It’s hard to tell which part of the Denver County Fair is better: the food, the festivities or the half-sick, half-elated, entirely dazed feeling you get when you’re done with them. Regardless, the annual tradition combined all three (plus a freakshow) once again at the National Western Complex this weekend,…
Looking that good isn’t as easy as it seems. The proof of that is in the photos of Denver Fashion Week, now a burgeoning tradition on the local style scene. The week-long event rotated through venues across the city August 5 through 12, with hundreds of models, designers and artists…
More than 800 people — most of them dressed in costumes or not adverse to snuggling up to one — flocked to the DoubleTree Hotel this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, an unabashed annual celebration of Furry fandom. But while the anthropomorphic lifestyle offers a lot…
This looks like it hurts. A lot. This morning, Westword photographer Christopher Morgan headed to the opening hours of this year’s Denver County Fair to capture the pained and friendly faces at the Freakshow Pavilion in the National Western Complex. This year’s event runs August 10-12 and promises “real freaks”…
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Colorado is having a tough time. The ramifications of widespread wildfires and the Aurora theater shooting are still coming into focus, and many questions won’t be answered for months. But we’re not going anywhere. In Westword’s annual attempt to chronicle on paper — to count the ways, if you will…
From purple mountains majesty to amber waves of beer to 300 days of sunshine per year, there’s a lot to love about Colorado…even this summer, the most trying in recent memory. No sooner had we recovered from killer cantaloupes than the state faced crippling droughts. Then came the fires, which…
See Also: – Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM – Enjoy these dance-move GIFs from Global Dance Festival – Ten Coachella dance-move GIFs to make you feel good about yourself This past weekend’s running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster…
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Photo by Erik Hess BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday’s entertainment at Chicago’s Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just…
Photo by Erik Hess BY REED FISCHER Now more than ever, Lollapalooza is a mélange of different fashion decisions to accompany the varied musical offerings crammed together throughout Chicago’s Grant Park. When EDM butts up against metal, alt-country, and whatever the hell you’d call Die Antwoord, there’s really no wrong way…
There was plenty of action on the Denver dining scene in July — even without the open-shut-open saga of Sketch and El Diablo. Here’s our restaurant roll call for July:…
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The fifth Denver area Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers opened today at 900 Sgt. Jon Stiles Drive in the Town Center shopping district of Highlands Ranch. “We are so excited to grow the Freddy’s concept in Denver,” says franchise operator Brian Pyle. “We hope the ongoing expansion efforts make Freddy’s…
See also: – Global Dance Festival Survival Guide – Split Decision: Is vinyl obsolete? Split Decision: The Legend of Zelda Symphony With upwards of 20,000 kids descending on Red Rocks this weekend for Global Dance Fest 2012 — a music festival made up mostly of DJ’s — it seemed like…
Welcome to the weekend! There are few festivals happening over the next few days, including the Global Dance Festival at Red Rocks and The UMS, which includes a few hundred local acts and national acts like Shabazz Palaces, at various venues along South Broadway. There’s also forward-thinking indie rock act…
Plano, Texas-based Cinemark Holdings owns the Century 16 Aurora, where the shootings that killed twelve people and injured dozens took place last night. This morning, the company released a statement about the tragedy. “Cinemark is deeply saddened about this tragic incident. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their…
Westword and Backbeat rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation and your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy, new commenting program called Livefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
Today the Latest Word (and all of Westword’s blogs) rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice — and the opinions you voice in our comments section — will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Livefyre (“live fire”). Read all about…
Today Show and Tell (and all the other Westword blogs) rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…
