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A Real Swordfight at the Renaissance Festival July 11
Forsooth, the festivities of ye olde Colorado Renaissance Festival were greatly upset this Satyr-Daye by the young scallywag Connor Ward, aged 22, when the knave allegedly disturbe'd a jousting match, seize'd a sword from a nearbye haystack & absconde'd therefrom, with various citizenry in close pursuite, finally to be tackle'd and mightily detain'd by a brave & costume'd wench.
It's on like Donkey Kong: A brief history (infographic)
The basic origin of the phrase "It's on like Donkey Kong" is clear enough: the 1981 video game, in which said large ape somewhat inexplicably terrorizes a construction site. What's less clear, though, is how that ape went from mindlessly slinging 8-bit barrels at Mario to an icon for getting it on everywhere, hero of a rallying cry and symbol of interpersonal challenges that inevitably end with one man victorious and the other taken down to China Town.
Three Literary Events in Denver July 27-30
Author appearances this week bring a dark, surreal dream-weirdness in convenient contrast to our sunny, deep-summer vibe. In Bridget Foley's Hugo & Rose, a dream-cum-reality comes with obsession and threat, while Josiah Hesse's Carnality: Dancing on Red Lake follows the subconscious slow leak of a lost man's childhood trauma. But for the light stuff, Lighthouse Writers Workshop will kick off its Write Denver Project, where participants can capture a sense of place.
The twenty best bicycle scenes in cinema, ever
With rare exceptions for the Smart Car, the tandem bike and whatever those contraptions are in the Dr. Seuss books, the human evolutionary process basically stopped when mankind progressed from two legs to two wheels.
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