In many ways, you could consider the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt the Woody Allen of indie rock, a distinctly Big Apple auteur with a wry sense of humor and a neurotic outlook on love. In stark opposition to Allen’s garish personal life, however, the tabloid headlines on Merritt are pretty…
The Christmas season is a time for lights – just look at your neighbor’s sun-like display – but for beer drinkers, it’s also a time for darks: dark beers. Today, the Wynkoop Brewing Company will give more than a dozen breweries from Colorado and elsewhere a chance to show off…
“We’re unorthodox Jews,” says Rob Tannenbaum, co-creator of the comedy and music duo Good for the Jews. “My favorite Jewish singer was never Neil Diamond; it was always Joey Ramone.” The traveling show includes songs like “Jews for Jesus” and “They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Eat.” Following…
It was a sad day last July when Eric Matelski put his First Monday Art Talks series to bed at Dazzle. But while Matelski was ready then to move on, he always hoped to bring back the talks — which featured a different local artist and a mélange of related…
Today we fight for the right to keep chickens and goats in our urban back yards and take delight in growing our own food. We patronize farmers’ markets and corner shops; there are even special markets that nix the use of money in favor of trading and bartering. In our…
Film has the power to change perceptions and widen worldviews, often giving us a new perspective on life and transforming our communities, hopefully for the better. That is the goal of A Small Act: Film Screening and Conversation With Director Jennifer Arnold, organized by Facing History and Ourselves, part of…
“A lot of our vendors said it was the best craft fair they’d ever done,” says Fancy Tiger’s Jaime Jennings, reminiscing about 2008’s inaugural Holiday Handmade Alternative Craft Fair. Last year, the vendor list doubled. And this year’s fair will be bigger still – literally – because Jennings has changed…
Though secular standbys like “Jingle Bells” will probably get more conventional radio play this season, when it comes to Christmas music, Handel’s Messiah is still the undisputed king. As usual, that soaring Jesus-jam will serve as the centerpiece for the Lakewood Cultural Center’s Come One & All, Rejoice sing-in, an…
The Puddle Jumpers Children’s Theatre Company has always been about the kids — but this year’s Holiday Fantasment production goes beyond performance and puts the pen into small hands. Traditional holiday songs and Irrelephant Christmas, a short play by local playwright Leroy Leonard (who does happen to be an adult)…
The Golden History Center has some 600 photographs dating back to the 1800s. The subjects of these photos range from the seemingly mundane, like a 1934 high-school prom, to the iconic, such as workers at Coors Brewing Company. Golden in Focus: Historic Photo Show and Sale opens tonight in conjunction…
Italian-American cuisine queen, cookbook writer, prolific restaurateur and PBS television host Lidia Bastianich will be at the Tattered Cover today to sign her new holiday autobiographical read, Nonna, Tell Me a Story: Lidia’s Christmas Kitchen, a heaping helping of family recipes, decorating traditions, heartwarming storytelling and whimsical children’s illustrations. “Telling…
The U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix event at Copper Mountain has traditionally been the opening salvo of the pro snowboarding season in North America. This year, with Olympic rings in its sights, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association is letting skiers into the Grand Prix pipe, too. “Right now we’re operating…
Buntport Theatre Company has gone back in time nine years to re-create its first production, Quixote. “It’s the play that the company really formed around,” says actor Brian Colonna. “We performed it in college together and then took it around to fringe festivals.” Echoing Cervantes’s Don Quixote, the play follows…
You’d have to be a dummy to huck yourself off some of the biggest kickers in Vail’s terrain parks this season, which is precisely why you ought to send one in your place if you’re not looking to make the agony-of-defeat reel this season. Vail’s 5th annual Snow Daze event…
In case you haven’t yet extracted yourself from the nearest big-box-store black hole, Buy Local Week in Denver began on Black Friday and ends today. Devised by Colorado Local First and the Mile High Business Alliance, it was designed to draw attention to local businesses and the importance of keeping…
Bailey Ferguson is hard at work in the world of art and design, trying her hand at any and all media. She’s been a painter’s assistant, a design intern, a freelance painter and chalk board artist, and she’s currently a member of the Pirate Contemporary Art Co-op, a photographer, a…
Dear Denver International Airport, You stress me out. It’s not you — it’s just that airports in general stress me out. You’re too crowded, parking is a hassle, TSA makes me take off half my clothing and then feels me up inappropriately, and then when I finally get to the…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning today at 5 p.m. with a Holiday Open House kickoff, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a…
Even if you miss out on a Mondo t-shirt for amfAR, there are still ways to observe World AIDS Day locally. Here’s how to help let the world know that HIV/AIDS isn’t over, because yeah, it’s not:…
At the Denver Public Library’s November Frock Out designer showcase, guest judge (and beloved local Project Runway runnerup) Mondo Guerra let a few cats out of the bag: He’s staying in Denver because “it’s our time;” after coming out as HIV-positive on Runway, he hopes to use his new fame…
If you read our post yesterday, you know that the Mayan Theatre celebrated its 80th birthday last night with music, costumes and a showing of the Wizard of Oz. (Don’t worry, there’s still time to enter our Mayan memories contest and win free movie tickets!) Westword photo intern Hunter Stevens…
Cats and the internets have a lot in common: Fickle, indifferent and utterly shameless, they both exist in a tenuous state of domestication, serving no real purpose other than to amuse, and even then, only if they feel like it. Perhaps that’s why there’s no end to the random ways…
