The first thing you notice about Broken Shovels Farm is its human touch: The tiny Adams County goat farm is family-run, and the goats and chickens and dogs wandering through its pens are clearly more than livestock — they’re part of the family, too. A champion of everything natural, hands-on…
Time and space will converge today as theaters across the country celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. The BBC series has been a household name in the U.K. since it premiered in 1963 and the U.S., after it began airing here in the ’70s. When it was relaunched in…
Delicious soup. Denver landmarks. Dancing girls. That might seem like a strange, even random, collection of things, but local burlesque performer Frenchie Renard plans to bring them all together in a one-of-a-kind cookbook — if she can raise the money to get it published. “I consider myself a professional home…
Artist and local arts champion Tracy Weil loves Halloween and painting and the circle of life, and in his new show, Los Esqueletos (The Skeletons), he ties all three together with a theme that straddles the spooky season with a nod to the Day of the Dead. Initially inspired by…
College students often experiment with fashion because they are constantly being exposed to new ideas. This immersion translates to their physical appearance, as they transform their look to stay current with trends. This week we spotted Metropolitan State University of Denver student Brittany Gonzalez channeling 1990s style with punk and…
Construction has been ongoing for the past couple of weeks, but today was the official groundbreaking for a hip new hotel on Broadway, between 12th and 13th avenues, that is being designed to fit in with the city’s museum and cultural district in the Golden Triangle.the Art, a hotel, which…
The third annual Denver Comic Con and Literacy Conference is still months away, but it’s not too early to start planning. Tickets for the event go on sale on December 2 — Cyber Monday, of course — and the DCC has already announced its first guests, including celebrities from such…
Images courtesy Lionsgate.Ritchman and Schlund in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, opening this Friday, Alan Ritchson and Stephanie Leigh Schlund play two of the story’s fiercest bad guys. But tucked away in a hotel room on the 17th floor of the Mandarin Oriental in Miami’s…
The Xbox One hits stores this week: Playstation fans got their new hardware last week; you can go to the Xbox One launch party Thursday night at the Park Meadows Microsoft store. And that means the trusty Xbox 360 is in its twilight — although it ain’t over quite yet…
Denver loves The Book of Mormon, and the feeling is really mutual: Though the laugh-out-loud funny, touring Broadway musical from Colorado’s own boy geniuses, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is in the last week of its second run at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Denver Center Attractions announced yesterday that…
Cassie Carter loved fashion and making things when she was a girl. Today she’s the wife of NBA player Anthony Carter, and she’s taken her childhood love of fashion and creation and turned them into Cumi, a line of handcrafted handbags and accessories. You can shop from her line at…
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts; it can also be a profound shared experience that culminates in a better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, a weekly feature celebrating the books that inspire Denver artists.
Like every kid in high school, I was forced to fulfill a gym requirement. At George Washington High School, we had the option of taking aerobics — which I secretly loved, because I dreamed of one day making my own instructional workout videos. Each day our weird instructor — who…
November is American Indian and Alaskan Native Heritage Month — so naturally, the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, which oversees the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, is celebrating with a show of skateboard art at the State Capitol. A public reception for the show, curated as part of the Colorado Creative Industries…
#32: Eric Dallimore New Orleans native Eric Dallimore is a many-faceted artist: A large-scale sculptor, photographer and installation artist, whose work ranges from a public-art piece built from the wreckage of homes lost to Hurricane Katrina to a yearlong photographic documentation of the Denver dance troupe Wonderbound, he’s already keeping…
Artist-run film labs are changing the face of experimental film. Popping up all over the world in everything from portable ice chests to the locker room of an abandoned swimming pool, these labs collect discarded industrial film equipment so that every step of the filmmaking process remains in the hands…
It’s not often that we come across a person who challenges others to “do,” not just talk — but Josh Schmitz qualifies. The founder of Ruckus Apparel, Schmitz was born in Denver, graduated high school in Wheat Ridge, and turned down a rugby scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley…
This past weekend, fans and gamers alike met at 1Up for KongOff 3, the world Donkey Kong championships. Jeff Willms took his second consecutive win in the competition, with Ross Benziger and Hank Chien following behind. And we were there to catch the action; keep reading for a sampling of…
With the holidays approaching, there are plenty of fashion shows and shopping opportunities this week — all reason to give thanks. Here’s a sampling of what’s on the fashion calendar before Thanksiving and Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of all. See also:The real story behind Black Friday…
While introducing a screening at the 36th Starz Denver Film Festival late last week, fest director Britta Erickson asked members of the audience how many people had seen 25 movies by then — and a number of hands went up, with even more rising to confirm other ticket-holders had caught…
Literally the biggest comedian working today, Ralphie May has been charming the pants off of comedy fans for the last decade and a half. Playing a slack-jawed wise-ass, May will often twist his audience’s perception by using a Southern accent to deliver an insightful crack about controversial subjects that would…
Is Lumber Baron Inn: Denver’s Mystery Mansion, Denver historian Phil Goodstein’s latest book, really about just one building? “Yes, it is,” replies Goodstein. “Compared to a lot of my books” — like the recently released Denver History Index, about where to find out more about the city’s past and present…
