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Reader: Barry Fey never lost Denver's love

Denver's five best comedy venues

While it's true that a venue can make or break the show regardless of the talent on stage, this is doubly true with comedy. Location, comfort level, atmosphere, drink prices and, yes, quality of performers all play a large role in whether a comedy fan will Google your location when making Saturday n ... More >>

Susan Claassen becomes a fashion icon in A Conversation With Edith Head

A Hollywood stylist before the term was even coined, costume designer Edith Head was the imagination behind the wardrobes for hundreds of films. For decades, the petite, behind-the-scenes boss oversaw a majority of Paramount's clothing-design work, dressing stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Bette Davi ... More >>

Dressed to Impress

La Rumba celebrates its 15th anniversary with a weekend-long celebration that kicks off tonight

Fifteen years ago, at the height of the swing craze, Jesse Morreale opened Ninth Avenue West at 9th and Acoma and brought in some of the top bands of the day, like the Royal Crown Revue and the Mighty Blue Kings. But around the turn of the century, as swing started to fade, he changed the name of th ... More >>

Smoking at Paramount Cafe and 86'd from Coyote Ugly: happy birthday, 16th Street Mall

Being the inappropriately dramatic individual I am, it would be appropriate to say I have a love-hate relationship with the 16th Street Mall. But both love and hate are words that are too strong for my feelings about the mall. Although I'm inclined to admire anything built around the activity of sho ... More >>

The Killers at 1STBANK, the Wallflowers at the Ogden, Nas and NOFX at the Fillmore

If you thought last week's new show announcements were killer, brace yourself. This week's show is just as killer, er make that Killers. After being missing in action for the past couple of years, the Las Vegas quartet is making its triumphant return this November at the 1STBANK Center in support of ... More >>

(UPDATE) New Concerts: Skrillex vs Knife Party, Bob Dylan and Green Day at 1STBANK

A bunch of new shows this week. The two biggest of the bunch: Bob Dylan, whose new album, Tempest , hits the stores today, is coming to the 1STBANK Center for a two-night stand in late October, and Green Day, due for a date at the Broomfield venue in February. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, meanwhile, br ... More >>

A picnic at Steuben's, beer and wine dinners and more on this week's calendar

There's plenty on the culinary calendar this week, everything from picnics to pizza. Here's just a taste:

Denver Center Theatre Company announces 2012-13 schedule

Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year's ... More >>

Where did Michael Pollan eat post-Denver speech? Fuel Cafe

If food is, indeed, the next rock-and-roll, as Ferran Adria once said, then Michael Pollan is certainly one of its superstars; the author and professor has made major inroads in how we all think about what goes into our body, using his body of work -- which includes Botany of Desire, Omnivore's Dile ... More >>

Lykke Li, Tech N9Ne, Lucinda Williams, City and Colour and a slew of CD release shows

Catch Lykke Li tonight at the Ogden​There's an astounding number of great shows to pick from this weekend in the Mile High City: Lykke Li at the Ogden, Tech N9Ne kicks off his two-night Denver run with an intimate show tonight at the Summit Music Hall, followed by an appearance at the Fillmore ... More >>

Pretty Is As Pretty Does

Ira Glass is coming to Colorado (and tickets will sell out fast)

Ira Glass, pictured here being god-like.​In the sixteen years it's been around, This American Life has been more than just a radio show: It's been the parent of movie scripts as diverse as Unaccompanied Minors and The Informant, a major influence on countless other experiments with the radio f ... More >>

Sufjan Stevens at the Paramount, 11/2/10

Britt Chester​ SUFJAN STEVENS With DM Stith 11.2.10 | Paramount Theatre "I'm high," someone near me whispered with a wink just before the lights went down and Sufjan Stevens's band of black v-necked-tee-shirted accompanists started tuning their instruments together in a cacophony of sound. A ... More >>

The American Schmucks is kinder, gentler

Going Green

Under a Blood Red Sky to help soften the blow of U2's postponment

Bummed out that Bono and his U2 compadres won't be at Invesco this weekend? Yeah? So are we. Luckily, we have Under a Blood Red Sky, Denver's trusty rusty U2 tribute band, which has pulled together a gig this weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe this weekend to help us forget that we're now going to have ... More >>

Guy Fieri: A reader review

​ Eric, who won the tickets to see Guy Fieri at the Paramount Wednesday night, posted this comment about the show -- which we've pulled up so that everyone else knows what they missed: "Thanks so much for the tickets to see the Culinary Road Show. The best word I can use to describe it is sur ... More >>

This Just In: Alice in Chains, Experience Hendrix, Gov't Mule shows announced

​Alice in Chains hits the road in February in support of Black Gives Way to Blue, its first studio album in fourteen years, and with new singer William DuVall, who took over vocal duties for the band after original singer Layne Staley passed away in 2002. The band hits the Fillmore Auditorium Frid ... More >>

Over the weekend: Puscifer at the Paramount Theatre

Puscifer (Aaron Thackeray)​Puscifer, Uncle Scratch's Gospel's Revival Saturday, November 21, 2009 Paramount Theatre Better than: Watching old reruns of Hee Haw. It would have been hard to predict the format and content of Saturday night's Puscifer show based solely on the outfit's studio recordin ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Hall & Oates at the Paramount Theatre

​Hall & OatesSunday, August 30, 2009 Paramount TheatreBetter Than: Seeing most other bands of this vintageThe Hall & Oates show this past Sunday at the Paramount Theatre attracted a well-heeled, recital-worthy crowd. Aside from a few rogue, enthusiastic fans who just couldn't res ... More >>

Made-in-Colorado film Entanglement debuts tonight

An image from the Ed Bowes film "Entanglement." The last major Hollywood movie filmed in Colorado was Eddie Murphy's Imagine That, which prompted yawns from most critics and scored so poorly at the box office that it may well have led to the firing of two top executives at Paramount, the studio tha ... More >>

Komanawanaleia at Earls

Alter Ego

Tony Clifton stops by the Walnut Room.

Best of Westword Winners: 1989

For Folk's Sake

Abort

Mission: Impossible III runs the franchise into the ground.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Summer Drinkin', Had Me a Blast

Take a spin through the city's coolest cocktails.

Nice Puss

A killer cat steals a wonderful movie.

Latin Tornado

Leguizamo rolls into town with his razor-sharp wit

A Few of Our Favorite Things

With so many options, how do you know where to go? Use our quick-pick guide.

Backwash

Britney does Denver as the little girls scream.

Bear Market

A listing of SCFD dollars doled out in 2000.

Mel Sells Out

What women -- and men -- want is a better movie than this.

Critic's Choice

Joe Jackson

Too Smart for Their Own Good

The Tragically Hip doesn't believe in dumbing down its music to reach wide audiences. As a result, it's the most popular band in Canada.

Beam Me Up, Scotty!

High School Confidential

Star Hustlers

With the imminent release of The Phantom Menace, Fantastic Media prepares to blast off.

That Sinking Feeling

Gullible Travels

Thrills for the week

Snoop's On

Happy Lou

In concert, Lou Reed takes a walk on the mild side.

Thrills for the week

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THRILLS

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