The victorious aftermath. See the full slide-show here.

Eggs Benedict is a notoriously hard dish to pull off. I wasn't even intimidated, though, when my girlfriend told me that's what she wanted for breakfast -- even though I had never made it before, I'm basically like the King Midas of victory, and I made that Eggs Benedict, and it was fucking delicious. I fucking killed it on that Eggs Benedict. Then I ate roughly 35 steaks in preparation for my debate with Andrew Orvedahl at Arguments & Grievances last night at the Vine Street Pub, where we had been called upon as men to defend our competing positions on attachment parenting: Orvedahl is for it, I'm against. The stakes were high, and obviously, Andrew Orvedahl did not eat enough steaks.

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Last night's Titanic-themed Frock Out fashion fete at the Denver Central Library was a subdued affair, especially when compared to the last one two years ago, which was both a fashion show and a good-humored freak show, and maybe a little too messy for some people's taste. But the styles marched out on the runway for 2012 by veteran Denver designer and Frock Out competitor Stephanie Ohnmacht were anything but dull, and took top honors in both the event's online public poll and the formal judging by professionals.

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Corey Miller in the back room at Stoney's.

Last night, Tuaca brought Corey Miller (think L.A. Ink -- and if you've seen that show, then you know how talented he is) to Stoney's Bar and Grill to play with his band, Powerflex 5. We caught up with Miller before the show (while he placed the finishing touches on the drum seen above) to talk about his Tuaca bottle design, life post-L.A. Ink, traveling and tattooing.

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"People really bring their kids to this thing?" my girlfriend asks.

The kids, dressed in their Sunday best, hold their parents' hands as they walk toward the Magness Arena on the University of Denver campus. We follow behind, my girlfriend gripping my own hand tightly. At the foot of the steps there's a football pre-game party just getting started; kids holding red cups are sitting on thrift-store couches, listening to "Born in the USA." Someone asks if we want a beer but I decline; we are not here to drink. We are here to get our Jesus on.

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The crowd gathers around the universe.

For last night's interactive Future of Human Touch experiment at Redline Gallery, the crowd that gathered was asked to leave all egos, comfort zones and fears behind.

Milling around the courtyard of the gallery under the slow glow of hanging LED lights just after 7:30 p.m., it was hard to tell who was a facilitator and who was a participant; but blurring the line was part of the point. For the next three hours, strangers danced, hugged and shouted together, as guides led the group through an evening of shared knowledge, passionate speech, movement and connection.

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The West Coast punks are pogoing into town this spring at MCA Denver, Gildar Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other locations, for a series of shows falling under the aegis of Search & Destroy. So-named for the San Francisco 'zine or the '70s), the ring of satellite shows came to rest Friday night, March 29, 2012 at MCA, where a reception with live music opened to the public at 8 p.m. Read more about Search and Destroy at MCA.

Below are a few scenes from the opening and here's the full slide show: Search and Destroy opening at MCA.

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Lauren Maske of South Denver in line last night.

Warning: Spoilers within!

In one of the final scenes of the Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, henchmen of boy-king Joffrey, the incestuous product of his mother and uncle, tear through King's Landing, slaying the many bastard children of Robert, Joffrey's official but now totally dead father. Because his mother slapped him when he confronted her about those bastards. (Joffrey's still in dark about the incest issue.) Still!

Read on to get more soapy details about the premiere from the sneak preview in Denver and see photos of the costumed fans who were there.

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On Saturday night Rhinoceropolis was transformed into a surreal collection of different visceral spaces, a kind of haunted house of DIY weirdness, attacking the senses partly with fear, but also with ideas that challenged reality and the nature of aesthetics. Known as Fantasia 2012, the art installation put its guests through a wringer of unexpected prizes and not entirely welcome disorientation.

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AnomalyCon 2012, Denver's "first and only steampunk convention," came down March 23 through March 25 at the Tivoli Student Union. The highlight of the weekend-long string of conferences, celebrity appearances and networking was Saturday night's Grand Ball; Emily Driskill brings these photos back from the party.

See the full slide show: A steampunk grand ball at AnomalyCon.

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A new MCA Denver satellite show, Richard Peterson and the Art of a Warrior Tribe, opened on Friday, March 23, at the Gildar Gallery, and will be up through April 20. Curated by the MCA's Adam Lerner, it's one cog in the machine called Search & Destroy, an exploration of the cross-discipline West Coast punk aesthetic of the late '70s that will run through several shows and events across the city.

Photos by Emily Driskill for Westword; see the full slide show here: "Richard Peterson and the Art of a Warrior Tribe."

Below are a few highlights of the opening, punx.

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