Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan had long known about ADAPT. The disability rights group had used direct action to push the government to create broader accessibility, to advocate for healthcare and to free disabled people from nursing homes starting in the late-1970s. These activists, that changed federal policy, got their start in Denver.
“I’d rather go to jail than to die without Medicaid,” chanted Wheelchair Sports Camp M.C. Kalyn Heffernan, as she live-streamed footage of police arresting her fellow disability activists in the group ADAPT who had been staging a three-day sit-in at Republican Senator Cory Gardner’s office. Her own arrest was inevitable.
A sit-in almost turned into a shit-in when disability rights activists with ADAPT started needing to use the restroom — which had been shut down — after they had spent the night in Republican Senator Cory Gardner’s Denver office, trying to force him to vote against a Republican healthcare proposal that the Congressional Budget Office says would leave 22 million uninsured by 2026.
Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and seven other members of the disability rights group ADAPT have begun a sit-in at Cory Gardner’s office, today, June 27. The group is demanding that the Republican senator vote against the GOP-led health-care bill that would replace President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act…
Denizens of Denver hop on the saddle once a year on Bike to Work Day and sweat their way to the office to celebrate the noble art of bicycle commuting. On June 28, their efforts will be rewarded with plenty of freebies.
Another edition of the Westword Music Showcase has come and gone. As the beats still pound in our heads, the crowd’s cheers echo, a few words from Anthony Ruptak are still ringing too. The singer-songwriter thanked the people listening at 100% de Agave for purchasing a ticket to Showcase and for supporting local music. We couldn’t agree with him more.
Listening to Roka Hueka’s danceable Latin ska, it’s easy to forget that the band’s lyrics take on hard issues like immigration and racism. The music’s fun. It keeps you moving. It sounds like the stuff a corporation would love to slap on an advertisement to woo potential customers in the Latino community and beyond.
Pop sensation Lorde, who’s dropping her second album today, also announced she will be headed out on a 2018 North American tour that starts in Milwaukee on March 1 and ends in Nashville on April 15. Her tour will hit Denver’s Pepsi Center on March 5, 2018.
It’s not that disco throwbacks and show-tunes are all that bad or that house music beats don’t have their place in queer life. But let’s get real. By the end of Pride, if we have to hear “I Will Survive” or “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” one more time, we might do something that would make us less than proud.
During the time that Madeline Johnston lived at DIY music venue Rhinoceropolis, she and fifteen others inhabited tiny, windowless rooms patched together behind a performance area.
Denver-based international soul sensation Nathaniel Rateliff, of Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, appeared on the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon, alongside Chuck Berry Jr., Chuck Berry III and the Roots on June 13, 2017.
The second half of the Weeknd’s Starboy: Legend of the Fall 2017 World Tour will be hitting Denver on Friday, September 29. The pop star will be joined by Gucci Mane and Nav.
Metallica is no Justin Bieber. The band’s vision of the world is introspective and couched in mass violence — the sort of horror perpetrated by big bombs, big armies and big nations. It’s the music of post-traumatic stress disorder.
With thirty-million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty is headed to Denver to celebrate its twentieth anniversary.
Denver has ranked as the eighth best theater city in the United States.
Denver folk singer turned soul sensation Nathaniel Rateliff will be returning to the Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.
It doesn’t take Jamie Madrox, who paints his face like a wicked clown and raps about killing people, to compare his horrorcore duo Twiztid to Christ.
Dave Chappelle’s Red Rocks stint sold out in a fury, and now Live Nation has announced it will be adding a second show at the Colorado Convention Center’s Bellco Theatre, on July 13.
Midnight Oil has not toured for more than a decade. The time has come; a fact’s a fact, as the group’s hit song “Beds Are Burning” goes.
The String Cheese Incident collaborated with Bonnie Paine, of Elephant Revival, on a new music video for the song “My One and Only,” from the group’s new album Believe.
Cirque du Soleil puts on a good show. Performers plummet from fifty feet up in the air. Flowers blossom from elaborate costumes. Even the show’s technical director Mike Newnum says he loses his breathe when he watches what the team does.
Are you needing to put a little funk in your step? The Colorado band the Motet, which will be headlining Red Rocks for its second time on Friday, June 2, is premiering its new track, “Supernova,” with Westword.
