One of the best films of the year, Midnight in Paris, and one of the most popular albums of the year, Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch the Throne, have little in common on the surface…
This week’s video sidebar to Jef Otte’s “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” column — “Johnny Cash’s covers album has the gravity that Paul McCartney’s doesn’t” — talks about country music and destroying a 1979 Volvo 240 in rural New Mexico with the “Murder” cassette from Johnny Cash’s Love,…
In this week’s art column — “The Faculty Triennial documents Colorado’s art history as it races by” — Michael Paglia writes of the Faculty Triennial at the University of Denver: The current exhibition, the Faculty Triennial, is part of his continuing program to “document and to stimulate Colorado’s art history,”…
Cafe Society last wrote about Tim Tebow when Euclid Hall introduced its bone-marrow “T-boning” Manhattan shot. This time around, the world of food and Tebow collide in very different way…
Party-obsessed rocker Andrew W.K. and bargain-obsessed actor William Shatner are both going to be in Denver on the same night, March 20. Let that soak into your cerebellum for a second. Do you drop acid and let James motherfucking Kirk expand your mind? Or do you soak your noggin in…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. Who’s the best Colorado celebrity? Who’s the best new legislator? What’s your best guess for how many times Tim Tebow will be on the cover of Sports Illustrated…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. Have a take? Give us yours on these questions and more: Best new band? Best new recording? Best karaoke night?…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. Who’s the city’s best new chef? What’s the best new bar in town?…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. What’s the best new public art? Best annual festival?…
In Internet time, the “shit people say” videos really peaked about mid-January, but maybe like you, we seem to watch every one that comes across our browser. And since there have been a few Colorado-related videos that have come out, there hasn’t been one about the phrases and idioms of…
A week ago today, the first-ever wintertime outdoor concert was held at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. It was cold, but the lack of snow helped draw a hearty audience of hip hop fans, making Icelantic Winter on the Rocks, headlined by Atmosphere and Common, go off without a hitch. The scene…
The concept of the modern “breastaurant” is a purely American one, born of man’s desire for Buffalo wings and light beer, and often resulting in unrequited love for a lass twenty years his junior. But what really weaves a “breastaurant” into the American fabric is that everything is bigger at…
Negative Degree, one of the more active hardcore bands in the Denver punk scene for the past year or so, is part of a small wave of new local bands playing hardcore punk music, which first sprang up in basements in the ’80s and has been romanticized and gold-plated in…
Today marks the debut of a new weekly video rant from our resident loudmouthed rabble-rouser Jef Otte, who does his level best each week to break your heart. In the video-version of I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, monsieur Otte attempts to make a compelling case for why Nickelback…
Goodwill has plans to open two stores this spring, one in Longmont and a boutique in Cherry Creek, which will be do-good organization’s 25th and 26th stores in the metro area…
Cheyenne, Wyoming, isn’t the most ideal place to grow up as a punk — “It was an uphill battle,” says Mark Masters, who eventually moved south and with three friends formed Negative Degree, part of a new wave of hardcore bands in Denver. Masters and fellow record nerd Johnny Mather…
Update! Thanks for chiming in! We’ve picked a winner, so check your email to see if you’ve won! On Saturday, February 18, Artopia will fill five SoCo venues with work from some of Denver’s best visual artists, local fashion, culinary creations and specialty cocktails mixed exclusively for Artopia attendees. Tickets…
The Lady Wu-Tang, a group of Denver-area female MCs who formed to put on tribute shows to the Wu-Tang Clan, played its one-year anniversary show on Saturday night at City Hall. Photos from the show are below…
It’s still more than seven months away, but if you’re a fan of anime and cosplay in general, you’re already looking forward to the sixteenth — “sweet sixteen,” in the words of organizer A. Jinnie McManus — edition of Nan Desu Kan…
The final numbers are still being tallied, but Breckenridge Brewery saw close to 30 percent growth in 2011 — about double the growth rate of the craft beer industry as a whole — which makes this week’s installation of more brewing tanks excellent timing. “We’re psyched about it,” says Terry…
The online rush to buy tickets for The Book of Mormon nearly crashed the Denver Center for the Performing Arts servers and the show sold-out in five hours. But for those willing to brave the February cold, the wait for the highly anticipated show — of which Denver is the…
It had been far too long since any literal juggling was done in the Westword conference room, so when the offer came down to see Cirque du Soleil Dralion juggler Vladik Miagkostupov perform in person, we welcomed it with open, uncoordinated arms…
