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Photos: Ten best "Colorado cities" movie posters

Last week, we shared our collection of the ten best "Colorado" movie posters -- flicks that actually featured the state's name in the title. Now, we're branching out, with a gallery made up of posters from films that mention Colorado cities. Predictably, the majority name-check Denver, but there are ... More >>

Ron Carter on the evolution of jazz bass and how "guys are writing more difficult parts" these days

Ron Carter has been on over 2,500 albums and secured a spot as one of the world's finest bassists in the history of jazz. Doing much more than merely helping anchor the rhythm, Carter is a quite the melodic master. In his five-decade-long career, he's played with countless jazz legends, including a ... More >>

Denver's Civic Center named a national landmark

It wasn't long ago that Denver planners had the crackpot idea of putting a new Colorado history museum underground in Civic Center Park, right by the McNichols building, once a Carnegie library. Cooler heads put the kibosh on that. And now Denver's Civic Center has been designated a National Histori ... More >>

Who's keeping local hop farmers in business?

Colorado will celebrate farm-fresh hops with a new Hops Nouveau festival

Every year on the third Thursday in November, the world celebrates Beaujolais Nouveau, field-fresh young red wines from France that are meant to celebrate the harvest and be enjoyed right away. This September, Colorado beer brewers will do something similar for hops by kicking off a Hops Nouveau par ... More >>

High and dry: 62 of Colorado's 64 counties qualify for drought disaster relief

The hottest summer on record could also be one of the driest. At the end of June, Governor John Hickenlooper requested that much of this dry, dry state be declared a federal disaster area because of "drought, low snow pack, excessive heat, and high winds" that had started on January 1...with no end ... More >>

Venture Snowboards ventures into skinnier snow boards

In January we reported on a handful of homegrown Colorado ski companies making handcrafted and custom skis that stand up to or surpass anything else on the market. If we'd waited a few weeks, we could have added another local brand to the mix: Silverton-based Venture Snowboards. For the last few y ... More >>

Dancer Michelle Ellsworth wins a $50,000 USA Fellowship prize

​The sixth annual round of the USA Fellowship grants -- fifty awards of $50,000 each -- were announced last night in Los Angeles, and exactly one went to a Colorado artist: Michelle Ellsworth of Boulder, for her work in the field of dance. Ellsworth has an MFA in dance from the University of ... More >>

The Edge: Westword's winter activities guide helps you sort out the 2011-2012 season

​Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword's annual insider's guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that's just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it ... More >>

The Rum Diary will leave you with just a slight hangover

Denver ranks No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list

Lori MidsonIt's dishes like Euclid Hall's duck poutine that catapulted Denver to No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list​The best city in America for foodniks? According to the readers of Travel Leisure magazine, which just released its 2011 roster of the best Ame ... More >>

An interview with Ideal Fathers in advance of their farewell show tonight at the Larimer

​Over the course of a line-up change or two, Ideal Fathers Ideal Fathers, playing its final show tonight at the Larimer Lounge, developed a sound and a stage presence that probably would have been lumped in with "dance punk." But there was always an agenda in the band to inspire people to wake ... More >>

Eddie Friedman, Colorado contemporary

Rhoda PollackEddie Friedman, 1948-2011​The Upper Larimer area may be hot today, but for pure aesthetics, it's hard to beat a time in the '80s when the area at 31st and Larimer streets was home to CORE New Art Space, the Sullivan-Bisenius Gallery and, right upstairs, three studios occupied by D ... More >>

The top five locally made snowboards at the SIA Snow Show (plus a couple of sweet pairs of skis)

Photo by Sarah AustinNever Summer Snowboards co-founder Tim Canaday shows off his 2011/2012 line at the SIA Snow Show​We sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards ... More >>

True Grit: If only the new one had been filmed in Colorado, like the John Wayne version

​For the second year in a row, a movie with Colorado ties is getting Oscar buzz. In 2010, it was Precious, which was co-produced by Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness of Denver. This time around, it's 127 Hours, which stars James Franco as Aron Ralston, the Colorado climber who cut off his ... More >>

Beer-jolais Nouveau: Could fresh hops do for beer what Beaujolais Nouveau does for wine?

The Tommyknocker crew.www.sanjuanhopfarms.com​On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn't powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its main quality is light freshness. It's fermented f ... More >>

The Edge: Westword's Winter Activity Guide 2010-2011

Next year's Great American Beer Festival will welcome U.S. territories

​The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival will make two changes for next year's big show, which will mark the thirtieth anniversary of world's largest commercial beer extravaganza. For starters, GABF -- which drew 49,000 attendees and 3,523 different beers -- will return to a later ... More >>

Mexican poetry and social analysis — seriously!

Video: Red Bull unveils Shaun White's private half-pipe

Judging by the video above, Shaun White woke up one day and said, "I would like a private, giant half-pipe in the San Juan Mountains, accessible only by helicopter." And Red Bull said, "How giant would you like it?" More dramatic foreplay can be found on the Project X website.

Best of Denver Winners from 1997

GOP@Riot

GOP@Riot
Self-released

Bird Is the Word

What's So Funny

The Hardest Hit

Tony Duran was a fighter -- but life put him on the ropes.

Semi-Tough

Urban Eco-Adventure puts racers through heck

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 16, 2003

All Aboard!

Old pufferbellies stay on track at the Narrow Gauge Railfest.

Mushrooming Passion

Telluride's annual festival of fungi can be a tasty treat.

Risk-Ski Business

Can Aaron Brill's single lift save Silverton and earn salvation for the sport?

Going With the Flow

As spring melts into summer, water users along the St. Vrain could find themselves up the creek.

Good Grief!

All About My Mother lives up to its billing as a "screwball drama."

Verse Comes to Worse

Trickle-Down Economics

A new proposal could leave Animas-La Plata proponents high and dry.

The Truck Stops Here

Rough Waters

The Animas-La Plata project is supposed to fulfill the government's promise to Colorado Utes. But tribal opponents worry it will leave the reservations high and dry.

Flights of Fancy

Denver pays a consultant big money to get overseas flights for DIA--and goes nowhere.

LORDS OF THE RING

NINE-YEAR-OLD JOE SILVA WAS READY TO FIGHT--UNTIL POLITICS GOT IN THE WAY.LOW BLOWS EVERYONE IN COLORADO'S FIGHT GAME LOVES A GOOD BRAWL--FROM THE LITTLEST BOXER TO THE TOP OFFICIAL.

THE FARM TEAM

THE DENVER GANGS WANTED TONY BROWN'S BOYS. SO HE TOOK HIS FAMILY AND HEADED FOR THE HILLS.HOME ON THE RANGE MEET THE MUSLIM COWBOYS OF MOSCA, COLORADO.