Something scary is going on beneath St. Mark’s Coffeehouse. Once a week, a group gathers to pay homage to the darkness in preparation for the spookiest night of the year. “We all love Halloween over there,” explains Gio Toninelo. “We figured we’d do a countdown with a film every week.”…
No one embodies the glitz, the glamour or the glib insanity of Las Vegas like Wayne Newton. “I just think, whether you like him or not, he’s a cultural icon,” says Vonalda Utterback of the Theater Company of Lafayette. “He’s Mr. Las Vegas, by his own admission.” Now Mr. Las…
If trance is your thing, you need to make plans to go to the Global Dance Festival on Saturday, July 19, at Red Rocks. Nothing like seeing one of the most popular trance DJ/producers in the world — Ferry Corsten, consistently voted into the top ten of DJ magazine’s top…
We Are! We Are! is a hard-charging instrumental rock trio with a danceable, muscular sound and a killer live show. The group formed in the summer of 2003 in Asheville, North Carolina, and relocated to Denver in 2006, where it’s been wowing audiences ever since with tight, high-energy performances. We…
We blog so you don’t have to work. Here’s how to find the hot blogs posted today outside of the Latest Word. Cafe Society brought news of Ale to the Chief, a limited edition, non-partisan, All-American beer from Avery Brewing. God Bless the U.S. Meanwhile, Cat’s Pajamas used its head…
Graffiti is consistently cited as one of the top concerns of Denver residents and, fittingly, Westword has covered the issue frequently over the years, both in the paper and online. To accompany this week’s cover story on the retirement of Denver’s top graffiti cop, we’ve assembled this handy index to…
Too tired after a long day of work to search out the day’s blogs here at Westword.com? Don’t worry, we’ll do most of the leg work for you. Backbeat introduced a new feature called The Mating Game, pitting the knowledge of loved ones against that of bandmates. Find out who…
View larger image Virginia Total Number of Delegates: 101 Pledged: 83 Unpledged: 18 How to Recognize a Virginia Delegate: The American Civil War ended in 1865, but not for Virginians. The battles that rage daily are no longer between the Union and the Confederacy, but between the “come-heres” who move…
The charity foundation RAINN, which stands for Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, invited us, the PleasuresDudes, to their charity red carpet event to report about all the celebrities and goings on. The evening started two hours before the event was to take place because I wanted us to get…
Here’s an index to all the great content you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy gaping in sheer disbelief at the ridiculous prices Beatles memorabilia was demanding at auction…..
In the darkest of times, some turn to faith, some turn toward science, and everyone needs a little bit of humor to lighten things up. All of these elements — particularly the humor — come together in a special summer staging of Deborah Zoe Laufer’s End Days, presented by Curious…
He’s won accolades from the Comedy Works, which voted him the best new talent of 2006, and earned the respect of his funny-guy peers by getting invited to perform in New York on Eugene Mirman and Michael Showalter’s premier alt-comedy showcase, Tearing the Veil of Maya. Now it’s time for…
Dance music might not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of Canada — hockey, socialized medicine and “about” pronounced as “aboot” take those honors — but our Great White Northern neighbor has quietly become a force in the international scene. With the world-class MUTEK festival…
“We met in a gay bar,” says Martin Schmidt, one-half of experimental electronic duo Matmos, of Drew Daniel, his partner. “Drew was on stage; he was go-go dancing. He was wearing a fish, a plastic fish. I put a dollar in his fish. A guy I was with at the…
I love zombie movies. I’ve seen more than fifty of them — including a recent stint of 31 in thirty days — and one of the best examples of the genre is Lucio Fulci’s 1979 classic, Zombie. The film is famous, or infamous, for its extremely realistic gore, including a…
There’s no one named Josephine and no anthropomorphic mice in Josephine and the Mousepeople, but don’t let that dissuade you. What you do get is two guys — who go by the names avicado and dannyberry — who produce chipper, summery electro-pop confections. Their track “She Needs Fire” pairs up…
View larger image Virgin Islands Total Number of Delegates: 9 Pledged: 3 Unpledged: 6 How to Recognize a Virgin Islands Delegate: Blown (way) off course during his second voyage, Christopher Columbus chose a religious theme and named this grouping of islets for the virgin handmaidens of some obscure marriage-avoiding saint…
Here’s a wrap up of all the great coverage you missed this week on Backbeat Online while you were busy preparing your plans for the Fourth of July and fuming with patriotic outrage at Rene Marie’s decision to hijack the national anthem at the state of the city speech…..
Dudes! The PleasuresDudes are back on TV tonight, when their show airs on Channel 7 after Comics. Get ready by checking out their slide show of the Lowrider Magazine competition in Denver. Totally sweet! The annual Lowrider Magazine Tour, with its car and bike show, is a gnarly way to…
Last week, we here at Westword took a cue from MTV and threw a big bash celebrating Denver’s local music scene, complete with a music awards ceremony honoring the best of Denver’s best. To be honest, I don’t really remember a whole helluva lot about it because when the people…
DJs Dragon and Trajikk, two of the most recognizable names on the local scene, are teaming up to celebrate the release of their new mix CD, NRG Session v1.0, on Thursday, July 3, at Beta. The release – and the tag-team set they’ll be playing that night – will feature…
