Lady Antebellum’s star has risen in an unparalleled way over the last half-decade; conquering both the country and pop-music worlds, the trio’s three records have garnered Grammy, Billboard and CMA nominations and awards along the way. All three members — Charles Kelley, Dave Haywood and Hillary Scott — pen and…
Dear Diary: Last. Night. Was. Awesome. My friend Nichole won tickets to see Demetri Martin at Macky Auditorium in Boulder, and guess who she chose to be her plus-one? This lucky girl, right here. And can I say, for the record, that the tickets were bomb. So bomb. We were…
Primos Hardcore & Wrestling has spent the better half of a decade making a name for itself as a premiere independent promotor and cultivator of extreme wrestling entertainment in Colorado. Tonight, Primos expands it’s no-holds-barred throwdowns with REVoLUCHA, its own addition to the international Lucha Libre fight circuit. In advance…
What do you get when you combine yoga, dance, plyometrics and athletic conditioning? One word: BUTI. Former fitness competitor and competitive skier Bizzie Gold created BUTI (yes, it’s pronounced ‘booty’) after years of training and athletic conditioning inspired her to fuse multiple workout styles into one 90-minute routine. Gold brings…
Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s weekly Wednesday night get-together, will shake things up tonight with the Communikey Showcase, which will offer a taste of the Boulder-based electronic-arts festival, celebrating its fifth year in April. Like all Gorinto throwdowns, the emphasis is on local art and artists, a community atmosphere open to…
The sequined masks will come out tonight when Primos Hardcore & Wrestling unveils its new league of talented ring fighters for the inaugural edition of Primos REVoLUCHA. A fusion of the exotic wrestling style of Mexican lucha libre and Primos’ patented high-flying, body-slamming fights, REVoLUCHA promises the best of both…
I’m not a blonde anymore. That fantasy has officially ended. After spending the better part of a year transitioning from dirt brown to Michelle Pfeiffer’s off-yellow Scarface bob to accidentally sea green to Gwen Stefani white, my hair is now a pleasant rich-chocolate color. So my mother can stop thinking…
A first glimpse of Fitness Origin — a new gym that opened in Colorado Springs this month — had us wondering: What, exactly, goes on in this room full of sand with straps hanging from the walls? It sort of looks like one of those secret basement serial-killer lairs discovered…
With so much of our waking life consumed by the busywork of e-mails, texts and tweet-only communication, it’s hard to remember that once upon a time, connecting with other humans didn’t involve anything electronic. What would happen if we stepped back into that time for just a moment, and actually…
DESCENDENTS @ FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 1/28/12The Descendents were built with the inability to disappoint — the seminal proprietors of pop punk brought a tried-and-true energy to the Fillmore Auditorium last night, for a appropriately short, two-encore set. Even if the massive venue was far from capacity, the multi-generational blanket of…
Loosely shaped by Dante’s Inferno, 9 Circles — the tale of a soldier on trial for war crimes, now in production at Curious Theatre Company — “is clear-eyed, tightly written and tough-minded,” says Westword theater critic Juliet Wittman. “It is also filled with grace.” As part of its audience-enrichment program,…
At tonight’s Paramount Prize Fighting throwdown, the cage match will get taken to a whole new level — literally. “This is a high-class, mixed martial arts show, unique in that it’s on a stage,” says Fight to Win promotor Seth Bregman. The audience usually watches such fights from the floor…
For a brief and beautiful moment in time, I lived in New York City. During that year of boot camp for life, I learned a few things — like, there is no such thing as privacy, the only scary part about the subway is that sometimes it smells like human…
There is something admirable about the desire of the twee torch-bearers in Los Campesinos! to keep trudging along, even after honesty in lyrics has fallen by the wayside. But primary songwriter and bandleader Gareth Campesinos! and his brood of BFFs revel in making the most of a bloody heart-on-sleeve approach,…
When I was growing up, everyone had birthday parties at Skate City. Like, everybody. My mom was more of the “let’s roll the Slip N’ Slide out on our dead lawn and make Kool-Aid (because it’s cheap)” kind of party-thrower, but I really just wanted to celebrate with a wax…
Some wrestling matches are fought for national acclaim, some are fought for titles. At this evening’s Primos Hardcore & Wrestling Fight Club 2 throwdown, one final match will settle a feud between two of the company’s biggest stars, Trajan Ender and Lonnie Valdez, as they battle it out to see…
Once in the not-so-distant past, the skating rink was the premier teenage hot spot. Down and Derby brings back those glorious days this Friday night, with a massive re-creation of what made skating rinks so cool in the first place — as a place to both socialize and to show…
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS @ THE OGDEN THEATRE | 1/15/12 Fitz & The Tantrums put on a show that was magnetic, engaging and inspiring. Boasting an impressive presence unable to be captured by its recordings, the Los Angeles act absolutely set the stage on fucking fire with an undeniable chemistry…
As a willing participant at Friday night’s My Teenage Angst on-stage diary-reading event, I had some pre-show fears: What if my entries weren’t as funny as I remembered them being? What if other people’s entries weren’t funny? What if the whole thing fell apart because someone unintentionally read from a…
The South Pearl massacre continues! After three years on that street, Seven Cups is preparing to close its doors. The low-key tearoom’s afternoon tea service and Mahjongg nights will run until January 22, and the store will remain open as it sells its remaining merchandise. This is the fourth closing…
January is National Oatmeal Month, and the town of Lafayette goes whole hog for the whole grain. Now in its sixteenth year, the Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival will serve up a community breakfast at 7:30 a.m. today at Pioneer Elementary, 101 East Baseline Road. The festival served 165 gallons of…
Remember when life was so hard that you had time to write about every waking moment of it in your journal? Megan Nyce does, and she wants you to relive those embarrassingly awesome middle- and high-school memories with her, on stage, in front of strangers. At tonight’s installment of My…
