This week, on a very special Vlog the Impaler, Jim Hickox calls up Glaxo Smith Kline to find out just how his medication Veramyst works, thusly resolving the age-old battle between Magik and science…

This week, Charting Graf spotlights the work of RTD crew member Acee with this slide show…

Jared Jacang Maher’s February 21 feature, “Magnet Mafia Sticks to Street Art,” profiles Denver’s attractive street art syndicate. Linked below are three slide shows that feature the work of the Mafia, and some magnets that have recently been shipped to Denver as part of an exchange with street artists in…

In 2003, Westword published its twentieth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Goofy Sports Gizmo (the humidor and hyperbaric chamber introduced by Rockies manager Clint Hurdle to combat Denver’s thin air) to Best Blues Musician (Otis Taylor — finally a national star,…

“Do What You Love, Love What You Do.” A naïve trope verging on cliché? A trite slogan only a prepubescent could possibly accept without a hint of cynicism? Sure. But that doesn’t make it anything but a truism for 2005 fashion and design MasterMind winner Brandi Shigley. Denver’s bubbly homegrown…

I remember the first time I saw someone eating a pizza with pineapple on it. My friend Nick was sitting in his living room in Buffalo with a sixer of Molson Export and Beverly Hills 90210 on the TV, eating a Hawaiian pizza from La Nova covered with thin-sliced ham…

Slide Show This week, as we look forward to this year’s MasterMind awards, we check in with previous MasterMinds. Thinking back on her 2005 MasterMind win for visual arts is bittersweet now for Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, since she had to close Capsule Gallery in January. Her Sante Fe Drive building…

This week, as we look forward to this year’s MasterMind awards, we check in with previous MasterMinds. For Vox Feminista, it’s just really nice to be recognized. “We’ve been doing Vox Feminista for 19 years, actually. We felt appreciated,” producer Joy Boston says of last year’s MasterMind win for literary…

“I’m trying to keep it in perspective,” says standup comedian and Denver expat Ben Kronberg of his upcoming, stand-up comedy set on Jimmy Kimmel Live, airing Wednesday night on ABC at 11 p.m MST. “But I also want to be able to function with its full potential. I really just…

This week, as we look forward to this year’s MasterMind awards, we check in with previous MasterMinds. Café Nuba founder Ashara Ekundayo says her 2006 MasterMind win for literary arts was an acknowledgement of the group’s work as a community servant. “Café Nuba is such a guerilla arts underground community…

View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…

February 12 by Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D New York | When I was seventeen I fell in love with Jack Kerouac, both the stories he wrote, as well as all the stories about his life. Which led me to David Amram, who was, of course, a part of Jack Kerouac’s stories,…