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…
Koffi Toudji has been making a positive impact on Denver as a drummer, dancer and teacher of both for more than half a decade, and now he wants to take his energy full circle. Toudji is originally from Kpalimé in Togo, West Africa, and he’s putting on the Koffi Togo…
Red carpet appearances by designer gown-donning stars are just as much a part of the Academy Awards spectacle as the Oscars themselves. In advance of this coming weekend’s 84th annual ceremony, Denver FilmCenter’s Reel Social Club is celebrating this marriage of fashion and film with it’s Seam To Screen event…
After spending a long and frustrating day last week trying to figure out what year it was and what country I was living in because my government decided it was cool to discuss a little issue regarding birth control but magically barred the only person with a uterus from being…
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…
“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…
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…
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,…
The Lao Buddhist Temple in Broomfield was destroyed by a fire last December. Struck by an online outpouring of support from their friends, students Joie Ha and Leo Tsuo decided they wanted to lend a hand, too. “The Laotian community here is very small,” Ha says, “and I knew they…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 relative newcomer to the drag scene, Luke List has been performing as alter-ego Zoe O. for a little more than a year — but that was long enough for him to win Charlie’s Mr. July and Man of the Year 2011. And he’s ready for Saturday night’s Queen of…
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…
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…
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…
It all began with a handful of cameras. “The exhibit came about because we have a collection of cameras at the museum we were interested in learning more about,” says Jennifer Kuehner, director of the Aurora History Museum. “We realized that our collection starts in the ’20s and ’30s, and…
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 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…
