Westword presents “At the Gig,” an occasional video feature by art director Jay Vollmar. In this video, Smoothbore performs on February 26, 2011, at Bender’s Tavern. The song is “Ironsides” off its record Red Lines…
Pardon the interruption, but over on Latest Word, our news blog, we’re holding a contest for the best memory of the King Soopers at Ninth and Corona, which unveiled its new look at a grand opening today. The winner gets $50 in groceries from the neighborhood grocer: Enter here! Also,…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company’s annual Beer Drinker of the Year competition — in which contestants must prove their knowledge of the brew, not how much they can drink — found its 2011 winner over the weekend: Phil Farrell, a Georgia-based commercial pilot. Naturally, Farrell is also a homebrewer who boasts…
The interview with Charlie Sheen on ABC’s Good Morning America is one of the finest pieces of television I’ve seen in a long time, in no small part to Charlie Sheen’s off-the-wall replies to a straight line of questioning. Here are some of our favorites, in a new meme we’re…
Is it time to already begin thinking about next year’s Academy Awards show? Well, if you’re like most Americans — and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them — who watched last night’s show, then the answer is “yes.” The hipster hosts, 28-year-old Anne Hathaway and 32-year-old James Franco, didn’t…
A century ago, mutton chops were worn by all manner of men, from presidents to peasants. But they’ve fallen out of popular fashion, and now a contemporary wearer of these triangular pieces of facial hair carries with him a sense of roughness and an appearance of paying homage to the…
Last night at Summit Music Hall, Norwegian black metal band Immortal played with openers Absu. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos: Immortal at Summit Music Hall…
If you’re a regular reader of Westword, the that headline should’ve tipped you off that now — right this very second — is prime time to vote in our annual Best of Denver Readers’ Poll, the populist sidebar to our own picks of our favorite people, places, songs and inanimate…
Food truckery exploded in Denver in 2010; every week it seemed like there was a new mobile kitchen rolling through town. That’s why we added Best Food Truck to our readers’ poll for this year’s Best of Denver awards, along with Best Coffeehouse for Finding a Date and Best Cupcake…
Doritos, a 64-ounce drink, a shoulder massage and a fan keeping you cool, all handled by some incredibly lovely ladies — really, does it get any better than that? Probably not. Witness Denver house DJ and man about town Uriah West, photographed at Vinyl. Clearly, being a DJ has it’s…
Westword isn’t always the nicest media outlet in town, which is why we hope you read us. For our bullshit detectors, if not our looks. But for a shining few weeks each year, we root and dig out not corruption, but Denver’s best. Which is where you come in…
It’s that time of year again, when Westword hands the keys over to you for our Readers’ Poll, which serves as an accompaniment to our Best of Denver® 2011 issue (out March 31.) Get your favorite concert, new band, new club, new whatever, recognized in our issue, and get those…
DVLP’s “The Distant Vagabond” went down at Westword’s Artopia party on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the City Hall Amphitheater. Presented by Abella Bala, Justice Talent Agency, Flippin’ Entertainment and Making the Model, the show featured designers DVLP, Akomplice, Jiberish, Tricia Hoke, Fallene Welles and more. Photos by Aaron Thackeray…
Art, music, food and fashion were mashed together Saturday night for Artopia, our own little five-venue party on Broadway in the “Golden Triangle” neighborhood. Photographers Jonathan Shoup and Aaron Thackeray moved between Vinyl, City Hall, Bar Standard, the Living Room and Mo’s, and bring back these selected photos from the…
Jersey Shore’s most drama-free character, Pauly D (Paul DelVecchio), attracted a capacity crowd last night at Beta. A crush of people gathered around the DJ both with cell phone cameras to get a photo of DelVecchio, who is also a club DJ in Providence, Rhode Island when the show is…
For this Friday, we’ve got three news stories to talk about over drinks tonight at Happy Hour. Be the informed drinker. Littleton residents are showing some tolerance — that’s what one could infer from statements made by Republican state representative Kathleen Conti, who says town hall meetings with her constituents…
This week’s print issue marked Westword’s seventh annual awards for local MasterMinds. There were five in this year’s MasterMind class, about which you can read via the links below, and as an added bonus, you can view their works, thanks to the technology of this modern age…
Artopia, Westword’s annual “biggest, greatest, most poppin’ ass art party of the year,” goes down on Saturday night. A highlight this year as always is the musical talent, so we’ve parsed down the full schedule to just the live music going down at five venues (Vinyl, The Living Room, Mo’s,…
Update: We’ve picked our three wordsmiths as winners! Check your e-mail to see if you’re one of them. Thanks for reading Latest Word and Westword.com. ___ We have a quick contest for you today. We’re giving away three pairs of tickets to the Colorado Mammoth vs. Minnesota Swarm game on…
Friday night marked the second of three pre-parties Westword is hosting in advance of Artopia, which goes down February 19 at five venues in the Golden Triangle neighborhood. (All the Artopia details, including available tickets are here: Artopia Denver.) Friday night’s party was at Bar Standard, 1037 Broadway. The next…
Looks like this weekend’s much welcomed warm up shook us all out of our winter funk. On Friday night, The Church held auditions for Caffeine, the March 26 electronic music party at the 1STBANK Center. Photographer Marcus Gadison brings back these photos, which are most likely Not Safe For Work:…
Last night, Project Runway contestant and Denver’s current fashion star Mondo Guerra was at the Infinity Park Event Center for a clothing recycling bonanza known as the Good Exchange Fashion Show and Clothing Swap in Glendale. There was a fashion show featuring Goodwill clothing — repurposed by Denver School of…
