In the name of all that is holy, do not search “Denver” on Urbandictionary.com. Most of what you’ll find — and what we did find — are what we’ll simply call very open-minded sexual acts, but that is a different list entirely. Instead, Westword did the dirty (dirty) work for…
Update: After a six-day sit-in and hunger strike, young undocumented immigrants Javier Hernandez and Veronica Gomez left their brief home at the Obama For America headquarters at 5:20 p.m. today. As the National Immigrant Youth Alliance pushes plans to spread their call for an executive order from Obama to the…
The search is (still) on for Denver’s second-ever independent monitor. After Richard Rosenthal accepted a similar position in British Columbia late last year, Mayor Michael Hancock’s office convened a committee to search for his successor. By April, it had whittled the results down to three names: Eddie Aubrey, Julie Ruhlin…
DESTROYER @ BLUEBIRD THEATER| 6.09.12 See Also: Q&A with Dan Bejar of Destroyer. When Dan Bejar ambled on to the stage, he scanned it left to right, shoved some stray strands of his fro back into place, clenched his eyes shut and wore a look of abstract passion. The Destroyer…
The most recent art toy collection from Task One, AKA Daniel Rowley, is the result of a lot of late nights. While he works, the graffiti and custom toy artist watches copious amounts of his favorite TV shows, so it was only a matter of time before inspiration caught up…
Several times now, Lisa Suarez’s mother has come to see her daughter perform in I’ll Remember for You, the play about their relationship and Alzheimer’s that opens at Su Teatro tonight. She has sung along with the actresses, watched as little pieces of her life are reconstructed and recreated onstage,…
FOUND Magazine, and the books it inspired, are exactly what they sound like, except more glorious and way more voyeuristic. Fans send in context-free notes, letters and photos created by strangers and discovered in classrooms, on street corners and spaces in between — and our fair state fares swimmingly in…
They’re getting close! Updates to Civic Center Park have shuttered many of its features for months as crews repair work funded by $9.5 million from the Denver Better Bond Project. Surrounded by fences, the park closed to the public in March and partially re-opened in April, and now there’s an…
On the set of her latest music video, Danielle Anderson learned to let go. Based on a black-and-white Bonnie-minus-Clyde 1930s heist plot, “Faith in a Man”‘s five and a half minutes required the singer-songwriter behind Danielle Ate the Sandwich to look lovely, fake a mob accent, case a joint, act…
Marc Wilhelm has not seen Indie Game: The Movie yet, but he’s already a fan. At 7 p.m. today, when the film comes to the Denver Film Center for a special presentation, he and his family will watch it for the first time — and maybe, just maybe, the documentary…
The Say So does not stand on ceremony. Actually, right now, the four twenty-something dudes who make up the band aren’t “standing” at all. Tucked into the corners of mostly stable, occasionally footless chairs, the guys are sprawled across the living room of guitarist Noah Fisher’s Capitol Hill apartment, which…
In a perfect world, one in which the Mountain Goats and the Hold Steady run in slow motion across fields and inhabit a pastoral bungalow in Denver, Instant Empire would share a literal and figurative home with them. Dripping with ambition and driven by personal history, the five local storytellers…
After almost a week of delay, the Denver Police Department began enforcing the city’s new urban camping ordinance yesterday afternoon. Although the ban legally took effect May 29, officers extended the wait in order to provide more educational opportunities about the ordinance and its legal implications. The overnight effects are…
Update below: Alex Landau talks about the news. Three years-plus since Alex Landau was beaten bloody after being pulled over for what officers cited as an illegal left turn, and a year since he was paid $795,000 by Denver City Council, the case against the officers involved faces another delay…
While the main character of the Epilogues’ new video for “The Fallout” might or might not be undead, the song itself certainly is. Originally written five years ago, the single was killed for aesthetic reasons, resuscitated through new writing, incorporated into a music video more than a year ago and…
Destroyer (due at the Bluebird Theater this Saturday, June 9) released its last album, Kaputt, in January 2011. More than a year and a half later, Dan Bejar, the act’s distant, notoriously cryptic frontman has no idea where the change — the romantic experiment and distinctly new direction — came…
Yesterday, the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs released its annual report card on hate violence in the LGBTQ and HIV-affected communities, and Colorado’s numbers indicate a small but substantial upswing. Using data collected in 2011, the study shows that overall reports of violence increased by 3 percent, while those targeting…
Prepare to be amazed. Prepare to be inspired. Prepare, perhaps, to reflect less favorably on your own accomplishments. It’s time for TEDxMileHigh, two days of performances and events that start with the first-ever TEDxYouth@MileHigh today from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The main event runs from 1 to 6 p.m. tomorrow…
Today, her stack of foreclosure paperwork is four feet tall. But in 2009, Donna Fasi’s troubles began with one letter: Wells Fargo notified her that the fixed-rate mortgage on her 36-acre farm in Gypsum, Colorado would be adjusting to a higher interest rate. She struggled, for weeks and then months,…
Simian Mobile Disco (due for a DJ set tonight at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom) is two brilliant, slightly nerdy British dudes with a powerful, slightly aggressive grasp on man-made machine music. They create dirty club stompers and nostalgic, atmospheric, glitchy house anthems and blistering electronica, but despite a shared friendship and…
The rowdy (and related) rockers in local quintet Be the Ant (due at the Marquis Theater on Friday, June 15) might be the only people ever to be positively impacted by what is easily the most terrifying scene in the entire Back to the Future trilogy — the one in…
Even if more than two people worked at Audio Park Studio, the business would still be 100 percent devoted to the Beatles. That fandom shows itself on the walls, which are peppered with posters of the Fab Four, and in the sheer amount of Beatles memorabilia that co-owner Park Peters…
