In what has to be the coolest guerilla marketing campaign ever, Denver-based furniture fabricators Double Butter took it upon themselves to install their designs outside two of the most coveted locations the city has available to artists: The Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver. Installation…
Somewhere in the not too distant future, the Department of Homeland Security will be able to ferret out terrorists based only on a series of questions about the NFL. Consider this: Last month’s Patriots-Cowboys game drew 30 million viewers, making it not only the most watched sporting event of the…
This week, Adam interviews his longtime friend, fellow comedian, and houseguest Ben Kronberg, who is soon to leave our cow town for Los Angeles…
Blake Mooney was recently laid off from his job at NewMediaCompany.com and has somehow found some time to give a glimpse into the week in the life of a man on the dole. This is his story. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday: To the depressed and despondent (or in my…
In 1987, Westword published its fourth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Place to Park Downtown (with the office-building vacancy rate at 30 percent, one lot had slashed its prices to ten cents a day!) to the Best Place to People-Watch…
View larger image. Hawaii Total Number of Delegates: 29 Pledged: 20 Unpledged: 9 How to Recognize a Hawaii Delegate: Hawaii has always been considered a paradise on Earth. Not only for its stunningly beautiful landscape, but also for the hospitality of the state’s residents. The descendants of the early Hawaiians,…
John Denver may have considered West Virginia to be almost heaven, but the people who live there prefer to think of themselves as wild and wonderful. After months of debate, and two online and telephone polls, the citizenry of West Virginia has chosen ”Wild, Wonderful” rather than “Almost Heaven” as…
Blake Mooney was recently laid off from his job at NewMediaCompany.com and has somehow found some time to give a glimpse into the week in the life of a man on the dole. This is his story. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday: With the exception of big name athletes entering free…
The Preble’s meadow jumping mouse weighs less than an ounce and hibernates for almost seven months of the year. But it’s a regular Godzilla in environmental circles, smashing developers’ plans up and down the Front Range and generating no end of controversy. Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service unveiled…
3oh!3 October 31, 2007 Fox Theater Better Than: Getting pepper sprayed by police during a previous Boulder Halloween riot. I think it was Ethan Hawke who I saw in a recent interview talking about the struggles of being white and upper middle class in America. He wasn’t being ironic at…
Carla Bley The Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu (ECM) Bley is among the most underappreciated talents in jazz – a fine pianist who also happens to be an extremely creative and gifted arranger. Since bowing in 1971 with Escalator Over the Hill, a recording that marked her as a leader…
Autokinoton, Yakuza, Jesu October 31, 2007 Marquis Theater Soaking in a few hours of heavy music played at ear-splitting volume seemed an ideal way to spend Halloween this year. This all-ages show comprised three very different bands with three very different aural skull-crushing techniques. Though most of the crowd was…
Kudos to Sue Lindsay of the Rocky Mountain News for her brilliant article detailing the October 31 shenanigans involving Vincent “Don Vito” Margera, who received two guilty verdicts related to groping incidents at Colorado Mills mall last year. Lindsay’s piece absolutely mopped the floor with the Denver Post’s far less…
After making a mint off a series about nothing, Jerry Seinfeld apparently decided his first feature film ought to be about something — in the case of Bee Movie, the enslavement and torture of bees for the pleasure and profit of humans, which is, like, hilarious. It’s rather tempting to…
Gentlemen, polish your best British accent, practice your witty one-liners and prepare to step into the shoes of suave secret agent James Bond. Ladies, slip on a cocktail dress and adopt a suggestive double entendre as a pseudonym, and who knows? Maybe you’ll meet the Bond of your dreams. Tonight’s…
This year’s Cocktails & Karaoke fundraiser for the Kunsberg School for chronically ill children (located on the National Jewish Medical and Research Center campus) is going to be much like the previous five — because you can’t improve on perfection. After all, what could possibly be more entertaining than a…
Day of the Dead devotees will just die for Beads, Braids, Brows and Bones, an All Saints Day tribute to apparitions past and present, featuring ten local artists flaunting their Fridastyle. This is the third year Studio Bead has hosted the haunting affair, which shines a light on art, culture…
Paul Krugman might not be everybody’s cup of tea — there are those who argue that his biweekly op-ed column in the New York Times is more partisan than academic — but the man’s got brains, and you can’t argue with that. A professor of economics and international affairs at…
Contemporary furniture-maker Chase DeForest already has a style all her own, building topsy-turvy cabinets and drawers from both reclaimed materials and fine hardwoods alike. But it’s her side line, inspired by her own sports-minded disposition, that’s turning heads and making people smile these days. That endeavor, characterized by pieces built…
Everyone’s complaining about the cost of health care, and the plight of people with no health insurance and medical bills to pay is very real. Take, for example, local photographer Judy Sanchez: Recently hospitalized, she ended up needing a cardiac arrhythmia procedure and was left owing a substantial amount of…
It’s no mystery where the Sherlock Holmes aficionados will be tonight. Dr. Watson’s Neglected Patients’ annual Guy Fawkes Day Celebration is going on this evening at the French Quarter Condominiums Clubhouse, 155 South Monaco Parkway, from 5 to 9 p.m. The free annual event includes a potluck supper and a…
The elephant journal is Boulder personified: Touted to be the town’s “guide to the mindful life,” it deals with all things natural, organic, ecological, indie, spiritual and yogic, with just the right level of laid-back, we’re-okay, let’s-jam temper we all expect of someone dispensing such Boulderiana. Well, when in Boulder,…
