Photos: First Friday on Santa Fe, 2/1/13

Westword photographer Christopher Morgan stopped by the second First Friday art walk of 2013 and brought back these scenes of the art, the food, the music and the people. Continue reading for a few highlights, and visit our full slide show for more. See also: – Slide show: First Friday…

Ben Kronberg on his new Comedy Central special, and why he left Denver

Ben Kronberg could be the most successful comic to come out of the Denver comedy scene recently. Crafting Mitch Hedberg- style micro-jokes, delivered with a creepy dead-pan stare, Kronberg has developed a style all his own that’s gaining some national recognition. After showcasing on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham series,…

Judgmental Denver map: choose your own gentrification adventure!

Finally, something floating around the cesspool of Facebook that we can care about enough to actually unify over. The “Judgmental Denver map” appeared in my newsfeed yesterday and has since been reposted at least forty times by people I know — people who either think it’s funny or are pissed…

Denver Broncos and “Mustang” — a match made in hell

As we head into the Super Bowl, most Broncos fans are still smarting from our defeat by the Ravens, who are playing in our place. And we’re asking ourselves, “What do we need to get over the hump next year?” Another running back? Sure, that’d be good. Maybe some help…

Crash 45 celebrates Murray Mania on Groundhog Day

February is the month of the Super Bowl, Mardi Gras and Valentine’s Day, but there’s really only one holiday that counts: Groundhog Day. Not because we take that shadow stuff seriously, but because Groundhog Day is silly, and silly things — especially those having to do with Groundhog Day –…

An ode to DIA’s beleaguered blue horse

When “Mustang” was erected on a patch of dirt outside Denver International Airport in February 2008, you could almost hear the residents of Colorado exclaiming in unison, “What is that thing?” Just what was this massive, bright-blue, anatomically in-your-face horse sculpture with demon red eyes doing in sunny, charming Denver?…

Colorado ID cuts coke but not tension on HBO’s Girls

On “Bad Friend,” the episode of the zeitgeist-courting HBO comedy Girls that aired Sunday, the characters decide to buy some coke and indulge in cocaine-related hijinks. At one point, Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, and Andrew Rannell’s Elijah are seen chopping out lines on a toilet seat and the camera lingers…

Dress your own “Mustang” paper doll

Love it? Loathe it? Chances are good that you’ve got an opinion about the giant blue “Mustang” statue at the Denver International Airport. (Only slightly slimmer are the chances that you have a conspiracy theory about it.) This week’s cover story, “Yay or Neigh,” tackles the issue of whether it’s…

Artist Estee Fox is in search of a pretty vagina

Talk about art on the cutting-edge! On Friday, February 1, the show Estee Fox: fox tales ft. 7 and marbles — an eclectic mix of videos, paintings and live music — will open at Edge Gallery, complete with a screening and discussion of Fox’s performance piece “How to: A Pretty…

Video: Adam Cayton-Holland makes his late-night debut on Conan

After a teaser in which Conan O’Brien plugs his standup guest as Adam Clayton-Holland (a reference to the U2 bass-player that Adam Cayton-Holland is surely used to), Denver’s former What’s So Funny? columnist was introduced to one million nation-wide fans in his late-night TV debut. Utilizing material familiar to local…

Untitled returns, refreshed, to the Denver Art Museum tonight

If it feels like something’s been gone from your life, perhaps it’s Untitled. But now the Denver Art Museum’s Friday night happy hour of fun programming is back from its holiday hiatus with a whole new agenda for a whole new year. See also: – Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson on…