Nobody in their right mind could refute the fact that Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the hardest-working, hardest-rocking bands in the world. The recent Hall of Fame inductees are currently touring in support of their tenth studio album, I’m With You, which, while released in 2011, has produced…
Lowry Beer Garden, which opened in the old Hangar 2 building in Lowry in May, was built to celebrate German beer-drinking culture — a culture that wouldn’t be complete without brats and streudel, oompah music, lederhosen and Oktoberfest. So, beginning today, the open-air Garden will begin a three-day Oktoberfest with…
Forget rock stars. When it comes to banging heads, no one partied like the Romans, something you can try yourself tonight at Bacchus Raucous: A Party in Pompeii, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The bash is being held in conjunction with the new DMNS exhibit A Day…
In his band, the Decemberists, songwriter Colin Meloy tells rich fantasy stories through songs that are often inspired by myths and the macabre. He’s brought the same sensibility to his children’s book series, The Wildwood Chronicles. Beginning with Wildwood, which came out last fall, and continuing with the newest installment,…
“This year, our Full Moon Harvest Festival falls right on the night of the full Harvest Moon,” says Jennie Nevin, founder of Green Spaces Colorado; that fact wil shine a little extra light on the third annual music fest. This year’s lineup includes Signal Fire, Lunar Fire, A. Tom Collins,…
Today’s Color Me Rad 5K at the Botanic Gardens at Chatfield takes a runner’s high to a whole new level with a hyper-hued splash of fun. Throughout this unique race, fitness junkies of all ages and athletic levels will encounter “color bomb squads” at every turn, as rainbow-tinted explosions of…
Empowerment to the people is what today’s Blacktop Festival is all about. From self-publishing to self-discovery through art, the first annual DIY street party showcases musicians, dancers, comedians and artists who have found success through self-made means. “We were really interested in turning people on to the DIY idea —…
Because it’s an island, Iceland has always been isolated from the bustle of the rest of Europe, a fact that allowed it to form its own cuisine and culture. And over the course of four days, Denver (which also recently landed direct flights to the republic) will highlight a variety…
For Now Showing, the fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene — including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards — to answer three questions: – Aside from your organization (or yourself), who is doing the most…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released five years ago, ending an adored, epic series that kept devoted fans buried in books for almost ten years. Tomorrow, J.K Rowling’s first “adult” novel, The Casual Vacancy, will finally be available. Will the magic and mystery that Rowling fans have come…
Lee Camp’s fine with making you uncomfortable. It’s his stock in trade. On camera — most notably in his stints on Good Morning America, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and various FOX, MTV and CNN shows, Camp gives audiences a this-is-how-it-really-is take on current events ranging from corporate excess to political…
Though John Larroquette gave up alcohol for good thirty years ago, the Emmy and Tony award-winning actor still makes a point of relating that journey at public appearances. This Friday, September 28, Larroquette will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon fundraiser for Arapahoe House, a non-profit organization serving individuals…
His Magnet Mafia partner may have moved to San Francisco, but Harrison Nealey’s sticking with Denver. He’s been working on commissioned sculptures for artists at Demiurge, and that inspired him to put together Beauty Is, a solo show that opens Friday, September 28, at Division West. We recently caught up…
Since 2005, “I See What You Mean,” arguably Denver’s most beloved piece of public art, has been photographed, imitated and miniaturized. The sculpture outside of the Colorado Convention Center, nicknamed the Big Blue Bear, has been laughed at, loved, lingered over, tagged with a yarn-made ball and chain and pranked…
Jenn Wohletz first heard of Jeni Britton Bauer’s magical, frozen concoctions back in 2006, when Sophia Ford Coppola’s Marie Antoinette came out, and Jeni’s created a collection of whole-milk yogurt-based, specially-flavored ice creams inspired by the film. The Jeni’s flavors were almost as delicious as the movie that inspired them…
The curse has struck again. “It is cursed. It is the Così curse. You can call it that,” says Cabaret Otaku’s Christina Marzano Haystead. For the second time in a year, the alternative opera troupe is cancelling its planned update of Mozart’s famous Così Fan Tutte called Così: The Series,…
A year after he opened the 1UP arcade/bar in LoDo, business was so good that Jourdan Adler took over the former Monkey Bar on East Colfax and turned it into the 2UP. Inspired by the “barcade” trend, Jesse Gossett and Mike Boselli recently took over the former Round Midnight –…
When Andrew Linares moved to Denver six years ago, he didn’t tell anyone about his passion for music and art. Which is why he was so nervous about baring his soul at his first-ever art exhibition. Anima Instincts, a display of Linares’s photography under the pseudonym A.S. Leena Res, is…
When my miniature obsession with Wayne White emerged two weeks ago, it was because I had loved his work my whole life — without ever knowing who he was. The visual aids White had provided for my childhood — from the puppets on Pee-wee’s Playhouse to shorts for Liquid Television…
Carol “Connie” Boyer was a genealogical researcher and head of cataloguing at the Denver Public Library until her retirement in 1988. She continued to gather information on her family’s ancestry and, in 2006, donated her work to the library, which now houses the Boyer Family Genealogy in the Western History…
All good things must come to an end — but Lollypop Gift, the Hello Kitty store in the Denver Pavilions, seems to have come to a very abrupt end. And the reported reason for the store’s closing is something many vendors can relate to: rotten mall parents using stores as…
There’s still more than a month until Halloween, but at Skylab at the Denver Coliseum this past weekend, the costumes came out. See also: -Twenty-five best costumed ravers at Skylab 2012 -Twenty best vaguely German costumes of Oktoberfest Denver 2012 /twenty_best_pirate_costumes_of.php”>–Twenty best pirate costumes of BrethrenCon 2012 And came off…
