Photos: Sound Tribe Sector 9 at Red Rocks, 9/11/10

You might have already read our review of STS9’s Friday night show at Red Rocks, and now you can check out photos from the second night of their stay at Red Rocks. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these pictures from the concert. See a full slideshow here: Sound Tribe Sector…

Photos: Playboy’s open casting call in Denver

Despite some ambitious web efforts, the Playboy empire has shown signs of crumbling in recent years. Porn is all over the Internet like a film over a big vat of chili. The magazine’s lure is still powerful though — for men and women. On Thursday, soldiers in the Hefner Empire…

Behold the carrot shaped like Buzz Lightyear

“When I saw this strange vegetable, the resemblance to Buzz Lightyear hit me straight away and I just thought ‘my gosh.'” Those were the words of 68-year-old English gardener and granddad Clive Williams, who made the Telegraph by unearthing a carrot shaped like Buzz Lightyear. Not to be outdone, Westword…

Video: An interview with Merton, the Chatroulette piano player

Merton is a Colorado resident who has gained a good amount of Internet celebrity for the spontaneous songs he plays for random people he meets on chatroulette.com. But he’s not just an online phenomenon. In fact, he frequently takes his show on the road, literally, by playing to passersby on…

Photos: Electric Avenue Festival at Five Points

As you might have read here on Backbeat, Electric Avenue Music and Arts Festival is going on this weekend (it wraps up tonight.) Last night, photographer Eric Gruneisen stopped by the festival in Five Points and brings back these photos: Electric Avenue Music & Arts Festival (slideshow)…

Jeff Puckett’s holy helicopter flies above Denver: Check out the video

This week’s Westword cover story by Melanie Asmar, “A Wing and a Prayer: Jeff Puckett’s Helicopter Gets Denver Closer to God,” profiles Jeff Puckett, who leads an all-volunteer helicopter ministry that takes community members and pastors high above Denver. Look below to see a video interview with Puckett and a…

The many faces of John Mayer last night at Red Rocks, 9/1/10

There’s something about the act of playing guitar that makes white people — as famously portrayed in this Chapelle Show sketch — act a fool. In that spirit, we present to you many, many faces of John Mayer during his concert last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. All photos by…

Ten worst restaurant freak-outs

When you’re forking over $6 for your coffee, $5 for a footlong sandwich, or $2 for a blended ice-cream thingy, you’re typically calm, cool and collected, right? We know you’re not one of those problem customers — they of the scream-insult-and-kick variety, all pissed off because of an incorrect order…

Photos: Dave Aude at Beta, 8/28/10

Cory Casciato wrote in his preview DJ Dave Aude’s show at Beta on Saturday night: A little bit trance, some big, shiny house, and a whole lot of whatever the kids are digging at any given time. The DJ with nearly fifty #1 dance tracks on Billboard, including eighteen in…

10 kinds of bros you’ll find at a music festival

Urban Dictionary, the Internet’s home for crass generalizations, defines a bro as, “Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties. When they aren’t making an ass of themselves, they usually just stand around holding a red plastic cup waiting for something exciting to happen so they can scream…

Photos: The People of Cannabis Festiva, 8/22/10

A gathering of cannabis connoisseurs met up at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City this past Saturday, August 21, for the aptly dubbed Cannabis Festiva, a marijuana awareness festival and concert featuring No 1 Left Standing, Slaughter House Rootz, Statewide Emergency, Tatanka, MC Subcon, Full Belly and DJ Mada,…