Review: Zola Jesus at the Larimer Lounge, 2/25/12

ZOLA JESUS @ LARIMER LOUNGE | 2/25/12There is an implicit capacity for a show to feel like a “religious experience” — when the light is minimal and dramatic, fake smoke is pumped into the tight space and the crowd is thick and moving in unison, they inherently take on the…

Korn

Korn has proven impervious to trend: The act instigated nu-metal in the ’90s and, less than ten years later, stuck around to witness the genre’s crushing death. Making records through it all, the Bakersfield, California-based band carved out a previously uncharted radio niche with a heavy but sludge-less 1994 self-titled…

2012 Women + Film Voices Festival programming announced

“Last year, five percent of movies were made by women,” says Karla Rodriguez of the Denver FilmCenter. Which is exactly why this second annual edition of Women + Film Voices is imperative — to shine a light on a corner of the film-making world that is often overlooked. The lineup…

Review: Leslie & the LYs at the hi-dive, 2/19/2012

LESLIE & THE LYS @ HI-DIVE | 2.19.12″Reba McEntire.” With the mere mention of that name, queen crafting bee and cuddly rapping princess Leslie Hall incited riotous applause from her audience last night at the hi-dive. But the shout out to the renowned country singer that came at the end…

Zoe O. wins Queen of Aces Pageant 2012

Miss Zoe O. has won the 2012 Queen Of Aces title, the third annual pageant and benefit put on by the Colorado Gay Volleyball Association at Hamburger Mary’s. Prior to the contest of pageantry and drag, Westword spoke with with now winner, Luke List, A.K.A. miss Zoe O. the quirky,…

If You Build It

Maybe we all didn’t turn out to be architects or city planners, but there’s no denying the fun Lincoln Logs provided to our childhood ingenuity and building dreams. Today’s Lincoln Log Throwdown at Schlessman Library aims to capture exactly that, with an adults-only contest of speed and design, utilizing the…

Flora and Fauna

Feed Denver’s purpose has always been to connect the community. Whether the nonprofit is teaching urban-farming techniques or tackling the social and economic issues around food production, the focus is on giving the growing power to the people. Tonight, Feed Denver teams up with the Megafauna retail space to bring…

West Side Stories shines a light on Denver’s colorful Jewish history

An important piece of Denver’s cultural foundation will be revealed tomorrow night when West Side Stories, a film documenting the city’s deep Jewish history, is shown at the Denver FilmCenter as part of the ongoing DocNight series. The hour-long documentary tells the story of the Eastern European transplants who settled…

This just in: Yer memes R dumb

After the University of Colorado at Boulder’s meme page showed up on Facebook, I was convinced that the Internet could use fewer memes. While glittery animated GIFs were once the way to “show some love,” memes are the way to show some stupidity, taking an image and vandalizing it with…

Leslie and the LYs

As a rapper, gem-sweater museum curator, children’s television-show star and overall Internet phenom, Leslie Hall covers quite a few bases. But when flanked by her crew, the LYs, the Iowa-bred diva becomes an audience-commanding, plus-sized powerhouse, unfurling tales of Maury Povich not-the-fathers, minivan rides to the club and other facets…

Scorned Lovers show a heart-shaped, pinata-smashing success

Saturday night’s Scorned Lovers Art Show and Event at the Art Salon was a revenge-laden success. The evening’s anti-V-Day theme came through with humor (and minimal bitterness) as party-goers gathered around the low stage for some erotic poetry and selected excerpts from the My Teenage Angst diary readers. Voodoo Comedy…

A Briefs Outing

Slip into your finest pair of publicly appropriate panties and get ready for the inaugural Cupid’s Undie Run today at Stoney’s Bar & Grill. Runners are encouraged to have fun with the undergarment theme while keeping it on the classy side; in other words, no thongs or string bikinis, please…

Love Bites

Of all of the holidays to be alone, Valentine’s Day can be the suckiest. But the heartbroken, the bitter and the angry are all welcome to celebrate in anti-V-Day fashion at tonight’s Scorned Lover’s Art and Show and Event at the Art Salon. The art space — which will be…

Drag Racing

Who’s got what it takes to be the Queen of Aces? Tonight at Hamburger Mary’s Club M, well-tressed, primed and primped contenders will duke it out, pageant-style, for the matriarchal title in this drag show of epic proportions. This third edition of Queen of Aces is a fundraiser for the…

Don’t Facebook me, don’t call me. Just page me.

Once upon a time, before Facebook made social networking acceptable for non-nerds and technology was on the cusp of the cellular-phone revolution from the brick to the flip, I had a pager. I also had a boyfriend who I fought with, in public, for about 80 percent of the duration…

Corey Elbin’s departure from Denver puts Gorinto at a crossroads

Corey Elbin has been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday-night food and music gathering, since its inception almost two years ago. For tomorrow night’s edition, Gorinto will team up with the people behind Communikey — the Boulder electronic arts festival set for April 25-29 — to showcase…