Before Kassia Koukari parks Roberto, the three-wheeled delivery bike for Kassia’s Pasta Farm, for the season, she wheeled him to the Infinite Monkey Theorem on Thursday night for the kickoff of Operation: Turkey Raisin’, a food/fundraiser for Denver Rescue Mission’s Thanksgiving Turkey Drive. Through November 23, a portion of all…
THURS | DEVOTCHKA at GOTHIC THEATRE | 10/31/13 It just wouldn’t be October without DeVotchKa’s annual Halloween extravaganza. This year, the beloved Denver act is holding court at the Gothic Theatre on Thursday, October 31, and the Boulder Theater on the following night, Friday, November 1. Shady Elders is slated…
Breed-specific legislation might be a hot-button issue in the metro area, but that didn’t stop local American pit bull terrier advocates and their canine best friends from proudly walking down Main Street in Littleton on Saturday to promote positive awareness of the breed. As costumed bullies and other breeds marched…
Zombies were solidly outnumbered over the weekend at the Exotica Erotica Ball, where green men and slinky cat-women canoodled with masked mystery ladies and scantily clad executioners. Photographer Brandon Marshall captured the sexy backlash bash in all its fishnetted majesty. Here are some of our favorite photos; you’ll find these…
It looks an outpost of the ever-expanding, locally-run Santiago’s Mexican food restaurant chain will take over an Aurora spot that has seen quite a bit of turnover. The address, at 10400 East Sixth Avenue, was most recently home to El Rico Dicho Menuderia Y Taqueria, a quirky Mexican restaurant that…
Something to keep in mind while reading about our latest Schmuck of the Week, David Husman: He’s 42 years old. Yep, there’s no denying that Husman is a grown-ass man. Yet he’s now reportedly pleaded guilty to the sort of behavior that most of us outgrow at about age six:…
SUNDAY | COLORADO RISING at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/27/13 Colorado Rising is a fitting name for this benefit show. Aside from its obvious meaning, the title could also describe the homegrown acts on the bill, each of which has helped raise the profile of music being made in our state…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly discuss Kimberly Peirce’s reimagining of Stephen King’s Carrie — and Nicholson convinces Stephanie to go see Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa…
Rakun, a sweet little boutique specializing in locally made and vintage items, is now even sweeter, with the addition of a “teeny tiny tea house.” Rakun owner/entrepreneur entrepreneur/mother Meghan Throckmorton has always focused on sustainability, and that carries over into the charming refreshment area where you can get fortified for…
In 2011, we published a post counting down the fifty reasons Colorado is the best state. But that wasn’t enough to express our affection for our home, so we followed up in 2012 with the fifty latest reasons why Colorado is the best state in the country. And still, we…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
The Ritz-Carlton is Denver’s first and only AAA Five-Diamond Hotel — a prestigious rating that the downtown hotel has now earned four years running. The hotel is home to Elway’s Downtown, as well as the Ritz-Carlton Spa. See also: John Elway helps dedicate the new patio at Elway’s Downtown (photos)…
Monday is traditionally a slow day in the restaurant business. And Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, which opened at 1294 South Broadway in May, has come up with a new lesson plan to liven things up on Mondays: It wants to team with local schools on that day, when it will…
Savoy is slated to make its way back to the Mile High City for a headlining date at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, February 15, as part of the act’s Get Lazer’d Tour. Tickets ($25) go on sale this Friday, October 25, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what…
When the zombies stopped crawling downtown on Saturday, it was only the beginning of a long and living-dead night: The undead could then just march into a Zombie Crawl after-party at Casselman’s or the Zombie Prom at the Meadowlark — or both — and continue to carry on into the…
The 2013 Rock n” Roll marathon rolled through downtown Denver yesterday. Thousands of runners pounded in the pavement in the half- and full marathon, as dozens of local bands played, entertaining and motivating the runners. Our photographer, Darian Simon, was there to capture all the action. View all the photos…
Praise the Lord! When the national tour of The Book of Mormon comes back to the Buell Theatre tomorrow for a three-week run that continues until November 24, it will bring back the ticket lottery that was so popular the first time around. A limited number of tickets for each…
The zombie craze is here to stay, and that seems doubly true in Denver, where the annual Zombie Crawl turns downtown into a freakin’ bloody mess of creeps and crawlers dropping body parts everywhere, as they did this past Saturday. As these photos by Westword’s Aaron Thackeray prove, Denver zombies…
TUES | FLATBUSH ZOMBIEZ at CERVANTES’ OTHER SIDE | 10/22/13 As if torn out of the pages of a graphic novel, Flatbush Zombies are intense and ultra-stylized to an extent that is at once cartoonish and darkly gritty. Sometimes, in the case of very exciting music such as theirs, substance…
Grand Junction co-starred in our recent post featuring nice/nasty Urban Dictionary definitions of Colorado cities, and amusingly enough, both descriptions mentioned meth. Rightly or wrong, the GJ area has a rep as Colorado’s meth capital — which means law enforcers are pretty damn good at finding the stuff. Just ask…
FRI | THE NAKED AND FAMOUS at FILLMORE AUDITORIUM | 10/18/13 Thom Powers and Alisa Xayalith formed this pop outfit in 2008 and recorded two EPs with future keyboard player Aaron Short when the three were students at the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand in Auckland. Taking its…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — a beautifully shot film, contrasting the all-too-visible evil of mankind…
