Although the band is based in Los Angeles, the Airborne Toxic Event has a special place in its heart for Denver. “On our first tour, we played a sold-out show for 1,600 people at the Ogden, and the night before, we were in Salt Lake City and played for 200,”…
Although classical guitarist Eliot Fisk and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell have known each other since they first met in Germany nearly 25 years ago, they’ve never performed together — until now. After both do a solo set tonight at DU’s Newman Center, they’ll join forces for a third. Fisk and…
In less than a week now, the scaffolding will be erected and the snow packed onto the 101-foot ramp that’s been going up for the last week or so in Civic Center Park, allowing a generous handful of world-class skiers and snowboarders to launch themselves to preposterous heights in the…
IFC’s new show Portlandia is basically a hipster SNL. It stars Fred Armisen (of, uh, SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (aka the Jesus Christ of Portland hip). The first episode premieres Friday, but you can watch it now on Hulu. In it, jokes are made about organic chicken and radical feminist…
To a greater extent than is the case with most authors, Edgar Allan Poe’s life story lived up to his writing. Always infused with suspense, paranoia and creeping insanity, Poe’s stories and poetry belied his troubled existence, which included marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin and meeting his demise a delirious madman,…
At its purest, style is not about adornment but expression. It appropriates what’s au courant and fits it to suit the individual, not the other way around. For lack of a better term, it’s genuine swag. To Leo Barth, who smirkingly combined dark jeans and a striped hoodie with loud…
While the majority of programs at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are family-friendly, The Science Lounge is strictly 21-plus only — meaning you get to drink beer while looking at old, dead stuff. But the monthly program aimed a mature audience is more than just an after-hours wander…
The red herring is the best logical fallacy — are they catching on to you? Throw something unrelated out there to distract them and act like it’s germane to the topic in some way. Not only is it an effective argument tool, it can also be hilariously random — and…
First off, let’s get one thing out the way: Fotonica requires you to download the Unity player, so if you’re on some super-locked down computer at work, IT will probably bust your head open if you try. For the rest of us, Fotonica is an interesting take on the one-button…
Today’s stoke comes to us via our ever-watchful friends at YoBeat (tagline: “Making fun of snowboarding since 1997”). Director Jim Mangan’s short film Winter’s Children: Naked Ambition features vintage snowboards, woven Native American blankets, and a noticeable dearth of winter clothing (or any clothing at all) on the seven featured…
It’s about time. Yesterday, the illustrious Emilio Estevez announced that he and his father, Martin Sheen, are working on a joint memoir; it’s called Along the Way, and they’re looking to release it on Father’s Day 2012. Now, we don’t necessarily care all that much about Martin Sheen, but we’ve…
Evalyn Walsh McLean was famous for the blowouts she threw on short notice at the Brown Palace for Denver’s society swells — ice elephants filled with caviar, Bollinger ’26, dance bands, the works. But in the depths of the Depression she took the Hope diamond to pawnshops to try to…
Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for the second time in a row this year — looks like, as predicted by Gervais himself, he won’t make it a third next year. Gervais has never been one to hold a punch, but which monologue hit the hardest? Below, we’ve included video…
When Westword staff writer Melanie Asmar called out the announcer and rodeo clown at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo yesterday for using Brokeback Mountain references to make gay jokes (personally, I’m more offended they haven’t updated their material since 2005), causing the NWSS to promise never to do it…
An overflow of bodies was spilling out onto the street of 609 East 13th Avenue on Saturday, toasting the night in celebration of the opening of the long awaited Landmark: Electric Ghost Tattooing. The co-op is a venture put together by four colleagues of the Denver tattoo scene, whose combined…
On these vast internets, there’s perhaps no concept more prevalent than the fail, and for good reason: The well known “pwnge” formula states that fail + evidence of fail = lulz. And lulz are desirable. Sounds simple, but that very formula has also given rise to a bizarre and ironic…
January used to be a time when new releases would wane a bit, giving people’s pocketbooks a break for month. Then someone in the marketing department realized that gift cards were a popular Christmas gift for estranged family members, and suddenly January became the time when we all get bombarded…
There are more bears than cougars in Aspen this week, as my fiancée and I noticed when we rolled into town last night, and more rainbow flags than usual, too. That would be because it’s the 34th annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and this year’s theme is “Wild Wild West,”…
Last month, we told you about how Adam Cayton-Holland, former Westworder and current emcee of Geeks Who Drink’s Geek Bowl 2011, was heating up the animosity between the six cities going head-to-head in the trivia competition by making a series of shit-talking videos. Now, like the slow kid who awkwardly…
Colorado has a rich history in ceramics going back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but it was in the period from the 1950s to the 1990s that the ceramics scene here really hit its stride, with masters of the medium Nan and Jim McKinnell, Betty Woodman and…
Joan Moment and Monroe Hodder. Though Joan Moment has spent the past four decades in California, she began her art career right here in Colorado in the late ’60s when she was a graduate student at the University of Colorado in Boulder. That makes it easy to associate her work…
Taking in Enemies of the People is a little like watching a Cambodian Shoah, if we had access to the director’s methods and motivations instead of just the astonishing results. Chronicling his ongoing project to track down and document those responsible for the Khmer Rouge’s late-’70s reign of terror, co-director…
