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Loveland's Wildflower Cabaret needs a new home, looks to Kickstarter for help

Less than four months after it opened inside Loveland's Suede Events Center, Wildflower Cabaret was forced to pack up its programming after a falling-out with the owner of the space. Wildflower founders John Seaberry and Sky Cash walked away with heavy hearts and a serious financial loss. But the ... More >>

Black Eye Coffee wants to bring street art back to LoHi

In many pockets of Denver, there are visible connections to our city's past that are, with each passing year, slowly being erased in favor of a more modern aesthetic. This concerns Black Eye Coffee co-owner Gregory Ferrari, who is has been promoting a Kickstarter campaign to install a large, early t ... More >>

James McElwee on why his Kickstarter funded Bob Ferbrache doc still hasn't been made

It's been roughly two and half years since James McElwee raised more than $5000 on Kickstarter to make a documentary on Bob Ferbrache, and the film still isn't finished. After raising the money, McElwee started interviewing members of bands like Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Tarantella, Warlock Pinchers ... More >>

Introducing Aluboo Bicycles, made of aluminum and...bamboo?

Denver blog posts really need a nap about now. Denver Egotist pitches the Kickstarter campaign for Fort Collins' Aluboo Bicycles, which are made of aluminum and bamboo. Really. Denver PR Blog offers free advice to the DU athletic director. Colorado Peak Politics says a Harlem Shake video to hype ... More >>

Coverville Records successfully funds its passion project: jazz renditions of video game tunes

Nerds of a feather flock together, as they say. Brian Ibbott and jazz composer Andrew Allen have once again proven this adage to be entirely true. The two have paired up to produce another passion project that is sure to appeal to the dorkiest dweebs you know, Free Play, an album of traditional jazz ... More >>

53 Peaks Brewing begins Kickstarter campaign, hopes to open in Conifer

Here's a strange fact about Colorado's every-increasing number of breweries: head south out of Golden or west from Lakewood along Colorado Highway 285 and it will be a while -- about 115 miles -- before you find one. The 285 corridor between Lakewood and Buena Vista, a very popular route, appears to ... More >>

Scary monsters and sideshow freaks in Daniel Crosier's Showdevils

There are precious few opportunities in life to assist a human puzzle piece and his comely, sword-swallowing sidekick defeat a mutant goldfish. When such an opportunity does arise, it's best to seize it without concern for danger or reward. Luckily, in the case of Daniel Crosier's Showdevils Kicksta ... More >>

Tom Tancredo doesn't think Mike Coffman can mollify Hispanics with immigration switch

Denver blog posts are hoping for the best. At Colorado Pols, Jason Salzman quotes Tom Tancredo as saying he wants Mike Coffman to be reelected but doesn't think his new, more moderate immigration stance will help him. Denver Egotist promotes the Knotty Tie Co. on Kickstarter. At WhoSaidYouSaid, T ... More >>

Kickstarter campaign for Denver comedy documentary Joke Life now live

document the everyday struggles of people trying to eke out a living from performing stand-up.

Save the Tank: Musicians unite to preserve the Tank, an acoustic marvel in northwest Colorado

Back in 1976, while traveling around northwest Colorado, composer and musician Bruce Odland was introduced by locals to the Tank, a sixty-foot-tall water tank outside Rangely. Odland used a circular portal to go inside the never-used tank -- and immediately knew he'd entered a very special sonic won ... More >>

300 Suns hopes Indigogo will help it become Longmont's fourth brewery

So far, crowd sourcing hasn't been the most successful way for would-be breweries to raise money in Colorado: There are already so many top-notch beer makers, and many more in the works, that beer lovers probably figure it's not necessary to pour out their own hard-earned cash in order to help get t ... More >>

Will Sid King's Crazy Horse Bar light up Denver again?

Comedian/restaurateur Will White on his paleo-diet truck, Kickstarter and standup

Will Will White consent to an interview? "Gee, let me think, um..fuck yeah man!" says the up-and-coming comedian and restaurateur. White's exuberance has reached a fever pitch lately, as his bourgeoning stand-up career dovetails with a new chapter in his business career -- as owner of the Caveman Ca ... More >>

Argo is as hot as Science Fiction Land might have been

See also: The symbolism in Argo's wisecracking script is impossible to miss

Help Susan Dillon of Kitty Mae Millinery kickstart her own run for the roses

Millinery -- real millinery, where hats are made and blocked from scratch -- is a dying art, and nobody knows that better than self-taught Denver milliner Susan Dillon, who markets her completely hand-wrought, sculptural work under the name Kitty Mae Millinery. "I am saddened by the number of people ... More >>

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 >>

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Amanda Palmer on being criticized for enlisting fans to perform and paying them in beers, hugs

Update 9/20/12: Local string quartet Per Vita is slated to back Amanda Palmer this Friday at the Gothic Theater. The group reached out to Palmer immediately when she put out the initial call, knowing full well that it was volunteer only. "We didn't care at all," says Laena McDonald. "We play a lot ... More >>

Help Luminous Thread Productions kickstart their dream in Denver

If you were at the Denver County Fair in August, you might have caught a steampunk vibe in the air -- thanks to the amassed presence of the Colorado Steampunks and the Denver Victoriana & Steampunk Society, all decked out in their beautiful costumes. Among their ranks were world travelers Mary Lin ... More >>

Five Iron Frenzy

Friday, September 7, Summit Music Hall, 1-866-468-7621.

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, August 31-September 3, 2012

Since etiquette of yore prohibits the wearing of white after Labor Day, be sure to wear all of your white attire on this three-day weekend. And there will be plenty of places to display your duds, from food-truck pool parties to tiny art shows, vintage auto exhibits to free film screenings. The best ... More >>

Nooch Vegan Market opens in RiNo

Nooch Vegan Market -- named after a common shortened name for nutritional yeast flakes, a good source of B12 and a popular ingredient in vegan cooking -- opened its doors this afternoon at 3360 Larimer Street. "We're excited to provide an environment where you don't have to read labels," says owne ... More >>

Twin Hops Brewing's Kickstarter campaign mysteriously disappears from the Web

The Kickstarter campaign, Facebook page and website for Twin Hops Brewing Co. -- a new brewery concept from brothers Brad, Scott and Rick Burton (Brad and Scott are identical twins) -- have all inexplicably disappeared from the Web. The brothers launched their Kickstarter fundraiser earlier this mon ... More >>

Troma helps Extra Kool get torn limb from limb in his new video for "Is Anybody Thirsty"

See Also: Meet Extra Kool, the Creature From the Whack Lagoon Dirty Laboratory MC Extra Kool just dropped a new video for his tune "Is Anybody Thirsty?" The clip spills enough fake blood to make you forget the scene from Carrie. With some help of schlock-horror experts from Troma, the video combine ... More >>

Reader: Twin Hops needs to open within stumbling distance of me

Many people across Colorado are turning to Kickstarter to jump-start their ventures, including the brothers behind Twin Hops Brewing. But they should consider location as well as loot.

Twin Hops Brewing hopes to succeed where others failed: with a Kickstarter campaign

The would-be owners of another new Denver brewery, Twin Hops, launched a Kickstarter campaign last Saturday with a party at the Denver Bicycle Cafe, a coffee shop/taproom/bike shop that has become a big supporter of small local breweries. TwinHops Brewing is the brainchild of three brothers -- Brad, ... More >>

Sole on A Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing and why he feels better than ever

MC/label founder/activist Sole (aka Tim Holland) has been espousing the virtues of DIY long before the internet made it so easy for everybody to put out their own albums. But since splitting with Anticon (the label he founded), he's been living his philosophy again, and that feels good. Now, having ... More >>

Get your dance on (vegan-style) at Nooch tonight

Nooch Vegan Market, a new marketplace going into 3360 Larimer Street in the RiNo neighborhood, is hosting a "we're not open yet" dance party at 8 p.m. tonight. The speakeasy-style bash will feature drinks, snacks from the Vegan Van, tunes from DJ Brian Polk and "all kinds of dancing craziness!" Proc ... More >>

CREEP! -- a movie about a monster movie -- meets money goal, plans to start filming

The rug monster is coming back to life. In 1964, the monster -- which, BTW, looks like a combination penis-and-vagina -- was the star of the (terrible) monster movie The Creeping Terror. Now, thanks to more than $70,000 raised through Kickstarter, a brand-new version of the rug monster will grace ... More >>

Hooked on Colfax turns to Kickstarter to help fund expansion

When Malissa and Scott Spero decided to expand Hooked on Colfax, their four-year-old coffee shop, they didn't anticipate an expensive, five-month wait to get their permits from the City of Denver.

Five noteworthy examples of how Kickstarter is helping make the local scene more vibrant

Amanda Palmer recently set the record for crowd-sourced fundraising among music-related projects -- a record once held by Five Iron Frenzy -- after the Kickstarter campaign to fund her new record raised $735,000 in about two weeks. The former Dresden Dolls frontwoman served up tickets, copies of the ... More >>

Reader: CREEP! shows the creep of Kickstarter

Is everyone using Kickstarter to push a movie project? Some days it seems like that. The crew behind CREEP!, a movie about making the worst horror movie ever -- 1964's The Creeping Terror -- is in the last days of an attempt to raise $65,000 to bring the monster back to the big screen. The directo ... More >>

Derby Baby directors turn to Kickstarter for roller derby documentary distribution

Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and David Wruck premiered their roller derby documentary Derby Baby on March 31 at the Atlanta Film Festival and screened it earlier this month at the Sonoma International Film Festival, but before they can bring it to a wider audience they need to sort out a globa ... More >>

Fallene Wells reaches her Kickstarter goal, will kick off Modern Nouveau Collection

Fallene Wells was getting ready to acknowledge defeat in her Kickstarter campaign, which ended on February 22. The Denver fashionista was even preparing a second fundraising effort -- with a more modest goal -- on another crowdsourcing website since she was so far away from the $20,000 she'd hoped t ... More >>

Fallene Wells throws a homestretch party at TACtile for her Kickstarter campaign

​ Westword MasterMind (class of 2010) and Project Runway alumnus Fallene Wells has a dream -- to produce a vintage-inspired line of clothing and start CoSewn, a local apparel manufacturing company. She's been inching ever closer to that lofty aspiration since she launched a $20,000 Kickstarter ... More >>

Get a scary sneak preview of CREEP! at the Bug tonight

​Some filmmakers aren't waiting for Colorado lawmakers to pass a movie incentive package, a proposal Melanie Asmar detailed in last week's cover story, "The Reel West." Local director Pete Schuermann plans to use crowd-funding to finish CREEP! , a movie within a documentary about the worst hor ... More >>

The 1812 tests the potential of crowd-funding for backing a restaurant

There's not much Cajun food in the Mile High City, a lack that Johanna Cooke started lamenting after her husband, a native of Louisiana native, first made gumbo for her back when they were dating. Since then, Cooke, who has worked in the food industry since she was fifteen -- most recently at the no ... More >>

Project Runway's Fallene Wells looks to Kickstarter to sew up new fashion line

Denver designer Fallene Wells will use the most modern of fundraising mechanisms to gather money for a clothing line that harks back to the past, specifically the 1920s. Wells, who starred on Season 9 of Project Runway, kicked off a campaign on Kickstarter this week, in which she hopes to raise $20 ... More >>

Hobo nickels: Kickstarter campaign falls short, but Adam Leech still hopes to make movie

Time ran out last week for Adam Leech on Kickstarter.com. The Colorado Springs entrepreneur known for his vintage clothing and collectibles store, Leechpit, had been trying to raise a large sum of money to complete his documentary, A Nickel and a Nail: The Original Hobo Nickel Story.

The crew behind Black Shirt Brewing is taking the Kickstarter route toward their dream

​Six breweries have opened in the Denver area so far this year, and there are more on the horizon. And while craft beer lovers might say it's impossible to have "too many breweries," it is becoming exponentially more difficult to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of competition. But the brot ... More >>

Help send Wheelchair Sports Camp to CMJ

Update (10/11/11): With eight hours left to go, Wheelchair Sports Camp has reached its $1,200 goal with the graciousness of 47 people who pitched in to help. Brace yourself, NYC: Here come Heffernan and company. Original item (10/6/11, 8 a.m.): This year's CMJ Music Marathon is less than two weeks ... More >>

Boba Fett & the Americans heading to CMJ

​Boba Fett & the Americans, the fifteen-piece guerrilla-style marching band, will be heading to New York City to play all over Manhattan for three days during the CMJ Music Marathon, which runs from Tuesday October 18 to Saturday, October 22. The band, which includes DeVotchKa's drummer/trumpe ... More >>

Revolights LEDs for bikes: The brightest project on Kickstarter?

The Revolights v4 prototype, via Revolights.com​Look out, Moonlight Classic 2012, here's a product surely destined for just about every nocturnal bike in Colorado: The Revolights project is less than $10,000 shy of its $43,500 goal on Kickstarter.com, with 42 days to go as of this writing, whi ... More >>

Titwrench organizers need some help making this year's festival a reality

Titwrench Mastermind Sarah Slater​Titwrench Fest, a Best of Denver winner, and one of the more important reminders of why Denver is so fucking awesome, is entering its third consecutive year of service to our beloved city this coming July 28-30 at G.L.O.B. and the Mercury Cafe. This time arou ... More >>

Art with a Plan

The Bag the Cat Was In needs your help

Rianna Lee Brown needs your donations. ​Want to see a giant cat face with light-up eyes and a glowing field of poppies? So does Rianna Lee Brown. But to make it happen, she needs your help. The local artist, costume designer and performer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her am ... More >>

Upcoming documentary The Golden Hour needs your help

​After Piyush Tewari's cousin was killed in 2007 in a road accident in Delhi, India, that could have been prevented, he decided to do something about it. His family member's life could have been saved, the now 29-year-old discovered, because his death hinged upon the fact that no one helped th ... More >>

Enough with Kickstarter, already

​Kickstarter has proven a remarkably popular tool for, er, kickstarting all different sorts of projects. Nonprofits have used it with great success. So have filmmakers, video-game designers, artists and musicians. Crowd-sourcing your fundraising efforts is a very 21st-century idea. At this poi ... More >>

Churchill's new album, Happy/Sad, finished and slated for a February release

​Call it a hunch, but we're going to venture a guess that the members of Churchill are falling more on the happy end of the Happy/Sad spectrum these days now that their like-named, fan-funded full-length is under wraps.