Utah

Odyssey Beerwerks, a brewery and taproom, opens in Arvada in May

Arvada will get a new brewery later this month when Odyssey Beerwerks opens up at 5535 West 56th Avenue, Suite 107, just north of the Denver border. The 1,700-square-foot taproom, which will include a fifteen-barrel brewing system and room for at least eighty people, was founded by friends Chris Hi ... 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 >>

Top five things the Denver Nuggets need to improve after the All-Star break

The All-Star break is over, Kenneth Faried manimaled his way to some long-overdue national attention, and fastest team in the NBA West got a few days off to recharge its batteries. After the Nuggets beat the Celtics last night to avenge that frustrating triple OT loss heading into the break, it's of ... More >>

Ella Moon, R.I.P.: Moon Farm matriarch was a true Colorado original

Ella Moon, who died on Sunday, may not have been famous in the conventional sense. But generations of people share fond memories of this astonishing woman, whose namesake home -- Moon Farm, located in the Western Slope community of Fruita -- was a popular day camp for more than thirty years, and con ... More >>

Photos: A weekend at River North Brewery, Black Shirt and Our Mutual Friend

Cheap rent, hip locals and an urban feel are three of the main ingredients that have turned River North into one of Denver's hottest neighborhoods for new breweries. Three of them -- River North Brewery, Black Shirt Brewing and Our Mutual Friend Malt & Brew (which is technically in Five Points) -- ... More >>

Ten best Amendment 64-themed pictures on Instagram

It's 2012 -- at least for a few more days. It was the year that recreational pot became legal in Colorado, and people sure do love bragging about their marijuana on social media. Instagram is a particular hotspot for Amendment 64-related picture posts. Continue reading for our ten favorite Colorado ... More >>

Iesha Paris and Darryl Hunter busted for child abuse after son shot in face

A couple of weeks ago, we shared the terrible story of Ethan Hearty, a toddler who accidentally killed himself at his grandparents' Utah home after finding a gun. Still no report of charges in that case, but accusations have been aimed at Iesha Paris and Darryl Hunter in a similar incident that took ... More >>

Dark Angel meth arrests: Armando Mendoza-Haro among 22 busted in cross-country scheme

In decrying the resources wasted in a failed prosecution of medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones (a total he estimated at over $100,000), attorney Rob Corry suggested that law enforcers focus on meth rather than weed. Little did he know that the U.S. Attorney's Office in Colorado and the Organized ... More >>

Colorado hopes to lure filmmakers with a new plan

Joshua Hoggan met with Columbine's Frank DeAngelis before school-bombing-plot bust

Big photos below.​Most local news outlets aren't using the name of the sixteen-year-old Utah student who met with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis a month before being arrested, along with eighteen-year-old Dallin Morgan, in an alleged plot to blow up their high school. But Utah media is id ... More >>

In-n-Out Burger will come to Denver...for a price

Lori Midson​Sorry, that headline is cruel. In-n-Out Burger, which now has locations in California, Nevada, Dallas-Fort Worth and Utah, is not opening a store in Denver, but if you don't want to drive the 350-plus miles to get your double-double burger fix, you can have it delivered straight t ... More >>

Clown robbers: Try disguising yourselves as Shmucks of the Week

Seriously?​Look, we know that real-life robbers are often lovers of the cinema. That's why they dress in fanciful and elaborate costumes, à la Point Break (ex-Presidents), The Town (gruesome nuns), 3000 Miles to Graceland (Elvises) and, most recently, 30 Minutes or Less (apes). But now it see ... More >>

Thursday is the new Friday: Juarez Street Fighters, Above & Beyond, and DJ Muggs

​Thank goodness Thursday has come around again, we were beginning to think Noah was going to come floating by on in Arc with two of each animal. Luckily even as our streets are flowing with water, our venues are flooding with big things to do. Check out our wrap-up for tonight, which unlike th ... More >>

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, May 9 - 15

​It's a scene as iconic as any ever recorded of the Great American West, the meeting of two railroad lines from the east and west at Promontory Summit, Utah, punctuated by a last golden spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. These days, nobody travels by railroad e ... More >>

The Great Food Truck Race rolls into Denver this weekend

The Lime Truck, from Orange Country, is one of eight trucks competing in season two's The Great Food Truck Race, which rolls into Denver this weekend​ Pray to the weather gods that Denver is blessed with balmy breezes this weekend, because the food trucks competing in season two of The Great ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Breck snowboarder Eric Willett throws down at Burn River Jump TTR in Italy

Photo by Eleonora Raggi, courtesy TTR Press OfficeEric Willet soars to second place at TTR Burn River Jump event in Livigno, Italy​Breckenridge local Eric Willett finished second behind Norwegian Aleksander Ostreng at the Burn River Jump contest this weekend in Livigno, Italy, part of the Swat ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Winter's Children: Naked Ambition nude snowboarding video

​Today's stoke comes to us via our ever-watchful friends at YoBeat (tagline: "Making fun of snowboarding since 1997"). Director Jim Mangan's short film Winter's Children: Naked Ambition features vintage snowboards, woven Native American blankets, and a noticeable dearth of winter clothing (or ... More >>

Ken Salazar: Why his "wild lands" policy has the GOP going wild

​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar clearly wanted to make a splash when he unveiled his new "wild lands" policy last week--two days before Christmas (slow news week), at a press conference outside the REI flagship store, just a few steps from his old Denver office when he was a U.S. Senato ... More >>

Speedo demons: Opt-out protestors at DIA removed almost everything

Walter Bond: Radical animal-rights activist pleads guilty to burning down Sheepskin Factory

Walter Bond.​Animal activist Walter Bond is a man so devoted to his cause that he wears a giant "VEGAN" tattoo on his neck. So it's no surprise he showed zero remorse when officially pleading guilty to arson related to a fire at Glendale's Sheepskin Factory in April -- a crime for which he fa ... More >>

Justify My Love: Defending '50s and '60s country

​Okay, we all have some skeletons in our closet, shit we dig -- be it music, movies or television shows -- that we'd just as soon nobody else knew about. "Guilty pleasures" is what most people term these sort of inclinations. Well, here at Backbeat, there's no shame in our game -- assuming, of ... More >>

Walter Bond allegedly torched sheepskin factory for animal rights cause (and wants to do it again)

Walter Bond.​Walter Bond doesn't exactly hide his convictions when it comes to animal rights. Law-enforcement types note that he has "a prominent tattoo on his neck just below his chin that reads, 'VEGAN.'" However, Bond is accused of doing more than simply sticking to salads. He's been forma ... More >>

Gary Coleman critically ill in Utah hospital after reported fall, head injury

Probably not Gary Coleman's favorite photo.​Update, 1:15 p.m.: Gary Coleman has died. Read the Washington Post's obituary here, and look below to read our original item, published at 7:29 a.m. this morning. When last we heard from former Denver resident Gary Coleman, back in February, he'd br ... More >>

Ken Salazar's gotta be happy: The black-tailed prairie dog isn't endangered after all

Stop resting easy, pal. You're not endangered anymore.​Last December, when President Barack Obama first announced the nomination of Colorado Senator Ken Salazar as Secretary of the Interior, Tucson's Center for Biological Diversity criticized the choice, claiming that Salazar's environmental r ... More >>

Colorado is fourth happiest state -- despite all that stress!

A Flickr photoSee: even our puppies are happy!​The barrage of apparently contradictory surveys continues. Just last week, we told you about American Psychological Association survey that showed Denverites are more stressed than Americans nationwide. Now comes a roundup from the Gallup Organiz ... More >>

Meese reveals track list and cover art for new album

In a little over a month, Meese's major label debut is slated to drop. At a listening party a few months ago at the Larimer Lounge, we learned that the album would be titled Broadcast and would feature "The Start of It," a song well familiar to all of the kids on the frozen Front Range, that has sin ... More >>

The Knew lands song on AMC's Breaking Bad

The second season of Breaking Bad makes its premier on Sunday, March 8. As part of AMC's effort to tout its original series, which chronicles a terminally ill chemistry teacher named Walter White's (Bryan Cranston, Malcom in the Middle) foray into the drug trade, the network is currently running a ... More >>

Ken Salazar extinguishes a Bush fire sale

Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, who spent much of last week traipsing around the Denver area declaring that there's a new sheriff in town, has taken what he calls "an important first step" in restoring balance to federal public lands policy -- pulling the plug on a controversial sa ... More >>

The Rescuers

Best Friends founder Michael Mountain signs his new book.

Drive-By

A new photography exhibit celebrates and mourns the drive-in movie theater.

The Week in Fashion: June 21 Through June 26

Mountain West Conference Lineup

This debut channel is learning the rules of the game.

The Kids Are Not Alright

From Dakota Fanning's rape to John Cusack's daddy issues, Sundance 2007 was all about the kiddie porn.

Drew Danburry

8 p.m. Monday, July 18, Forest Room 5, 303-433-7001; 10 p.m. Monday, July 18, 15th Street Tavern, 303-572-0822.

Kaskade

Tuesday, May 24, Vinyl, 303-860-8469.

California Screamin'

Planes Mistaken for Stars brings the noise to Plea for Peace.

Spin Without Sin

Meet DJ Kaskade, an unlikely man of the house.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 30, 2003

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 16, 2003

Best Badass Bull

Mister USA

Bite Me

Star Trek

Love on the Rocks

After years of four-by-four play, two off-roaders decide it's time to ride together.

He's Still Standing

Trace Christensen's live one-man show has the force of a power combo. Don't you dare call it karaoke.

Off Limits

A public service announcement from Westword...

Plane Truths

Artsbeat

Dark Days on Black Mesa

The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells dry up, their ancient culture may disappear.

Mine or Yours?

Denver mine-safety workers enlist congressional help to keep their office from moving to West Virginia.

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