It is way too soon to joke about the three-disasters-rolled-into-one happening in Japan right now. Luckily, though, for those of us with an almost unbearable urge for shocking tactlessness, Japan is making the jokes for us with a public service video for children explaining via one of the most convoluted…
Lewis Black will be in Denver this Friday. Wanna go? Prove it. Westword has two tickets to send you and a friend to Lewis Black’s In God We Rust tour at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. All you have to do to get them is whisper in our little ear…
If you were the type of kid to rip the heads and arms off G.I. Joes and swap out parts with other toys, then DIY or Die is specifically catered to you. The art show is all about showcasing the hand built and self-designed toys of artists around town. “After…
Once a month, Immundo Burlesque brings unpure thoughts (in the best kind of way) to the Rackhouse Pub, 208 South Kalamath Street. And tonight will be business as usual, except for a couple of very special, lovely guests from across the country. “I met Bella Sin, from Cleveland, through Vivienne…
Monarch Mountain has been getting hammered with snow all winter, making it one of the top destinations for local skiers and snow-boarders. It also bodes well for the spring whitewater season, when boaters with rafts and kayaks come to splash in the runoff between Monarch Pass and nearby Salida. “The…
At the 24-year-old Cannabis Cup festival in Amsterdam, “things are a little more wide open,” explains High Times executive editor Dan Skye. “A kid from B.C. once brought his pot in by crotching it, and he took second place. People do all sorts of things to get their strains in…
As public schools shutter the doors of art classrooms, students have fewer means of showcasing their creativity in a meaningful way. It’s this situation that led to the creation of Art Builds Communities, a youth-outreach program that provides disadvantaged kids with art workshops and classes. It’s also what spawned Boards…
Filming a feature-length movie in Colorado can be a nightmare, particularly for a psychological thriller like The Inner Room. “Colorado’s a beautiful place to shoot, and everybody involved in this film has some local connection, but without some of the cash incentives other nearby states offer, it can be a…
Clay artist Marie Gibbons has been looking out on 44th Avenue and Tennyson Street from her EvB Studio storefront for four years now. Part of the charm of her little studio and gallery in the shadow of the Oriental Theater is its accessibility to the street traffic and the out-side…
Photographer Stephanie Auld formed the AWE Collective, a 1,400-square-foot gallery and studio space at the far southern end of the Art District on Santa Fe, out of her desire to “see less traditional and more local art” along the thriving gallery row. And tonight, the collective (which officially opened in…
It’s no secret that celebrities tend to bring their bad behavior to Aspen — you’d need several hands to count the scandals that have gone down there over the years — but the sheriff’s department isn’t the only contact Hollywood has with Colorado’s glitziest resort town. There’s also Aspen Film,…
Today, Four Mile Historic Park invites you to its first afternoon tea of the season, a fancy Victorian affair involving wagon rides, hot drinks and dolls. Along with the traditional relaxing midday snacking ceremonies, the park welcomes renowned fashion illustrator Jim Howard, who will be speaking on clothing trends of…
The annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert is a prime example of the kind of thing that can happen when a community of people collaborate toward a greater end. And in a sort of concentric-circle ripple effect, that’s the idea behind tonight’s Zenlightenment extravaganza, part of a series…
Van Michaels doesn’t make wimpy movies. The filmmaker, who has previously worked under the name Mike Olafson, built a cult fan base in Denver with Gears, Grease and Guns, a documentary about the local rock-and-roll and hot-rodding culture of the 1950s. His new film, a twenty-minute short titled Motor Vixens,…
With suburban sprawl in every direction, it’s easy to forget that Jefferson County was a wild western frontier not all that long ago. Local author Carol Turner went looking for historical true-crime stories from the area for her new book, Notorious Jefferson County: Frontier Murder and Mayhem, and found more…
When it comes to this summer’s Denver County Fair debut, Dana Cain has no doubts, but, she admits, this weekend’s inaugural Denver Style Expo, a brand-new event with a fashion-forward vision for the Denver scene, still feels like a giant step into the great unknown. But it sounds like a…
Sometimes playing games is all about punishment. If you played QWOP, you know exactly what we’re talking about there, because that game was awkward, hard to control and awful in more ways than one could count — but it was also addictive as all hell. This is relevant because GIRP…
Not that it comes as much of a surprise when it comes to the woman so possessed with Christ-loving zeal that she walked into a Loveland art museum and smashed a work of art with a crowbar, but Kathleen Folden is crazy — and in the way typical of evangelical…
So, Disney on Ice the Princess Classics edition starts its five-day jaunt in Colorado tonight with a 7 p.m. opening show at the Denver Coliseum, and we are excited. Apparently, this fancy ice show thing (that began its run all the way back in 1981) is still going strong, we…
You may not have wondered what the “Best Short Film Shot in Denver Involving a Bleeding Clown” was this year — yet — but chances are, you’re wondering now. So rejoice, pilgrim, because the time has now come to find out the answers to these and other worthless questions, in…
When Breckenridge-based mountain biker Shannon Galpin talks about her recent adventures tonight at REI, 1416 Platte Street, know that her definition of “mountain biking” is a little bit bigger than some. Take her recent trip through Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, for example: Galpin’s non-profit Mountain2Mountain project was “founded on the idea…
Old fairy tales have the potential for great movie fodder: They’re cute and quaint at first blush, but beneath the surface — especially in the originals, tend to nurse dark and disturbing undercurrents. That said, it’s a shame major movie studios have such a knack for screwing them up. In…
