Today legislators will consider a measure that would provide an economic incentive for filmmakers to work in Colorado — a rarity these days, as detailed in “The Reel West.” But a century ago, there was a booming film business in this state, which got its start with an 1897 flick…
After the University of Colorado at Boulder’s meme page showed up on Facebook, I was convinced that the Internet could use fewer memes. While glittery animated GIFs were once the way to “show some love,” memes are the way to show some stupidity, taking an image and vandalizing it with…
“A tigalo is what happens when a tiger and a buffalo get funky together,” explains Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing (and the partner of Jaime Jennings, who runs Fancy Tiger Crafts), which recently settled into new digs on Broadway alongside the craft store and Buffalo Exchange, which has…
The American Theatre Critics’ Association had chosen the New Play Summit at the Denver Center Theatre Company as the site of its winter meeting, and a group of critics compared notes one morning. We had all seen the same plays; on some we agreed; now and then someone pointed out…
Just as white stars occasionally show up sporting dreads, like Crystal Bowersox at the 2011 Grammys, our post on white people with dreads keeps popping up, with yet another group googling it during last night’s awards ceremony. The hairdo is woven into the histories of many cultures, notes one of…
Get ready to place your paws on DIBS, or Denver Independent Boutiques, this Saturday. Because come sunshine or snowfall, DIBS creator and Rakun owner, Meghan Throckmorton, along with her contemporaries, will host an event called Sweetheart Boutique Crawl. “This event is one way that we can encourage shoppers to buy…
“Think of it as American Idol meets Bill Nye the Science Guy,” says David Grinspoon, astrobiology curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. This is his best description of FameLab, an international competition for young scientists that has made its way across the pond for the first time…
Corey Elbin’s departure from Denver is a real loss for this city’s cultural scene. He’s been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday night food and music gathering, since it was introduced almost two years ago. He’s grown the event into a real all-ages community affair. But now…
On Monday, Westword posted its own version of “Shit people say” in Denver….and the shit quickly hit the fan. People from Texas and California, in particular, didn’t appreciate the joke. Here’s the response from Surfnskidude:…
Last year’s Goodwill-sponsored Good Exchange for Change Fashion Show and Clothing Swap, which came right on the heels of Mondo Guerra’s stunning near-win on Project Runway, featured the local fashion superstar while banking on a trend-to-be: the clothing swap…
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver® 2012 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we’d like your input. What’s the best new public art? Best annual festival?…
Westword writers may not have a future as filmmakers, but they do know how to capture what people say — as evidenced by our “Shit people say” video dedicated to Denver. Even so, we missed a few standbys…
Once upon a time, before Facebook made social networking acceptable for non-nerds and technology was on the cusp of the cellular-phone revolution from the brick to the flip, I had a pager. I also had a boyfriend who I fought with, in public, for about 80 percent of the duration…
Nearly a year ago, designers Tricia Hoke, Deb Henriksen, Jose Duran and Lisa Elstun put their heads together and created Red Drinks, a monthly get-together when local folks in the fashion/design field could mingle, network and share ideas. It’s been going strong ever since, and after a holiday hiatus, Red…
In Internet time, the “shit people say” videos really peaked last month — but we never came across one that really captured the phrases and idioms of Denver. So we made one. But apparently we missed some of the shit people say:…
All the snow that fell across the Front Range Friday had fishing enthusiasts thinking about just what will happen when all that white stuff melts — pouring water into this state’s streams, rivers and lakes. To get a taste of the country’s liquid assets, they should head to Anthology Fine…
Dear Diary: Last. Night. Was. Awesome. My friend Nichole won tickets to see Demetri Martin at Macky Auditorium in Boulder, and guess who she chose to be her plus-one? This lucky girl, right here. And can I say, for the record, that the tickets were bomb. So bomb. We were…
Three weeks after the T.Rex Encounter exhibit vacated the gallery, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is already featuring a new exhibit (free with museum admission!), Lizards & Snakes. It first launched at the American Museum of Natural History and includes live animals — sixty of them (Including the…
John Waters is the guy who came in from the cult. In advance of his visit to Denver next month — for an event aptly titled An Evening With John Waters — we’ve been wondering what questions to ask him about his formidable movie career. So we asked readers to…
Impossible Winterbourne knows the importance of public art. “It gives the public a voice, inspires people, makes people happy, makes rundown buildings beautiful, and does all this while asking nothing in return,” he told Tiffany Fitzgerald for this post. And this Denver artist is putting up his unauthorized, steampunk art…
Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring — one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can’t even believe that they don’t get…
I’m not a blonde anymore. That fantasy has officially ended. After spending the better part of a year transitioning from dirt brown to Michelle Pfeiffer’s off-yellow Scarface bob to accidentally sea green to Gwen Stefani white, my hair is now a pleasant rich-chocolate color. So my mother can stop thinking…
