This weekend, Denver will host the largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade this side of the Mississippi. 250,000 people showed up last year, and there’s no reason to believe there will be any less mayhem this year. Make sure you know where you’re going and when below. Plus, a little video…
Goofy-looking Texans on spring break at Colorado ski resorts will have a tough time standing out next week. While a jeans and cowboy hat getup will draw some finger-pointing, it’s got nothing on a band of pink cape-wearing, fake boob-carrying philanthropists…
Love it or hate it, Spring Break is getting into full swing in the mountains. Here are 5 ways to get wild this weekend: OmMG! Looking for a side-serving of serenity with your weekend helping of stoke? Try the 1st annual Telluride Yoga Festival Winter Retreat, a chillier version of…
Some directors might get a hold of the script for David Holstein’s The B-Team — about a group of second-string terrorists who fail at everything they try — and think, “A play about Pakistani terrorists must be cast by Pakistani-Americans. Obviously. Of course.” But not Jeremy Make. No, he cast…
By our informal count, there are about forty explosions in the two-minute trailer for Battle: Los Angles — which breaks down to about one explosion every three seconds. That number gets even more impressive when you take into account that the explosions don’t even really get started until about one…
Ah, the weekend before St. Patrick’s Day, where you have to start preparing your body for the coming onslaught of bad choices. Regardless of when you decide to celebrate, you’ll want to prepare your stomach and bladder for the wrecking crew that’s about to destroy you. Or, better yet, get…
My, how time flies. We can’t believe we’re already into the eleventh episode Jersey Shore, but it’s true. Don’t worry, if you missed the first ten, there was lots of tanning, fighting, clubbing, gyming and drunking. Oh, and fighting. We open this particular day to a virtually empty house–the ladies…
Celebrating Chuck Norris’s birthday is kind of like celebrating the birthday of time itself: impossible. Nevertheless, several news outlets have reported that the noted martial arts expert and godlike figure of Spartan manliness turns 71 today. Because anything having to do with Chuck Norris is by definition dangerous (the word…
Tweet Psych uses keyword algorithms to create psychological profiles of anyone with a Twitter account. Lady Gaga, for example, evidently tweets about sex 681% more than the average person. We have our doubts as to the usefulness of this thing beyond gimmickry, but what a fun gimmick it is. Judge…
After two months of bankruptcy proceedings, an eviction and at least one accusation of looting, the embattled Shadow Theatre Company opens its first production since it moved An Evening with Nina mid-run from its former space at 1468 Dayton Street to the Aurora Fox in January. The show, In Search…
Leigh Holman has faith in the future of American opera. The director of opera at the University of Colorado has made the native art form a priority at the school, hosting American composers for workshops and offering American musical drama during summer seasons. The school’s upcoming production of Carlisle Floyd’s…
Like every other blog in existence, we’ve been getting endless mileage out of Charlie Sheen’s recent series of bizarre rants, so when we found out he was looking for a social media intern and asking prospects to apply in 75 characters or less yesterday, Kyle Garratt couldn’t help but throw…
Phone sex is a dying, uh, breed, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still a lucrative business. While many folks have turned to the slightly more anonymous internet to rock their socks off, plenty of people still desire a bit more of a human touch. We decided it was due…
Think you have what it takes to create a shred-ready masterpiece? Here’s your chance: Design Within Reach, SOS Outreach and Never Summer have issued a call for entries for the 2011 Design the Modern Board competition…
In its five years of existence so far, the Curious Theatre Company has lured some pretty prodigious figures into its annual Denver Stories production, where it pairs local celebrities with playwrights and has them produce autobiographical short plays; previous lineups have included former Governor Bill Ritter, MCA Denver Director Adam…
Andrea Moore’s Good Grief may be the culmination of her six-week residency at PlatteForum, but it’s been a lot longer than that in the making. “The death of my father is the underlying theme that goes through the whole piece,” she explains of the work she’s done. “It’s been a…
You can thank Denver photographer (and photography booster) Mark Sink for setting Denver’s Month of Photography in motion. “It’s pretty grassroots — just me, myself and my staff of me,” Sink says with a grain of salt. But though he’s at the center of the maelstrom that is MOP, he…
While Denver doesn’t dye its waters green in honor of St. Paddy’s Day, Denverites definitely celebrate in style, usually by pouring rivers of beer down their throats, dancing like lubed-up leprechauns in the streets and bedecking their body parts with shimmery shamrocks in a plea to get kissed. And while…
In 2009, Boulder-based writer Tracy Ross, senior editor for Backpacker Magazine, won a National Magazine Award for her essay “The Source of All Things,” a story quite unlike any of the tales of adventure she’d previously written about. The essay centered on a hike she took as an adult with…
If the majority of post-WWII noir-flick soundtracks are saddled with the standard maudlin strings, then the all-zither score of the 1949 classic The Third Man is a great example of how music can radically affect the tenor of a film. Chipper and upbeat, it gives the proceedings a certain ironic…
After a hugely successful first season that logged nearly 103,000 rides, Denver B-Cycle officially reopens today after a three-and-a-half month hiatus. The bike-sharing program, which now comprises fifty kiosks and 500 red bikes around the city, has made several improvements since last year. Each kiosk now has a full-color LCD…
Sarah Slater, a 2011 Westword MasterMind, is a woman of many projects. Besides producing the annual three-day grassroots music festival, Titwrench, she’s also the organizing force behind myriad arts and music events throughout the year — and while those projects may be numerous, they do all share a common theme:…
