As a willing participant at Friday night’s My Teenage Angst on-stage diary-reading event, I had some pre-show fears: What if my entries weren’t as funny as I remembered them being? What if other people’s entries weren’t funny? What if the whole thing fell apart because someone unintentionally read from a…
After the first episode of Project Runway All Stars, my head was reeling from all the changes that Lifetime had made to the basic Project Runway model (as well as from all the fun everyone was having at the viewing party with Mondo Guerra at Beauty Bar, the first in…
Update, 4:15 p.m.: We’ve picked a winner! Check your e-mail to see if you’ve won! Thanks for playing and reading Westword. It’s layers of pop culture imagery piled on top of one another like sports announcers piling on Tim Tebow — and you know you want it. To commemorate Tebow’s…
The main event of the week-long Ullr Fest in Breckenridge was at 4:30 p.m. yesterday, Thursday, January 12, 2012, when everyone in Breckenridge put on their horns for the annual Ullr Fest Parade, which started at the intersection of Main Street and Wellington Street. Ullr Fest continues through Saturday, January…
The point of iWorld, which opened this week at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, is pretty much contained in the title: We do live in an iWorld of our own making, and it’s changing the face of the photographic image with its new level of immediacy — instant gratification, if…
Get to steppin’! The 3rd annual Estes Park Winter Festival opens tonight with a free “Ceilidh” Irish barn dance and runs through Monday at the Fairgrounds at Stanley Park, with a CandyLand Ice Castle for kids and family-friendly events including ice skating, ice bowling, horse and carriage rides, a town-wide…
For the third year running, burlesque queen Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is hosting the Too Sexy for the Stock Show burlesque extravaganza to provide a counterbalance to all that good, clean, wholesome fun. Photographer Emily Driskill brought back these photos from the January 11 show at Bar Standard…
Don’t let the fact that this is Friday the 13th get you down. Besides all the axe murders that are bound to occur, this weekend also promises more than a few entertainment options that will keep you from going broke before you’re hacked to bits by a psycho-killer. While the…
Artists will paint on almost anything for charity: skateboards, vinyl toys, cat statues, guitars — you name it. Now an ever-growing slice of locals are contributing hand-painted bowling pins for the Wish for Wheels Bowling Pin Art Charity Show, a one-night affair on Saturday, January 14, from 8 to 11:30…
The Terminal Kings project is painting the town — or at least some massive murals destined for Denver International Airport — this week, with City Hall, 1144 Broadway, turned into a massive gallery through January 21. The fact that the three lead artists, all billed as “world-class,” are from out…
The 22,000 acres of new ski terrain open at Silverton Mountain last season thanks to its new Heli Board/Heli Ski operation was a no-brainer for our Best New Ski Terrain award in Westword’s 2011 Best of Denver guide, and the heli drops, starting at $159 per run, remain one of…
Deep in the bowels of the Denver Performing Arts Complex lies the mysterious little Jones Theatre, which sits on the backside of the complex like an afterthought. But what goes on in there? For one, there’s Cult Following, a monthly improv-based (but not exactly) performance serial with this motto: “Theater…
Tattoos are often associated with Lowbrow counter-culture art movements, but it’s more common now, especially in Denver, to see tattoo and fine art collide. Zach Custer, co-owner of Anthology Fine Art, a frame shop, photographer’s studio and fine art gallery on Santa Fe, explains that the fine art of tattooing…
Boulder-based filmmaker Nick Waggoner’s Sweetgrass Productions film Solitaire — documenting two years exploring South American backcountry terrain on a human-powered trek around Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia — was the year’s most surprising ski film, winning the Best Cinematography award at the IF3 International Ski Film Festival and earning Waggoner…
Though we don’t often give it much thought, art has been locked in a love-clutch with science since the first caveman picked up a cinder and used it to draw on a wall. And while a lot of that has to do with things like chemical reactions, makeup of mediums…
Terminal Kings is taking off at City Hall, where three world-class street artists — Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff — are creating giant murals that will be displayed at Denver International Airport over the next five years, as the South Terminal project gets under way. Over the next ten…
Remember when life was so hard that you had time to write about every waking moment of it in your journal? Megan Nyce does, and she wants you to relive those embarrassingly awesome middle- and high-school memories with her, on stage, in front of strangers. At tonight’s installment of My…
January is National Oatmeal Month, and the town of Lafayette goes whole hog for the whole grain. Now in its sixteenth year, the Lafayette Quaker Oatmeal Festival will serve up a community breakfast at 7:30 a.m. today at Pioneer Elementary, 101 East Baseline Road. The festival served 165 gallons of…
What’s better than celebrating Festivus? Celebrating Festivus with four consecutive days of indie films — and getting lubed on bourbon while you’re doing it. Among the highlights of the fifth annual Festivus Film Festival is the world premiere of the Dante’s Inferno-inspired horror film Lilith, along with a Q&A session…
“A third of all cowboys were black,” says Nickolas Ridley, curator for the Black American West Museum in Denver. “And a black cowboy, Bill Pickett, actually taught Roy Rogers how to do rope work.” But at the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. African American Heritage Rodeo of Champions, taking place…
As if the Republican primaries leading up to this year’s presidential election weren’t quite farcical enough, longtime Westword contributor and cultural critic Jason Heller has ripped William Howard Taft from the last day of his presidency in 1913 and sent him Rip Van Winkling headlong into the 21st century in…
In the spirit of Grease, High School Musical, Glee and, well, Bring It On the movie, it was only a matter of time before someone staged a musical about cheerleaders. The feel-good, high-energy tone of the film translates perfectly to Bring It On: The Musical, a show put together by…
