Deerhoof has been unleashing frenetic, eccentric rock music upon the world since 1994. That the San Francisco-based band's sound is impossible to pigeonhole has long been a part of its appeal. It has never aimed to embrace a single genre or genre at all beyond loosely categorized "rock." “We've never...
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The hip-hop booming from Los Chingones fades into '80s AOR as you enter Sugarmill. Though conjoined physically as well as spiritually as part of Troy Guard's TAG Restaurant Group, the two restaurants take very different places in the TAG empire. Chingones is loud, spicy, lascivious. Sugarmill is forthright and laid...
Vegan soul food? Isn’t that concept a little odd, like baseball without a seventh-inning stretch, or a backyard barbecue without beer? Not to Lonni Byrd, chef and co-owner of Love, Peace & Sol Cafe, a vegan soul-food restaurant that opened in Park Hill this winter. “We knew the anomaly of...
Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)...
Sharing weed stories has become commonplace over the past ten years or so. As with sexcapades, drunken stupors and fisherman’s tales, everyone has a story about some one-hitter strain that took them higher than they’d ever been. More than half the time, those stories begin with the words “This purple...
Roasting food on skewers is likely the second-oldest form of cooking over fire. Right after early humans got sick of burning their fingers every time they reached for a hunk of charred mastodon resting directly on hot coals, they started poking sharpened sticks into their meat to make a handy...
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Over the past two decades, Italiano and his wife, Pam, have hosted more than ninety nationally and internationally touring rock acts at FashioNation, a Denver clothing and shoe boutique that they’ve co-owned and run together since 1987.
In November 2015, two female deputies with the Denver Sheriff Department filed a lawsuit alleging that Denver County Jail is a house of horrors for female guards. The complaint suggested that profane verbal abuse, sexual harassment and intentional masturbation are common occurrences at the facility and argued that female deputies are "discouraged...
Hailing from Southern Texas, the Oh Hellos are a brother-sister duo turned ten-piece band, and they're bringing their Celtic-influenced style to Denver's Ogden Theatre on Thursday, September 29. Identified by slightly harrowing vocals, somber strings and celebratory eruptions of drum and choral cheers, the Oh Hellos captivate listeners with intensely emotional harmonies...
Denver isn’t home to many Cubans or Cuban-Americans; there are fewer than 6,500 in the entire state of Colorado, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. As a result, the number of Cuban restaurants in the metro area can be counted on one hand. There’s Cuba Cuba, the breezy, upscale eatery...
In a recent interview, University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin outlined three ways Donald Trump could shut down state-legal marijuana — a prospect that has raised increasing levels of concern among cannabis reformers since the president-elect's nomination of pot-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. Erik Altieri, executive director...
The wheels of justice grind slowly — especially when it comes to the Aurora theater shooting. In October 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed against Cinemark, owner of the Century 16 theater where James Holmes killed twelve people and injured seventy others on July 20 of that year,...
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Paul Thompson had a forged note from his mother in hand, authorizing him to purchase model-airplane glue. The preteen presented the phony document to the man behind the counter of the drugstore at West Alameda Avenue and South Federal Boulevard, who then sold Thompson his ration of two tubes. Once,...
Editor's Note: Trawling the Small Print is a new feature wherein we squint hard at big festival lineups and spotlight a few gems that may have been hidden below the headliners. The three-day Nederland Music and Art Festival, aka NedFest, happening this weekend, August 26-28, is into its 18th year,...
The GLBT Community Center of Colorado just announced the results of the online poll it conducted to determine the theme of this summer’s PrideFest event, set for Civic Center Park on June 18 and 19. And the winner is: "Building Community Through Pride," which took 51 percent of the vote,...
A little over a month after a shooting associated with a Craigslist ad, police are tying gun play in Lakewood to the online sales site. One man was hospitalized as a result of the incident; at this writing, his condition was unknown, although his injuries are described as not life-threatening...
We recently wrote about the falling value of marijuana in Mexico, which is being attributed to the liberalization of cannabis policies in the United States — and especially in Colorado. As a result, some farmers are reportedly shifting resources away from pot and toward poppies, as a result of the...
In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than 40 years explored sexual self-awakening, alienation and family strife in films notable for their consistency and...
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Branden Harms is said to have watched his girlfriend's baby for a few hours earlier this month. What happened over that span is unclear. But one thing is certain. Just over a day later, the child was dead — and Harms has been arrested under suspicion that he was responsible...
In case you missed it.... At Westword Arts, Keith Garcia reports about last-minute additions to the Film of the Rocks schedule — including a Prince-tribute screening of Purple Rain. Colorado Peak Politics on John McCain's call for the Justice Department to investigate the Las Animas spill. Purple Row's Ryan Freemyer to...
“In this day and age, an artist should never go on stage without understanding their business,” says Jay Nazz, drummer with Austin country-rock band Reckless Kelly. Let’s let those words sink in for a minute, because not only are they potentially artistically apocalyptic when you think of the countless talented...
A few hours before members of the Arvada Fire Department responded to a blazing home scrawled with messages reading "My Wife Is a Cheater," police in the community were dealing with what another tragic situation. One person is dead after a shooting at a suburban home. Is this a case...