Last year’s inaugural Bring It On Bowling Ball was a rousing success, but Denver’s high-flying Flobots think the event, a fundraiser for youth-directed Art to Action programs sponsored by the band’s non-profit Flobots.org, is going to be even better this year. The Flobots will take on Rise Against at the…
You’ve got to hand it to the Insane Clown Posse: These guys have a tie-in for everything — which made Juggalo-themed wrestling pretty much an inevitability. “Yeah, it’s pretty Juggalo, a little white trash,” says Andrew Ranes of Casselman’s, the venue that’s hosting Primo’s Hardcore Wrestling Karnival. “This one should…
Run this 5K as if you were the kid being chased by a monster in a horror movie, because the first-place prize at the Scream Scram is a round-trip ticket on Southwest Airlines, and plenty of other little terrors will be after you. “Every Saturday morning in Denver you can…
Most people think of Halloween as a time to wear silly, scary or unnecessarily revealing (or all three) costumes and stuff themselves with candy. That might be the mainstream approach — but pagans celebrate the holiday as Samhain, a day that marks the end of the old year and the…
The Golden Cemetery Tours have risen from the dead. “A lot of people have asked about them,” says Christina Vandoloski, spokeswoman for the Golden History Center, which produced the tours before they went on hiatus a few years ago. “We did a member survey, and they wanted to know where…
If you’re the type who spends the weekend covered in fake blood, parading in front of a camera, then the inaugural Mile High Horror Film Festival is your cup of goo. The two-day festival will overflow with local, national and international indie-horror flicks, everything from student films and animation to…
The 42nd annual MileHiCon should be an out-of-this-world draw for geeks of all shapes and sizes, everyone from costumed fans to Hugo Award-winning authors. Denver’s science-fiction literary convention spans three days and features over a hundred events, and traditionally attracts at least a thousand people each year. More than eighty…
Usually when we talk about getting sauced, we’re referring to those drunken nights of debauchery that slur our speech and make our heads whirl. But when EatDenver and the 9Health Fair team up for A Saucey Affair, the small plates and sauce showdown that starts simmering at 6 p.m. tonight…
In an effort to showcase the broad character of Denver’s diverse populace, Westword’s own Ben Dayton is doing random interviews with random Denver residents about random topics, randomly. Today he interrupted Jeremiah Michael Attridge, on a break from his work as a Labor Specialist with the Colorado Department of Labor,…
It’s nothing new for tabloids to harp on the sad, messy lives of celebrities with rumor, conjecture and semi-credible sources, but generally the proceedings stay within the lines of who wore what scandalous bikini or who’s getting a divorce from whom and cheating with another, or whatever. Less common is…
The Parents Television Council has got it out for Fox. It makes sense: The PTC is made up of easily offended people hiding their fear of seeing their values system challenged behind their children. Fox, from its “news” to its entertainment, has been since day one the sleaziest name in…
Artist Eric Drooker’s existentially spooky urban drawings and paintings often adorn the cover of The New Yorker or the pages of such graphic novels as Bloodsong and Illuminated Poems, the latter a collaboration with the late poet Allen Ginsberg, then a fellow denizen of New York’s Lower East Side. It…
Last night at Buntport Theater was a lot like that Phil Collins song where he watches that guy drown: I’d been waiting for this moment for all my life. The tension in the air like balloon static. The smell of sweat. The smell of tears. The smell, verily, of the…
Look, we’re just as sick of zombie games as you are, which means they really need to step it up a notch to impress us. Thankfully, Road of the Dead does just that. It also has the benefit of playing exactly like the Super Nintendo game Outlander, which for whatever…
We caught Never Summer’s new Made In America video at Snowboard On the Rocks in September, but in case you missed it we’ve got the full 30-minute video after the jump in all its HD local pride glory…
You can’t escape your family. No matter how old and weak they get, no matter how far you run, they will always be there to humiliate you with their bizarre habits and their documentation of your participation in them. Now, happily for everyone but you, the internetz are here to…
Landmark Theatres, which is known in Denver for its unusual or historic movie houses and its lineup of arty, foreign and independent flicks, said Tuesday that is has purchased the AMC Olde Town 14, a fifteen-year-old mainstream multiplex in Arvada. The addition of the Old Town 14 – effective this…
Since time immemorial, Halloween has represented a way for us to shed our normal day-to-day selves and try on a new identity. Interestingly, though, in that quest to embody something new, we seem to opt most often to imitate only the slutty members of the professions we take on –…
We’re inside two weeks until Halloween. Have you been to any haunted attractions yet? No? Well here’s a preview of the Field of Corpses in Arvada, shot by resident haunted house fanatic Aaron Thackeray. We’re going to nail a contest to the bloody corpse of this blog post…
If there’s one thing you can say for Dancing with the Stars, besides that it’s easily the campiest show in prime-time, it’s that the show has an excellent track record of showcasing Republicans being voluntarily ridiculous. Why, it was just last year that Tom DeLay was onstage looking like a…
We can all feel comfortable calling Mark Amerika, the artist pioneer in new media technology, at least half-Coloradan, since he lives in Boulder (a separate republic, perhaps, but Colorado all the same) half of the time. And we can all cheer for him as a local when Amerika’s latest ground-breaking…
The legend has it that some guy named Barrington had a nephew who was a bad gambler, his debts causing him freak out when his uncle refused to help him. So he boarded up the exits of The Barrington Hotel during the annual Hallow’s Eve Ball and set fire to…
