Update: Check out the real themes below. The first Denver Cruiser ride of the season won’t be until May 15, but the themes for the next season were just posted. Or were they? “Because we got so much flak this winter for merely suggesting ‘Homeless’ as a theme to vote…
At three years old, Denver’s annual AnomalyCon is still young, but it has rapidly found its following of steampunk, science fiction and alternative history fans. During this weekend’s three-day convention at the Double Tree Hotel in the DTC, scores of fans donned fun and fancy costumes, and Westword’s Danielle Lirette…
God save the Queen and her adorable, stilted royal wave; Prince Charles gets a few brownie points for sorta making an honest woman outta Camilla; poor Prince William got his mother’s pretty face but his father’s rapid receding hairline, and Princess Kate has a baby bump that the Brits are…
There are precious few opportunities in life to assist a human puzzle piece and his comely, sword-swallowing sidekick defeat a mutant goldfish. When such an opportunity does arise, it’s best to seize it without concern for danger or reward. Luckily, in the case of Daniel Crosier’s Showdevils Kickstarter campaign, the…
What better way to start off April than with a terrifying Belgian horror movie? See the scary flick Calvaire, learn about the music business from industry professionals, or help raise awareness about sexual assault this week in Denver — all without spending a dime. No joke! Read the Westword calendar…
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doesn’t have a flashy name or even a flashy look. But don’t let that fool you. While the ensemble takes its collective picking skills quite seriously and its vocals are better than average, its real strength is in doing exactly what the audience doesn’t…
Sharr White’s plays have been workshopped and mounted around the country over the years, and he has received several awards — but it was The Other Place, his piece about a brilliant woman scientist’s battle with dementia, that brought him to Broadway last year. Laurie Metcalf played the scientist, Juliana;…
The Trestle Bike Skills Park at Barnum Park will host a grand reopening tomorrow, March 30, with riders of all levels invited to come out and get some air on its expertly designed jumps and berms. Though the park is always free, the day’s festivities include the added bonus of…
As we inch our way toward the glory of summer comedy festivals, Denver has already begun heating up with a variety of shows featuring whip-smart young comics and world-wise icons of days past. We’ve got a DIY music and comedy festival (with a bouncy castle!), two feature players from Chelsea…
Spirit Realm Investigative Project, an all-female ghost-hunting crew, spends much of their time in the dark, seeking out spirits. But at 8 p.m. tomorrow, March 30, they’ll be in the spotlight on episode sixty of the Bio Channel’s My Ghost Story , sharing spooky experiences at Colorado’s Gilpin County Jail…
There’s no better way to celebrate Easter weekend than by watching ladies with bizarre nicknames wrestle in jello. Denver will have that and many more events — from photography shows to a Walking Dead-watching party — that you can enjoy over the next few days without dropping too much cash…
When Dea Webb and Dave Wendt opened Plastic Chapel eight years ago in a literal hole in the wall in Baker, the designer toy emporium was not only a pioneer business in the neighborhood, but it also owned a retail niche that hadn’t been explored much in Denver. They opened…
The 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season begins winding down this weekend — with the first round of closing-day parties at Ski Granby Ranch, Powderhorn and Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort — despite the fact that snow conditions are actually quite good, with more snow in the forecast. Here’s a rundown…
When they met a few years ago, Ken Arkind and Charly Fasano became fast friends. Like Arkind — an American National Poetry Slam Champion who tours the world performing and teaching poetry as executive director of the award-winning Minor Disturbance Youth Slam Team — Fasano liked to perform poetry at…
On Saturday, the Colorado Rapids are taking on the Portland Timbers at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in a game that should feature much nicer weather than last weekend’s FIFA World Cup Qualifier at the same venue. And we’ve got free tickets! Continue reading for details on how to win four…
The plane lands in Aspen at a quarter after four; I’m late. Outside the terminal, which doubles as a café for sharp-dressed skiers and businessmen, D.J. Watkins is waiting in his heavy-breathing ’89 Subaru Legacy. The 29-year-old Kansas native moved to Aspen five years ago, determined to preserve Hunter S…
The 2013 Best of Denver is now on stands (and online), and in its 196 pages you’ll find Westword’s picks for the best arts events and institutions around town. Along the way, we asked you to nominate and then vote for your favorites in dozens of categories; halfway through the…
Westword’s 2013 Best of Denver issue hit the streets yesterday.This year’s prize for Best New Public Art? “Bridge,” by Stephen Shachtman, a work located near Fort Logan in southwest Denver. How does this choice fit with our picks of the last ten years? Some pieces are still controversial, years later;…
When Chuck Roy first began working on his new comedy night, Altered Schtick, he had inclusion in mind. Seeing several up-and-coming comics — Mona Lott, Jordan Wieleba and Penny from Heaven — around town, working on their material while also trying to find a place in the Denver scene, Roy…
If real life were like Wrong, Quentin Dupieux’s sweetly unnerving experiment in ambient fucked-uppedness, your phone would ring before you’ve finished this sentence, and the words you haven’t gotten to yet would be read aloud to you by a voice you’ve never heard before. Then, while you’re at lunch someplace,…
Again and again, movies show you killing, but it’s one in a thousand on-screen killings that might get you to feel something of what killing is actually like. The same goes for fucking, but there the numbers are worse: Whether it’s Hollywood’s quick-cut, nothing-below-the-waist bedroom montages, or the mechanized chug…
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” goes Jean-Luc Godard’s quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis, and you have the rough formula for Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, which looks like the most expensive Girls Gone Wild video ever made…
