Don Quixote

Top-notch performances lift Man of La Mancha

Man of La Mancha still has impact at Arvada Center

Man of La Mancha, based on Miquel de Cervantes's seventeenth-century masterpiece Don Quixote, was an award-gobbling sensation when it was first staged in 1965. The musical has less impact now that it's been through decades of professional and community productions. Still, the Arvada Center has mount ... More >>

Marc Ribot on collaborating with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and recording with Tom Waits

Los Lobos singer and guitarist David Hildago clearly knows his away around Latin music, and so does guitarist Marc Ribot, who's played with a ton of folks over the years, from Tom Waits and Elvis Costello to John Zorn and the Lounge Lizards. When the two bring their Border Music duo to the L2 Arts a ... More >>

Readers: Pre-Occupied with Kelsey Whipple's coverage

Westword staffer Kelsey Whipple had been on the job just a few days when she started covering Occupy Denver -- and the beat has had its hazards, including getting shot in the ass, as she revealed in this three-month Occupy Denver retrospective.

Readers slam Westword cover subject Corey Donahue

Corey Donahue has kept Denver occupied this fall -- making him a natural Westword cover boy

​I first met Corey Donahue in June at Casselman's, where I attempted to moderate a debate on the legalization of marijuana. He argued, interrupted, lit up a joint on stage. And he was not the worst-behaved person on the panel. We both returned to the crime scene three weeks ago, when Casselman ... More >>

With Occupy Denver protester Corey Donahue, nothing is ever easy

Corey Donahue: How we transformed him into Don Quixote for this week's cover (VIDEO)

Video below.​This week's feature story, "Tilting at Windmills," profiles Corey Donahue, a modern-day Don Quixote, who keeps the cops and the courts in Denver very occupied. We featured Donahue on the cover, and in the following making-of video, art director Jay Vollmar reveals how the shot was ... More >>

Author Benjamin Hale on Braveheart, chimp sex and Kafka

​We generally don't think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale's new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York, will be in town to ... More >>

How to get my job: ballet dancer

​We're still knee deep in holiday flavor over here, so this week we decided to catch up with a ballet dancer to help us better understand how one would go about dancing around on a stage as a profession. We talked to Kevin Gaël Thomas, who is originally from France but is currently a dancer f ... More >>

Flashbacks

The Bianchi brothers break up their empire and come full circle with Quixote's True Blue

Puerto Vallarta Mexican Restaurant picks up and crawls...north

Lori Midson​Puerto Vallarta, the coastal Mexican joint that occupied a corner lot at 75 South Federal Boulevard for as long there's been shrimp in the sea (okay, that's a slight exaggeration) is now bordered up with blond wood. But if that's where you migrated to get your mariscos, don't heav ... More >>

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Paella as you go: where's the rice nice in Denver?

Righting Wrongs

Musketeer tells the story of one determined librarian.

Owsley’s Golden Road

Delegating Denver #10 of 56: Dems Abroad

Reporting From Mexico

This impressive south-of-the-border fest proves Variety’s Peter Bart wrong.

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Dreamy

Man of La Mancha makes magic at Country Dinner Playhouse.

Classic Revisited

Colorado Ballet's Don Quixote rides again

Right on Track

Man on the Train reaches its destination.

Impossible Dreamer

Terry Gilliam sets out to film Don Quixote but becomes him instead.

Natural Disaster

Was Terry Gilliam the man who killed Don Quixote?

Backwash

Jerry’s kids are all right: Can the Bianchi Brothers make Denver the Deadhead center of the universe?

Rolling Out the Starz

Denver's film fest looks forward and back.

Drink of the Week

Maker's Mark and Coke

The Bite

Chile Today

Backwash

Quixote's stays true blue, but it's movin' on down the road.

The Bite

Feeling Sheepish

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Quest for Fire

After 32 years, Don Quijote Restaurant still dreams the impossible dream.

Chivalry's Nearly Killed

The Impossible Dreck

Night & Day

May 28 - June 3, 1998

Feedback

Mouthing Off

The Quest of Denver

Diversity Rules

Mouthing Off

Stupor Bowl

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