The story of Ichabod, a Boulder-based pit bull mix, warmed hearts on Thursday when we published the tale of the pooch that — we like to think, anyway, despite how unlikely — wandered across Kansas and most of Missouri and was found in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles…
Looking for Best Monthly Party? (Whomp Truck), Best New Venue (Summit Music Hall) or Best Hip-Hop Album (Mr. Midas’ Son of the Crack Era)? You can find those awards and more in the Best of Denver® 2011: Arts & Entertainment section. For the full Best of Denver® 2011 awards, go…
More than 475 winners are included in Westword’s bulky Best of Denver 2011 issue, which you can view live on our site right now at the Best of Denver homepage. Hopefully between this, the NCAA tournament and the Rockies game on Friday, you’ve killed a good chunk of your productivity…
Pardon the interruption, but Westword’s Best of Denver 2011 issue is live on our site right now. Looking for restaurant and bar winners? Go here: Best of Denver 2011: Food & Drink. For everything else, check out the Best of Denver homepage…
Thirty years ago today, at 12:27 p.m. mountain time, John Hinckley, Jr., shot then-president Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C. Reagan, of course, survived the shooting, went on to easily win a second term against Minnesota Democrat Walter Mondale (after pwning Mondale in the debate) and…
The headlines screamed across the beer-drinking world on Monday that AB InBev was buying Chicago-based Goose Island brewing for a delicious $38.8 million. Double-secret sources in St. Louis have leaked very rough drafts of a new Goose Island logo and marketing strategy that blends the best of the party-friendly 1980s…
Did they give you a North Face jacket in your Denver welcome kit? I never intended to end up in Denver. Not once did I give this city, state or region more thought than the occasional trip to visit my aunt here during the summer. But a move to the…
Steeped in tradition, Jack Daniel’s doesn’t debut new liquors often, but the famous Tennessee distillery is rolling out a new whiskey in April: Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey. We were sent two bottles and quickly went through one. How does it taste? Well, really, actually pretty good. Dangerously good, in fact…
Kostas, Trajikk and Jontron provided the music for the Spring Break Beach Party on Thursday night, March 24, 2011 at Beta. Nightlife photographer Jonathan Shoup brings back these photos from the party and says: “A very energetic crowd and a progressive house soundtrack. Many ladies sported bikinis in spirit of…
Our Best of Denver issue (which hits newsstands on March 31) is sure to be a big, bulky thing, as it is every year. Unless you possess a European men’s carry-all, it can be tough to tote around. Which is why we came up with the Best Of… iPhone app…
You’re not going to see the Bad Brains of thirty years ago, so go ahead and just get that idea out of your head right now. The ferocious, manic energy of eccentric lead singer H.R. has been all but muted by years of drug use and seeming mental instability. But…
It keeps people up at night, Googling and searching Facebook until they’re bleary-eyed zombies at 4 a.m. There are entire genres of film dedicated to it. And with concert season warming back up, the chances of finding yourself on Craigslist Missed Connections are pretty high, especially if you were pretty…
The moon was closer last night to earth than it has been for eighteen years, reflecting the light of the sun onto earth and lighting up the night sky. Photos shot and submitted to Westword by Dustin Schaefer of the Loveland Ski Area…
Break dancing took Denver by storm in the mid ’80s, drawing 10,000 people to a competition at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where this paper’s founder and editor Patricia Calhoun was a judge…
The Burlycute burlesque troupe put their own spin on St. Patrick’s Day at Bender’s Tavern, 314 East 13th Avenue, with St. Pastie’s Day, complete with a Guinness act (including a giant pint glass of the brew), the Lucky Charms leprechaun and other pop culture symbols of Irish culture literally stripped…
Have you ever heard a band cover “Ace of Spades” at 8 a.m.? If you were one of the few hundred or so people packed into Lodo’s Bar and Grill at 19th and Market yesterday, you can proudly answer yes. If you remember it…
Last night at the the Austin Music Hall, we helped music fans and industry nerds cross a few groups off their bucket lists, as well as see another singer-as-DJ and hear the ear-ringing guitars of a few of the best new rock bands. In that order, it was Wu Tang…
Hate it or love it, like a cockroach covered in leopard-print spandex, ’80s arena metal has crawled forth intact after surviving grunge, boy bands, ringtone rap and now Bieber. Last night, twenty-somethings who looked like they fell out of a time-traveling telephone booth from 1989 flocked to the Bluebird Theater…
Tight jeans and awesome hair have replaced the cargo shorts (and jorts) of Austin’s 6th Street by now, as SXSW Interactive 2011 is in the books and SXSW Music gets rolling. The SXSW Trade Show — which didn’t open its doors until Monday, the last day of Interactive — attracted…
Someone is setting ‘hipster traps” in New York, as photographed by this Reddit user. The awesomely cartoonish bear trap surrounds a pack of American Spirits, a can of PBR and sunglasses. Please warn your jobless young friends to avoid these traps…
In beautiful Nederland lies the dry-iced body of the deceased Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man who believed science would one day allow for his reanimation. As such, the town for the past decade, has hosted “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” complete with a parade of hearses, a coffin race, and tours…
As you might have read, Tickle Me Pink played its last show on Saturday, March 5 at Summit Music Hall. Openers were Caramel Carmela, The Say So and Regret Night. Photos by Aaron Thackeray. See full Tickle Me Pink final show slideshow…
