Wild Wild West Colfax

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…

Denver’s Got Style!

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…

Browser game of the week: GIRP

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…

New pick-up joint: Disney on Ice the Princess Classics edition

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…

Westword‘s Best of Denver 2011 is live!

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…

Today in Stoke: Shannon Galpin brings Mountain2Mountain Afghanistan project to REI

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…

Tonight: Sprout Down benefits organic urban farming

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…

Put a mustache on your whip for the Denver Auto Show… with Carstache

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…

Twitter Tuesday: Bros, meet Chet Haze

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…

Our Commercial Culture: Jameson’s Epic Patriarch

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…

Your moment of lulz: Chinese hurdler fail… or win?

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…

Jersey Shore in Italy: Five disaster scenarios

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…

Video: Man sets world record for most grapes eaten in three minutes

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…

Ski Colorado Breast Cancer Awareness Tour raises over $20,000

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…