If you’re one of those bleeding-heart liberal types who thinks no human on the planet needs to own a gun, Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World is probably not the place for you. I ventured into this dead-animal party in search of Santa for the first installment of this year’s Santa…
When I’m not interviewing drag queens, reviewing concerts and rating Santas for Westword, I’m working at Shirt Folding Store. For twenty hours a week, I fold shirts (and, more important, jeans) alongside other part-timers, who in their other jobs might be bank tellers, professional eBay auctioneers, art-history majors and spoken-word…
In advance of the January 17 release of Jason Heller’s first novel, Taft 2012, Quirk Books has offered up a gorgeously constructed film teaser. A glimpse into the fictional candidacy of a long-dead William Howard Taft, resurrected and running in next year’s actual presidential election, the preview features looming shadows…
A Shirley Delta Blow show ain’t your momma’s drag tradition: though Saturday night’s performance at Hamburger Mary’s Club M is all queens, it’s not just glitter, choreography and lip-syncing. Blow and Co. bring a little comedy, some song and dance, and a whole lot of audience participation to the intimate…
During The 1940’s Radio Hour’s last appearance at the Arvada Center in 2004, love was most certainly in the air. Production leads Joseph Bearss and Shannan Steele met playing a match made on stage — a connection eventually mirrored by real life. Now married, the couple reprises their role in…
There’s a simple and obvious recipe for A Christmas Twist, and it goes something like this: “Take A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, and throw it in a blender,” jokes the play’s director, Clint Heyn. Presented by Firehouse Theater beginning tonight at 7:30 p.m., the show, which was written by…
Forget Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Carol or even Home Alone: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is the quintessential American holiday movie of the last century. See for yourself tonight when Clark Griswold once again battles trashy relatives, uppity neighbors and a psychotic squirrel at Movie and a Martini, an…
Last holiday season, Stranded Jewelry proprietor Amelia Deleon brought her annual holiday trunk show out of the living room and into Illiterate Gallery. The move was so successful that this year she decided the more the merrier — and so the jewelry designer is adding the work of other local…
While collaborating on the 2007 film Once, musicians Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova proved that life can imitate art, as their real-life love connection mirrored the on-screen romance. The Swell Season, which opens tonight at the Denver FilmCenter, 2510 East Colfax Avenue, follows Hansard’s and Irglova’s love story from its…
Even though we may have made the “wrong assumption, wrong conclusion” about the onslaught of “I’m a Mormon” billboards across the state, comedian Lori Callahan still sees a correlation. She can’t help but think that as the election draws closer, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s faith has a lot to…
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: The Rocky Mountain Rod & Custom Show is back for its fifteenth year of celebrating all that’s shiny, chromed-out and whitewalled. Today through Sunday, more than 500 vehicles from across the nation will be at the Colorado Convention Center, along with dozens of auto…
Downtown Denver gets its holiday switch flipped tonight as the City and County Building, Union Station, the 16th Street Mall and various other spots light up for the city’s Grand Illumination ceremony. We”re talking big bulb numbers: Nearly 900,000 lights will be strung from rooftop to lamppost in this annual…
As we prepare for the commercial holiday that follows a little thing called Thanksgiving, the debate over whether stores should begin opening at midnight on Black Friday is raging. But when and where did Black Friday come from? What does it really mean? We asked Darrin Duber-Smith, Marketing Professor at…
Among all of this negativity generated by bad drivers, confusing intersections, construction and the monotony of seeing the same buildings every day, there are some humorous bright spots Denver drivers can look forward to, courtesy of a few local businesses signs. This one was posted on the Circle Drive Conoco…
Calling all dames and sirs: AdvocacyDenver not-so-secretly invites you to Speakeasy, its third annual 1920s-era themed fundraiser. Patrons are encouraged to dress up like flappers and gangsters, throw down on faux gambling tables and dance to some old-timey music from Doc Brown’s Blues Band. There will also be a silent…
Although Elephant Revival’s multi-instrumentalists all contribute to its Celtic-inspired harmonies, its the beautifully morose vocals of Bonnie Paine that best represents the band’s jammy jazz sound. The group utilizes diverse instrumentation, from the washboard and fiddle to the upright bass to create this folky fusion — coming across solidly as…
Gorinto, the weekly night at Mercury Cafe, is always a good time, but tonight it benefits a particularly good cause: Mission Supports. With food prepared by SAME Cafe and a variety of musical acts on tap, the eclectic mid-week party aims not just to raise money for the non-profit, but…
In hindsight Licensed To Ill — released November 15, 1986 — came to the table with a virtually infallible recipe: Rick Rubin produced the seminal radio-friendly rap album and Russell Simmons had not only signed Beastie Boys to a then baby Def Jam, but was also managing the three white…
As Little Scream, Laurel Sprengelmeyer chiefly employs her voice. But the singer-songwriter is also an accomplished pianist, guitarist and violin player, and she uses this multi-instrumental power to beef up the sonic landscape for her lyrical storytelling style. Her songs twist freely, going from folk-inspired angles to experimental territory and…
The instructions for Saturday night’s inaugural And Then She Saved Clothing Swap clearly stated that participants be at Super Ordinary Gallery by 7 p.m. to set up their outfit outposts and be ready to trade beginning at 7:30 p.m. sharp. I caught gallery owner Tran Wills at 7:23 p.m., right…
LYKKE LI at the OGDEN | 11/11/11Lykke Li is imperfect. She has acne, patchy uneven skin and greasy hair. At last night’s performance at the Ogden, it was these facets of her physical body that made Li an even bigger, brighter star to the almost (if not) sold-out crowd. In…
The Ice Palace will open its doors at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. today — which means that Santa Claus will finally be in the house. Er, the mall. The Ice Palace — a fancy name for a faux icicle-covered indoor forest — will feature six-foot-tall snowglobes…
