With suburban sprawl in every direction, it’s easy to forget that Jefferson County was a wild western frontier not all that long ago. Local author Carol Turner went looking for historical true-crime stories from the area for her new book, Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem, and found more…
When it comes to this summer’s Denver County Fair debut, Dana Cain has no doubts, but, she admits, this weekend’s inaugural Denver Style Expo, a brand-new event with a fashion-forward vision for the Denver scene, still feels like a giant step into the great unknown. But it sounds like a…
Sometimes playing games is all about punishment. If you played QWOP, you know exactly what we’re talking about there, because that game was awkward, hard to control and awful in more ways than one could count — but it was also addictive as all hell. This is relevant because GIRP…
Not that it comes as much of a surprise when it comes to the woman so possessed with Christ-loving zeal that she walked into a Loveland art museum and smashed a work of art with a crowbar, but Kathleen Folden is crazy — and in the way typical of evangelical…
So, Disney on Ice the Princess Classics edition starts its five-day jaunt in Colorado tonight with a 7 p.m. opening show at the Denver Coliseum, and we are excited. Apparently, this fancy ice show thing (that began its run all the way back in 1981) is still going strong, we…
You may not have wondered what the “Best Short Film Shot in Denver Involving a Bleeding Clown” was this year — yet — but chances are, you’re wondering now. So rejoice, pilgrim, because the time has now come to find out the answers to these and other worthless questions, in…
When Breckenridge-based mountain biker Shannon Galpin talks about her recent adventures tonight at REI, 1416 Platte Street, know that her definition of “mountain biking” is a little bit bigger than some. Take her recent trip through Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, for example: Galpin’s non-profit Mountain2Mountain project was “founded on the idea…
Old fairy tales have the potential for great movie fodder: They’re cute and quaint at first blush, but beneath the surface — especially in the originals, tend to nurse dark and disturbing undercurrents. That said, it’s a shame major movie studios have such a knack for screwing them up. In…
Ever wonder what our fair city sounds like? Not the noises-on-the-street sound, but the unofficial theme song, if you will, that perfectly encapsulates what makes Denver Denver? Now you can find out, courtesy of “You Are Listening to Denver,” a web venture that has captured the aural essence of our…
When Meg Caley realized how much public land in Denver was going unused, she chose to take action. Along with James Hale and Chad Hagedorn, Caley helped found Sprout City Farms to use these empty spaces for something productive. “We thought, why don’t we just put farms on that land…
A mustache is like the modern-day equivalent of Samson’s hair: a source of almost superhuman potency for all who wear it. (Also, both are made of hair.) That said, the fact that only men and certain particularly virile women are capable of mustache wearage puts pretty much everything else at…
The world right now is full of insurrection. In China, in Iran, in Palestine, in the Mediterranean, all across North Africa, even in Wisconsin, thousands of men and women are agitating for their rights and, as it often turns out, for their lives. In the spirit of global solidarity, the…
Whether you’re looking to buy a new car or just gawk at one, Westword has you covered. We’ve got 35 tickets to give away for the Denver Auto Show, which starts tomorrow. Expect to see the newest 2011 models, as well as sneak peaks of 2012 intros. All you autophiles…
Walking into the Denver Art Museum’s current Blink! exhibit is kind of like walking into Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory (except far less dangerous to children with slack morals): There’s just a whole lot going on, and you really have no idea what most of it is or what you’re supposed…
The Twitterverse is a vast and vacant one, a expanse muddled with one-liners, chunks of internet “wisdom” and lots of inappropriate ass-shots courtesy of certain famous people’s wives (we’re looking at you, Ice-T and Coco Austin). So, how does one go about deciding which A, B, C (and especially) D-List…
Everyone loves a hero. Add a little mystery and some suspense, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for an epic tale of valor and woe, which we all love. (If you don’t love a tale of valor and woe, you can get the hell off this planet.) The folks at…
Jumping over hurdles has always been a good metaphor for dealing with the the superfluous red tape and etiquette of bureaucracy — putting the flip-mode on that metaphor, then, we might say that an actual hurdle race is kind of like communism. And we all know that’s not the American…
Denver is finally starting to show signs of spring, which means one thing: We need a variety of media that simulates real outdoor activities so we don’t actually have to leave the house at any point. Thankfully, Tiger Woods is still somehow a spokesman for a golf game, some new…
The Jersey Shore’s third season just wrapped up, and the crew is headed to Italy. In a statement last January, MTV announced that the show’s fourth season will be shot in “the birthplace of the culture [the cast members] love and live by” — a questionable decision, given that the…
Every ski resort in Colorado got hit with snow from Sunday’s storm, good news for the Spring Break set and anybody looking to get some last days in before the season’s over, and even better news for the local economy: All that white stuff equals lots of green stuff for…
Deepak Sharma Bajagain broke two Guinness World Records on Saturday, March 26, at the Community College of Aurora as part of the Work for Children Food Campaign 2011 hosted by the Global Lynx Foundation and Nepal Tourism Campaign: One for the Most Envelopes Torn in half in Thirty seconds, and…
On March 13, Colorado natives Mackenzie Bell, Page Kelley, Jeremy Rubingh, Allie Shafner, Alison Friedman and Laura Yale loaded a pink RV with their gear, a set of fake boobs and breast cancer information, and headed for Steamboat with the goal of skiing every Colorado resort for free in eight…
