Photos: Lipgloss moves to Beauty Bar, 6/8/12

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…

Photos: Perc at NORAD, 6/8/12

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…

Photos: A first look at 2Up on Colfax

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…

Visit the Denver Art Museum through the eyes of Instagram users

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…

Denver Folklore Center celebrates fifty years

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…

Music Showcase VIP Contest: Calling all robots!

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…

Van Halen fans recall where they were in 1984

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…

Photos: Five Points Jazz Fest, 5/19/12

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…

Obama vs. the Nuge at Red Rocks

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…

First look: Happy Coffee on South Broadway

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:…