Everyone knows that, aside from being the greatest of facial accoutrements, the mustache serves several versatile and important societal functions — it’s great for saving small amounts of food, for example, and it’s incredibly sexy — but did you know that the mustache can also cure cancer? That’s the idea…
The mission of the Addicted Project isn’t traditional recovery — it’s the reality of recovery. It was after a 5 a.m. walk along Colfax Avenue that the concept hit him, recalls founder Joshua Robbins: People going through the process of withdrawal need to be able to express themselves creatively. And…
Now that Halloween’s over, we can get on with the real holiday: Dia de los Muertos. The official day is November 2, but the festivities kick off at 5:30 p.m. tonight when the Dia de Los Muertos Procession y Danza will take off from Columbus Park at West 38th Avenue…
You have an eye for fashion or home design. Maybe you’ve already hung out a shingle, or perhaps you’re still a student looking for a functional foothold on this slippery economic slope. You’re not alone: The Denver Design Incubator can help lead you through the ins and outs of running…
Love “Mustang,” the blue horse that stands guard outside of Denver International Airport? Loathe it? Tell DIA officials all about it tonight, when the airport and Arts & Venues Denver host a DIA Art Master Plan town-hall meeting at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, from 5 to 7 p.m…
Update: Thursday, 12:08 p.m.: We’ve picked our winners, thanks for playing and for reading Westword! If you have no pressing plans a week from tonight, Monday, November 7, why not go see acclaimed essayist, author and unique orator David Sedaris at the Paramount Theatre?…
Quit horsing around! It’s time to come clean about how you feel about the public art at Denver International Airport, a collection that includes everything from Gary Sweeney’s beloved “America, Why I Love Her” to the loved, and loathed, “Mustang,” aka Blucifer, the devil horse. From 5 to 7 p.m…
What is it about Paonia? That scenic, green-leaning Western Slope haven of old hippies, envirojournalists and organic gardeners has produced yet another grim work of post-apocalyptic, steampunk sci-fi, set in a near-future devastated by climate change, genetically engineered plagues and humanity’s boundless capacity for betrayal and debasement. The book is…
Trick or treat, indeed: fourteen inches of new snow this weekend at Silverton Mountain brought the mid-mountain base tally to an incredible eighty inches (see powder porn after the jump). Wolf Creek got 22 inches before opening for the weekend, bringing the October total to 68 inches, and will be…
The melody of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It” floated in and out of downtown for thirty minutes Saturday. While the cries and tub-thumping of Occupy Denver protesters were louder, and the people dressed up as gorillas for the Gorilla Run seemed stranger, Denver’s first city-sponsored performance piece…
Last weekend, zombies filled downtown. This weekend, it was gorillas — 1,200 of them, all participating in the eighth annual 5K Gorilla Run, which benefits the Denver-based Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. That’s more runners than there are mountain gorillas left in the wild. See the slide show here…
The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park is a lovely old place. Built in the early 1900s at the mouth of what is now Rocky Mountain National Park from wood salvaged from the Bear Lake burn of 1900, it was best-known then for the Stanley Steamer, a steam-powered automobile invented by…
October was supposed to be the month of Celebrating Women at Colorado Mills, but a few women felt distinctly dissed after the mall decided not to name a winner in the “Week of a Woman” photo contest. After covering the kick-off Wellness Expo at Colorado Mills, Bree Davies had entered…
Tomorrow afternoon, all ninety members of the Bear Creek High School marching band will be strutting around downtown playing their instruments, individually. Each high schooler in Playing Apart (First mentioned on Backbeat) will be dressed in street clothes and playing for a mile or so (in the same territory as…
The whole point of Vox Phamalia: Quadrapalooza, the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League comedy show opening tonight at the Avenue Theater for a two-weekend run, is that differently-abled people (or whatever the politically correct terminology is this week) have a sense of humor about themselves. And they think…
This weekend is all about one thing: Halloween. While there are a couple things you can do without stretching your costume muscles, nearly all of the events happening are related to Halloween in some way. If you don’t like the holiday, you best hit up the video store and stock…
As National Domestic Violence Awareness month comes to a close, Girl Scouts of Colorado, Midchix.com and several other local women’s health and support organizations are pulling together for the Colorado Clothesline Project, which runs from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, October 29 at Saint John’s Cathedral, 1350 Washington Street…
Bill Amundson, once a local character and still the inimitable creator of what might be the densest work on the planet, took off last year for his home state of Wisconsin. But he’s back for a visit, and what might be the show of his lifetime (at least so far):…
It’s not all that easy scaring people, insists Mythica von Griffyn, who’s very busy these days acting at a haunted house. In fact, as he told Thorin Klosowski in yesterday’s “How to Get My Job,” the gig is a lot of hard work, what with make-up, costuming and the constant…
Being a haunted house actor is a real niche job and one with a fairly short season. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy, says Mythica von Griffyn. In fact, acting in a haunted house takes a lot of work, with make-up, costuming and the constant need to frighten people for…
The seventh round of the Mayor’s Design Awards was presented last night, to a whopping seventeen projects around the city — some old, some new, all interesting. The program was started in 2005, when John Hickenlooper was mayor; Mayor Michael Hancock did the honors last night, awarding prizes in seven…
“Anyone can write a ghost book and make it up, but when you’ve got something in your neighborhood that has a rich history and you can tie the spirits to who lived in that house, that makes your hair stand up,” says Ann Alexander Leggett, who co-authored A Haunted History…
