Divulge your inner freak, take the 2011 Westword Sex Survey

Inspired by this week’s cover story, “Kink of the Jungle,” Westword’s crack team of researchers got to thinking about the collective hang-ups, preferences and opinions of related to the sex lives of Coloradans — and we’ve put together a survey to learn more. Don’t worry, it’s anonymous. We’re interested in…

WANTED: Fall 2011 Photography Interns

Calling all photo students! Village Voice Media (Westword’s parent company) is recruiting undergraduate photography students for its Fall 2011 Photo Intern Program. By “student,” we do not mean ” student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t apply to you…

Photos: 43,000 pounds of turkey legs ingested at A Taste of Colorado

Turkey legs. Everyone was eating them over the weekend at A Taste of Colorado at Civic Center Park, where the meaty beasts are downright ubiquitous. On Monday, Taste officials released their cutely named “festimates” of food consumed at the festival, which you can see below, in addition to many more…

Ten memorable Phish tweets from Dick’s

Phish played three shows over this past Labor Day Weekend in Denver (Commerce City, actually) at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Read all about each Phish concert in Denver here. Being the tech-savvy — if shaggy haired and a little rough around the edges — fans they are, Phish-heads took to…

Labor Day: Let’s recap the ten best concerts of the summer

From Lil Wayne’s on-stage clowning and Katy Perry’s cooing, to a perspiration-and-PBR soaked reunion of Planes Mistaken for Stars, and even those teenage, Danish punks Iceage melting the audience at Rhinoceropolis, the summer of 2011 was as good as any for live music in Denver. On this Labor Day weekend,…

12 best Deadmau5 mau5heads spotted last night at Red Rocks

Showing support for your favorite band, singer or DJ used to be as simple as wearing their T-shirt to the show, even if meant you were That Guy. Fans of Deadmau5, the Canadian-born DJ born Joel Zimmerman, have taken it to a new level though, donning the giant, cartoonish mouse…

Win a $50 gift certificate to A Taste of Colorado

Update: 9:50 a.m. Thursday: Thanks for playing everyone! The contest is over, we’ve picked our winners. We won’t announce them here until all the prizes have been picked up. Five $50 gift certificates to the 28th annual A Taste of Colorado (Friday, September 2 through Monday, September 5) just landed…

Photos: KMFDM at Summit Music Hall, 8/10/11

KMFDM (originally Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid) performed last night, Thursday, August 10, 2011 at Summit Music Hall, with openers Human Factors Lab, out of Orlando, 16Volt and Army of the Universe. Check out the full KMFDM at Summit slideshow. Below are a few highlights…

Ten best songs about quitting your job

The job market’s still very tough, your 401 (k) has probably lost its value over the last week, and your rent, car payment and baby mama aren’t going to get paid on their own. You hate your job, your boss treats you like garbage, and bygod, you deserve better. Repercussions…

Five surefire ways to kill time at the DMV

Save your tips for the best DMV in Denver, because I’ve already been. For most of us with day jobs, going there — especially if you’re from out of state and need a driver’s license and to register your car — involves going to two locations, taking a day off…

Photos: Denver Chicken Swap!

A flock of thirty-some people showed up on Saturday morning for the Denver Urban Homesteading Chicken Swap that also included ducks, but, sadly, no goats. The chickens were snatched up faster than they could run, but because of the complexities involved with legally raising and owning livestock in Denver County,…

U2 360 tour by the numbers (infographic)

When the U2 360 tour rolled through Denver on May 21 at Invesco Field, it was exactly one week removed from the massive 108,800-person concert in Mexico City. The tour was huge (Huge! Remember how that stage dwarfed the grid at Invesco?) and on Monday, Live Nation released a report…