Update, 2:53 p.m., January 16: We’ve picked a winner! Check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Thanks for playing along.Of course you watched the Broncos beat the Steelers on Sunday. And if you watched the CBS broadcast of the game, you saw footage of Loveland Ski Area on Saturday…
As we wrote about earlier today, Broncos fans could use chalk on the streets, but not Occupy Denver. And did they ever. Led by Denver mayor and one-time Broncos mascot Michael Hancock, fans used blue and orange sidewalk chalk to “transform Bannock Street into ‘Broncos Boulevard!'” (Just look how far…
The main event of the week-long Ullr Fest in Breckenridge was at 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Thursday, January 12, 2012, when everyone in Breckenridge put on their horns for the annual Ullr Fest Parade, which started at the intersection of Main Street and Wellington Street. Ullr Fest continues through Saturday, January…
If you’re on a bike ride on the South Platte trail and you see the below wheat paste, what do you do? Naturally, you post that on reddit. Found by reddit user missjenviolin, it can be seen on the “South Platte trail near Mile High and Elitch’s. There is a…
Do you know why the bucking broncos and bulls buck? Well, it depends on: Who. You. Ask. One thing’s for sure, though: The rodeo is as woven into the fabric of Western culture as just about anything. With the National Western Stock Show back for another year in Denver, we’re…
Tickets for tonight’s PBR Bull Riding event at the Denver Coliseum are around $38 as of this writing — the $15’ers have sold out — but if you’re looking for competitive rodeo, or just an excuse to wear the Western shirt you got for Christmas, tonight’s the night!…
Kill holiday burn-out this weekend and save that found-money you’ve got after returning those knock-off electronics. Simply take these ten suggestions for weekend entertainment, all of which will cost you a Hamilton or less. And for our full guide to what’s-going-on-Denver, simply peruse the Westword calendar…
Heading into the airing of tonight’s episode of Celebrity Wife Swap on ABC, the talk around here focused almost exclusively on Pastor Ted Haggard, who had to leave his mega New Life Church in Colorado Springs five years ago after “the scandal.” But when the show aired at 8 p.m…
You’ve already read about the inductees into this year’s Westword Hall of Shame and refreshed your memory of this year’s strange-but-true news stories, so now, as a final goodbye in a month of goodbyes to 2011, we present the top ten Latest Word blog posts, in terms of traffic. Pageviews,…
Including this post, the total number of posts on Cafe Society in 2011 was 3,241. That’s a lot of bloggering for a local restaurant scene blog. And who has time to go through all of them? Certainly not you. Which is why we’ve tallied up the top ten posts –…
Depending on who you’re listening to, the world is going to end in 2012, or the world will undergo some sort of transformation. Either way it’s spiritual. What’s not spiritual, however, are these cold, hard numbers: The top ten posts on Show and Tell during 2011, which may or may…
By now, anyone who’s ever blogged — which is likely most of you reading this — knows that the stories that took the most time, the really important ones, were often around the bottom when it came to traffic, pageviews, unique visitors, etc. Meanwhile, the ol’ bacon Nativity scene is…
Here are two quick lists to warm you up on this snow day; the ten best club shows and local shows (the two aren’t mutually exclusive, by any means) of 2011, as picked by Backbeat writers and ranked by music editor Dave Herrera. Find our ten best arena concerts of…
This fall, Westword created an anonymous sex survey aiming to lay out the sexual habits of the Centennial State. We’re now happy to announce these results of the first-ever Westword sex survey, of which more than 1,600 respondents participated. Read on to see our favorite answer regarding what would be…
Update, 12:30 p.m. Monday: Watch the video of Sunday’s flash mob at FlatIron Crossing below and see photos from the “Party Rock Anthem” flash mob. Eric Rosenberg calls it the “Rick Saga” on his blog, where the Denver Flash Mob co-founder writes about con-man Rick Strandloff, aka Rick Duncan, the…
It’s time to dust off the Westword glitter cannon, because the Best Of… iPhone app has earned some prestigious year-end acclaim. The Best Of… app (also available for Android!) has made it onto Apple’s iTunes 2011 Rewind, which shows off the top apps of 2011 as chosen by the editors…
When you live in Denver, it’s not surprising to see hearty folks pedaling to work on days when the temperature is in the teens and the snow is piled high. We’re just like that: Denver is a bicycle town. So is Boulder. That may be why Colorado is the fittest…
Calling all photo students! Westword is recruiting photography students for its Spring 2012 Photo Intern Program. By “student,” we do not mean “a student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t apply to you. Still interested? Read on!…
Colorado Avalanche center Matt Duchene has already been picked by Westword as Denver’s Best Av and Best Local Athlete on Twitter, so, you know we love him. But now you can join in the love with an autographed jersey. What a stellar holiday gift, right? In order to win, tell…
This week’s feature story, “Tilting at Windmills,” profiles Corey Donahue, a modern-day Don Quixote, who keeps the cops and the courts in Denver very occupied. We featured Donahue on the cover, and in the following making-of video, art director Jay Vollmar reveals how the shot was created. Enjoy…
Looking at Internet page design from years past has an almost high-school-prom-like photo quality to it. That color scheme! Those buttons! Why is that blinking?! Westword’s gazillionth new redesign, which just went live, will look like one of those prom shots a few years from now. But right now, it’s…
Open Space made a few headlines this week as a physical store in downtown Boulder that sells nothing. Instead, the 300-square-foot room has a few phone-and-tablet experts who promise to guide customers to apps they can use — but didn’t know existed. That’s the model behind the business launched by…
