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…
Save your money for Black Friday — you don’t need to open your wallet over the next few days in order to keep yourself entertained before the tryptophan coma. See a comedy show, attend a reindeer petting zoo, and relax with yoga — without spending a dime! For a full…
Even though it’s not that nippy, the skate must go on at Belmar today, where the shopping center rink will open for the season with a toy drive for Cops Fighting Cancer. Bring a new toy to donate, and you’ll hit the ice for free; without a contribution, skate for…
The Man in Black is gone from 13th Avenue. So is Bender’s, replaced by Jerry Garcia (albeit a defaced Deadhead) and Quixote’s True Blue, which opened on Thursday in its new home. And what’s the moral of this messy mural story? See also: – Quixote’s True Blue: The new Jerry…
Nearly a dozen of Colorado’s coolest local ski and snowboard companies are banding together for the 2nd annual Colorado Demo Days event this weekend at Copper Mountain, a showcase of locally-made planks. “We have such an awesome snowsports industry right here in Colorado, and supporting local brands supports both the…
Every year, Westword honors the best and brightest minds in the city’s digital culture with the Denver Web Awards — and every year, we add categories to those awards as the digital landscape changes. This year, our biggest new addition had to be Best Instagram Account, for which the competition…
Though the message surrounding the holidays is always to buy buy buy, you can buck the trend and give your wallet a break this weekend with these bargain events. Visit the zoo, see a campy turkey-themed horror movie, and learn how to better your air guitar technique — all for…
We came. We saw. We tweeted. Last night, Westword hosted the third annual Denver Web Awards, our celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. In September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects, and a team at Westword spent more than a month…
It’s a busy Third Friday in D-town, particularly at the Laundry on Lawrence, where eleven artists came together in “an exploration of soft materials.” Not surprisingly, the concept takes many directions in a variety of mediums, with both individual and collaborative results. See also: – Artist Theresa Anderson explains how…
“I started filming in Vail before there were any lifts,” remembers Gypsum-based filmmaker Roger Cotton Brown, who was the principal cinematographer at Vail from 1962, when the resort opened, until 1989 and has continued filming skiing and snowboarding in the Vail Valley and around Colorado ever since. “I first went…
For the past month Westword has been profiling the winners of the 2012 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts. Since 1986 these awards have honored creative individuals and organizations that make artful impact in the community — but this year they were split into three new categories: Youth Arts,…
At the recent R-Squared: Risk and Reward conference held in Telluride, Cengage Learning offered a $5,000 reward for the library/librarian that came up with the most innovative way to engage the library’s customers. Basically, how to make libraries cool again. Joseph Sanchez, an employee of the Auraria Library, came up…
The Denver Film Society, which moved from its longtime home on the Auraria campus to the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax in 2010 will rename the complex in honor of Anna and John J. Sie, whose foundation just donated $2.5 million to the organization. The money — which consists of a $1.5 million…
Before forming LadyFace with friends Melanie Karnopp, Kristin Rand, Timmi Lasley and Mara Wiles, Chella Negro had never done comedy. The musician had clocked thousands of hours on stage as a singer-songwriter, though, and after hanging around the comedy crowd and hosting Denver’s Ladies Laugh-In stand-up night, she was ready…
To mark the transition of the former Bender’s space to the new home of Quixote’s True Blue, which opens tonight, the Johnny Cash mural on the eastern wall was replaced with one of Jerry Garcia — which was then painted over while the artist came up with a replacement Garcia,…
It’s fitting for the small Abecedarian Gallery to end the year with an exhibition of small-scale art. All the two- and three-dimensional works in the Modest in Scale show are twelve inches or smaller in every dimension. “It’s a great show to have right before Christmas because people are out…
Has the calm before the edible storm that is Thanksgiving got you down in the dumps? Revolution Circus, a huge compendium of bands, freaks, sideshow acts, burlesque girls, body painters, acrobats, tatto artists, belly dancers, hoopers and other circusy things will take over City Hall for a many-leveled, single night…
