A true legend passed away last weekend: Illustrator John Powers Severin, whose sixty-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond. “Truly the art world has suffered a great loss…
After two months of renovations, Club 404 will officially reopen today as the Denver Wheel Club 404. The watering hole that Jerry Feld bought back in 1951 is now in the hands of Craig and Andrew Caldwell, and Brad Evans, the designer who also keeps the Denver Cruisers rolling, has…
Some filmmakers aren’t waiting for Colorado lawmakers to pass a movie incentive package, a proposal Melanie Asmar detailed in last week’s cover story, “The Reel West.” Local director Pete Schuermann plans to use crowd-funding to finish CREEP! , a movie within a documentary about the worst horror film ever. And…
Stingray, a Sunnyside watering hole that featured pizza when it opened last year, closed this month for a quick concept remodel. And now it’s reopened as Coop de Ville at Stingray — a neighborhood joint with a focus on comfort food, particularly chicken. And to make sure that everything stays…
From my window on the edge of Highland, I can see the headlights of all the cars racing by on I-25, the psychedelic Ferris wheel at Elitch’s, the glowing signs of Xcel, the Sheraton, Century Link and even a church stretching across downtown and the Platte Valley. But Sports Authority…
Eight years ago, Westword added a very special component to Artopia: the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike — working to change…
Sabin Aell first came to Colorado in 2006, when the Austrian-born artist, who’d been living in Frankfurt for eight years, was chosen for a show in Fort Collins by photographer Mark Sink. “I was really blown away when I first came here,” she remembers. “I was always thinking more about…
Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale, which began as a reading at the Denver Center’s New Play Summit in 2011, and was given a world premiere by the company this year — to glowing reviews (here’s mine) — has been selected by Playwrights Horizons in New York, a theater dedicated to…
It’s official: Yesterday, Trader Joe’s confirmed that it will open its first Colorado location at the Twenty Ninth Street Mall in Boulder: a 14,000-square-foot store that is slated to open in 2013 at 1906 28th Street, where an Applebee’s is currently located. Although the future Boulder store isn’t yet listed…
Early on May 18, 2008, a car full of Crips drove into Park Hill. They were were young gangbangers who’d just beefed with some Bloods in LoDo, and they were still spoiling for a fight: Michael Asberry, co-founder of the Denver Crips, had been shot and killed in Aurora just…
Today legislators will consider a measure that would provide an economic incentive for filmmakers to work in Colorado — a rarity these days, as detailed in “The Reel West.” But a century ago, there was a booming film business in this state, which got its start with an 1897 flick…
What’s Denver’s most lovely spot for a Valentine’s Day dinner? Just in time for February 14 (2013, perhaps, since these places book up early), Lori Midson tied a bow around her list of the top ten most romantic restaurants in Denver. But for one reader, that list holds more sour…
The Colorado Legislature has a date with cupid a day after Valentine’s Day. At 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the Colorado Civil Union Act in the old Supreme Court Chambers. The bill would provide same-sex couples the same legal protections and benefits now…
The news that Trader Joe’s had filed papers with the Colorado Secretary of State’s office to start doing business in Colorado — specifically, at Boulder’s Twenty-Ninth Street project — has fans of the California-based, German-owned store salivating, extolling such Joe’s specialities as Jalapeno Blue Cornbread Mix and Old Fashioned Cinnamon…
Mohammed Zazi was reaching for the American dream — and wound up in a nightmare. A native of Afghanistan, he’d emigrated to the United States, driving a taxi to support his family and becoming an American citizen in October 2007. Two years later, his son, Najibullah Zazi, was accused of…
Just as white stars occasionally show up sporting dreads, like Crystal Bowersox at the 2011 Grammys, our post on white people with dreads keeps popping up, with yet another group googling it during last night’s awards ceremony. The hairdo is woven into the histories of many cultures, notes one of…
Terrorism hit home in September 2009, when Aurora shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi was accused of conspiring to blow up the New York City subway system with homemade bombs made from beauty supplies in an al Qaida-authorized “martyrdom operation.” Today, Mohammed Zazi, his father, will be sentenced for his role…
Corey Elbin’s departure from Denver is a real loss for this city’s cultural scene. He’s been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday night food and music gathering, since it was introduced almost two years ago. He’s grown the event into a real all-ages community affair. But now…
Sweet…and sour. Laura Shunk just served up her list of Denver’s ten best dessert spots — including the churros she raved about in this week’s review of Pinche Taqueria. But for some readers, it was definitely not enough of a good thing:…
Chefs are Denver’s rock stars, and lower downtown is one hell of a stage. Last night I was lucky enough to moderate a panel of four LoDo chefs — Jen Jasinski, Matt Selby, Tom Coohill and Max MacKissock — who dished out restaurant tidbits (both literal and figurative) before an…
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! People were feeling burned last fall, when news broke that Fired Up for Kids, the outfit that had produced the Colorado firefighters calender — with proceeds supportedly going to the Children’s Hospital Burn Unit — was in trouble with the law…
South Pearl Street has seen more than its fair share of action this year. But in the 1800 block of South Pearl, it’s all about growth — not the closings that marked the start of the new year on the 1400 South block, where India’s Pearl, Pearl Street Grill and…
