December marks the thirtieth anniversary of the first show by Minor Threat, one of the best American punk bands that formed on these angsty shores. To commemorate the occasion, we’ve come up with a list of the top five current straight-edge hardcore bands that are keeping that spirit alive…
Tattoos and PBR and women who dress like pin-up models of the ’40s and ’50s were the key ingredients for Saturday night’s “Paper Dolls Wild West Pinup Shoot Out” at the Rockaway Tavern. Show and Tell dispatched photographer Coleen Whitfield to document the photo shoot/party and she brings back these…
Update: 1:11 p.m. Friday: We’ve picked our two winners! Check your email address to see if you’re one of them! Thanks for playing along and reading Latest Word. Only kidding, of course! We know you want to spend every moment you can with your in-laws before they sadly will return…
If you read our review of Roger Waters at the Pepsi Center last night, you know it was a show not to be missed. As a band, Pink Floyd is in that select (but growing none the less) group of bands whose fans are more like soldiers, proudly wearing the…
If you were too busy watching Walking Dead or, worse, the American Music Awards, you might have missed this goal that gave the Colorado Rapids the winning advantage in the 2010 MLS Cup championship game at Toronto’s BMO Field, over FC Dallas. Before YouTube yanks the video of that serendipitous…
If you were there last night, thank you for coming to the first-ever Westword Web Awards party at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street. The room swelled (see full slideshow from the Web Awards) to about 400 bloggers, photographers, shameless self-promoters and artists, who tweeted about the thing all night. As promised,…
You might have heard rumblings of the invite-only quasi-private Web Awards party we’re having tonight at Casselman’s, 2620 Walnut Street, to celebrate the best of the local web in Denver. But do you think we’d forget about you, faithful news-readers of Latest Word? Of course not. Find out how you…
By our count, about 1,600 people watched the debate on immigration between almost-Colorado governor Tom Tancredo and Gustavo Arellano, who writes the “Ask a Mexican” column that appears in Westword each week, on Tuesday night at Su Teatro on Santa Fe. That of course, includes you, our wonderful online readers…
Real or fake? Below are eleven food trends and concepts that could be real or made up. It’s up to you to guess which is which. (Let us know in the comments section.) After all, who would’ve thought there would be cupcake trucks driving around Denver selling the sugar high…
In this era of online ordering, getting stuff in the mail is much more common than it was a decade ago. No longer are consumers forced to wait in long lines, dealing with other people’s smells and peanut gallery comments. Yes, we’re in the midst of an unboxing trend that…
Update: 12:38 p.m., Thursday: And we’ve got a winner! I’ve contacted the winner with the details (so check your e-mail to see if you won!) Thanks for playing, and thanks for reading Latest Word. What are you doing Thursday night? You could be watching Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets take…
We cover culture low-brow and high on Show and Tell, which sometimes includes scraping the underbelly of the internetz to bring you memes that are incredibly popular on message boards and online forums, if nowhere else. Which is why today, we bring you the twelve best “Fuck Yeah” images from…
“You live at 1283 South Elm Street? Awesome. That house rules. I’ll make that delivery first and these three other deliveries afterward.” If you’re a customer who relies on pizza delivery, you want the pizza guy to say that about your address. For some reason — probably one you’re unaware…
The campaign to legalize marijuana for personal use in Colorado — Legalize 2012 — officially kicked off last night in Boulder with Paul Danish, a former Boulder City Councilman and County Commissioner, as the keynote speaker. Danish touched on the failed Prop. 19 — California’s own ballot initiative to legalize…
Pardon this interruption in headlines: We’re happy to announce the judges of our 2010 Westword Web Awards. If you haven’t nominated your favorite Facebooking restaurant, web start-up or Twittering bartender for the Westword Web Awards yet, what are you waiting for? Get to it!…
Sick of seeing all those “I Voted” stickers being smugly worn by civic do-gooders? Well, if you didn’t vote — or even if you did — take a stab at our Predictometer 2000, in which we’re asking readers to predict who they think will win (not who you voted for)…
If you were outside enjoying the fall weather this weekend, and not holed up in your home watching Comedy Central, you might have missed the airing of the “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear,” hosted by the cable channel’s fake newscasters/real pundits Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (there was, however,…
Update: Thursday, 12:10 p.m.: Thanks for playing along and sharing your stories! We actually had five more pairs of tickets handed to us, so we picked ten winners! Congrats to MJ, Katie, Tom, Neil, Dave, Jeremy, Darby, Adrienne, Kaitlin and Stephanie. _____ Did you trudge into work this morning, lamenting…
This photo was just sent to us by a reader — a reader who allegedly made good on the weed portion of the tip jar request and was offered a complimentary beer by the staff, which he drank before going on his way. What makes this tip-jar sign work is…
While tickets to Saturday night’s showing of cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Landmark Esquire sold out more than a month ago, plenty of people still showed up looking for tickets. Westword photo intern Teal Nipp was one of the lucky ones with tickets to the midnight…
Last night’s Justice League of Street Food Halloween party attracted more than a few costumed grubniks to food truck HQ: 29th and Huron. Westword photo intern Hunter Stevens brings back these memories…
Update: Congrats to Ryan (“I’ll cheer louder than vuvuzela!”) With that kind of claim, how could we not give you the four tickets. And you got to see a Rapids victory! Thanks for reading and playing along; there were some very good entries. ________ At 7 p.m. on Thursday night,…
