Kurt Vonnegut

Celebrate Vonnegut with a Breakfast of Champions at Wynkoop tonight

Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, is honoring the anniversary of author Kurt Vonnegut's passing with a beer dinner/breakfast this evening at 6:30 p.m. The four-course, morning-themed menu will feature Tender Belly Pork and Novo coffees paired with beers from Wynkoop. See also: - A new pati ... More >>

A new patio, a new beer and a new brewery highlight this week's beer calendar

River North Brewery, which has been working on getting approval for a patio for quite a while, finally got the go-ahead just before the Colorado Rockies home opener. And although it's a little chilly out there today, the new space should be a great place to hang out all spring and summer with four, ... More >>

Brunch at Beast Bottle, a beer dinner for The Jerk and more on this week's calendar

Snow may hit late tonight -- what better place to hole up than Beast Bottle? The new restaurant just introduced a mid-day brunch menu in anticipation of nice weather, but it should work just fine on a snowy day, too. Brunch service currently runs Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a..m. to 2:30 p.m. C ... More >>

Photos: Denver Now showcases Mile High businesses -- as of 1982

Back in 1982, the Mile High City-set series Dynasty was the most popular show on TV, but only establishing shots were regularly filmed here. So what was Denver really like back then? We stumbled upon a regular time-machine of a book that shows us: Denver Now, described as "Denver's Business Showcase ... More >>

Graham Elliot, author of A Pact for Life, on why he drinks and writes in Denver

Not long ago, Graham Elliot moved to Colorado to chase a girl. Unfortunately, his quest for love didn't conclude with a picturesque Hollywood ending. So Elliot did what most spurned lovers do: He wrote a novel, of course. In 2012 Elliot released A Pact for Life, a story about a hot-and-cold Denver c ... More >>

Viking Chris Kluwe tackles discrimination in major-league sports

Rudy Ch. Garcia takes us inside The Closet of Discarded Dreams

In Rudy Ch. Garcia's debut novel, The Closet of Discarded Dreams, a man awakens in a strange, surreal world made up of dreams -- his own, and everyone else's. In this bizarre place, Che Guevara and Marilyn Monroe debate philosophy and no one ever dies, but not everything is as wonderful as it seems. ... More >>

Glucose's hallucination-inspired jungle music

What happens when you mix a podcast conversation about telepathic octopi with a psychedelic experience on DMT? The answer is Glucose's jungle-heavy EP Telepathic Octopus. For electronic music fans of a certain age -- those old enough to remember the late '90s -- hearing Glucose's new EP Telepathic O ... More >>

David Amram: "Playing jazz reminds me all the time of how important every note is, every person is, every situation is"

David Amram, who will perform at the Neal Cassady birthday tonight at the Mercury Cafe and tomorrow night at Dazzle, shared a close connection with Cassady, Jack Kerouac and other Beats, while also being a jazz musician who collaborated with Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and Oscar Pettiford. Amra ... More >>

Uni and Square set the street-art scene at UnseenDenver's fundraiser for Arts Street

Street art is usually a fly-by-night phenomena, one that the artists prefer no one -- especially the police -- witness. Just ask the Knapper twins, the subjects of this week's Westword cover story. But Denver has recently taken to the idea of live street-art events. And last Friday night, UnseenDenv ... More >>

So it goes: Vonnegut gets banned in small-town Missouri, Vonnegut library sticks it to 'em

​If you thought banning books on the basis that they fail to fall in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ was a thing of the past, then consider yourself unstuck in time: A couple of weeks ago, a school board in Republic, MO, voted to remove copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five -- ... More >>

Why are movies so damn boring?

Pootie too good.​I have the attention span of a four-year-old. I can't sit still for very long and I don't like to watch things --particularly television shows and movies -- without having something else going on at the same time. (Like a massive laundry folding undertaking or an organization ... More >>

Noir cops, Area 51 and more in this week's new release picks, May 17, 2011

​Some people probably think escapism is a bad thing, but if we've learned anything over the years, it's that sometimes you need to get as far away from reality as possible. Case in point, all the picks this week are somehow related to the idea that you don't have to be where you are -- whether ... More >>

Ninth and Lincoln founder Tyler Gilmore strays from previous form on Static Line

Dead Space 2 and Enter the Void top our new release picks for January 25

​If you're interested in stories about a sexually obsessed sister, deadly religious demon monsters, ghost drug dealers or practical jokes taken too far, boy have we've got some good stuff for you this week. If you prefer to consume media that keeps to the realm of reality, you're out of luck. ... More >>

Best American Nonrequired Reading highlights Denver Voice story by William Hillyard

William Hillyard.​Some people surely pay for the Denver Voice simply because the money goes to the homeless and hardly glance at it before tossing it -- although that would be a mistake. Not only does the Voice represent a worthy cause (for which is won a 2009 Westword MasterMind award), it al ... More >>

Zi Fusion's Rhett Songer on the F-word, racism and sexism and eating a puppy...dog

Lori Midson​Rhett Songer Zi Fusion 7340 South Clinton Street, Englewood 720-934-6402 www.ziasian.com This is part one of Lori Midson's interview with Rhett Songer, the executive chef of Zi Fusion. Part two of Songer's interview will run in this space tomorrow. "It's absolutely silly that it ... More >>

Wetlands is awfully grown up, Babies Teeth and all

The Loft leaves few traces of its coffeehouse origins

Vonnegut

Fall Into Place
Self-released

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God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut

Kurt's Mile-High Celebration

Appreciate, depreciate or just plain celebrate Kurt Vonnegut today.

Last Night: Vonnegut, The Frequent Sea and Stars of Track and Field @ hi-dive

Colorado Rockies: A Team of Know Names

Amphibious Jones

Critters of Habit

Yazoo Barbecue Company

The South hits the southern suburbs.

Wynkoop Brewing Co.

A toast to Kurt Vonnegut.

California Dreamin'

California Dreamin'

Ralphing

Spanks for the Memories

The bottom line looks very good for this Colorado company.

Wizards Welcome

The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown lights up.

The Beats Go On

How a kid from Boulder became an eyewitness to the passing of an era.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 8.

The Man Who Wasn't There

Bill Johnson doesn't let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Healthy Eating

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. finally gets the screen treatment he deserves with Breakfast of Champions.

Living Dolls

Dressy Bessy makes pop music that doesn't fall far from the Apples' tree.

Three the TARD Way

Meet TARD, Denver's most politically incorrect punk band.

Mouthing Off

Jim of All Trades

For David Byrne discovery Jim White, music wasn't his first career choice. Or his second. Or his third @

Mouthing Off

Off Limits

Thrills for the week

Clouds Over Europe

Thrills for the week

Seeds of Discontent

Kansas farmers say their weather-modification program causes rain. Colorado farmers say it causes trouble.

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