About 1,500 people packed into the Grizzly Rose (5450 North Valley Highway) on Friday, October 8, 2010 to see singer Mark Chestnutt perform, to put back a few longnecks and cut loose. Photos by Aaron Thackeray. Below are a few highlights and the full slideshow is here: Mark Chestnutt at…
The new space for YesPleaseMore, the pop-up store that showcases strictly Colorado-designed fashions, artwork, jewelry and home accessories, showed off its new location in the Denver Pavilions on Friday night. YesPleaseMore was previously in another space in the Pavilions, and while the new location on the second level across from…
Supporters of former Colorado resident David Hartley, who was killed last week on a Texas lake that straddles the border between the United States and Mexico, gathered at Four Mile Historic Park today and marched to the Mexican Consulate to encourage the Mexican government to do more to solve the…
The Mile High Club — the all-star team of the Denver Roller Dolls roller derby league — and the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls traveled to California over the weekend of October 1-3 to play in the WFTDA (Women’s Flat Track Derby Association) 2010 championships. Rocky Mountain defeated Oly Rollers (Olympia,…
Does Backbeat ever turn down the chance to give away free concert tickets? Nope! Now, sure, the lulling sounds of the Canadian Tenors — listen below — may not immediately jibe with High on Fire, Kanye West or Muse, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good. No, sir. And with…
The Justice League of Street Food — that club of food truck operators that’s built a good amount of buzz among foodies over the past few months — held its third food truck party on Friday night in the parking lot at 29th and Huron. Westword photography intern Hunter Stevens…
Project Runway contestant Mondo Guerra — read our feature story on Mondo — hosted a silent auction for the Colorado AIDS Project and Rainbow Alley at Beauty Bar last night, September 30, in conjunction with the weekly Project Runway viewing party. View these photos by Kate Levy: Project Runway at…
As if the lighters, air fresheners, swimsuits, earrings, handbags, hoodies — and hell, just look at all this stuff — weren’t enough, Ed Hardy is now emblazoning his logo on the cardboard pizza boxes of Tony’s Pizza Napoletana in San Francisco. Eater provides this photo, perfect for all you male…
Update, 5 p.m. Friday: The answers are below. If you think you won, check your email right now. Thanks for playing, let’s do it again sometime…
You might have read about it on Friday — you know, Running of the Gays — here on Show and Tell, when Jef Otte previewed the event with the news that he would be running with the gays — yesterday, he won that race. Congratulations, sir. We sent photographer Aaron…
SoCal punk stalwarts Strung Out played the Ogden Theatre last night with Rufio, We Are The Union and Synthetic Elements. Aaron Thackeray, our resident shutterbug, was on hand and shot these photos. Below are a few highlights. And if you missed it on Friday, read this interview with Strung Out…
In the Grant-Humphreys mansion at 770 Pennsylvania Street yesterday, Denver fashion designers sold their styles in between three fashion shows. Photographer Hunter Stevens was there and brings back these photos from the event…
Matt and Kim • So So Glos • Picture Plane 09.24.10 | Ogden Theatre, Denver The hyper-positive drum-and-keyboard duo of Matt and Kim: From playing DIY art spaces to packing grand old joints like the Ogden Theatre, you have to wonder how much bigger the Brooklyn-proud (we’ll get to that…
Dish, Westword’s annual party celebrating the local dining scene, went down last night at the Exdo Event Center, attracting dozens of local restaurateurs, bartenders, business types, hungry eaters and thirsty drinkers. Photographer Teal Nipp brings back these photos: Food Porn from Westword’s Dish. Here are some of the highlights:…
Update: We have a winner! Sonja, check your e-mail! Thanks for playing everybody! Hankering to see America’s Best Dance Crew? Today’s your lucky day. We’ve got a pair of tickets up for grabs to see Jabbawockeez this Saturday, September 25, at the Wells Fargo Theatre with fellow ABDC alums BreakEFX…
Now that your hangover has subsided and you’re hunched over your desk, thinking back to all the beers you drank over the weekend, and that one funny shirt you saw through your beer goggles, it’s time to bring back some of the memories –specifically from those T-shirts. Luckily, we looked…
Chick-fil-A, which doesn’t roll out new menu items very often, is testing its second new product in recent memory — a spicy chicken nugget — at its twenty Denver locations, just a few months after it debuted its spicy chicken sandwich nationwide. Intrigued, Cafe Society dialed Steve Barker, a twelve-year…
There’s good pizza and there’s great pizza, but the consensus is that there’s really no such thing as a bad pizza. It’s pizza. Whether you like the pizza at CiCi’s Pizza Buffet — perhaps best known for its $5 all-you-can-eat pizza — haven’t had it, or despise everything it stands…
Local ladies vying to be the cover girl for Lotus Nightclub group’s 2011 swimsuit calendar competed on September 15 at Suite 200. Kate Levy was in the dressing room and brings back these photos. File under nightlife, and most of these are OK to view at work, if your boss…
Did you find your soulmate this past weekend at Red Rocks? A few people might have, had that special person not scampered away before phone numbers or texts were exchanged. Sigh. If you didn’t find the face of your vanishing love in our slide show, you might have hit up…
If you missed it on Saturday, the Denver version of Tour de Fat went down in City Park. Photographer Kate Levy was there and brings back these photos: See Tour de Fat slideshow. Below are a few highlights…
Nan Desu Kan — “the premier anime convention of the Rockies” (read Cory Casciato’s excellent write- up here) — was held over the weekend of September 10-12, 2010 in Denver. And by far, the most popular event of the weekend was the cosplay (short for “costume play”) contest. Photographer Kate…
