Tonya Carter loves living in Colorado. In fact, she loves it so much that she was inspired to write her own version of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” — celebrating all the “amazing outside activities,” she says. In fact, Colorado has so many amazing activities that “the song was not…
We’re not going to reiterate the horrors of Black Friday here.There’s a reason why it’s called “black,” and that is because it sucks, for all the wrong, fucked-up, uncheerful reasons. So we’ll just say this: Start loving your neighbor, and your neighborhhood, by shopping local instead. It’s so easy to…
When you think cool, you probably don’t think of toy trains. Indeed, you probably picture the toy-train enthusiast as a portly, avuncular loner with way too much knowledge of railroad history and an even greater willingness to share that knowledge with anyone who will sit still long enough for him…
No kidding around: Show and Tell is giving away tickets to shows at both Comedy Works — and all you have to do to be eligible to win is tell us a joke. A number of readers already have. Our current favorite comes from Jeff: Broncos are 9-2 Superbowl favorites…
Update: Congratulations to Lee Shuck, Kate Honas and Linoleum Blownaparte! You have each won tickets to Comedy Works. Stay tuned to your Facebook inbox for more information on how to claim them. Original post: Let it be known that Denver has an unfair, absolutely rib-cracking wealth of comedy opportunities –…
These days, it seems like the only things that come in the mail are coupons and bills. Jared and Rachel Rippy want to change that by creating pieces of art that are intended for the mail. Through their new business, Postscript, the husband-and-wife team create letterpress postcards with graphic art…
There is no official handbook for being a writer. Technically, anyone can be a writer (although when I hear people say that anyone can be a writer, I feel just how I imagine artists feel about those suburban painting ‘n’ wine places where bachelorette parties get drunk and make art…
When you open your Instagram feed, do you see hundreds of brunch photos and duck faces? If so, you’re doing it wrong. Every year, Westword adapts its Denver Web Awards to incorporate rising digital trends, and our most exciting addition this year was the category of Best Instagram Account –…
Charming author, cultural philosopher, satirist and NPR commentator David Sedaris talks pretty to sellout audiences year after year in Denver, filling auditoriums with unabashed cultists who simply love the little, wise man to death. Early next year, he’s trying something different: Sedaris will play Denver for a series of eight…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones’s Further was the most highly anticipated snowboard film of the season — and it lived up to the hype. “This film is inspiring people to get out there and do something big,” Jones told us last month. “That’s really a cool thing.” See also:…
Richard Melnick was diagnosed with cancer a dozen years ago. While fighting a life-threatening illness and facing what could have been a premature death sentence, though, he discovered a new way of viewing the world. One of the subjects he often pondered while in medical limbo was parenting, which he…
Over the past two years, Kevin O’Brien’s weekly comedy event, Arguments and Grievances, has showcased some of Denver’s finest comedic talent in a setting designed for maximum hysteria and controversy. Taking the the age-old format of binary debate performance, O’Brien hosts an evening of hilarious bickering over arbitrary topics like…
As we promised in our recent cover story, it was on like Donkey Kong at the 1UP in LoDo this weekend. More than three decades after the beloved arcade game brought barrels into the mainstream, twelve of the world’s top players duked it out against high-scoring wildcard gamers at Denver’s…
Save your money for Black Friday — you don’t need to open your wallet over the next few days in order to keep yourself entertained before the tryptophan coma. See a comedy show, attend a reindeer petting zoo, and relax with yoga — without spending a dime! For a full…
Even though it’s not that nippy, the skate must go on at Belmar today, where the shopping center rink will open for the season with a toy drive for Cops Fighting Cancer. Bring a new toy to donate, and you’ll hit the ice for free; without a contribution, skate for…
The Man in Black is gone from 13th Avenue. So is Bender’s, replaced by Jerry Garcia (albeit a defaced Deadhead) and Quixote’s True Blue, which opened on Thursday in its new home. And what’s the moral of this messy mural story? See also: – Quixote’s True Blue: The new Jerry…
Nearly a dozen of Colorado’s coolest local ski and snowboard companies are banding together for the 2nd annual Colorado Demo Days event this weekend at Copper Mountain, a showcase of locally-made planks. “We have such an awesome snowsports industry right here in Colorado, and supporting local brands supports both the…
Every year, Westword honors the best and brightest minds in the city’s digital culture with the Denver Web Awards — and every year, we add categories to those awards as the digital landscape changes. This year, our biggest new addition had to be Best Instagram Account, for which the competition…
Though the message surrounding the holidays is always to buy buy buy, you can buck the trend and give your wallet a break this weekend with these bargain events. Visit the zoo, see a campy turkey-themed horror movie, and learn how to better your air guitar technique — all for…
We came. We saw. We tweeted. Last night, Westword hosted the third annual Denver Web Awards, our celebration of Denver’s greatest digital minds. In September, we put out a call for you, dear readers, to nominate your favorite online projects, and a team at Westword spent more than a month…
It’s a busy Third Friday in D-town, particularly at the Laundry on Lawrence, where eleven artists came together in “an exploration of soft materials.” Not surprisingly, the concept takes many directions in a variety of mediums, with both individual and collaborative results. See also: – Artist Theresa Anderson explains how…
“I started filming in Vail before there were any lifts,” remembers Gypsum-based filmmaker Roger Cotton Brown, who was the principal cinematographer at Vail from 1962, when the resort opened, until 1989 and has continued filming skiing and snowboarding in the Vail Valley and around Colorado ever since. “I first went…
