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Karina Longworth tells all about TIFF

How Hollywood movies led to genocide: The act of killing at the Toronto Film Festival

Editor's note: Village Voice media film critic Karina Longworth is currently at the Toronto Film Festival, from where she'll be writing regular blog posts. This is her second in the series. The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Fi ... More >>

Trace Bundy on the impact of YouTube, rocking a mullet and getting his start playing metal

See Also: - Trace Bundy talks about his unexpected success in South Korea - Heaven Fest quickly growing into a destination festival - HeavenFest's pure motives Boulder-based guitar virtuoso Trace Bundy has been a YouTube sensation for a few years now with more than twenty million views of his vario ... More >>

Meet sustainable jewelry designer Maxandra Short at KORA trunk show

With no experience in accessory design prior to co-founding the jewelry company KORA in 2009, Maxandra Short took her inspiration in life experience. The world traveler was born in Singapore, lived in cities like Jakarta and Seoul, and eventually found herself in Los Angeles, working as a magazine w ... More >>

Photos: Five Points Jazz Fest, 5/19/12

This past Saturday, the annual Five Points Jazz Festival returned to its namesake historic district with performances from a slew of acts like Carmen Sandiem and Aakash Mittal, among others, spread out across six stages all along Welton Street. Our own Nick Callaio was on hand for the fest and broug ... More >>

Colorado Daily considering changes in publication schedule?

Update: Earlier today, we shared information about the Boulder-based Colorado Daily newspaper possibly shrinking its publication schedule to three days per week. We now have more information from Prairie Mountain Publishing's Al Manzi. According to him, the plan, if enacted, would only be temporary ... More >>

This "Sexy" Quidditch Calendar release party will leave you feeling demented

"People are always coming up to us and asking, 'Is this for real?' And we tell them it is for real: we are playing Quidditch," says Sven Ceelen, one of Denver's biggest enthusiasts of a sport that was, up until a few years ago, confined to the fictional pages of the Harry Potter series. "Sometimes a ... More >>

Weekend's Best Live Music Bets: The Autumn Film, Wovenhand, the Hive Dwellers and more

Welcome to the weekend! Spring has officially sprung, and just as you can count on a another delightful couple of days weather wise, there's some great music awaiting you in the Mile High City. Locals rule this weekend. Tonight at the Walnut Room, the Autumn Film celebrates the release of its new al ... More >>

Adrift is beautiful, and chef Wade Kirwin will make sure his food suits the space

It all started with a rum collection and a tiki night. "I collect rum, and while I was bartending at Madison Street, I started bringing in my own rum collection, which then turned into a great tiki culture on Tuesday nights," says Matty Durgin, who, along with Wade Kirwin and Jay Dedrick, owner of S ... More >>

What's the best way to learn Spanish on your own?

Boulder Daily Camera lays off seventeen, may be outsourcing ad design in India

Earlier this week, we contacted Boulder Daily Camera publisher Al Manzi after hearing the paper's publishing company had told nearly twenty workers they would be laid off -- and that they'd subsequently learned many of the paper's ad-design chores would be outsourced to India. Today, Manzi got back ... More >>

Simon Purvis, exec chef of EDGE, on love, sarcasm, smart arses and the customer he thought he murdered

Lori Midson​This is part one of my interview with Simon Purvis, executive chef of EDGE at the Four Seasons. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Simon Purvis EDGE at the Four Seasons 1111 14th Street 303-389-3000 www.fourseasons.com/denver/dining Simon Purvis is siz ... More >>

A photo-centric preview of the new Linger

Lori Midson​We've seen a succession of restaurant openings over the last several months, but Linger, the second restaurant from Justin Cucci, the owner/chef of Root Down, may very well be the most anticipated new arrival of the year. And after a remarkably good dinner there last week, at whic ... More >>

Sticks -- not stones -- are the draw at the new Skew

Lori Midson​Skew, which opened Monday night at 2070 South University Boulevard, is all about inexpensive but high-quality ingredients slipped on sticks in a hip environment that's both fast-casual and full-service, says Ton Phairatphibon, who operates the University Park restaurant with his br ... More >>

Noodles & Company sold to investment group Catterton Partners

​Since Noodles & Company opened its very first location in Cherry Creek in 1995, it's expanded into a fast casual chain with 250 locations in eighteen states, offering noodle bowls that run the gamut from Wisconsin macaroni and cheese to an Indonesia peanut saute. And now, after fifteen years ... More >>

In honor of Vladimir Putin singing "Blueberry Hill," here are five of the best singing politicians

​If you haven't seen this video of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin singing "Blueberry Hill," stop what you're doing right now and watch it. It's just that amazing. You see, in America, we sing to the president, but in Soviet Russia, the president sings to you (sorry!). Actually, we're pr ... More >>

Top 10 New Year's Eve Parties for 2010: More than $75

​Next up in our New Year's Eve coverage: the over $75 batch. Mostly overnight hotel packages, but there are a couple unique VIP offers and the like. Looking to do something your significant other will never forget? Click on through, Romeo or Juliet.

New Music from Amazing Twin, the outfit formerly known as Old Radio

​Old Radio, a prominent member of the Hot Congress collective and generally excellent band, has finally finished its debut recording. The band is slated to release the new EP, titled New Wives' Tale, this Thursday during Hot Congress's final night of residency at the Meadowlark. You can hear ... More >>

Japoix's Jay Spickelmier on Twinkies, the roux on the floor and plumber butts

Lori Midson​ Jay Spickelmier Japoix 975 Lincoln Street 303-861-2345 www.japoix.com This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Jay Spickelmier, executive chef of Japoix. To read part two of that interview, check back here tomorrow. Jay Spickelmier is wrist-deep in a large, deep, flat-bo ... More >>

EDGE Restaurant & Bar to open in the Four Seasons this Fall

​When the Four Seasons Hotel, 1111 14th Street, opens its doors for guests this fall, it will also give Denver a new place to eat: EDGE Restaurant & Bar. Defined by the Four Seasons as a "contemporary steakhouse," the eatery will also feature wild game and a tapas menu, as well as a long, by-t ... More >>

Elway's Bombay Sapphire dinner: The gin was cold but the food was smokin'.

Cubeb seared big eye tuna, chick pea salad, green curry cucumber sauce with a Jakarta Mule - Bombay Sapphire with homemade lemongrass ginger beer​ Last night's Bombay Sapphire Spirit of Exploration dinner at Elway's Cherry Creek was definitely an exploration -- of some seriously fantastic worl ... More >>

Tonight: Gin up for Elway's Bombay Sapphire dinner

Elway'sChef Tyler Wiard​There are few things more enjoyable than an evening of fantastic food artfully paired with cocktails, which is exactly what's on tap tonight at Elway's Cherry Creek Bombay Sapphire Spirit of Exploration dinner. Exec chef Tyler Wiard is preparing a five-course dinner wi ... More >>

Top ten five blogs by bands

Photo courtesy of Kanyewest.com​ Last week, Kanye christened his new web site with the above photo of his girlfriend, Amber Rose. Then, Thom Yorke announced the name of his latest band on the Radiohead blog. Which got us thinking about the other band blogs we have bookmarked. In our bitchin' ... More >>

The Real World Hooters = Classy

MTV is looking for overweight home-schoolers who have been affected by natural disasters for the next season of The Real World -- and it's coming to find them in Denver, which hosted its own cast of seven strangers picked to live in a house in 2006 and 2007. Real World casting directors will be at ... More >>

Professor Rickshaw

Road Trip: Around The World In a Toyota

Storme of the Day

It only takes 38 inches to make the Dlist.

Bite Me

That's All, Folks

Girl Power

Laura Flanders lays it on the White House women.

The Eagle Soars

Chapungu unveils an African culture in stone

Oh, Happy Spray

Graffiti As Art exhibit lets kids get wild

Waves of Fascination

Music's lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes on the shortwave radio dial.

Backwash

Music everywhere: Music Lowdown 2002 and the Westword Music Showcase covered both the recording industry and live, in-the-flesh performances.

Best Sesame Chicken

Moongate Asian Grill

Food Fetishes

In our cups

The Bite

The rise and fall of Zenith.

City Haul

All you ever wanted to know about the Denver City and County Building.

Best Indonesian Restaurant

Isle of Singapore Cafe

Helping Handwork

Changing the world one stitch at a time.

Best T-shirts

Cargo

Off the Deep End

Colorado's Ocean Journey is banking on expensive special effects to drive home its conservationist message.

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999

Night & Day

April 16 - 22, 1998

Isle Be Seeing You

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