Similar to the stories of the many African-Americans who fought in WWII, the role of black cowboys and cowgirls in the American West has been largely whitewashed from history. Today this tradition has been not only unearthed, but preserved, in the Martin Luther King Jr. African-American Heritage Rodeo, taking place…
Super Dogs, in performance today and tomorrow at the National Western Stock Show, is a twenty-dog ensemble that elevates jumping and retrieving — not to mention tunnel relays and maze mastery — to completely new levels. “They have Frisbee dogs and choreograph things with music,” explains National Western spokeswoman Karen…
Better known as his drag-wearing persona Divine than as a multifaceted actor, the late Harris Glenn Milstead spent the latter half of his short but notorious career trying to prove that he was more than just a queen. That effort is chronicled in I Am Divine, a documentary showcasing Milstead’s…
Before Allen Ginsberg became the famous Beat Generation icon who founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder, he was a young poet and student at Columbia University. In Kill Your Darlings, which opens today in Boulder, Daniel Radcliffe stars as a young Ginsberg interacting with other future…
Evita, the famous story of Eva Perón, is a timeless tale about the First Lady of Argentina; it takes viewers from her life as a girl from a poor rural family through her rise as a political figure and spokeswoman for the underprivileged. Though Perón died at the age of…
Cutting-edge technology has always allowed National Geographic to take viewers deep into unreachable areas of the globe. Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D — starting its IMAX theater run today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science — goes a step further: Instead of exploring the vast expanse of…
Named for some of the most pleasant weather on the Western Slope, Banana Belt Days in Buena Vista kicks off this morning with an invitation to experience what the town has to offer, even in the colder months. “We’re typically a summer tourist town, but we have some wonderful winter…
There’s a retro bug in all of us that never tires of things from the pop culture of the past. And for some, it’s a real memory, while younger folks are simply amused by the phenomenon of how people used to live in the decades before they were born. Both…
One of the best performances of the year was from the tiny lifeboat in Captain Phillips.On Thursday, this year’s Oscar nominations will be announced, also known as national Gah! What Were Those Idiot Voters Thinking Day. We can’t wait, so in the meantime, we give you this: 1. Marvel Films…
As the winter winds chill the Denver streets, many people are breaking out their favorite cold-weather fashions. One example is Selma, a paralegal who we spotted along the 16th Street Mall wearing furry earmuffs with a business get-up. Read here to find out her favorite color, accessory, and style mantra…
Earlier this week, we reported on Frederic C. Hamilton — the oil zillionaire whose name adorns the Daniel Libeskind-designed addition to the Denver Art Museum — who announced that he will donate his collection of 22 Impressionist paintings, which he acquired over the past forty years, to the Denver Art…
Some novels take a while to get going, and some give you an immortal dwarf, a time-traveling corpse and an alchemical mystery before the end of the first chapter, as City of Lost Dreams does. The follow-up to the best-selling City of Dark Magic finds protagonist Sarah Weston in an…
Best known for his roles in the John Waters cannon of cult films, Divine had a short career highlighted by his ability to play trashy women, wayward gals, doting matrons and overzealous sex pots. While he found fame in the seedy underside of Hollywood, the actor also worked to be…
#21: Jil Cappuccio & Kirsten Coplans Long before seamstress/designer JIl Cappuccio and upcycled-clothing designer Kirsten Coplans opened their South Broadway boutique SEWN, the two handy friends found ways to market their lines as a duo — at gift markets and craft fairs and special events they threw themselves. Then the…
Yesterday, while attempting to almost kill myself while sputtering onto the ill-designed Sixth Avenue freeway entrance at Lowell Boulevard, I zipped up behind an XTerra with a bumpersticker that read “Nope.” I always laugh when I see this political statement, mostly because it, too, is ill-designed — I mean, it’s…
#22: Mario Acevedo Mario Acevedo writes evil good stories about a soldier-turned-vampire detective named Felix Gomez, who tangles with zombies and werewolves and other more “exotic” monsters in books like The Nymphos of Rocky Flats and The Undead Kama Sutra. And they’re funny! His latest project is Good Money Gone,…
The National Western Stock Show kicked right off with all four hoofs in the air on Saturday, with bronco and bull riding, mutton bustin’ and trick-riding ladies. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to capture the glory and the not-so-glorious action in the arena; a sampling follows. The National Western Stock…
On January 30, the second annual Westword Whiteout will kick off Denver’s 2014 fashion season at the McNichols Building. The evening — which raises funds for the American Transplant Association — will include live music, specialty vendors, classic cocktails and some of the city’s top designers in a signature runway…
As my friends and I approach and then swiftly pass the thirty-year mark, I must admit that all of those overused phrases like “dirty thirty” and “flirty thirty” are more troublesome to my poor ears than the horrible, cacophonous symphony my children have been creating with leftover holiday cookie tins…
For all their popularity, skiing and snowboarding can be risky sports, a point driven home by the death of skier and Vail scion Tony Seibert in an avalanche last week. According to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, four people have been caught in slides so far this season, with two,…
Mondo Guerra, fashion reality-show star and winner of the 2012 Project Runway All Stars, will host a series of viewing parties to celebrate his return to television as a fashion mentor on Lifetime’s new reality competition, Under the Gunn. Like that series, the parties will begin on January 16, when…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Retirement isn’t looking so quiet for baseball-loving Kyle Bannister, the second-career artist…
