The movies for the 2012 Film on the Rocks summer lineup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — many of them picked by the people, for the people — were announced Friday night, and don’t blame the Denver FilmCenter if you don’t like The Notebook. “It wasn’t just because this seems to…
He looked shmucky enough at the end of the regularly scheduled session of the Colorado Legislature when he pointed the finger at Democrats for not pushing the civil unions bill earlier, then delivered his own lethal injection when he sent the proposal to a “kill committee.” And then whoops, House…
Six months after District Meats opened in a space that hsd already swallowed up a big-time national restaurant operator (the Chodorows, who’d brought Big Game to Denver as well as an outpost of Il Fornaio), another big-time national restaurateur has stepped in to change up his LoDo spot. “I’m renaming…
Today, the state’s Economic Development Commission will choose which, if any, of six projects that applied will get subsidies under the Regional Tourism Act. Eco devo chief Ken Lund has recommended that just one be granted incentives: Gaylord, which wants to build an Aurora hotel/resort complex…
.Creeped out by last week’s TIME cover story about attachment parenting, Jef Otte penned an essay for the Village Voice about how much attachment parenting sucks and posted it to his wall. As it happened, local comic and 2012 Westword MasterMind Andrew Orvedahl had penned his own essay on how…
While protesters gathered in front of City Hall Monday to protest the upcoming ban on urban camping, another group was gathering by the tiny triangular space at 23rd and Lawrence streets, a spot officially known as Eddie Maestas Park, but most often called the Bumuda Triangle…
The news that Laura Shunk is moving to New York and opening up a slot for a new restaurant critic inspired many readers to suggest possible candidates — including old restaurant critic Jason Sheehan, for example. Penny Parker. And two words: Dave. Barnes. “I think more reviews should be focused…
Britt Chester, who sold his car two years ago and relies on his bicycle and public transportation to get around, has been riding around this town’s bike trails, stopping to snap pictures. This photos become posts in our “guess where I’m biking” series — which has a B-cycle card as…
Snooze found itself at the center of a protest over the camping ban after co-owner Brianna Borin spoke in favor of the ordinance at a Denver City Council hearing. During peak breakfast hours two weekends ago, members of Occupy Denver flocked to the original Snooze, at 23rd and Larimer streets,…
The controversy that broke last fall over Rick Perry’s “Niggerhead” sign at a family hunting camp got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in 2011 that was still the official name…
Wicked will end its run in Denver on May 20, and when the touring show goes, Colorado native Andy Kelso, who plays Fiyero, the hedonistic prince who becomes the third point in a love triangle with the two leading ladies, will go with it. “The Buell is where I first…
Always begin right where you are And work out from here: If adrift, feel the feel of the oar in the oarlock first, If saddling a horse let your right knee slug The belly of the horse like an uppercut, Then cinch his suck, Then mount and ride away To…
The controversy over “Niggerhead,” the hand-painted label on a rock at the hunting camp leased by Texas governor Rick Perry’s family for decades, got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in…
Lucy, the restaurant above Comedy Works South, has gone through several incarnations since the second it opened in the Landmark complex in late 2008: soul food, picnic food, party food. Starting today, though, Lucy has a new identity: It’s now setting itself up as a go-to breakfast and lunch spot,…
It’s 2006 all over again. That was the year that Coloradans passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. It was also the year when lieutenant governor candidate Janet Rowland, when discussing same-sex marriage, uttered this: “Do we allow a man to marry a…
Does this look like Denver’s best paella to you? It definitely tasted that way to Lori Midson, who proclaimed it the “holy grail” in her search for great paella and asked readers to guess where she’d found it. Turned out the answer was Solera. But before we got that, we…
You’re not going to see Edie Winograde’s “Battle on the Little Big Horn” at History Colorado, or any of the other pieces that graced the recent Appropriated: The Chronicled West at the Robishon Gallery, the show organized by husband-and-wife team Jim Robischon and Jennifer Doran, who pulled together contemporary art…
In this week’s cover story, “Water World,” Westword writers explored the South Platte, the river that runs through Denver and is showing new life. Our favorite spot on the Platte, though, could well be my favorite spot in Denver: the point at Confluence Park where the past and the present…
A year after it abruptly closed its original location in Highland, Squeaky Bean will bloom again next month at 1500 Wynkoop Street. And thanks to a series of videos with owner Johnny Ballen, you can get a taste of what’s to come: a Casa Bonita for adults, he promises. “Opening…
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it…really fast. Today’s Denver Post has a fascinating — if redundant — Associated Press story about a Houston lawyer who’s tracking down missing moon rocks. At least 180 are unaccounted for — but not Colorado’s…
“Comics and sci-fi are the new archetypes of our culture; we relate to Star Wars and Stan Lee’s characters, and we’ve created new mythologies through them,” says Dan Landes, restaurateur and self-confessed sci-fi geek. And on May 4, Landes’s City, O’ City hosted a full-on orgy of nerdness with the…
Meet the MasterMinds! Eight years ago, Westword started the MasterMind Awards, a program that honors this city’s most creative class. Over $100,000 years in grants later, the MasterMinds are still going strong…
