Aziz Ansari, who turns 27 next week, will bring his stand-up act to Denver’s Comedy Works on Feb. 19 and Feb. 20. “I’m excited to come back to Comedy Works,” he says. “This set I’m doing is a new hour I’m working on to tour with later this year. It will pretty much all be material that’s not on the special and I may do one or two things if people want to hear them.” Jokingly, he adds, “I’ve also worked out a deal with Kawasaki and everyone that comes to these shows will get a free dirt bike.”

Casting for the Discovery Channel’s The Colony will come to Denver this Saturday. An open audition will run from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Denver Pavilions on the 16th Street Mall.

"Twitterature," a 208-page work of two University of Chicago freshmen, looks at more than 80 classics of literature through the eye of the Twitter. And it rocks.

He removes his cap; fingers brush past his left ear and instinctively find the scar at the base of his skull. It’s much smaller now, about the size of a half-dollar coin, and much more manageable. There are other scars: two incisions along the base of his neck, and one right below his larynx — “almost like a tracheotomy,” he shrugs. The latter serves as a reminder of the day surgeons removed samples of his lymph nodes from his chest, found them to be massively swollen and black as coal, and concluded that Mike Newton’s cancer had spread.

Everybody’s doing it. You can too — or give someone else the chance to. Memberships are popular gifts during the holidays, if only because they offer a chance to give camaraderie, or an opportunity to experience off-the-beat monthly activity.

You can get a friend or a loved one tickets to a game, or you can get them tickets to the game. But there’s an art to picking the right game to give. Here’s a head start.

Of all the things in all the places on our massive planet, Brad Wolfe’s inspiration for his Boulder-based ski-tune company came from pizza delivery in South America.

Here’s the dilemma when it comes to electronics: they rock — sometimes, quite literally — but they often leave a large carbon footprint. Whether they suck power (ahem, Mr. Xbox 360 hooked up to a 60-inch television, I’m talking to you), or are simply made of products that are harmful to the environment, there can be a guilt factor associated with those tech toys you own.

Boulder-based PureEnergy Solutions has supercharged the environmentally-friendliness of rechargeable batteries. Already better for the environment because rechargeable batteries can be used a hundred times over in lieu of being disposed of to pile up in landfills, the company’s batteries use their patented Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese technology.

Eric Bader’s phone starts to ring more around this time of the year, seemingly linked to each inch of snow that sticks on the ground. Late October’s 20-inch pounding over two days around Boulder County was no different. Boulder Outdoor Center, which is in its 29th year of booking outdoor adventure trips according to season, saw a spike in its reservations for snow-based trips and classes.