Looking fashionable while working out in comfort can be a challenge; some women want to break a sweat without resorting to sweatpants. That’s why the Boulder-based sportswear clothing brand Skirt Sports was born. Founder Nicole DeBoom, a swimmer in the 1988 Olympic Trials, was a professional triathlete from 1999 to…
Steve Rannazzisi is best known to fans for his role as the long-suffering Kevin MacArthur on FXX’s The League, but he’s also a prolific standup comedian. Touring the country regularly, Rannazzisi’s career has progressed from his humble beginnings working the door at the infamous Comedy Store in Los Angeles to performing on Conan, @Mindnight, and the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco. Westword caught up with Rannazzisi ahead of his upcoming headlining engagement at Comedy Works to discuss fantasy football fans, putting a new hour together, and why people’s passion for the ridiculous is a recipe for comedy.
Hard to believe that we’re already in the fourth weekend of the new year. Hopefully everyone is keeping up with their resolutions, but if you’re not there’s not a lot going on this weekend that will be bad for your health or hard on your finances. Lose your voice to…
Americans love their national parks. And Colorado people love, love, love Rocky Mountain National Park, a 416- square-mile expanse of towering peaks, glacial lakes, tundra, forests and meadows less than two hours’ drive from Denver. Despite being much smaller in size than Yellowstone or Yosemite, RMNP typically ranks among the…
The National Western Stock Show has been going strong for the past eleven days, drawing record crowds to catch the rodeo, peruse all the booths, see art at the Coors Western Art Show, and even do some people-watching. See also: People and Animals of the National Western Stock Show…
Matisse and Friends Denver Art Museum 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway There’s a tight and tasty little painting show in the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building right now that has really flown under the radar. I’m talking about Matisse and Friends, which closes in just a couple weeks. There are…
What would you do if you had just 36 hours in this city? “The signs of Denver’s economic high times as a pot boomtown and bastion of progressive urban policies are everywhere,” says the New York Times in the just-published “What to Do in Denver.” Although the Times doesn’t mention…
Some films are simply better on the big screen. You can certainly admire the craft of 2001: A Space Odyssey on a 22″ computer monitor and the pair of tinny speakers that came with your circa-1995 soundcard, but you’re not going to feel the impact of the movie that way…
Charles Ives Take Me Home. There are only three characters in Charles Ives Take Me Home, now receiving its regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, but you hear more than three voices. And while the plot can be explained in a few words, there are many levels of meaning within…
Mortdecai is creeping into theaters with the flushed shame of a debutante who expects to be pelted with tomatoes. It’s a pity. In 1965, Mortdecai would be the hit of the year. Director David Koepp whips through this pop-colored caper about crooked art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) — one…
William Matthews, who grew up in San Francisco, didn’t set out to be a Western artist. His first show in Denver, in the then-just-six-year-old Larimer Square, featured pastoral watercolors and poster typography. But in the early ’80s, Matthews was invited to Elko, Nevada, for a cowboy poetry gathering, and it…
The popular pop-up dinner gets reconfigured for winter, with food, drink and performance. Hosted by Longmont micro-distillery Still Cellars. Sat., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., 2015…
Old stories have been coming out of the woodwork for Winter Park’s 75th anniversary season, even as the resort takes big steps into its future, like the opening of a new 16,000-square-foot restaurant at the Lunch Rock peak of Mary Jane. But for the full time-machine effect, stop by any…
If your New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to get fatter, then Copper Mountain has just the event for you: the fourth annual WinterBike race, which sends pedal-pushers on a fifteen-mile loop through snow, ice and slush on super-sized bikes with extra-fat tires. “The fat-bike thing has turned out to…
Beat icon William S. Burroughs (Bull Lee in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road) was a queer raconteur, a heroin addict, a world traveler, and the author of such brutally honest books as Junkie, Queer and, most notably, the game-changing Naked Lunch. He famously shot his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, in…
Rocky Mountain National Park’s yearlong centennial celebration kicked off in September, but if you’re a stickler for details, today marks the park’s actual anniversary: One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill designating national-park status to the area. In celebration, the park and the nearby towns of…
There’s an ingenious moment in Wolfgang Petersen’s 1995 film Outbreak, a disease-themed thriller that follows the Ebola-like Motaba virus as it overtakes a small Northern California town, when an infected man goes to a movie theater to enjoy a flick and coughs obnoxiously around everyone. The action pauses to follow…
Few filmmakers inspire more divergent reactions than Italian horror director Dario Argento, who started off his career in the late ’60s with Hitchcock-infused masterpieces like Four Flies on Grey Velvet, The Cat o’ Nine Tails and Deep Red, and eventually descended into overdone grotesqueries like his most recent films, Dracula…
The Denver Botanic Gardens has a permanent reminder of last year’s blockbuster Chihuly exhibit: “Colorado,” a piece by artist Dale Chihuly that was made possible through funds provided by donors Robert and Judi Newman and the Kemper family, and installed a few weeks ago. And now four more Coloradans have…
Everything in this world is alive. Nature lays a path from birth to death, one that’s impossible to predict. And now the final part of Patrick Mueller’s series, Salon Romantik: CREATION (re-creation), will bring his project full circle from its previous four performances, “exploring the romantic philosophy and ramifications into…
MCA Denver director Adam Lerner has promoted the idea that Mark Mothersbaugh — co-founder of the ’70s- and ’80s-era New Wave group Devo — is much more than simply a former rock star but is actually one of the major creative forces of our time. Lerner lays out this powerful…
Podcasts are in tune with the democratized spirit of Internet media; anyone with a microphone and a computer can offer their listeners unlimited hours of recordings, usually for free. Limited only by their imaginations, podcasters have a freedom of expression unrestricted by commerce, censorship or geography. Several great podcasts have blossomed in Denver’s flourishing arts community; here to celebrate them is Podcast Profiles, a new series documenting the efforts of local podcasters and spotlighting the peculiar personalities behind them.
Whiskey & Cigarettes is a podcast about podcasts, and much funnier than that glib description would advertise. Hosted by the local brain trust behind the Comics Against Civility comedy game show, Jake Becker, Zac Maas and Jake Browne. The podcast has evolved over the years. What began as an unfocused yet booze-soaked marathon of podcast clips and quips has sharpened into a more purposeful format boasting funnier episodes and attracting some high-profile guests. Be sure to join Browne and Maas at Spruce Tap House for the fan favorites round of Comics Against Civility, this Saturday, January 24th at 7:00pm.Westword caught up with the Whiskey & Cigarettes crew to discuss how the show has changed and their favorite guests.
