Size matters to Denver blogs.Backbeat shares photos of some plus-sized paraphernalia spotted at Umphrey’s McGee’s recent Red Rocks show. As the World Cup approaches its finish, Colorado soccer continues as usual on Burgundy Wave. Mike Littwin welcomes Bob Beauprez to the general election on the Colorado Independent…
From the 1970s through the late 1990s, Utah’s Jeff Lowe was one of climbing’s guiding lights, setting new standards for light-and-fast alpinism with ascents in the Himalayas and Alps and helping to establish the sport of modern mixed climbing with his efforts in the mountains of Colorado.. Now 63, Lowe…
When FIBArk (short for “First in Boating on the Arkansas River”) held its first whitewater race in 1949, river running was barely in its infancy as a sport. On June 12, the 66th edition of the annual festival will return to Salida, where pro and amateur paddlers will compete in…
Less than an hour after the plane dropped them off, Eric Larsen and Ryan Waters saw the polar bear tracks. The two Boulder-based explorers were just beginning their campaign to complete a rare, unsupported land-to-pole trek, walking almost 500 miles across the sea ice from Canada’s Arctic shores to the…
As the mercury drops and a light drizzle starts to fall at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, the emcee of the Spark Run can’t stop reminding us of how much fun we’re about to have. “This is not your ordinary night!” he shouts from the top of the scaffolding that overlooks…
Planning a music festival in Fort Collins has to be a miserably difficult task. Outside of the concerts that Colorado State University books, only one venue, the Aggie Theatre, hosts larger national acts with any kind of regularity. Add in Avogadro’s Number and Hodi’s Half-Note, bars with the capacity of…
Taki’s closed its doors last November, ending a twenty-year-plus run on East Colfax and inspiring readers to reminisce about the spot’s famed miso soup. See also: Taki’s closes on East Colfax, ending a two-decade run…
The most superfluous smoke machine in the world was employed during Wiz Khalifa’s 4/20 set at Red Rocks. Partway through the Pittsburgh rapper’s performance, someone backstage turned on the thing, and its output was immediately subsumed into the cloud of pot smoke cascading down from the stands. There’s weed at…
Super Dungeon Explore: Forgotten King doesn’t look like your standard, blood-and-chainmail tabletop wargame. The monsters are rotund and cartoony, and the heroes, with their anime eyes and giant heads balanced on tiny bodies, look like children’s toys. It’s a remarkably gentle entry in a genre that takes violence as its…
From sculpture to photography to printmaking, Leon Gallery co-owner Eric Dallimore doesn’t limit himself to one medium. “That may be a good thing or a bad thing, but it’s just the way I create art,” he told Westword in an interview earlier this year. That wide-ranging skill certainly impressed us,…
Denver blogs feed your Downton Abbey addiction. On Show and Tell, Kyle Harris gets ready for the Alamo Drafthouse’s showing of Persuasion by running down ten period films everyone should see. At the Colorado Independent, Mike Littwin looks at why the fight over contraception could boost Democrats’ base. The Readheaded…
For the past two weeks, the area around Colorado Springs has been besieged by tumbleweeds. Piles of the dessicated, rolling shrubs have clogged streets and yards, trapping residents at home in at least one case. For farmers, the plants have choked off irrigation ditches, the piles of tinder-dry shrubs forming…
Denver blogs: the final frontier On Show and Tell, Cory Casciato pays tribute to two of science fiction’s most enduring characters on their birthday week. Colorado Independent’s Bob Berwyn explains how pot is turning into big business in some ski towns. The Denver Egotist on a new Kickstarter clone that’s…
In February, we shared ten of the toughest Best Of categories to win twice. From the best bartender (Courtney Wilson) to the best burger in Denver (Highland Tap & Burger), the winners were a tableau of Mile High success. As turns out, only one of those ten winners would come…
Denver blogs go on a journey. On Westword’s Backbeat, Bree Davies shares dispatches from her trip to Treefort Music Festival. Tessa Cheek explains why attack ads are an early favorite in Colorado’s Senate race on the Colorado Independent With less than a week of spring training left, Purple Row’s Greg…
For thirty years, we’ve been compiling the top things to do, see, eat, visit and more in our annual Best of Denver issue. In that time we’ve had some pretty unusual categories, running the gamut from the Best Bus Line to Best Obscene Phone Call Reported to Police. To celebrate…
Denver blogs are only there for the sopapillas. Bree Davies pays tribute to the four-decades-old Casa Bonita on Westword’s Show and Tell blog. At The Colorado Independent, Mike Littwin considers Cory Gardner’s personhood flip-flop. SBnation’s Eddie Maisonet looks back on the career of former Denver Nugget Mahmoud Abdul Rauf, who…
The tumbleweed invasion is nigh. Over the past few weeks, gaggles of the rolling desert shrubs have taken over portions of central Colorado, clogging streets and driveways, and trapping a few residents in their homes. Some communities around Colorado Springs have even resorted to clearing away the plants with snowplows…
Our post on the death of notorious Westboro Baptist Church leader and funeral protester Fred Phelps stirred up a lot of emotions in readers — no surprise there. But among all the voices bidding him good riddance, more than a few people argued that the best way to bury the…
Denver blog posts are anything but bitter. On our Cafe Society blog, Jonathan Shikes reports on a Denver brew that’s one of only two beers made with hops native to America. Denver Egotist’s Emily J. Moore explains why a Boulder marketing agency is sponsoring its own race car. At The…
The boozy excesses of St. Patrick’s Day weekend are enough to sabotage anyone’s diet, so Denver Co-ed Soccer is giving party-goers a chance to sneak in some exercise during the second annual Bikes & Beers bar crawl. “Pretty much all of us are really active as soccer players, and in…
We first spotted Skilogik at the SIA Snow Show in January, where its burnished wooden planks stuck out in the forest of bright technical fabric and fiberglass boards. Led by Coloradan David Mazzarella, the company makes skis that double as works of art, hand-tooled with designs ranging from mountain landscapes…
