Being that the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building kind of looks like a gigantic DeLorean collided with the landscape of Tron, it’s saying something that Larry Green’s shoes came pretty close to upstaging it. In today’s edition of Street Fashion, wherein we talk to random people on the street whose…
It may be that the powers-that-be of Civic Center Park have Denver Big Air, which starts tomorrow, locked down tighter than a low-income high school, but that’s not going to stop the determined winter sports enthusiast from seeing it for free. It is, after all, an enormous ramp in a…
The NHL has commissioned Spiderman creator and general comic book legend Stan Lee to create a superhero squad based on every team in the league. They’ve been rolling them out for a while now, and the Avs got their hero over the weekend. He’s there on the right. His powers…
She’s not the first long-lost celebrity relative to come randomly out of the woodwork, but where most of them are deadbeat dads or biological mothers seeking a coattail-riding boost to gaudy tabloid fame, Oprah’s newly found sister seems, like everything in Oprah’s crazy, made-for-TV life story, to be legit. And…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. While it…
This week the Snowsports Industries of America (SIA) Snow Show is coming to the Colorado Convention Center, where all the major ski and snowboard companies will show off their latest innovations for the 2011/2012 winter season. Here’s one we’d like to see on the showroom floor: The one-off Signal Snowboards…
By all accounts, the first installment of the Colorado Music Gear Swap Meet at Cervantes yesterday was a success. The two-level venue was buzzing with activity through most of the afternoon as vendors and gearheads alike made conversation, purchases and trades of everything from keytars to sitars. Vendors included well…
Antonín Dvořák had strong misgivings about making the long journey from his native Bohemia to the United States. “America is full of Indians and wild animals,” the Czech composer declared in 1892, after the prestigious National Conservatory of Music offered him a teaching post in New York City. Despite his…
There are a number of so-called “drinking” holidays that roll around once a year — St. Patrick’s Day, Fat Tuesday, Black History Month — but those, as you once heard a bartender say and now like to pretend like you came up with it yourself, are like “amateur night.” Those…
If you read Westword with any regularity, you will know that we’ve got a boner for compiling “best of” lists. It’s a win-win situation. It’s our job to keep up on this stuff, so they’re easy for us to put together; you have a real job and not enough time…
Keeping in line with Camel’s historically “urbane” branding strategy, the tobacco company has for the last few months been pushing a series of specially branded cigarette packs commemorating select cities known for their cool: Austin and Seattle, for example, have been highlighted. And while those cities have well known reputations…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado opens for public viewing today at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his…
To any successful movie trailer, there’s an element of balance: The trailer must convey enough of the content — characters, storyline, tone — of the movie to let us know what we’re getting into while simultaneously withholding enough to hook us. In that way, the trailer for The Company Men…
Ah, mid-January, the time when random miniature snowstorms or below-freezing days can make or break your weekend plans. It’s a trying time of year for people, with cabin fever causing even the most hermit-like among us to try and make it out into the real world. Thankfully, there is plenty…
Cathy Cruz Marrero, the Pennsylvania woman now famous for starring in a viral video — wherein she falls into a fountain at the Berkshire Mall while texting — appeared on Good Morning America with her attorney, James Polyak, yesterday. Marrero and pal Polyak are currently pursuing a possible lawsuit against,…
Time to graduate from Fabio-embossed bodice-rippers and your dog-eared library copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover: Join your fellow Denverites as they whip out their favorite dirty reads when the Center for Sex Positive Culture joins forces with Smitten Kitten (70 Broadway) to host their first Erotic Spoken Word night, tonight…
Next week we have the Denver Big Air competitions, the entire snowsports industry in town for the SIA Snow Show and Winter X Games 15 at Buttermilk. But first, this weekend. Here’s this week’s frozen five: 1. Breck yo’ ass! There’s not really anything specific going on at Breckenridge this…
As every hipster twenty-something in Denver knows, our fair city has been sadly inferior to other mid- to large-sized cities over the years in at least one key area: We lack an IKEA. The Swedish impresario corporation of ready-to-assemble furniture that is both stylish and cheap, IKEA is a destination…
Using the works of Stephen Batura as inspiration, perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz will combine sight and scent for a live audience tonight at Sense BMoCA, where she will mix up new perfumes on the spot toward the end of answering one of life’s most persistent questions: What does this art…
In the final minute of last night’s Nuggets win over the visiting Thunder, Rocky the Mountain Lion was trying, again, to drain a half-court shot while facing the opposite hoop. He’d been doing it for two full time-outs and hit rim twice. A stunt, like everything else he does, except…
When you sit down to play a game of Monopoly or Scrabble or whatever, you probably don’t think much about how the game is a system of rules and balances initially figured out by one or two people. Those rules, combined with the social experience, are what Nate Hayden is…
We’ve taken admiring notice before of the local knitting fiends, such as the Ladies Fancywork Society, who are brightening up our cityscape with tags of public art and that burst of wildflowers along the tedious fencing of the Union Station project. Now the mayhem has extended to sculptor George Carlson’s…
