Jef Otte wrote “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood” as a celebration of his own neighborhood — one that counts several other Westword writers as residents. Some of their neighbors appreciated Otte’s ode; others did not. Denver School Board member Andrea Merida is just the latest to…
Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a season pass? The $699 early-season price on the Vail Resorts’…
An event means business when you walk in and are asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that you accept the risks of using toxic substances. About forty people accepted those risks last night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Graffiti and Martinis and congregated in the purposely industrial-looking upstairs…
So many choices for music, dance or art this weekend. But if you’re in the mood for aerial performances, archetypal paintings, ecstatic dancers, light shows, electronica, fire spinning, spoken word, custom wearable art, vibration adjustments and energy activations — all in support of a good cause, mind you — there’s…
Welp, they finally did it: The three previous installments of the glittering, love-declaring, torn-between-two-monster-lovers Twilight series have basically been one massive buildup to the moment when Edward gives Bella the vamp-boner, and today it finally happened. Luckily, that carnal union is sanctified by the Lord. Which is a little weird,…
Last night’s “All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event ” at Rackhouse Pub, sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, was a pretty raucous time, and I definitely debunked the myths that geeks can’t drink, party, be hot or win things. The evening didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted –…
The buy-local, DIY holiday craft market season is on: Get your foot in the door this weekend when the Sugar Plum Bazaar, featuring about forty spot-on, homegrown vendors, opens for business from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the elegant Parkside Mansion…
Did you have a journal as a teenager? Did you use it to chronicle all the horrible things adults made you do and how cute you found that certain student who used to sit next to you in Chemistry? Was it full of angst? Mine was, and so was Megan…
Master abstract expressionist Clyfford Still had no connection to Colorado during his life, but in death, the museum that is dedicated to him will have a daily connection to Denver. The Clyfford Still Museum opens today at 10 a.m. at 1250 Bannock Street, and it promises to bring a whole…
If you spent the wee hours of your morning taking in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, you embarked on the strangest sort of cultural safari. On the way, you saw beautiful things (women discussing gender stereotypes while comparing their Jacob keychains) and you saw terrible, terrible things: At one point,…
Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple’s iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for…
Whether you want to see campy drag, high-brow art openings, or get down at a feminist dance party, we’ve got you covered this weekend. And it won’t break your bank. Everything on this list won’t cost you more than ten bucks, leaving you more cash to save up for the…
Erik Vienneau, the mastermind behind the popular summer series Yoga Rocks the Park, doesn’t confine his downward-dog activities to sunny summer days. Tonight is the launch of the second year of his Friday Night Yoga Club; we caught up with Vienneau to talk about what’s new this year, how he…
Uh-ode! Some readers didn’t appreciate Jef Otte’s “O, Barnum! And ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood,” which was intended as a love letter, but Don saw as hate mail: Hey Pendejo, It’s obvious that you are missing something here. I never had a cockroach in my house ever. If you…
Good news, everyone! If you love Futurama and beer, then you should check out “All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event” at Rackhouse Pub tonight at 8 p.m. Sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, this pub quiz will involve teams competing (showing off) with each other to answer trivia questions…
Sublime’s “Santeria” is playing over the speakers at Fallen Owl Tattoo when owner and artist Adam Rose introduces himself, his shop and his mission: “We’re a solid old-school shop, and we have old-school values. We’re very focused on the children.” In the flier for the West Colfax studio’s latest project,…
Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey’s most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, “Hoodoo is not Voodoo.” Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavender,…
Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we’re loosely dubbing “arts,” which means Westword scribes report on the happenings in these beats, right here on Show and Tell. (And no, Westword writers were not eligible for these awards.) These are the winners only; for a…
If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday’s grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain and several key events, including two World Cup races in…
Everyone has a story to tell, including Matthew Taylor. Once one-third of the local comedy trio A.C.E. (shorthand for American, Canadian and Englishman — you do the math), he lost his job when ensemble partners Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein hit it big with their performance piece, Girls Only. Which…
Patti Cramer passed away just over a year ago, shortly after she left the town where she’d lived forty years, collecting hundreds of fans in the process. But her art lives on. And at Westword, where Cramer worked for several years and then continued as a contributor for decades more,…
Denver Art Museum design curator Darrin Alfred relished the opportunity to reinstall the museum’s architecture and design galleries: It represented a changing of the guard for him and a chance to cast a fresh spotlight on all the collection had to offer. The resulting spread, What Is Modern?, currently on…
