Ah, Scumbag Sundays, just how your mother imagined you spending the Lord’s Day. Photographer Aaron Thackeray brings back these photos from the Shag Lounge (830 15th Street) on Sunday night, September 12, 2010: View full slideshow…
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…
Tim Tebow has launched a Facebook page and Twitter account. Yes, this is news. This is Tim Tebow we’re talking about here. Tebow (or his PR team) hasn’t done much with the sites yet, but thanks to the smartasses at Tauntr, Maxim magazine’s sports blog, we can see what his…
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…
The Denver Cruisers have been getting a lot of press lately for its topically themed rides, but last night, riders took on one of the trendiest themes of the past few years: The undead. The club held its “Vampires and Zombies” bike ride, and from the looks of these photos,…
“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…
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…
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)…
If you missed it last night — you can’t blame us, we we’re giving away tickets — here are photos (shot by Aaron Thackeray) of the indie tour that swung through Red Rocks Amphitheatre last night: Vampire Weekend (for whom we can Justify Our Love), Beach House and Dum Dum…
If you’ve driven near Broadway and 10th Avenue this week, you’ve no doubt noticed the tent village that lines the perimeter of Sports Authority. Yes, the annual SNIAGRAB (that’s “bargains” backward) sales event begins Saturday, and as you might have read earlier in the week on Latest Word, these people…
This year’s Taste of Colorado kicked off earlier today at Civic Center Park; Westword photographer Johnny Molfetta brought back these photos. Taste of Colorado runs through 8 p.m. Monday…
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…
This week’s feature 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. It’s a great photo spot, as you can see below…
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…
Brooklyn-based dance-punk duo Matt and Kim’s new single, “Cameras,” was released on the group’s website today. They play here on September 24 at the Ogden Theatre…
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…
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…
Update, 12:48 p.m., Saturday: We’ve picked our two winners, so congrats to commenting Backbeat readers J Hamby and Wratha, they’re going to see Green Day and AFI tonight. Faithful Backbeat readers, because you kill time ’til quitting time by reading our blog, we are rewarding you on this Friday afternoon…
The Denver Cruisers — the bicycle club open to anyone — stuck a thumb in the eye of Dan Maes last night with its United Nations themed bike ride through the city. Maes, the Republican candidate for governor, made comments earlier this summer that Denver’s participation in the B-Cycle rent-a-bike…
Our long national nightmare is over. On Monday, the divorce between Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren was made official. While Tiger will likely continue to pull strange ass on the road and Nordegren will likely get a dumptruck-load of cash, we’re going to suggest these songs to the former couple,…
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…
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,…
