Carrie MaKenna has been hosting a holiday “feast of the arts” at her studio, Anam Cara Living Arts Studio & Gallery, for the past four years. But the fifth edition will include something new: a Purple Friday sales special. “All of the hoopla about Black Friday and getting up at…
If you’ve worn out your I Love Toy Trains DVDs and are ready to take the next step into toy-train obsession, the place to do it is the Rocky Mountain Toy Train Show. “There’s something for every level — even people who just want to come for some entertainment value…
For some Denver families, the day after Thanksgiving means hitting the malls (or your local boutique) for holiday gifts and deals, or maybe catching a movie. But others head religiously to the Rocky Mountain Auto Show, a three-day, hot-metal extravaganza showcasing the cherriest hot rods, customized sports cars, detailed motorcycles…
Whether through his walking tours of Capitol Hill or his numerous books on Denver history, if you’ve lived in the city for any period of time, you’ve no doubt encountered the name Phil Goodstein. And now the fourth-generation native has once again proved that his curiosity has no bounds, releasing…
Since longtime Denver artist Bill Amundson returned to his home town of Stoughton, Wisconsin, two years ago — something he refers to as his “exile here in the cheese gulag” — he’s had plenty of time to work, an essential step in rendering the large, highly detailed pencil drawings he’s…
If you recently had a close encounter with the howling demon known as Hurricane Sandy, you might have a renewed belief in global warming. If not, consider yourself lucky, then see Chasing Ice, director Jeff Orlowski’s beautiful yet sobering documentary about the world’s rapidly melting ice caps. His guide is…
With the holiday season ahead, many people will be dressing for comfort — the better to accommodate the mass quantities of food they’ll consume. For proof that it is possible to dress comfortably and be fashionable at the same time, look no further than to Grand Junction native and cosmetologist…
Forget Thanksgiving: For many people, the official holiday is Thanksgiving Eve — one of the busiest days of the year for partying. Many bars will be offering parties, but you have other, more sober options, including several fundraisers for worthy causes. And no matter what you wind up doing tomorrow,…
Update: Congratulations to playergeek! Your favorite movie has helped you win twenty tickets to Hollywood Theaters. Original post: We’ll cut to the chase: Movies are one of this planet’s greatest pleasures, and there’s nothing quite like going to see a film at a real theater. Show and Tell would like…
Tonya Carter loves living in Colorado. In fact, she loves it so much that she was inspired to write her own version of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” — celebrating all the “amazing outside activities,” she says. In fact, Colorado has so many amazing activities that “the song was not…
We’re not going to reiterate the horrors of Black Friday here.There’s a reason why it’s called “black,” and that is because it sucks, for all the wrong, fucked-up, uncheerful reasons. So we’ll just say this: Start loving your neighbor, and your neighborhhood, by shopping local instead. It’s so easy to…
When you think cool, you probably don’t think of toy trains. Indeed, you probably picture the toy-train enthusiast as a portly, avuncular loner with way too much knowledge of railroad history and an even greater willingness to share that knowledge with anyone who will sit still long enough for him…
No kidding around: Show and Tell is giving away tickets to shows at both Comedy Works — and all you have to do to be eligible to win is tell us a joke. A number of readers already have. Our current favorite comes from Jeff: Broncos are 9-2 Superbowl favorites…
Update: Congratulations to Lee Shuck, Kate Honas and Linoleum Blownaparte! You have each won tickets to Comedy Works. Stay tuned to your Facebook inbox for more information on how to claim them. Original post: Let it be known that Denver has an unfair, absolutely rib-cracking wealth of comedy opportunities –…
These days, it seems like the only things that come in the mail are coupons and bills. Jared and Rachel Rippy want to change that by creating pieces of art that are intended for the mail. Through their new business, Postscript, the husband-and-wife team create letterpress postcards with graphic art…
There is no official handbook for being a writer. Technically, anyone can be a writer (although when I hear people say that anyone can be a writer, I feel just how I imagine artists feel about those suburban painting ‘n’ wine places where bachelorette parties get drunk and make art…
When you open your Instagram feed, do you see hundreds of brunch photos and duck faces? If so, you’re doing it wrong. Every year, Westword adapts its Denver Web Awards to incorporate rising digital trends, and our most exciting addition this year was the category of Best Instagram Account –…
Charming author, cultural philosopher, satirist and NPR commentator David Sedaris talks pretty to sellout audiences year after year in Denver, filling auditoriums with unabashed cultists who simply love the little, wise man to death. Early next year, he’s trying something different: Sedaris will play Denver for a series of eight…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones’s Further was the most highly anticipated snowboard film of the season — and it lived up to the hype. “This film is inspiring people to get out there and do something big,” Jones told us last month. “That’s really a cool thing.” See also:…
Richard Melnick was diagnosed with cancer a dozen years ago. While fighting a life-threatening illness and facing what could have been a premature death sentence, though, he discovered a new way of viewing the world. One of the subjects he often pondered while in medical limbo was parenting, which he…
Over the past two years, Kevin O’Brien’s weekly comedy event, Arguments and Grievances, has showcased some of Denver’s finest comedic talent in a setting designed for maximum hysteria and controversy. Taking the the age-old format of binary debate performance, O’Brien hosts an evening of hilarious bickering over arbitrary topics like…
As we promised in our recent cover story, it was on like Donkey Kong at the 1UP in LoDo this weekend. More than three decades after the beloved arcade game brought barrels into the mainstream, twelve of the world’s top players duked it out against high-scoring wildcard gamers at Denver’s…
