As it is for most musicians, a New Year’s Eve gig is nightlife-prime-real estate for a comic. Big money, big crowds and an audience that’s ready to let its PC guard down and get loose. Consequentially, you never turn down a NYE standup gig — if you can get one…
Denver, you’ve got it going on. This year, I was lucky enough to be a part of many incredibly cool events involving local and national artists, musicians and performers. Combing through the past year of Westword stories, I compiled this list of the best (and strangest) arts- and culture-related experiences…
No question, 2012 was the year of the comedian in Denver. A lifelong fan of standup, I’ve had the pleasure of reporting on some amazing shows this year — and I’m sharing some of the high points here. Still, I’m sure there’s a vast ocean of talent that slipped past…
What a dazzling display of women’s wear we witnessed in 2012! The spectrum of stylish females is wide and varied in Denver: from servers to fashion designers, makeup artists to comics. Keep reading for the most memorable looks we spotted in 2012, as well as the stories of the ladies…
Every year, there are more and more zombie events in Denver. Zombie crawls, zombie balls, zombie burlesque, zombie proms, zombie car washes… it never stops. For those of us who can’t get enough zombie action, it’s like Christmas came early and often, only with more flesh-eating and less tinsel. For…
Start off the New Year right by saving money this week. Whether you attend a screening of The Dead Zone, a poetry open mic or a short film festival, soaking up some culture won’t cost you a cent, so you can head into 2013 feeling fiscally responsible. For more events,…
Whether you think of New Year’s Eve as a time for parties that keep you dancing into the wee hours, or you’re the type who’s lucky to still be awake when the corks pop and Auld Lang Syne rings through the town, several events are perfect to prime your pump…
One of my favorite parts of being a reporter is getting to talk to strangers (and sometimes, friends). Even outside of assignments, I find myself interviewing waitresses, vending-machine repairmen and random people who have clearly not chosen to be in line in front of me at the grocery. This year,…
While this year is winding down in a frosty cold breath, it’s the perfect time to look back on all the hot fashion that Denver saw this past year. By simply strutting down the street in high style, these men expressed their personalities….and made the city look good in the…
On Saturday, Denver-based filmmaker Tristan Minton is premiering his new skateboard film H-DTS Mile High Alumni: Down to Skate at the BOPPO Warehouse at 4120 East Brighton Boulevard, Unit B13 ($5 at the door, screenings at 7 and 10 p.m.) The film stars Julian Christianson — a Westword Best of…
As if Denver’s resident burlesque maven, Cora Vette, didn’t have enough steamy shows in the works already with Ledville, Bust and Reefer Mania — as well as a handful of other clothing-optional projects and a burlesque store — she launched a brand-new recurring show this week at Bar Standard. Technicolor…
It’s snowing in the mountains — finally — which means we might actually have a ski season after all. In honor of the fluffy stuff (not to mention early-morning I-70 traffic, overpriced tickets and sub-zero temperatures), we present some of our favorite memes of Thumper, the super cool ski instructor…
It’s the end of the year — and that means there are plenty of ways to blow your last bucks on extravagant champagne toasts and hotel rooftop parties. But why do that when you can spend this weekend having fun…without spending too much cash. Skip the fancy parties and spend…
Art-museum shows reigned in 2012, from a couple of demographic-busting blockbusters at the Denver Art Museum to a visual constellation of exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other satellites that paid tribute to a West Coast punk moment in time. But 2012…
Blinky the Clown was an icon for generations of Colorado kids who grew up watching his Blinky’s Fun Club on local television. Blinky — aka Russell Scott — passed away on August 27 at the age of 91, and now his friends and family members — including daughter Linda and…
It’s that time of year when we start to let go of what has happened over the last twelve months and look forward to doing things in a better way over the next twelve. Or if you’re like me, it’s just that time before the total hysteria of another year…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
Jason Bosch won a MasterMind for his work with ArgusFest, showing important movies for trivial prices. And tonight, ArgusFest will be screening two more segments of Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States. And as Bosch notes, “You don’t need to have seen the first parts to follow…
End of the world, or end of the year? Or just a great way to end an evening? To find out, you’ll have to catch tonight’s Hell Toupee Cabaret 2012 topper at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre. Join host Infernal Phil at 7:30 p.m. for the last 2012 installment of the monthly…
Salesmen are typically depicted in screen drama as the quintessential American phonies. That one set of phonies is being dramatically indicted by actors is an irony that we will leave hanging. Promised Land’s phony, played by Matt Damon, travels to small towns to sell the folks on fracking, the controversial…
Watching Django Unchained, it’s easy to imagine that Quentin Tarantino had such a blast making his last picture, the ebullient Holocaust fantasia Inglourious Basterds, that he decided to take his whole blood-spattered historical tent show on the road, this time putting down stakes in antebellum Dixieland. Although not technically a…
You can hear the people sing — really hear them — in the long-gestating screen version of that Broadway juggernaut Les Misérables. Countering the standard practice of having the actors in a film musical lip-synch their songs to pre-recorded tracks, director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) insisted that all of…
