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Win tickets to see Beats Antique at the Fillmore

Beats Antique is back in town this weekend for a show tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium. Beats is a group that it seems is here so often, you'd be excused for assuming this was a local act. That said, chances are better than good that you're familiar with just how good of a show this outfit ... More >>

Win tickets to see Grace Potter and the Nocturnals at the Fillmore tomorrow night

Tomorrow night at the Fillmore Auditorium Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, a longtime favorite locally, are playing at the Fillmore tomorrow night. After frequently coming to town as a supporting act over the years, most recently on Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney's Brothers of the Sun tour this past s ... More >>

Win tickets to see Caspa this Thursday night at the Fillmore Auditorium with Flosstradamus

Got plans this Thursday? You do now...well, potentially. Caspa -- the dubstep phenom known to his mom and dad as Gary McCann, and known otherwise to everybody else as the Dopest Ghost in Town -- is bringing his bass-banging dance extravaganza to the Fillmore with Flosstradamus, Nadastrom and Sinden. ... More >>

Free movie tickets! Win entry to Switch, an energy documentary at the Mayan

What does the future of global energy look like? If we really knew the answer to that, we wouldn't be sitting here writing this blog post. But we know it's an important question, and if you agree, keep reading: That question also forms the central impetus of Switch, an exploratory energy documentary ... More >>

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Win tickets to see Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day next Wednesday night at Northfield

Next Wednesday, Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day is being screened for one night only at Harkins Theatres Northfield. While it won't be quite like seeing the legends before they were legends at their first United States gig at the Auditorium Theater all those years ago, the movie, filmed on location at ... More >>

Win tickets to Haunted Mansion, 13th Door haunted house! Tell us what scares you

Those of you who are not willing to a) cry in public, b) scream until even strep would be better, c) bring an extra pair of pants, or c) faint need not continue reading. This contest is only for the truly brave, those who laugh in the face of fear, know the reputations of Denver's haunted houses -- ... More >>

Win tickets to see New Order at 1STBANK

Update 10/9/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to our winners, Leigh Kinealy and Hermes Solomon. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets -- and thanks to everybody else for the other entries and for reading Backbeat. Good morning! And, oh, what a good morning it is! If you haven ... More >>

Win tickets to Haunted Mansion, 13th Door haunted house!

Those of you who are not willing to a) cry in public b) scream until even strep would be better c) need an extra pair of pants or c) faint need not continue reading this. This contest is only for the truly brave, those who know the reputations of Denver's area haunted houses and laugh in the face of ... More >>

Culinary Calendar for the weekend: Cultivate Festival, special beer tappings and more

Happy Friday! There's a full plate of appetizing events to look forward to once this work week is done. Here's a taste of what's on the culinary calendar:

Photos: Facebook friend answers to "You know you're from Colorado when...."

Last week, we shared our ten favorite item from the You know you're from Colorado When Tumblr. When we shared the post on the Westword Facebook page, we asked for your favorite ways to complete this sentence -- and you definitely came through. In fact, many of your answers were arguably better than ... More >>

Beer dinners, grand openings and pirates on the calendar this week

Fall is less than a week away, and the mountains of Colorado glitter with gold. But the culinary scene glitters just as bright this time of year. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

Culinary Calendar for the weekend: Summer's not over yet

There's a cornucopia of culinary events this weekend -- from farm celebrations both urban and rural to beer olympics, wine festivals, a toga party and more. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

My fake Facebook engagement to a gay guy

Remember Spencer? He was that gorgeous gay man I was going to marry this past May to protest the fact that it's 2012 and we, as Colorado residents, still can't legally commit to the loves of our lives through the public and legal acknowledgement of marriage, civil unions or whatever the hell else th ... More >>

James Holmes is Innocent Facebook group insists it's serious

Seven weeks to the day since the Aurora theater shooting, the sort of James Holmes tribute pages that popped up in the immediate aftermath of the massacre are showing unexpected staying power on Facebook. Most (like this one) are mainly about shock value. But the largest Facebook group we've found - ... More >>

Dishes of Dish: a final preview #dishword

Dish, Westword's eighteenth annual food-and-drink festival in Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, is only hours away and our mouths are watering just thinking about all the delicious eats that will be featured there. Here's a sampling of more on the menu:

Photos: Treff Carpenter identified as victim of Boulder Canyon fall

When Greeley's Treff Carpenter, a field engineer for Noble Energy, died Sunday after a fall in Boulder Canyon, he was doing something he loved. That's clear from his Facebook page, which is dominated by photos and videos of mountain climbing -- a couple posted just days before his tragic death. See ... More >>

Win tix to see DeVotchKa at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony and Airborne Toxic Event

Okay, speaking from experience, having seen Colorado's most exotic band once upon a time at Red Rocks on a cool September evening not all that long ago, this will surely be an extraordinary night to remember, the highlight of the fall, if we may be so bold. And we may, considering that DeVotchKa wil ... More >>

Win tickets to SummerGrind this Saturday with the Dwarves, Leftover Crack and more

Update 8/31/12: Contest is over. Congratulations to Katherine Windheuser. You and a guest will be our guest at SummerGrind tomorrow at the Gothic Theatre and Moe's. Check your email for details of how to claim your tickets. Feel like getting punk in drublic? Man, oh, man, you came to the right pla ... More >>

Win tickets to the Holy Underground launch party with Stefi Graf tomorrow at the Larimer

This week's feature centers on two emerging labels/collectives focused on elevating the local electronic music scene. While one of those outfits, Dirty//Clean, is on its way to becoming pretty well established, the other, Holy Underground, is just getting underway and will be celebrating its launch ... More >>

Win tickets to Snowboard Films and live music at Summit Music Hall

If you are interested in both snow sports and live music -- and let's face it: If you're reading this, you live in Colorado -- you could do no better than stopping by any of the Snowboard Films premieres at Summit Music Hall throughout the month. For free. Hosted by Snowboard Colorado magazine, each ... More >>

Film screenings, cycling parties and more on this week's calendar: Truck it!

It's a quintessential Colorado week on the culinary calendar, with lots of local beer and wine, plenty of excuses to chill outside -- and a bike race. Here's a taste of what's on the event menu:

You are what you sit on at the Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show

Most toilet seats are meant to be sat upon. But once in a while, there comes a throne cover fit to decorate a wall. And that's the case with the seats going up for auction tomorrow night at the Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show -- though event organizer Adam Rose of the Fallen Owl Tattoo shop says m ... More >>

Masterpiece Cakeshop: Yelp removes negative comments, while supporters create Facebook group

Businesses across the country are coming out with stances on gay marriage, including Chick-Fil-A and Lakewood's own Masterpiece Cakeshop. The bakery does not create cakes for gay ceremonies. The decision, publicized by rejected couple Dave Mullins and Charlie Craig, made waves across the Internet, ... More >>

Help pick the hops crop at Arvada's Voss Farms

Arvada's Voss Farms is looking for volunteers to harvest its hops -- and whoever shows up will be able to brag about how they helped supply some serious flavor for Black Shirt Brewing (opening in September), Wynkoop Brewing, Strange Brewing and Arvada Beer, all of which will use the hops in their be ... More >>

Will the real Rick Strandlof please stand up?

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Aurora theater shooting: Rebecca Wingo's loved ones remember her online

The sudden proliferation of James Holmes Facebook tribute pages exemplifies the outlets for venom the Internet provides in the wake of tragedies like the Aurora theater shootings. But the web can also serve as a valuable gathering place for people in mourning, as witnessed by a far more positive Fa ... More >>

A Great! First Date, new local online dating site, is about deeds, not words

Rory O'Rourke thinks traditional dating sites are too static. "You talk about yourself or fill out a bunch of survey questions, and throughout your experience online, you don't change that," says O'Rourke, who works in software. "Everybody says they like to travel but nobody updates their page wit ... More >>

Win tickets to see Aaron Neville this Saturday

Looking for something memorable to do this weekend with your sweetie? Oh, boy, have we got just what the doctor ordered. Aaron Neville -- you know him as the swoon-worthy owner of perhaps the most distinctive vibratos in all of music -- is performing this Saturday, July 14 at Boulder's Chautauqua Au ... More >>

Win tickets to see the Beach Boys tonight!

While this year's endless summer has kind of turned into a bit of an endless bummer for the sun worshipers among us who loathe the rain (we couldn't be happier for the reprieve, personally), here's some news that should help temper the effects of the soggy weather: The Beach Boys (with Brian Wilson! ... More >>

Alamo Drafthouse brings Willy Wonka -- and a real chocolate factory -- to Aspen Grove

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, where movies and beer dwell together in perfect harmony, won't open its doors at Aspen Grove until early next year, but the much-awaited franchise is already serving that community by hosting a Wednesday-night outdoor film festival at the Littleton mall this summer.

Enjoy the start of summer with film screenings, pop-up dinners and more this week

There are plenty of dates to mark on the culinary calendar this week -- including a free, independent film screening sponsored by New Belgium Brewing in Boulder. Here's a taste of what's on the menu:

Rachel James & the Kings win Ford's Gimme the Gig honors and record track with Don Was

Looks like props are due Rachel James & the Kings (due at this weekend's Westword Music Showcase), who have been named as the winner of Ford's second annual Gimme the Gig competition. The outfit, which recently added Tickle Me Pink vets Joey Barba and Stefan Runstrom to the fold, and whose profile h ... More >>

Red Rocks: Alicia Brauer, 27, becomes second fall-related fatality within a year

This past Friday night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, West Metro Fire Rescue was called to the venue's upper north parking lot during a show featuring Ghostland Observatory to aid a woman who reportedly fell from the rocks. The woman, 27-year-old Alicia Brauer, later died from the injuries she sustained ... More >>

Rio Grande lends aid to High Park fire victims

Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant is donating 10 percent of sales from all six of its locations to High Park fire relief today. The chain, which is famous for its strong margaritas (limit three per person), got its start in Fort Collins 26 years ago.

Win tickets to see Ghostland Observatory and MiM0SA at Red Rocks plus this rad poster!

Tonight, Ghostland Observatory brings its mesmerizing light show to Red Rocks with MiM0SA, Zion I, Free the Robots and Lunice for a massive dance party beneath the stars that's sure to have masses grooving like no other. If you remember when the Austin-based act graced the Westword Music Showcase st ... More >>

Win a Ministry prize pack: Tickets to Sunday's show, passes to a soundcheck party and more

By now you've probably read our interviews with Ministry mastermind Al Jourgensen and longtime guitarist Mike Scaccia, which means you're probably getting hyped for the show this Sunday at the Ogden Theatre. If you haven't already bought your tickets, here's a chance to win some. We're giving away a ... More >>

Great Divide's brewers get a chance to shine at eighteenth-anniversary party

Great Divide will celebrate eighteen years in Denver on Saturday with the brewery's annual block party on Arapahoe Street -- an event that will feature several special, one-off brews made on Great Divide's six-month-old pilot brewing system. And all of the brewers on staff can take credit for the r ... More >>

The laid-back Free School Denver announces its summer schedule tonight

To call Free School Denver "grassroots" is almost too mild: Like a relic of the '60s, DFS has no hierarchies. Formed in that nascent spirit of community education, the school offers all classes for free, and anyone can attend or teach one. Sessions tend to go down in private homes or welcoming venue ... More >>

Five growler-free ways to get fresh Colorado craft beer to go

Just because you walk out the door of your favorite brewery doesn't mean you can't take the good times with you. The majority of Colorado's craft brewers sell growlers -- 64-ounce brown glass bottles, for the most part, topped with a screw-off cap. Most will sell you the vessel for anywhere from $5 ... More >>

Celebrate Mother's Day late at an Artistic Mamas arty party

Jacquie Van Horne believes that artists who are mothers, too, need to stick together, because -- as she writes on her Facebook page -- "Motherhood is not the time to put the paintbrush down." That's why she created Artistic Mamas, which is as much a celebration of mothers who paint and sing and dan ... More >>

Eddie Fisher, OneRepublic drummer, pleads not guilty in episode with model Loni Rae

OneRepublic drummer Eddie Fisher likely didn't have "humiliating mug shot" on his rock star bucket list. But he posed for one anyhow this week owing to his bust on suspicion of assault and more related to an incident involving his model girlfriend, Lonnie Weygant, aka Loni Rae. Yesterday, he pleaded ... More >>

Ten best 10 Facebook Tips tweets

Ten Facebook Tips: It started as an informational list on Mashable to help people optimize their Facebook usage, but it's become a top trending topic on Twitter, full of helpful and not-so-helpful -- and some of it quite telling -- advice about Zuckerberg's site. Most of the tweets, which only seem ... More >>

World Threads III pays homage to global fiber arts at TACtile Textile Arts Center

One of TACtile Textile Arts Center's most colorful exhibits is back: World Threads III: Preserving Textile Traditions, featuring -- as in the past -- a beautiful global palette of fiber-arts handiwork to both look at and to buy. Even more beautiful is the humanitarian purpose behind the show -- to s ... More >>

Reader: No touristy craphole for Washington cherries!

Washington State wants to donate forty pounds of cherries to an "iconic" restaurant in every state in the nation, in hopes of inspiring recipes that push their product. A Washington PR company asked Cafe Society's help in coming up with the right restaurant in Colorado for a fruit-filled delivery -- ... More >>

Vegan blueberry muffins with lemon for a breakfast treat on Meatless Monday

No one's saying you have to go meatless just because it's Monday -- but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we're offering an animal-free recipe. The stores are starting to stock fresh, fat blueberries, which are perfect for muffins. These vegan offerings contain juicy blueberries ... More >>

Denver Post layoffs estimate: 16 copy editors, nearly tenth of staff

Update: At this point, neither representatives of the Denver Post nor the folks at the Denver Newspaper Guild seem eager to talk in detail about a plan to lay off two-thirds of the copy editors at the paper of record. However, we've gotten more information about the likely fallout. In the end, as ma ... More >>

Five Kentucky Derby parties that will have you off to the races

You don't have to go to Kentucky to find a reason to wear a fancy hat on Saturday: Places all over town are hooking parties to the Kentucky Derby. And even if you're not into horse-racing, there will plenty of other things to appreciate: the fashion, the boozy mint juleps, the old-timey slang...and ... More >>

If you have a face, caricature artist Brooke Howell wants to draw it

Looking for a new Facebook profile picture? Brooke Howell can help. Her company, *LoL* Caricature Company, celebrates its grand re-opening on the 16th Street Mall this weekend and for just $12, you can get a digital caricature (drawn on an iPad), e-mailed to you to use on social media sites, or howe ... More >>

Little Man welcomes the warm weather with new entertainment schedule

Little Man Ice Cream, 2620 16th Street in LoHi, is celebrating May with new hours and a variety of events throughout the spring and summer. "We really view Little Man as a gathering place for the community," says Little Man manager Loren Martinez. "It's a place to not only grab some great ice cream ... More >>