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Local filmmakers tackle zombie culture with Doc of the Dead

Denver has zombie walks, zombie proms, zombie races, zombie car washes and zombie fashion shows, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that a pair of Denver filmmakers have launched an ambitious zombie documentary. Alexandre O. Philippe and Robert Muratore, the pair behind the Star Wars doc The People ... More >>

Gun Street Ghost gets real at the hi-dive on Friday, August 17

Downtown Sheraton puts homegrown, organic mint in its mojitos

Already the biggest hotel downtown, the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel is now one of the greenest as well. This past spring, the Sheraton received the Watts to Water award for "Greatest Improvement in Efficiency," as well as an Xcel Energy "Management Systems Achievement" award, thanks to the effort ... More >>

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Photos: Free Wyclef Jean 420 show at CU in Boulder draws unbelievably paltry crowd

Update: YouTube video of Wyclef Jean's freestyle added below. "For the record," he says, "I would never sell out," presumably in response to the anti-MJ clause of the contract. See Also: 4/20 at CU Boulder: Wyclef Jean concert, police crackdown to shrink event? See Also: Wyclef Jean at Coors Even ... More >>

Meet Colorado's activist medics, a rogue band of good Samaritans

Sir Richard's brings one-for-one charity giving to condoms -- and one CU-Boulder dorm

On Wednesday evening, a handful of CU-Boulder students will be trying to improve the planet -- by handing out condoms. But not just any condoms: Sir Richard's Condoms, from a Boulder company that's bringing the one-for-one charity model associated with TOMS Shoes to love gloves.

2011 Westword Music Showcase: Backbeat scribes' travelogues

Every year, we enlist our Backbeat writers to host various stages at the Westword Music Showcase, and in addition to their emcee obligations, we ask them to pull double duty and write up the acts that appear on their individual stages. Click through to read travelogues from Thorin Klosowski, Ru John ... More >>

Westword Music Showcase 2011

The Westword Music Showcase celebrates seventeen years, a lifetime for some of 2011's performers

Donovan Jones of This Will Destroy You on the state of post-rock and why he resists the term

​Although often lumped into the category of post-rock, This Will Destroy You (due tonight at Larimer Lounge) from San Marcos, Texas, is more rooted in outright instrumental rock music with more than its fair share of an experimental edge. When the band first emerged, the post-rock designation ... More >>

2011 Westword Music Showcase Ballot

​Seventeen years! It's hard to believe we've been doing the Westword Music Showcase for that long. I can still remember being at the first one in LoDo nearly two decades ago. And when I think back, it seems like that cold, rainy Sunday night was just a few years ago.

Video: Man sets world record for most grapes eaten in three minutes

​Deepak Sharma Bajagain broke two Guinness World Records on Saturday, March 26, at the Community College of Aurora as part of the Work for Children Food Campaign 2011 hosted by the Global Lynx Foundation and Nepal Tourism Campaign: One for the Most Envelopes Torn in half in Thirty seconds, and ... More >>

Crocs donates 100,000 pairs of shoes to Japanese earthquake & tsunami victims

​We've made lotsa sport of Niwot-based Crocs, from a 2005 feature that included savage reviews by fashionistas to reports of what Alan Prendergast described as the "brightly hued, comfy-ugly clown shoes" being escalator unfriendly. So our first thought after hearing the company is donating 100 ... More >>

SXSW Tip Sheet: Colorado bands

Twitter patter, so much chitter chatter: Cats could learn a thing or two from Chamillionaire

​There's a PBS special called Marketing Cool that explains how businesses and retailers tell consumers what's cool, then have them buy it. It's all about the "Cool Factor." Twitter is all about that same cool factor. But it's only effective if it's used wisely.

Brad Delson of Linkin Park on A Thousand Suns and the advice he'd give to his young self

​ Linkin Park does not need an introduction. From Hybrid Theory to their newest album, A Thousand Suns, LP has continued to progress and grow as a band, giving its eager fan-base something to look forward to with every new release. In advance of the band's show this Saturday, February 26 at t ... More >>

10 weirdest music news stories of 2010

​2010 has been an aggressively weird year in music news. It seemed like no matter where we turned musicians were saying and doing the strangest damn things. From decrying the most popular thing in the world to talking people off of buildings, it was a wacky year to report. There was so much we ... More >>

Denver International Airport stores selling Colorado craft beers? The idea could really fly

​Denver International Airport was just named the "Best Airport in North America" by Business Traveler magazine -- for the sixth consecutive year. Want to know what could make DIA even better? Some decent, Colorado-centric shopping on the concourses -- including souvenir beers.

Ace Miyamoto on Saturday's Everfresh 101: 1995-'96 Edition and substance-lacking hip-hop

TidWid Photography​Ace Miyamoto's his given name, but he's known by a few other handles: Acezi, Ronin or just plain Ace, as we know him. Part producer, part MC, part promoter, Ace is involved in many diverse projects that require him to utilize all of the skills listed on his resume. Whether h ... More >>

Wyclef Jean: Haiti's next president? Here are five musicians we think should run in the U.S.

​Yesterday, CNN reported that Wyclef Jean has entered himself into the bid for president in Haiti. This doesn't mark the first time a celebrity has run for office, and while we wish him the best of luck, we have to wonder what qualifications he has other than being a member of the seminal '90s ... More >>

What would Pat Robertson say about the Leadville tornado?

Cloudy with a chance of damnation.​Evangelical pastor Pat Robinson believed God was punishing the United States for its abortion laws with Hurricane Katrina. He also said that the earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti was the result of "a pact" that the country with the dev ... More >>

Chimes of Freedom

Arianny Celeste-Conner Cordova dream-date video: Up-close and personal

On Monday, we shared Dakota Ridge High School student Conner Cordova's account of his dream date with UFC ring girl and May Maxim cover model Arianny Celeste. Now we offer video highlights proving that Cordova, who wooed Celeste with a persistent (and successful) YouTube campaign, wasn't kept at a ... More >>

Obama gives $125,000 in Nobel Prize money to Denver-based American Indian College Fund: Find something to hate about that!

Courtesy of the White House"The Republicans can't blast me for doing this, can they?"​These days, pretty much everything President Barack Obama does is criticized by someone or other. But his detractors will have to work overtime to fault him for his decision regarding the money he received f ... More >>

Does Jezebel's have a ghost of a chance?

Night Moves

Culinary calendar for the week: Stout month and Superbowl Sunday

​It's Stout Month at Mountain Sun Pub and Brewery -- and all its satellite brewery locations -- which means beer educational classes galore. It's the perfect way to kick off your Superbowl Week, and we've also got the best places to grub on Sunday when you're watching the game. Here's a taste ... More >>

Eyewitness to Hell: Dr. Scott Burke on Haiti's medical nightmare

Street treatment following an amputation in Port-au-Prince. Photo from despardes.com​Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep a ... More >>

R.I.P. Jay Reatard, Dead at 29

Update: This morning, Pitchfork, NME and several other outlets are reporting that Reatard's death is now being treated as a homicide, citing a seemingly erroneous report filed by MyFox Memphis stating as much. The original piece has since been inexplicably removed from the site, raising reasonable d ... More >>

Study shows men like to watch Kim Kardashian hump a salad

If you've turned on the tube lately, you're aware that some psychopath almost blew up Detroit with his underwear on Christmas, you've watched certain talking heads make complete idiots of themselves regarding the devastation in Haiti, and you've seen Kim Karsdashian's new soft porn commercial for ... More >>

The Weekend Showdown: Astrophagus will be at the Meadowlark. So will we.

We would hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend in our fair city, so we've decided to run down three of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us -- and the rest of the world -- what we missed in the comments. ​ This weekend: As ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: An idea ready for take-off

While Mayor John Hickenlooper was outlining some of the ways that Denver is speeding up projects to stimulate the local economy, DIA aviation manager Kim Day yesterday announced plans for a 500-room hotel at the airport, which will be built right by the anticipated FasTracks stop. The hotel projec ... More >>

Today's featured event: Filmmaker Amy Serrano at Regis University

Amy Serrano. Amy Serrano's documentary Sugar Babies: The Plight of the Children of Agricultural Workers on the Sugar Industry of the Dominican Republic, with its knowing narration by the Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat, isn't Serrano's first film and it isn't likely to be her last. She's left behin ... More >>

All aboard! The ChopHouse coming to Denver International Airport

At Denver International Airport, the Greetings From Colorado store at Concourse A sells T-shirts from Haiti (including models that list the wrong date for Denver's founding) and souvenirs from anywhere but Colorado. But right around the corner, travelers will soon be able to get a real taste of this ... More >>

Look of the Day - Chelley Canales

To Haiti and Back

Young and Growing

Good Works

Sandra Renteria's folk art forms a children's book.

Orenda Fink

Monday, November 14, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Day-by-Day Picks

From the week of September 22, 2005

Best Store in a New Location

Indigena Gallery

Waves of Hope

The art of young tsunami survivors will be showcased in Denver.

The Sky's the Limit

Colorado could be courting a winner in the NCAA Tournament.

A Christmas Carol Glows

The Denver Center's supple staging is designed to delight.

"Final Episode" Killer Curse Revealed!

Going Batty

Rhymes of Passion

The Fugees are determined to make rap, not war.

BEAUTY AND THE BISTRO

THRILLS