Montreal electro duo Chromeo played to a sold-out audience on Friday night at the Ogden Theatre, performing songs from its three-album catalog. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos: Chromeo slideshow. And read our interview with P-Thugg about Chromeo’s upcoming, fourth album, Business Casual…
Alan Prendergast’s August 19, 2010 Westword cover story, “Asphalt jungle: For years, Denver police thought this parking lot was the most dangerous spot in LoDo. What’s changed?” explains the violence in the Lower Downtown neighborhood of Denver after last call, when the streets are full of people…
If you read our post back in June, you already knew that The Hole was slated to open sometime this summer. Today, the restaurant (3877 Tennyson Street) that unabashedly specializes in doughnuts and beer opened for business. Lori Midson brings back these photos from the Hole (slideshow)…
The first segment of a massive reconstruction project along the South Broadway Corridor was officially completed today, a four-block stretch from Arizona to Iowa avenues. Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, city council president Chris Nevitt and Denver Department of Public Works manager Bill Vidal were there, as was Westword photographer Johnny…
Have you seen the cover of the latest Rolling Stone, the one with the True Blood cast members splattered with blood Jackson Pollack style in their birthday suits? It’s attracting quite a bit of attention — and why not? It’s sexy, bloody and, well, it’s sexy and bloody. But it’s…
Drunk of the Week columnist Drew Bixby just profiled Star Bar, and all the changes that have taken place since the old owner left and the new owners took over. Here’s a nightlife tour by photographer Eric Gruneisen not just of Star Bar, but the other bars along that strip…
Today here on Show and Tell we have a contest for our readers. Win two tickets to see any movie at The Landmark Theatre -Greenwood Village, Monday through Thursday. All you have to do is be funny…
This past weekend, during the Mile High Music Festival, professional eaters Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti, “Big Sexy” Bryan Beard and Tim “Gravy” Brown competed in the Jimmy John’s Freaky Fast Sandwich Makers vs. Eaters Contest. How did it all play out? According to the Jimmy John’s “JJ Freaker Blog” posting,…
Depictions of Jesus in pop culture have exploded with fanatical speed with the Internet. Religion does that to people. Because Jesus is awesome (as the photos attest) here are about 27 of the best depictions of Jesus on the Internet…
Cheerleaders! Something about them makes most red-blooded American males begin frothing at the mouth. It’s ingrained into American culture from the time we’re tykes: boys — like the cheerleaders; girls — be like the cheerleaders. So it’s with mild fervor each fall that the annual cheerleader calendar for the upcoming…
Colorado is a pretty progressive state when it comes to smoking marijuana. There are hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries centers that will sell the kush to anyone with the money and a doctor’s note. But with the swarms of cops and security roving the grounds of Dick’s Sporting Goods Park…
We’re live here at Mile High Music Festival at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park on day two of the third-annual music festival. Photographer Brian Landis Folkins brings back these photos from the early sets of the day. So if you got here late, check out what you missed…
All photos by Aaron Thackeray, shot on Saturday afternoon at Mile High Music Festival…
By Matty Clark, bartender at Lost Lake Lounge (3602 East Colfax Avenue) in Denver. The bartender doesn’t actually hate you. Bartending is a stressful, complicated job that requires dealing with human beings at their absolute worst (when they’re drunk.)…
Today in grocery store levity: a moonwalking shopper!…
As Warped Tour winds down for another summer, Aaron Thackeray shadowed the hardest partier on the tour, Andrew W.K., capturing his average day. Below are a few highlights; check out the full gallery of AWK’s day in our slide show: Day in the Life: Andrew W.K.’s Denver Warped Tour…
Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin is in Chicago this weekend for Lollapalooza. Here are photos from Saturday’s sets. More coming Monday…
Day one of Lollapalooza in Grant Park in Chicago is in the books. Freelance photographer Mark C. Austin brings back these photos from the festival…
You have to keep your eyes open when walking through Denver’s 16th Street Mall — not just because of the buses buzzing through the pedestrian-heavy area, but because you might end up seeing this guy: Sarah Palin’s biggest fan. His only quotation when spotted on Thursday around 1 p.m.: “Vote…
You already know that chef Ian Kleinman is launching a new dessert cart in August, but this week he stopped by the Westword offices to give us a preview of how he makes peanut butter sorbet using liquid nitrogen, which puts a -320F freeze on the stuff. Liquid nitrogen has…
Colorado state Senator Pat Steadman on Wednesday, commenting on the decision by a federal judge to overturn California’s Proposition 8, said it’s a lot like fourteen years ago. Fourteen years ago being May 20, 1996, when a U.S. Supreme Court ruling came down against Colorado’s Amendment 2 — an addition…
Earlier today, we told you about our top five favorite ridiculous King Tut tie-ins, one of which was moving Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian death-god, to Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. But we were wrong. Anubis didn’t get moved; Anubis moves when he wants, wherever he wants — and he moves some…
