The Denver County Fair — version 2.0 — is coming back to the National Western Complex on August 10, just over five weeks from now. We’ve just come from a mind-blowing powwow with DCF masterminds and will soon share all the fair’s new twists and turns. But first, there’s news…
Just in time to help you get out and celebrate the 4th in this beautiful state, our list of the “50 reasons Colorado is the best state in America” is getting a reprise around the country. And so are comments from Colorado haters and lovers alike…
Only a few hours after the Supreme Court declared Obama’s health-insurance mandate constitutional, we spoke with Washington Post columnist and NPR commentator E.J. Dionne, who was at the Aspen Ideas Festival promoting his book, Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent. “I…
Although the Fourth of July will be short of official fireworks shows — and private use of fireworks has been completely banned in Colorado — there will be ample opportunities to celebrate the country’s birthday across the state over the next few days. Here are just some of the events…
A bow-tied Bill Nye the Science Guy joined other smarty-pants experts and climate scientists on the stage at the Boulder Theater this week for a lecture on “Climate Change on Earth and Other Planets.” And if the audience needed more than the smarty-pants on stage to convince them of changes…
There are more than fifteen million Etsy members (sellers and buyers) across the globe, in more than 150 of the world’s 196 countries. That’s a lot of crap, yes, but it’s also become a powerful business globally. Of course, not everything made by a DIY’er on Etsy is good. Some…
NYC-based jewelry designer Pamela Love didn’t start out in the accessory business — her background is in film, and she got work as a stylist for photo and video shoots. But when she found that other artists’ works didn’t embody her own unique sense of style, Love went off on…
For the store’s birthday every year, the owners of Pandora on the Hill like to give back — everything from raffle giveaways every fifteen minutes to free gift bags for the first hundred people in the door. Stephanie Shearer promises that everyone who walks through the boutique’s door between 5…
“Commercial media looks at things in terms of heroes and villains,” Sapphire said before she came to town this week to tout to tout her new novel, The Kid (a semi-sequel to Precious — the Hollywood adaptation of her ’96 novel, Push). “And we all know that the psychological reality…
Want to host a screening? Find a film in Tugg.com’s library, create an event, spread the word and Tugg handles the rest. Want to see how it works? Tomorrow night at 9:30 p.m. Nacho Vigalondo’s comedic alien invasion movie, Extraterrestrial, is showing at Denver Film Center…
Last Saturday was scorching, and not just because the temperature broke 100 degrees. There was also blazing local music at the eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase — with a record-breaking 15,000 fans in attendance. While many focused on remaining hydrated with booze or water, others were fixated on their own…
Who should learn — or re-learn — how to give their lovers the best oral sex possible? Everyone. Local sex educator Shanna Katz has a new book out this week, Oral Sex That’ll Blow Her Mind: An Illustrated Guide to Giving Her Amazing Orgasms. Her inspiration for this guide was…
The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, where movies and beer dwell together in perfect harmony, won’t open its doors at Aspen Grove until early next year, but the much-awaited franchise is already serving that community by hosting a Wednesday-night outdoor film festival at the Littleton mall this summer…
During a day at Water World, Bree Davies discovered that politics, like beauty, really can be skin deep as she looked at a raft of bad tattoos. “I did have time to ponder the meaning of inked life while waiting 45 minutes for a turn to ride a backwash-water-filled tube…
I have bad tattoos. Okay, they aren’t all bad — only about 33 percent of them are, if I break it down by specific tattoo artist. Also, since I didn’t get my first tattoos (almost all came in pairs) until I was 24, they are strategically placed, meaning that, for…
You know that when the Lunar and Planetary Institute holds a conference in Boulder on the Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets, the subject matter is bound to be a bit arcane for the rest of us…
Is Denver’s skate scene “boring as fucking shit”? That’s what one Californian suggested after noticing our photo of the very clean Denver skatepark, when “out here in California skate park walls are all covered with graffiti tagging from anything the rollers want to spray on there.” But one reader rolled…
In honor of Go Skateboarding Day, Britt Chester took his board out on the town last Friday for his weekly installment of Guess where? Which inspired one reader to suggest why the Denver skatepark looked so clean…
The erstwhile and beloved burlesque emcee queen Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is finally doing what she’s threatened to do for a while now: opening up a store — and with her burlesque wife Eve Vette, no less! And burlesque and vintage clothing enthusiasts will be thrilled to know…
“If you’re from Denver (or you’ve lived here for more than eight consecutive months) you know how small it can feel,” says Bree Davies. “It’s like three degrees of separation between you, your favorite barista at Pablo’s and your best friend from eighth-grade summer camp. Because that favorite barista is…
Hot enough for you? Bree Davies’s “top five reasons to stop whining and enjoy the summer already” has plenty of people hot under the collar…
Last weekend was jam-packed with events all around Denver. The inaugural Denver Comic Con, PrideFest, Juneteenth and Father’s Day, to name just a few, brought very diverse crowds out around the city. And that meant that very different fashion styles were seen on the street — everything from the rainbow-clad…
