It’s been a weird week for Colorado’s favorite prodigal daughter. On Saturday, in possibly the most depressing reconciliation ever to take place, Heidi Montag made up with until-recently estranged husband Spencer Pratt after — get this — the two were detained for twelve hours by Costa Rican authorities after two…
Denver’s got its share of gate-crashing marching bands — something I’ve always said you can’t have enough of — but, hey, even flash-mobbing avant percussionists and electronic troublemakers wearing sombreros with Christmas lights have to eat. Scott Banning of the itchy-O Marching Band writes persuasively about that need:…
We know the deal: You’re looking for ways to waste time at work, and we’re here to help you waste it. Hence, Browser game of the week, where we’ll comb the depths of the Flash game vortex and pick different games for you to waste away your Wednesday with. We’ll…
In the past decade, Ken Arkind has seen the Denver poetry scene morph and evolve. A fixture in the local scene for a decade, Arkind has made multiple trips to national competitions across the country, bearing the banner of Denver poets from the Mercury Cafe and earning a title spot…
You can’t judge a book by its cover, they say, but most people do. Because this is America, by God, and there has got to be a better way to judge a book than to actually read it. That’s why we’re bringing you One-Chapter Book Reviews, where we’ll pick one…
Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, in honor of the San Luis Obispo Police Department’s ridiculous press release warning parents about…
Nick Bantock is charming and soft-spoken, hardly and at the same time every bit the superstar that he’s become, all because of the unique little idea he had twenty years ago for a book that’s also a collagist’s romantic assemblage containing pull-out letters and postcards, all loaded neatly between two…
If you need more proof than just the general appearance of Westword’s editorial staff that Denver is a sexy, sexy city, then look no further than Men’s Health magazine, which confirms this week what everybody already knows: Denver loves the sex. We love the sex so much, in fact, that…
It takes a certain type of tenacity to be a zinester: an unmitigated openness, an unrelenting inquisitiveness, a borderline-pathological need for self-expression that’s undaunted in the face of limited resources. The Denver Zine Library knows all about that: After an extended absence with the majority of its collection in storage,…
Buntport — Denver’s funniest, cleverest, most low-key and least pretentious theater company — sets aside a benefit night for every production, usually to help a deserving local organization. Fittingly, with Moby Dick Unread, the company is wading into deeper waters. At Thursday’s 8 p.m. show, some ticket proceeds will go…
Cats. They’re like the most popular girl in high school: They’re aloof, they think they’re smarter than you, and the more you love them, the more they don’t care about you. Unlike the most popular girl in high school, though, you can amuse them endlessly by cutting a hole in…
Though it’s your fault alone, you can blame Louisville’s Zeon Corporation, if you want, for your drinking problem. They’re the ones who make those mesmerizing neon beer signs that draw you in to bars and watering holes like flowers draw honeybees. In fact, the company, which has been around since…
The media of today is hard to keep up with: It comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things each…
Television shows tend to be set on the coasts — in California or New York, usually. Anywhere else, and the show is often about that place as much as the characters: Miami in Miami Vice, Cleveland in The Drew Carey Show, or Cicely, Alaska, in Northern Exposure. So it is…
I go back a long way with Old South Pearl Street, and while it’s no longer as sleepy as it once was (that, by the way, is a good thing), it still exudes a heady mixture of old and new Denver: Brick facades and Victorian houses, shady trees and kids…
From hot dogs at baseball games to, well, hot dogs pretty much all the time, meat occupies an important place in our cultural values system, right up there with protestant work ethic and war. But that’s not to say meat can’t (forgive me) go bad — sometimes in subtle ways,…
If you missed it on Saturday, the Denver version of Tour de Fat went down in City Park. Photographer Kate Levy was there and brings back these photos: See Tour de Fat slideshow. Below are a few highlights…
It’s a peculiarity of American culture that from time to time we like to try on a different culture, see how it fits — for better for worse, it’s pretty much guaranteed that there’s no “American Fest” anywhere in Scotland. Whether that says we’re accepting and diverse or just that…
Nan Desu Kan — “the premier anime convention of the Rockies” (read Cory Casciato’s excellent write- up here) — was held over the weekend of September 10-12, 2010 in Denver. And by far, the most popular event of the weekend was the cosplay (short for “costume play”) contest. Photographer Kate…
Jason Bosch sees activism as a way of life: The local champion of the great unwashed (and founder of the leftward-facing ArgusFest film series) seems to make no distinction between getting up in the morning and helping his fellow man. When he returned to town a little more than a…
Big Game Restaurant will screen a classic, beer-infused flick every night this week to honor the goodness that is beer and to celebrate Denver Beer Fest, which runs through September 19. Tonight’s movie — which Big Game will show on its thirty-foot HDTV, is Beerfest from 2006 (look below for…
If you’ve been getting stoked for ski and snowboard season with all the big movie premieres around town this month, here’s some fuel for the fire: Breckenridge announced this morning that they’re overhauling the Freeway Terrain Park on Peak 8 for this season and adding a 22-foot Superpipe built to…
