Today through Sunday, $2 from every Westword Music Showcase ticket sold will go to the Red Cross for High Park fire relief efforts. If you haven’t bought your tickets for the June 23 showcase, you can do so now through Sunday and help a good cause. You can buy tickets…
After a long run at La Rumba, Michael Trundle (aka boyhollow) announced this month that Lipgloss would be moving to Beauty Bar. On Friday, June 8, the first edition of the long-running club night went off. Jim Wills was on hand and brought back some photos. Page down for some…
Last night and into early this morning, London’s Perc (aka Ali Wells), one of the leading producers in techno today, performed at NORAD. Photos by Nick Callaio for Westword. More photos below…
Jourdan Adler, the owner of The 1Up, the hip arcade/bar in LoDo, now has a second outpost of his video game-centric bar in the former Pete’s Monkey Bar space at 717 East Colfax. the 2Up. Last night, the 2Up — complete with 35 games, eight pinball machines and three skee-ball…
Jourdan Adler, the owner of the 1Up, the hip arcade/bar in LoDo, has opened a second outpost of his video game-centric bar in the former Pete’s Monkey Bar space at 717 East Colfax, the 2Up. Last night, the 2Up — complete with 35 games, eight pinball machines and three skee-ball…
If you’re reading this, someone you know — and probably you, too — uses Instagram, the smartphone photo app that has approximately 1 gazillion users, was sold last month to Facebook for $1 billion and, most important, is the latest vehicle for everyone to take photos of themselves in the…
Welcome to round seven of this year’s VIP upgrade contest for the Westword Music Showcase — June 23 in the Golden Triangle — in which we’ll give two people VIP upgrades (totaling $150) for the festival each week leading up the show. Read on to find out how to play…
Tim O’Brien, Dakota Blonde, Nick and Helen Forster and Dick Weissman performed on Saturday night at the L2 Arts and Culture Center as part of the Denver Folklore Center’s fiftieth anniversary, a weekend-long celebration that began on Friday and culminated with a concert at Four Mile Historic Park on Sunday…
There’s something about a dancing robot that cuts right through our collective cynicism and makes us laugh. The costume made from a refrigerator box, some tin foil and a few cans of spray paint, with arms made from dryer ventilation tubes. But while making a robot costume is easy to…
As you might have heard, Van Halen played the Pepsi Center in Denver last night, dusting off a few hits from its mega-selling album, 1984. Roving photographer Brandon Marshall hit the Pepsi Center parking lot asking fans to share where they were in 1984. Here are some of the people…
This past Saturday, Hawaiian ukulele player Aldrine Guerrero was at the fifth annual Denver Ukefest at the L2 Arts and Culture Center. In between signing ukuleles and performing, he took time out to play us an original tune he wrote about seeing snowflakes in Denver. Chris Morgan took some pictures…
This past Saturday, the annual Five Points Jazz Festival returned to its namesake historic district with performances from a slew of acts like Carmen Sandiem and Aakash Mittal, among others, spread out across six stages all along Welton Street. Our own Nick Callaio was on hand for the fest and…
Summertime movie-and-music night Film on the Rocks, put on each year by the Denver Film Society, released its schedule tonight at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. For a full rundown of the bands playing each night — and the films being shown at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — see the full schedule below…
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Cafe Society has explored the benefits of beer-can chicken before, but we couldn’t pass up eating some at the kick-off party for Colorado Beer Week — which runs through May 19 — Saturday afternoon at Highland Tap & Burger in northwest Denver. Below are a few photos of the patriotic…
Leftover Salmon played Sunday, May 13, 2012 in the middle of 7th and 8th street on Santa Fe. The band’s new album, Aquatic Hitchhikers, drops May 22, but the band couldn’t resist to take over the streets for a little while to show Denver that they still got it. Check…
A Rollerblader will glide down the South Platte River Trail right by Will Rice, then do a double take, turn around, stop and approach the 39-year-old angler with curiosity. “Wow, you’re fishing here?” he’ll ask, wondering if Rice is crazy for wading into the river that snakes through downtown Denver…
Last month, rocker Ted Nugent drew Secret Service scrutiny when he said, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year,” at an NRA convention in St. Louis. That was on April 18, ancient history in the…
Which Denver restaurant would make the best use of forty pounds of cherries from Washington? A PR firm from that state is looking for an iconic restaurant deserving of the fruit…and coming up with the right location is the pits. Should it be the Cherry Cricket, for its name alone?…
On the calendar of nerd holidays, May 4 is certainly below Comic Con but at least a few pegs above the pirate convention that takes place each year near the airport. Yes, “May the 4th be with you,” is a day every Star Wars fan can get behind obnoxiously –…
After closing his Happy Coffee kiosk inside Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop late last year, Scott Taylor started looking south. And last week, he opened a new Happy Coffee in the former Fancy Tiger Crafts space at 1 South Broadway. Here’s a look at the newest coffee shop in the Baker neighborhood:…
On Friday a new piece of public art, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun,” was installed at Tennyson Street and 41st Avenue. The piece was part of the 2007 Better Bond Project that paid for the finally-finished street improvements along Tennyson. The piece is embossed with the words “Face the sun…
