In fourth grade, I wanted glasses more than anything. Well, that’s not true — I wanted braces even more. I also wanted a perm because my best friend had one. Basically, I desired to look as uncool as possible. As it turns out, I got all of those things as…
For the Halloween-phobic, we’ve still got plenty to do this weekend, including a craft event, race watching and dancing. It’s First Friday to boot, so you should have plenty to keep you busy, all for less than $10 per event. For a complete guide to this weekend, go to westword.com/calendar…
As Halloween approaches, we’re serving up suggestions for sad Halloween costumes, including the one above that disguises you as Brady Quinn, a second-string quarterback overshadowed by third-string quarterback. Which inspired this from sickoftewbow: I would gladly wear a Brady Quinn jersey. He’s a class act who has gotten jerked around…
This afternoon marked the first real snow in the high country, which means the days of playing hooky to go skiing and snowboarding are just around the corner. To hold you over until then, enjoy these crowd-sourced photos from the mountains via the resorts…
The Mile High Horror Festival kicks off tomorrow night at the Starz FilmCenter at the Tivoli, with more than thirty films being shown across three days on two different screens. While you can pick up a weekend pass to check out all the festivities, not everyone is going to have…
The term “party foul” is typically attributed to someone who knocks over glasses, relieves themselves on the kitchen floor and generally engages in all manner of rude, drunken behavior. Essentially, you’re acting like a bull in a china shop, or in this case, a wild horse in a kitchen…
“Your job should be something you’re pumped on,” says Preston Strout, co-owner of the High Cascade Snowboard Camp. He’s the guest moderator at The Business of Fun, a free event starting at 6 p.m. tonight that’s the kick off for the three-day Launch of Winter celebration at Battery 621 (click…
Buy a red car and find someone young and spry to liven up your life. That’s what most people would do when staring down the precipice of a life crisis. I applied for The Real World online. Last Tuesday I got an e-mail telling me that I was a very…
2009 Broadway revival cast photos below by Joan Marcus. I don’t know exactly what I expected when I walked into the Buell Tuesday for the opening night of Hair, and after the curtain went up and the once-controversial musical got started, even my theater-going companion, an old hippie in every…
Jonathan Franzen is a great American novelist in large part because he has written a great American novel — two, in fact. Last night’s Pen & Podium lecture at the Newman Center found the charming and occasionally awkward author of Freedom touching on bird watching (an enthusiastic hobby), The Moody…
Tonight’s October Snowboard Colorado Magazine release party at Casselman’s Bar & Venue ($10) features the “official” North American premiere of Bottom Line, from the Austrian crew at Pirate Movie Productions (they also showed it in Aspen last week at The Meeting) and the local premiere of Think Thank’s latest, Ransack…
The Colorado Symphony’s financial woes continue, and now they’re directly impacting programming. Say “finis” to five programs originally scheduled for the next two months: the Halloween Spooktacular (October 30) for families; Shuffle (November 11), part of the innovative Inside the Score that attempts to make classical music easier to digest;…
I know, I know. Women who do not have children are supposed to love cats. They are supposed to dress them up in onesies and push them around in strollers. But fortunately for this photo project/contest, I happen to live with a very photogenic dog instead. In fact, I live…
This week’s feature story, “Buzz Kill,” profiles the Knapper twins, whose cast of street-art icons earned them popularity from fans and unwanted attention from the police. Westword art director Jay Vollmar provided this animated version of the cover, which you can check out below…
All the talk about the troubles at the Colorado Symphony (and watch for an update on the CSO’s revised fall schedule today) had us thinking about the big troubles of 1989, when the Denver Symphony Orchestra was failing and concert promoter Barry Fey rode to the rescue, rallying the community…
They’ll be dancing in the streets today near the recently renamed Emily Griffith Technical College. Well, not so much dancing as cooking, giving haircuts and taking blood pressure. From culinary arts to cosmetology to cars, the school, at 1250 Welton Street, offers a diverse array of educational programs. But some…
The world-famous Banff Mountain Film Festival in Canada’s Banff National Park begins on October 29 and is well worth the cost of a plane ticket. For a teaser a bit closer to home, though, check out the Radical Reels Tour, which stops in Golden for a two-night engagement featuring nine…
Editor’s note: Regrettably, this event hosted by Elitch Gardens, the Center and CAP has been canceled. And unfortunately, we only received word of this cancellation after the item was printed in our issue dated October 6, 2011. Take an amusement park after dark, add three haunted houses, two stages and…
Don’t be surprised if you come upon a group of unibrowed people tonight at the Tennyson First Friday art walk wearing circle skirts and extravagant beaded jewelry. The gaudy dressers will be channeling the spirit of Frida Kahlo for the eighth annual Beads, Braids & Brows, an art show and…
As Americans, we’ve all plunged a sharp knife into the fleshy orange head of a pumpkin and ripped out its seedy brains by hand ― that’s nothing new. But there are other ways to gut a gourd, and the World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association has the trademark on them. No,…
As if drugs didn’t you make animalistic enough, there’s a new one on the market that will make a raccoon out of you. Or at least that’s the premise of a new horror flick from Monkey Angel Studios called Red Raccoon. The name comes from a drug that ravages whole…
“We like to call it ‘not your mama’s annual fundraiser,’” says Jami Duffy, executive director of Flobots.org, the charitable arm of local band Flobots. And Bowling Ball 3 is certainly different. The event pits local celebrities — including members of DeVotchKa, OneRepublic, Bop Skizzum, the Colorado Rapids, the Rocky Mountain…
