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How To Succeed in Business…With Hip-Hop

On a typical weekday, Roy Dockery can be found inside a wide, one-story brick building in a northeast Denver industrial park. The corporate setup appears to be modeled after an advertisement in an office-supply catalogue, with high-walled cubicles forming a maze across the center floor and a few closed-door offices...
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High Five Hip-Hop Collective Reaches Out

When High Five came together in 2012, the collective comprised solo artists who pooled their talents and resources in order to create something bigger than their individual efforts — a creative model not unlike that of Minneapolis’s Doomtree. “That’s a very similar format to what we have in that they’re...
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Guac Talk: Choosing the Right Guacamole for your Broncos Party

If you’re a football fan, you know what’s riding on this weekend’s game between the Broncos and the Green Bay Packers: bragging rights. By Sunday night, only one team will have that prized zero in the loss column. But regardless of who wins, you can have bragging rights in the...
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Colorado’s Biggest Marijuana Stories of 2015

Remember when marijuana was still illegal? We barely do. Westword's coverage of the Colorado cannabis scene has taken readers through the legislation that first made medical marijuana legal through the early days of unregulated chaos to full legalization and into 2015's quirky, but ever-maturing industry. Some older issues, like edibles packaging,...
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Bear Grylls and Ed Helms Ran Wild in Colorado — and Survived!

Adventurer, survivalist and outdoor guru Bear Grylls is the star of Running Wild with Bear Grylls, now in its second season with NBC. On each episode, viewers watch Grylls take A-list celebrities, TV stars and even a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Drew Brees, into untamed and untouched areas around the globe for a...
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Bacon Social House Will Sizzle in Sunnyside Beginning November 24

Cobbler's Corner, a historic building at the corner of 44th Avenue and Alcott Street in Sunnyside, has been getting a major makeover this year thanks to co-owner Jack Pottle and restaurant and real-estate developer Paul Tamburello. The building, which originally housed a shoe shop operated by Pottle's grandparents in the...
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Denver’s Dreadnought Is Taking the Doom Scene by Storm

Dreadnought, the local psychedelic, progressive-doom band, defies many stereotypes about what metal is and can be. The act is half-male and half-female, and its members take on non-traditional roles. Kelly Schilling plays guitar and does harsh and clean vocals; Lauren Vieira plays keyboards and does clean vocals; Jordan Clancy plays drums...
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Ten Best Film Events In Denver In February

February is our month for love in all of its syrupy forms — and our list of cinematic valentines is packed tighter than a chocolate box. Though lacking in stories actually about love, each one of these movies is perfect for a date or a solo outing that might lead...
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Ranker’s Ten Most Famous People From Denver Includes a Porn Star

We love Ranker, since, as the website's name implies, it ranks just about anything and everything. Moreover, the results are often surprising, as seen in our previous roundups of the ten most famous attendees of CSU and the University of Denver. That definitely proved the case with the site's list...
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Franchise Owner: Planet Sub Was Sunk by Construction Project

The twin restaurant spaces at 1617 California street downtown have seen a few eateries come and go: Fontano's Subs, An's Lemongrass Grille — and most recently, Planet Sub, which closed on October 7. And while Larkburger is currently making a go of it in the right-hand space, reader Jason Dennee...
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Ten Best Geek Events in Denver in February

February is here, which means a societally obligated focus on all things love for the next two weeks! Don't worry, though — apart from a couple of carefully curated selections, this month's list of geek events will barely register the existence of Valentine's Day. Instead, our focus — as always...
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Denver Film Festival 2015 Wrap-Up: Coming Through the Rye and More

The terror attacks in Paris cast a shadow over the final days of the Denver Film Festival. At screening after screening throughout the fest's final weekend, speakers referenced the horrific crimes and encouraged attendees to send positive thoughts to victims and survivors in the City of Light. But the shows...