This Saturday, at the twentieth Westword Music Showcase, we’ll celebrate the remarkable depth and talent of the Denver music scene with more than 140 local bands on sixteen stages (in addition to an outdoor stage with some touring artists you can learn about elsewhere in this section). But it takes…
Your new favorite band is from Denver — you just have to find it! No small task in a city with thousands of artists and hundreds of venues, we know — but you can start this weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. More than 140 of our favorite local artists…
We leave the movie theater on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast in favor of a longform interview with Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, who’s been at the New York paper for about a year. Before that she wrote for Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and the Boston Phoenix,…
Your new favorite band is from Denver — you just have to find it! No small task in a city with thousands of artists and hundreds of venues, we know — but you can start this weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. More than 140 of our favorite local artists…
A beach party in the middle of the city? Why not? O.penVAPE’s Ink Monstr Poolside Summer Series offers fun in and out of the pool, a giant Slip ‘N Slide and an imported sand beach for dancing the day away when it’s time to dry off. Photographer Ken Hamblin brought…
More than 85,000 people walked through the aisles of the Denver Comic Con over the weekend, according to the folks behind the rapidly growing convention, and a lot of them were in costume. Con cosplay, after all, is an art unto itself, featuring hand-built costumery that can sometimes take months…
There’s plenty to keep you busy this week. James Taylor brings his musical featherbed to Red Rocks for a couple nights, and Nas and Flying Lotus will headline Feed the Rocks right after that. The outdoor activities continue with the kickoff of both Sonic Bloom and Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Note…
For obvious reasons, albeit totally unfair ones, residents of Colorado border states such as Kansas increasingly view folks from here as slackers — and Matthew Headley isn’t helping. Headley, who’s from Canon City, has now been sentenced for sticking up a Kansas bank while clad in pajama pants, as if…
Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican and a big fan of Den-Mex cuisine, has burritos on the brain these days, “and not just because of the whole pendejada involving Chipotle putting short stories by authors on its cups and bags…none of whom are Latinos,” he says. “While America loves…
Summer was underway. It was. But just in case you were waiting to roll down the windows and put away your sweaters, the Ink Monstr pool party series kicks off on Sunday. There are shows for those of us no interested in thigh exposure as well — Reckless Kelly is…
By Jack Spencer In my years attending punk and metal shows, often as the only one with a pen and pad in the middle, I’ve noticed that there are a few unwritten rules when participating in a mosh pit. The seemingly amorphous fits of aggression that explode from the center…
The Fault in Our Stars made heaps of money at the box office, and film critics Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek wonder if a recent piece declaring that adults should feel ashamed to read young adult novels has any weight to it. They also talk about The Immigrant and film…
The reach of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival extends down the mountains, across the country and around the globe. The weekend-long celebration of acoustic instruments, immaculate songwriting and untamed nature has brought big-name artists from around the world to its stage. Next weekend, Telluride Bluegrass will celebrate its fortieth anniversary, with…
It’s been a long haul, but you soon may hear that swish-swish coming from Kobe An Shabu Shabu, the Japanese restaurant that’s transforming the LoHi building at 3400 Osage Street that once held Little Pepina’s. The deal was announced more than a year ago, and although Kobe An didn’t hit…
Arts commune Rhinoceropolis turned into a wonderland of video, performance, music and art landscapes over the weekend for the two-day Fantasia festival. Fifty years ago they called this sort of thing a “happening,” and photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch all that happened. Here’s a taste; if you like…
Restaurant-hungry east Denver is about to get another option: The Office, which Hugh Evans is creating in the 5,000 square foot space that used to house the Denver Rodeo Nightclub. And with any luck, the sports bar/eatery/music venue will start pouring by the start of the World Cup. See also:…
It’s the kind of week where we’ve got fourteen recommendations below and we’ll be spending this introduction talking about the ones we had to leave off: Tech N9ne is in town again/still in town, playing in Colorado Springs. Greater Than Collective’s Social Club at Lannie’s Clocktower has its June installment…
June means more sunshine, better weather and evening throngs in the streets on First Friday, especially in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, where the whole stretch becomes a living art installation — and everyone’s a part of it. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document the district-wide street party;…
Come up with the best name for this year’s Do at the Zoo’s specialty drink, and you could win two tickets to the June 19 party, a 25th anniversary celebration featuring food from more than sixty restaurants, live music and a menagerie of cocktails. We’ll drink to that — and…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Chai & Chai in Aurora, an inconsistent but still intriguing dual-identity restaurant. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with Jeff Jones, the chef at P17, which Mary Nguyen opened in what had been the home of Parallel 17. And Mark Antonation…
Could the off-duty lives of Denver police officers and their significant others make for a spicy reality show? That’s the talk at the department after news broke about an investigation into a brawl involving two Denver cops, Jeremy Ownbey and Steven Sloan, as well as their wives, Jamie and Stephanie…
It’s a good one, folks: KS 107.5 FM’s Summer Jam brings hip-hop royalty to Englewood tonight, and most of the people there will probably be capping off their weekends with The Fray at Red Rocks on Sunday. There’s more: Dragondeer, subject of this week’s Backbeat feature, will release its long-awaited…
