Legendary grindcore band Pig Destroyer is co-headlining the Denver Black Sky festival with Skinless at the Gothic Theatre on Saturday, December 5. Based out of Alexandria, Virginia, Pig Destroyer began in 1997 when vocalist J.R. Hayes, formerly of Enemy Soil, and guitarist Scott Hull, formerly of Anal Cunt and Agoraphobic...
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Among the arguments traditionally made by advocates of commuting by bicycle rather than car are the health benefits for the cyclists, who are pumping pedals rather than pressing them. But a study by Colorado State University researchers just published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology reveals that this...
Mike McClung, the director of Michael Warren Contemporary, has put together two interesting solos that are midway through their runs. The shows are extremely compatible, as both focus on artists who work with geometric compositions, though each does so in a thoroughly individual way. In the large set of spaces...
Remake The Graduate today, and an adult might corner Benjamin Braddock and whisper, “Startups.” Debut director Max Joseph gives that a good shot, though the result — the EDM-fueled, drug-laced dream-crusher We Are Your Friends — is so sweaty and silly, people may not notice. Like Mike Nichols, Joseph wants...
This month, the National Coalition for Safer Roads launched a campaign called "Stop Distraction on Red." The goal: to cut down on the number of drivers who run red lights, often with tragic results. To illustrate this point, the NCSR assembled a list of the ten cities with the most fatalities...
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights his choice for Monday, November 9: 600 Miles. 600 Miles...
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Stephen Graham Jones is hungry. It’s early afternoon on the University of Colorado campus in Boulder. Jones, in black boots and a black ponytail, sits in his cramped but cozy office, digging into a bag of fast-food burgers. The office has the rich, dusty smell of a used bookstore, which...
Last week, we told you about the tragic murder of Christa Benton by her longtime boyfriend, David Fallon, who took his own life after killing her. We also noted that Benton had documented abuse at Fallon's hands on her Facebook page during the hours that led up to the tragedy. Now,...
Lately, friends on Facebook and In Real Life have been asking me to name songs I consider to be “perfect.” Not favorite or critically-lauded or guilty-pleasure songs, but perfect songs. This is a tough question, changing at the whim of an ear, but many responses included pop songs, gilded by...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we take a look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Farhad VakiliTabar was born in Iran and moved to Houston when...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Cary Wolfson is best known for his award-winning work as the producer...
“Kick them off the stage!” “Just get them out of here!” Those were the directives that Tim Sadler, a college student who interns as a sound engineer at the Seventh Circle Music Collective, received over the phone from his boss. Sadler didn’t have to be told twice. The band he...
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It’s no secret that some of the best ideas and inventions are cooked up right in sunny Colorado. In this series, we’ll be exploring the latest products coming from the state's makers, builders and innovators. Two years ago the folks at Boulder-based Sidfactor – a product-design and strategy firm specializing...
In recent months, there have been a slew of violent incidents on the 16th Street Mall, many of which were ignored or underplayed by many mainstream media outlets. Nonetheless, the assorted crimes got the attention of Westword readers, as well as the Downtown Denver Partnership, which held a meeting on these...
Afrika Bambaataa is one of the architects of hip-hop culture as we know it. He was there when DJ Kool Herc and Kool DJ Dee were throwing the parties that were the foundation stone of hip-hop in New York City in the 1970s. The term hip-hop was coined by Cowboy...
In 2015, Westword Music covered a vast range of Denver music, from blockbuster national tours to homegrown superstars. We celebrated growth and successes, debated development and its effect on local artists, and mourned the too-frequent losses of beloved figures in the music community. Here are the ten stories you loved the...
#97: Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt is a woman of the world, a traveler and a wanderer, a collector and a curator of rare and beautiful things and places, who settled down long enough to grow roots in Denver and call it home. Sometime photographer, Tennyson Street shop owner, gallerist and...
Last year, a coalition of Denver officials, business representatives and cannabis advocates agreed to work together to create a workable policy that would create a legal way for adults to consume marijuana in a public place in the Mile High City. But more than four months have passed since the effort...
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To everything and everyone, there comes an ending. Here at the end of 2015, we’d like to offer up this handful of people for nomination to Colorado’s mutual “unfriend” list. It’s nothing personal (okay, in some cases, it totally is), but in the spirit of new beginnings and resolving to...
Point Gallery curators Frank Martinez and Michael Vacchiano had planned to do a show featuring recent work by artist Robin Ross, who built her career in Brooklyn but moved to Crestone, Colorado, about four years ago. Sadly, Ross passed away while the show was still in the planning stages. So...
Last year, as we've reported, Denver police officer Choice Johnson was suspended for thirty days over an incident in which he allegedly pushed 29-year-old Brandon Schreiber down a set of stairs near 1Up arcade bar in July 2014. A few months later, a Civil Service Commission hearing officer tossed the suspension under the theory...
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we'll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Library data may not seem aesthetically pleasing, but artist Duncan Parks is...