Ever wonder what our fair city sounds like? Not the noises-on-the-street sound, but the unofficial theme song, if you will, that perfectly encapsulates what makes Denver Denver? Now you can find out, courtesy of “You Are Listening to Denver,” a web venture that has captured the aural essence of our…
When Meg Caley realized how much public land in Denver was going unused, she chose to take action. Along with James Hale and Chad Hagedorn, Caley helped found Sprout City Farms to use these empty spaces for something productive. “We thought, why don’t we just put farms on that land…
A mustache is like the modern-day equivalent of Samson’s hair: a source of almost superhuman potency for all who wear it. (Also, both are made of hair.) That said, the fact that only men and certain particularly virile women are capable of mustache wearage puts pretty much everything else at…
The world right now is full of insurrection. In China, in Iran, in Palestine, in the Mediterranean, all across North Africa, even in Wisconsin, thousands of men and women are agitating for their rights and, as it often turns out, for their lives. In the spirit of global solidarity, the…
Whether you’re looking to buy a new car or just gawk at one, Westword has you covered. We’ve got 35 tickets to give away for the Denver Auto Show, which starts tomorrow. Expect to see the newest 2011 models, as well as sneak peaks of 2012 intros. All you autophiles…
Walking into the Denver Art Museum’s current Blink! exhibit is kind of like walking into Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory (except far less dangerous to children with slack morals): There’s just a whole lot going on, and you really have no idea what most of it is or what you’re supposed…
The Twitterverse is a vast and vacant one, a expanse muddled with one-liners, chunks of internet “wisdom” and lots of inappropriate ass-shots courtesy of certain famous people’s wives (we’re looking at you, Ice-T and Coco Austin). So, how does one go about deciding which A, B, C (and especially) D-List…
Everyone loves a hero. Add a little mystery and some suspense, and you’ve got yourself a recipe for an epic tale of valor and woe, which we all love. (If you don’t love a tale of valor and woe, you can get the hell off this planet.) The folks at…
Jumping over hurdles has always been a good metaphor for dealing with the the superfluous red tape and etiquette of bureaucracy — putting the flip-mode on that metaphor, then, we might say that an actual hurdle race is kind of like communism. And we all know that’s not the American…
Denver is finally starting to show signs of spring, which means one thing: We need a variety of media that simulates real outdoor activities so we don’t actually have to leave the house at any point. Thankfully, Tiger Woods is still somehow a spokesman for a golf game, some new…
The Jersey Shore’s third season just wrapped up, and the crew is headed to Italy. In a statement last January, MTV announced that the show’s fourth season will be shot in “the birthplace of the culture [the cast members] love and live by” — a questionable decision, given that the…
Every ski resort in Colorado got hit with snow from Sunday’s storm, good news for the Spring Break set and anybody looking to get some last days in before the season’s over, and even better news for the local economy: All that white stuff equals lots of green stuff for…
Deepak Sharma Bajagain broke two Guinness World Records on Saturday, March 26, at the Community College of Aurora as part of the Work for Children Food Campaign 2011 hosted by the Global Lynx Foundation and Nepal Tourism Campaign: One for the Most Envelopes Torn in half in Thirty seconds, and…
On March 13, Colorado natives Mackenzie Bell, Page Kelley, Jeremy Rubingh, Allie Shafner, Alison Friedman and Laura Yale loaded a pink RV with their gear, a set of fake boobs and breast cancer information, and headed for Steamboat with the goal of skiing every Colorado resort for free in eight…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
Based on a typically heart-wrenching case study by Oliver Sacks, the admirably modest adaptation The Music Never Stopped tells the story of Gabriel Sawyer (Lou Taylor Pucci), a homeless hippie whose burnout isn’t the product of drug abuse, but a ballooning benign tumor that’s erased his memory. Institutionalized in the…
Fiction. In the first scene of Fiction, two people argue and flirt in a Paris cafe. They seem entirely familiar with each other; their argument, though heightened and intensely clever, still has the comfortable, teasing, accustomed rhythms you expect of a conversation between lovers. But in the second scene we…
It was a momentous day for the Centennial State on Saturday, when Deepak Sharma Bajagain shattered the Guinness world records for Most Envelopes Torn in Half in Thirty Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes with a Small Plastic Spoon (stay tuned — we’ll bring you video of Bajagain…
The releases of Beastly and Red Riding Hood mark just two more additions to a time-honored film tradition: hackneyed, shitty movies based on fairy tales. Inspired by these cloying new releases, we decided to take a look back at five more insipid films that were vaguely based on magical children’s…
As a precursor to AnomalyCon, Denver’s first big steampunk convention, we brought you on Thursday some easy tips for steampunking everything, including your toilet paper dispenser and your cat. From the looks of it, folks took that advice to heart at AnomalyCon’s Grand Ball on Saturday evening at the Tivoli…
After Piyush Tewari’s cousin was killed in 2007 in a road accident in Delhi, India, that could have been prevented, he decided to do something about it. His family member’s life could have been saved, the now 29-year-old discovered, because his death hinged upon the fact that no one helped…
There’s a principle in Buddhist philosophy that the journey ultimately matters more than the destination — what exists besides right now? — and, in that capacity, Improv Star is pretty much nothing but nirvana. In the words of one contestant: “as long as you’re steering it somewhere, you don’t really…
