Knitting

Boulder Farmers' market, week three: spinach is in -- but no apricots, ever?

Eating local brings different joys and disappointments every year, and there's a big disappointment coming up -- as I learn from farmer John Ellis at the Boulder Farmers' Market Saturday. No apricots this year, says Ellis, who runs Rancho Durazno peach orchard. Or if there are any, there will be be ... More >>

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, January 21-24 -- starting with today's MLK Marade

Just because the weekend's over doesn't mean your free fun is. This week you can watch (or join) the Martin Luther King Marade, knit a pair of legwarmers while you watch Flashdance, and attend a trunk show without even opening your wallet. See a complete listing of this town's events on our online ... More >>

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, January 14-17

Just because the temperature's dropping doesn't mean you have to hole up inside and browse the dregs of Netflix for something new on instant watch. We've got three events this week that are definitely worth braving the cold for -- and they're all free. From a Motown night with free fried chicken and ... More >>

Knit wit: Local crafter Daddy Lion Legs makes made to-order hats and scarves

A Daddy Lion Legs piece is unmistakeable -- thick knitting stitches run diagonal and in tube-like formations, brightly-colored fabrics clash pleasantly with muted yarn. And the designs -- all one-of-a-kind, made-to-order pieces -- come from a single knitter, Jennah Black. What started out as a hobby ... More >>

Denver's best music releases of 2011

Radical Knitting Circle

When Bees No Longer Fly...
Self-released

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 >>

Ladies Fancywork Society makes New York Times, called "Graffiti's cozy, feminine side."

​The Ladies Fancywork Society, Denver's ragtag gang of street knitters, has made the big time -- as in the Gray Lady. Yesterday, the New York Times published a big story on the trend of yard bombing, a process that the paper said "takes that most matronly craft (knitting) and that most materna ... More >>

Mile Highlights: This week's concert news, local radio playlists and top album sales

​ Here's what's good in the Mile High City this week: On the concert front, we've received word that Death Cab for Cutie is due at Red Rocks in August with Frightened Rabbit, preceded by O.A.R. in July, while Ben Folds stops by the Ogden in July and Queensryche plays the Theatre in September. ... More >>

A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Radical Knitting Circle, the Tanukis at hi-dive, 03/09/11

A HAWK AND A HACKSAW With Radical Knitting Circle • The Tanukis 03.09.11 | hi-dive A Hawk and a Hacksaw is not, in any certain terms, the type of band you yearn to see live. The outfit plays Eastern-European infused music with hat-tips to Middle Eastern and klezmer-inflected music with vigor ra ... More >>

A Talulah Jones 24 Days of Christmas: Day Twenty

Eurothriftonista.​We're all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night thro ... More >>

Sufjan Stevens, Bad Religion, John McLaughlin shows announced

​Indie troubadour Sufjan Stevens, who's set up a month-long fall tour that will include some of the country's most historic theaters and venues, is set to visit the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, November 2. Stevens will be performing fully realized versions of songs he initially debuted at sma ... More >>

Prince proclaims the internet is "completely over." Here's five other things in that category.

​ Well, there you have it: The internet is "completely over." That's according to Prince, who told the UK's Daily Mirror in advance of his new album 20TEN (which, incidentally, will only be released only on CD) that the world wide web was "like MTV: At one time, MTV was hip, and suddenly it ... More >>

The year in reviews: a handy link guide to all the records reviewed in Westword this year

​Perhaps inspired by the fact that we're in the process of putting together our annual year-end lists and thus reflecting on our favorite releases from the past twelve months, we've been going through all the albums we reviewed in 2009 in an effort to stir our memories just in case a worthy releas ... More >>

Hand It to Them

Weekends on The Truth more confusing than ever

​Last week, Jeff Norman, president and general manager of The Truth, a new right-wing FM-talk station, explained that a variation of The Pole, a.k.a. "Stripper Radio," which ran for a week or so after the plug was pulled on Indie 101.5, a cult favorite that continues to survive, kind of, in an ... More >>

Knit Knacks

Knitters get noisy at Fresh City Life.

Radical Knitting Circle

Radical Knitting Circle
Self-released

Thank God It's Friday!

Punk not your thing? A little too loud for you, you say? No worries. There's tons of other great music for you to catch tonight. Across from 3 Kings, over at the hi-dive, Curious Yellow makes its valiant return to the scene after a four- year hiatus, with the Still City (members of which are moonlig ... More >>

A Few Good Yarns

Keep a soldier’s head warm: Knit For Our Troops.

Flier of the week: Farewell Bush Bash at Walnut Room

While we're not entirely sure we get the symbolism of the imagery attached to this flier -- the focal point of which appears to be a figure who looks like Jesus leaning on an inverted hand drum in front of a vague cluster of men of unknown origin? -- or how it relates to a show celebrating the exod ... More >>

Anarchist Ball

Closely Knit

KnitFlix is the perfect meld of craft and cinema.

Unraveling Textiles at the DAM

A Tangled Yarn

Q&A with Kelley Deal of the Breeders

Knitting Lessons

Love Cereal Cupcakes Creative Collaboration=The Shoppe

Talking Shoppe

Tran and Josh Wills are on an arts-and-crafts mission.

Change Your Stripes

Stitch in Time

Best Free Service

DVD rentals

Best Girl Group

Stitch and Bitch, Thin Man

Best Hangout for Knitters

La Ti Da

Best Charitable Ladies' Cause

Knit for the Homeless, Shivering Sheep/Coppélia's Needlepoint

Lavin All the Way

Christine Lavin gets ready to share her latest stories with her knitting buddies.

Warm Fuzzies

Knit for the Homeless shows true glove

Flight Club

Kites unite in One Sky

Best Fix for the Addicted Knitter

A Knitted Peace

Best Prison Therapy

Limon Correctional Facility

From the Heart

Germinal Stage Denver celebrates Bertolt Brecht.

Best Yarn Store

Showers of Flowers Yarn Shop

Best Lithuanian Sweaters

Lele

Art Beat

Michael Paglia's brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Best proof of life after Boulder

Fat Mama

Best place to buy an Irish sweater

Thistle & Shamrock

Stop Making Sense

DJ Logic experiments with hip-hop, rock and all that jazz.

Hit Pick

A Yarn About the Broncos

SOUL MEN

M. DOUGHTY'S SOUL COUGHING ISN'T CLEARING UP. AND THAT'S GOOD NEWS.