In two weeks, the Denver Cruisers’ riding season will officially end for 2012, but not without a bang: Last night, hundreds of cyclists gathered on Talk Like a Pirate Day dressed as pirates, sailors, nymphs and a few seafaring shades in between. We guess you could say all hands were…
The Fritzler family will go down in history as proud, card-carrying Coloradans — in large part because this LaSalle family has already made its mark in corn. For the past twelve years, the Fritzlers have created epic and (mostly state-centric) corn mazes, the most recent of which honors Broncos star…
Pulitzer finalist Dava Sobel is definitely a star — the asteroid 30935 davasobel is even named after her. And tonight you’ll be starstruck when the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company offers a free reading of Sobel’s play And the Sun Stood Still, which dramatizes the events that led Nicolaus Copernicus to…
The first beer that Mayor Michael Hancock tried today at Denver Beer Co was a Sunnyside Hefeweizen. But it won’t be his last. Hancock got a crash course on the brewing process and beer ingredients when he dropped by the brewery today to help create a pumpkin beer that will…
In this week’s art review, Michael Paglia takes a look at two local galleries that are combining cultures. Throughout the Denver Art Museum’s “El Anatsui” and Goodwin Fine Art’s “Yoshitomo Saito,” Denver art enthusiasts can experience both Asian and African influence from veteran and first time artists. Continue reading for…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that the most common (and our mutually favorite) topic of conversation among all of us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in…
Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s annual anime convention, took the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center by storm (and in costume) this past weekend as fans from across the state flocked there to to live out their fantasies. Dreamers representing all walks of fiction made the three-day fest a circus…
No sightings of Justin Timberlake yet, but the liquor-license hearing sign is up in the window of the future home of Southern Hospitality, at 1433 17th Street. And the owners of this branch of a restaurant Timberlake introduced in New York are going for both a standard restaurant license and…
Lucha Rama mixes luchadores, Jell-O wrestling, dancing and drinking into some good, old-fasioned debauchery. Which means that on Saturday, minor minor mayhem ruled for several hours at Beauty Bar. Photographer Christopher Morgan captured the night in our full slide show, which raises some serious questions, including this: How does one…
Welcome to another splendid week of music in the Mile High City. As usual, there are plenty of shows to choose from this week, from Kreator and Accept at the Gothic to DeVotchKa and the Airborne Toxic Event at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony, and we’ve got them all…
Call it a stampede. This weekend, the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center was taken over by Colorado’s largest anime convention, Nan Desu Kan 2012, and the fantasy enthusiasts who both populate and propel it. In our full slide show of the weekend’s costumes, you’ll notice well-dressed fans of…
Last June, the Rockstar Lounge closed after a year-and-a-half run. The spot is reopening tonight at Satori, after having been repainted and having the furniture reupholstered, in addition to having a new DJ booth built and a state of the art lighting and sound system installed. Prior to housing the…
The fourth location of Hapa Sushi opened Wednesday in the former home of India House at 1514 Blake Street. This latest outpost of the Boulder-based chain is the third sushi joint to join the swim in LoDo this year. Here’s a look at the space:…
Restaurant veterans Dave Chmura, Scott Bergin and Rob Young finally opened Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two this week after spending nearly two years renovating an antiquated house at the restaurant’s namesake address on South Pearl Street. The new space boasts plenty of outdoor seating, including a spacious rooftop patio and a rustic,…
How did Tammy Theis commemorate the day she officially became a candidate for House District 58? With a citation for shoplifting from a Montrose grocery store. Theis admits having taken the items in question — by accident, she insists. She has an explanation for a previous run-in with the law,…
In her review of The Kitchen Denver, Gretchen Kurtz said she missed the sense of community that’s such a hallmark of the original Kitchen in Boulder, as well as its offshoots there. And now the The Kitchen [Upstairs] is just bringing even more community to Boulder, with a monthly Community…
Welcome to the weekend! The weather has finally cooled off a bit, but the shows haven’t. Whatever your inclinations are this next couple of days, there are a plethora of options, from Devin Townsend Project tonight at the Summit Music Hall to Deltron 3030 tomorrow night at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom…
The annual Westword Music Showcase is always a good time, but in one small but noticeable way, this year’s event has become a permanent street party. During the course of the 2012 musical mayhem, eight local artists shared their time, paint and skills with Westword to completely re-envision our traditional…
Consider it the little market that could. The Broomfield Farmers’ Market has been voted Colorado’s favorite farmers’ market in a nationwide poll conducted by the American Farmland Trust. The market is run by volunteers and is only in its second year, but then, it might have gotten a boost from…
By now, everyone knows the drill: On the first Friday of every month, Denver’s art scene opens up to public exploration — and occasionally, a little public mayhem. Westword photographer Elyse Mitchell caught a bit of both through her lens on September 7. Continue reading for our twenty favorite scenes…
Touted quite correctly as a “cycling circus,” New Belgium Brewing’s annual Tour de Fat is a moving fashion show of bikers who bring their wheels and don costumes to raise money for Bike Denver and the Denver Cruisers. From Book of Mormon enthusiasts to Flintstones fans, this year’s attendees raised…
Guitars, you say? Oh, we’ve got guitars, friend. Big ones, loud ones, twangy ones, whatever your flavor, and all being played by people pushing their amps into overdrive with passion. If you feel like indulging your inner rocker this week, let’s just say you will have no problem finding places…
