The holiday season brings all kinds of things out of the closet, from ugly sweaters to reindeer antlers. But at the Denver Santa Speedo Dash at Highland Square, little was left to the imagination as Speedo-clad runners in Santa hats raced through sub-zero temps to benefit the Life is Better…
Nominees and friends packed into Galvanize on December 5 for the 2013 Westword Web Awards, Westword’s annual celebration of the most interesting Denverites on the Internet. With MC Jordan Doll at the helm, we handed out 21 awards across four categories, from the Best Music Video to the Best Politician…
Any time is a good time to donate to the Denver Dumb Friends League, but it’s during the cold winter months that the shelters — both animal and human — have an even greater need for support. Now through January 5, the Denver Dumb Friend League’s three locations — Quebec…
Luis Valdez, whose Christmas play La Pastorela just opened at Denver’s Su Teatro, first met Cesar Chavez when he was six, growing up among the migrant workers of Delano, California, where the United Farm Workers movement took root in the nonviolent strikes and grape boycotts of the ’60s and ’70s…
Tonight the Open Media Foundation will celebrate seven years of independent voices on Denver Open Media — which not only runs Denver’s public-access channels on Comcast, but also provides training and services for non-profits and kids. From the hundreds of nonprofits and thousands of people it works with every year,…
The instructors at the Art Students League of Denver practice what they teach, as evidenced by Revisiting: Celebrating 10 Years of the Visiting Artist Series at ASLD, a special exhibit opening this weekend. Offering art classes for every medium, the 25-year-old ASLD is a community-centric, non-profit, non-accredited art school right…
The holiday season is heating up — even if the temperature isn’t. Save your cash for a new space heater and take advantage of this weekend’s inexpensive entertainment options — from a party devoted to petting cats to a free comedy show to an even devoted to fighting bullying. And…
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…
When she tours fringe festivals around the world, Gemma Wilcox sees a lot of performances. “When I see an incredible show that blows everything else out of the water, it’s very rare,” says Wilcox. But when she finds something special, she likes to bring it to Boulder. 6 Guitars is…
“A potent combination of moisture and arctic air left significant amounts of new snow throughout the high country over the last couple of days,” reports Colorado Ski Country USA spokesman Patrick Byrne. Translation? With some Colorado ski areas getting as much as nineteen inches of snow from this week’s storm,…
Christmas — or whatever you celebrate this time of year — is not a geek holiday. Sure, the togetherness and gift-giving and eggnog drunks are great no matter if you’re a geek or not, but it still seems like the holiday should throw us some kind of bone. It doesn’t,…
Boulderites — especially those in the city’s close-knit pro-cycling community — take bikes seriously. So it goes without saying that the annual Bike Art exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts is a big draw. The national show of more than 100 works in a variety of mediums is…
Ever since it opened in a shed off Archer Street in 2003, and in the five homes it’s had since then, the Denver Zine Library has been a community space where people can see handmade publications donated from all over the world — 15,000 zines in all today. On Friday,…
Yes, we know it’s hard to think beyond the next heating vent — but New Year’s Eve is coming, and no matter how cold it is on December 31, people will be looking for where they can have a hot time. And if you’re organizing a big event on New…
In a transitory town like Denver, many new parents find themselves stationed hundreds of miles from kin — and some moms, myself included, struggle to make it through the first year, feeling isolated while experiencing postpartum depression or struggling with breastfeeding. So, if it takes a village to raise a…
The life of Russell Baze, a steelworker in a Pennsylvania town just outside of Pittsburgh, may be drab and dreary, but he’s a good, hardworking man with a loving girlfriend. His younger brother, Rodney, has it tougher: A war vet suffering from PTSD, he hasn’t been able to readjust to…
Once, in the middle of the 2004 Tour de France bicycling race, the nine-man American team, led by Lance Armstrong, pretended that their bus had broken down en route to their hotel. As fans and the international press stood outside, cheering and taking pictures, the team, hidden behind high, tinted…
The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz’s documentary Narco Cultura is staggering. A hybrid of hard investigative journalism and incisive cultural criticism, the film, at its core, is about definitions of success and power, and how today those terms are shaped by the shared forces of poverty and celebrity culture. Schwarz…
This is it: Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good-Bye is the last show at Heritage Square Music Hall — a strange venue that’s half true Western-style building, half pure Disney-level kitsch. If you’re already a fan of the 25-year-old troupe, catch this show immediately. And if you’re…
Among the offerings at Walker Fine Art is the standout Sabin Aell: Mond:See, a solo outing in the gallery’s main room. The show starts with a bang courtesy of the striking title piece, “Mond:See” (pictured), a mural that starts in the entry, then climbs the north wall and bleeds onto…
Catalyst. The beautiful grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens are the ideal place to mount an outdoor sculpture show, and over the past few years, there has been one such presentation after another. This year, the theme is contemporary sculptors in Colorado. The pieces are picturesquely sited throughout in clearings…
Jackie and Me. Jackie and Me, Steven Dietz’s dramatization of a young-adult book by Dan Gutman, is a kids’ show, and also a remarkably flat and didactic one. It tells the story of a baseball-crazed boy named Joey Stoshak, who, with the help of a magical baseball card, goes back…
