Get Monolith tickets without fees

Update: Early bird tickets are gone. If you snoozed, you losed (yes, we know that’s not a word, but “lost” didn’t rhyme). On a related note, Monolith, which added Chromeo to the line-up last week, earned a nod from Outside Magazine as one of the best summer music fests. Yay,…

Get wet with the Denver Squirt Gun Association

I’m pretty sure when DARPA was inventing the Internet back in the late ’60s, organizing squirt gun fights and documenting them via tools such as YouTube and blogs were exactly what they had in mind (well, that and porn). Now Denver residents can fully reap the fruits of what DARPA…

AskColorado has the answers — and more

If you have questions — and I know you have questions — AskColorado, an online information service provided by Colorado libraries, is there to help. The 24/7 (holidays excluded) web service puts you in touch with a librarian via a chat interface similar to your basic instant-messenger client, and lets…

RIP Mike Honcho

The Denver music scene lost another major contributor over the weekend as DJ/producer/promoter Mike Wilson — better known as Mike Honcho and/or Meka One — was found dead at home by his roommate. Mike was well known and well loved within the electronic music community — this 24-page thread over…

A Bolly Good Time

The success of Slumdog Millionaire has kicked off a minor craze for the extravagant and colorful musical-film industry of India. If you’ve been bitten by the bug, then you’ll enjoy tonight’s Hooray for Bollywood fundraiser for Congregation Nevei Kodesh, with authentic Indian cuisine, dance instruction from Bollywood West, music from…

Alert at the Gemini Party

The music of local dubstep artist Alert is dark, deep and a little bit scary — kind of like the man himself. “My tracks are a personal diary. There is no ‘me’ in the bigger picture, only a catalyst for the listener’s personal evolution,” he explains. “Also, I am a…

Fulcrum

The quotient for another undistinguishable, melodic hard-rock outfit made up of pretty boys has been filled: Fulcrum is here. On Quack, we’re treated to six tracks of generic, repetitive guitar riffs, tough-yet-sensitive vocals singing brain-numbing lyrics and the rest of the usual derivative modern alt-rock claptrap. The damn thing even…

With Coathangr, social media meets “You’re wearing that?”

If you’ve got a hot date but just can’t decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, “Social media for your pants” — although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted “Social…

Twitter Tuesday: Variety pack — culture, sports and technology

Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but “Tweeters” just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. @psmyth12 and @champbailey: I know it’s the height of baseball season, but I’m a football guy, so…

Dig into new zoning regulations the fast, easy way!

Zoning code is not sexy. It is not fun. And no one cares about it until it stops them from building the deck they always dreamed of or allows a developer to build a combination McDonald’s/hi-rise condo that blocks the view out of their bedroom window — i.e., when it’s…

Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Bar Standard

See more photos from Bar Standard at westword.com/slideshow. MS = main stage, P = patio Six Months to Live – 12:00 – MS Actually, this got started at more like 12:20 or so. What, a festival running late? Inconceivable! I’ve got the most recent Six Months to Live album and…

Flobots.org community center open house tonight

The Flobots are serious about their activism. I mean, how many other bands do you know that are opening up a community center to host everything from live shows to speakers and workshops to activist training? The center is kicking things off with an open house tonight, from 6 to…

The end of social media? Probably not….

Is the Twitpocalypse nigh? Is the end of Facebook right around the corner? And if so, how on earth are you going to fill eight hours a day at work? The horror! I enjoy a good dose of doomsaying as much as anyone — hell, more than most. But a…

Freaky Friday: “Apache” – Tommy Seebach

After last week’s brief hiatus (I hope you missed me), Freaky Friday returns with a slice of vintage ’70s cheese from the wondrous land of Denmark: Tommy Seebach’s “Apache.” The song itself is a silly disco throwaway based around a repetitive riff, some wakka-wakka guitar effects and a typically meaningless…

Party Arty

What happens when diverse artistic mediums collide? Find out at the Mash-Up Party at BMoCA, a cultural extravaganza fueled by libations from a cash bar. “I was thinking it would be cool to do a party where we mix different styles together,” says Sarah Kinn, coordinator of adult programs at…

Film School

Get inside the head of one of the most celebrated filmmakers in history when the Curious Mind of Werner Herzog kicks off tonight with the famed director’s documentary debut, Land of Silence and Darkness. This 1971 film turns the cameras on the blind-deaf, a world as alien to our own…

Dress Up for Less

It’s never too early to start thinking about Halloween — or your next fetish ball, for that matter — and the Disguises Community Flea Market and Clearance Sale Extravaganza is a killer opportunity to do just that. Costume-making materials, props, makeup, shoes, novelties and several racks of one-of-a-kind former rental…

The Juan MacLean at Beta

You want to understand The Juan MacLean? Start with disco, follow it in the disparate directions it evolved — house and the synth-pop side of new wave — then re-synthesize the two into one cohesive whole. Got that? Okay, now bring that up to date in terms of sound design…

Breaking up is hard to do — unless, that is, you Tweet it

Recently, a Denver music scene personality (who asked to remain anonymous, for obvious reason) reached out to me to tell me his tale of getting dumped via Twitter. It’s as tragic as it sounds. The guy didn’t get dumped via direct message (Twitter’s version of e-mail, a private, two-way communication)…

Twitter Tuesday: Librarians on Twitter? Hot!

Back again with three more great Twits to follow (sure, that sounds insulting, but Tweeters just sounds stupid) for your burgeoning Twitter feed. And as always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword and @casciato. TweetDenver: TweetDenver is a Twitter aggregator — they seek out and reTweet others’ cool stuff. In other…