Update: Thursday, 12:08 p.m.: We’ve picked our winners, thanks for playing and for reading Westword! If you have no pressing plans a week from tonight, Monday, November 7, why not go see acclaimed essayist, author and unique orator David Sedaris at the Paramount Theatre?…
October was supposed to be the month of Celebrating Women at Colorado Mills, but a few women felt distinctly dissed after the mall decided not to name a winner in the “Week of a Woman” photo contest. After covering the kick-off Wellness Expo at Colorado Mills, Bree Davies had entered…
It’s not all that easy scaring people, insists Mythica von Griffyn, who’s very busy these days acting at a haunted house. In fact, as he told Thorin Klosowski in yesterday’s “How to Get My Job,” the gig is a lot of hard work, what with make-up, costuming and the constant…
Filmmaker Michael Bay’s entire career has been about punishing the audience for their awful taste — namely, their taste for his work, Tim Davids suggests. And with the recent Transformers 3, Davids adds, Bay assaults us where we feel it most — our souls. But Sutava isn’t about to take…
Photos by Norman Dillon. Elegant is back again, ladies. That’s the look-at-me aesthetic Denver milliner Susan Dillon cultivates at her new Kitty Mae Millinery & Accessories boutique in RiNo/Curtis Park. And she’s eagerly waiting for you to stop by, so that she can dress you up. “I want people to…
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that tug on our play-strings. Kenta Cho’s SIN CAR does just that by providing an incredibly simple but impossible-to-resist premise that makes it incredibly difficult to walk away from the mouse for even just a few minutes. The basics are easy to grasp: you control…
An outpost of Maurices is set to open on Friday, October 28, at Southwest Plaza, complete with an old-fashioned ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. But it’s the ribbons and other women’s apparel items inside the store that will attract all the attention…
Here’s your chance to make some history. History Colorado — or the Colorado Historical Society, as it was known back when it started in 1879 — will begin a new chapter next spring, when the Colorado History Center opens on Broadway. And in the meantime, it’s collecting photos of Coloradans…
Photographer John Bonath’s spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the museum collection in an unusual and contemporary way. The hand-chosen objects that Bonath re-examined through an…
Are zombies done? Yes, we know it’s not that easy to get rid of the undead…but the commercialization of the undead? That’s something else entirely. Yesterday, thinking longingly of the days when slutty nurse costumes ruled, Jef Otte declared enough with the zombies already — and offered up “The ten…
It’s been close to a decade since the gore-spattered snowball of the zombie fad started rolling — check, for example, George Romero’s filmography, which boasts zero Whatever of the Dead flicks between 1990 and 2004 and five in the time since — and as this Halloween approaches, it’s once again…
James Lorca Garcia Velazquez doesn’t think the Denver art market is interested in his work. In fact, as he said in an interview with Tiffany Fitzgerald, he doesn’t think Denver is interested in art at all. And so he’s moving to New York. And not a moment too soon, according…
At tomorrow’s pre-Zombie Crawl Afraid of the Dark reception for the Bogeyman Art Show at MacSpa, you can commission comic artist Stan Yan to create an on-the-spot zombie makeover for you on paper, which you can then hang on your wall and remember that important day forever, dead or undead…
This weekend is all about spooky running and walking, apparently — with both Scream Scram and the Zombie Crawl lighting up the 16th Street Mall with masked, athletic nuts. If that’s not really your thing, don’t worry, because we’ve also got some good old fashioned comedy, shopping, art shows and…
This is it. Today is the end of the world, according to Harold Camping, the biblical prognosticator who was born in Boulder more than ninety years ago. But with age does not necessarily come wisdom: He did miss with his prediction of the Rapture — which he’d said would hit…
There are two distinct periods in the average American’s life: high school and not-high school. For me, the farther I get from those formative ninth-through-twelfth-grade years — 1994 to 1998 — the cooler they seem to have been. Today, when I look back at say, 1995, my eyes glaze over…
What if Princess Diana wasn’t killed by that car wreck in Paris? What if she survived, and re-invented herself as a commoner in Egypt, where she attempted to solve the mystery of what happened to Ankhesenamun, King Tutankhamun’s wife? What if? That’s the unlikely premise behind The Lost Queen of…
Every once in a while it’s satisfying to play a game where the only real objective is to watch things die in horrible and bloody ways. And thats’ what you’ll be doing in Roly Poly Eliminator 2, a new game from Adult Swim that takes the adorable play style of…
Like a zombie from the grave, a good burlesque emcee is impossible to keep down, and Cora Vette is a superb burlesque emcee. So it was inevitable that she’d be bringing back last year’s smash hit Zombielesque! for another run. Changing locations from Bender’s Tavern to Bar Standard — and…
If the Rapture came this past May 21 — as Harold Camping had predicted — no one noticed. But not to worry: Camping, who was born in Boulder more than nine decades ago and went on to found a biblical empire, now says that the real date to focus on…
It starts with photographs. They’re set in a storybook West — mostly in the back country of Colorado and Wyoming, but Mount Rushmore pops up as well. They’re populated by little girls in pigtails whose noses are scrunched either because of the sun hitting their eyes, or their little brothers…
We thought the insults would be flying over Jenny An’s Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga: Battle of the attention-grabbing sideshows, which pits Lady Gaga against Sarah Palin — or, as Mediatrends calls her, “Lady Blah Blah.” So far, though, that competition has been a lovefest compared to the snit over…
