all-star. And in 2011 he
Read moreOnline dating tips and etiquette: is it rude not to reply?
In the online world, bad behavior can be the best behavior. How is this possible? In “real life,” when someone approaches and asks you out, you’re obliged by social custom to reply. You may not be interested, but you can’t just pretend that the person isn’t standing there talking to you. That would be unspeakably rude. So we have developed
Read moreMuslims and Christians and fundamentalists and progressives: why our arguments are missing the point
We have this little Point/Counterpoint going today in posts from Josh Booth and Otherwise, and in a lot of respects they are reproducing a debate that has raged for a very long time. The problem with this argument, writ large, is that it fundamentally sidesteps a critical question – perhaps the question. We argue about whether religion X advocates Y or
Read moreRacist thugs on Paris subway platform do not represent Chelsea FC supporters: #ktbffh
Pick a football site, any football site. Right now the raging topic of discussion is the abominably racist behavior of some Chelsea fans on a Paris subway platform in advance of the club’s Champions League Round of 16 match vs. Paris St. Germaine yesterday. What the heck, try The Guardian. Many of you know that I’m a Chelsea supporter. And if you
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Dear Scratch Burrito: WTF is with your sweetener policy?
There’s this thing I have begun encountering in a certain sort of restaurant. It’s not a good thing. I first ran across this policy at a place I used to eat in Bend, OR, and it happened again tonight at Scratch Burrito here in Denver. I went in, ordered a burrito bowl and an iced tea. Paid, found a table,
Read moreHallelujah: Puddles the Clown
We’ve written about this song before. Time to add one to the list. Happy Saturday.
Read moreFacebook’s worst nightmare: what if social media is just that – social?
New research suggests that social media is a bubble – how long before it bursts? These are heady days for social media interests. Facebook and Twitter run rampant, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Vine and Instagram are booming, Ello is all kinds of interesting, and somehow or another Google+ and StumbleUpon are still hanging in there. While there isn’t literally a new social net rolling
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