Like most people who make their living off beer, Greg Matthews worries about what’s happening to the craft-brewing industry, which is suddenly overflowing with infighting, trademark disputes and buyouts. Anheuser Busch InBev, in particular, has made waves by purchasing craft breweries such as Breckenridge Brewery, 10 Barrel and Elysian, and...
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Late last month, Denver announced a plan to spend $150 million over the next ten years to construct 6,000 affordable housing units. The announcement was made at a packed community meeting at East High School on April 26, where Mayor Michael Hancock and other Denver officials described the ins-and-outs of...
According to Mac Sabbath manager Mike Odd, lead singer Ronald Osbourne believes he teleported across space and time from the 1970s to 2014 to start the band. Think Back to the Future in reverse. The true origins of Ronald Osbourne are shrouded in mystery as is the case with his...
In the annals of court rulings, you won't find any more tight-lipped or to the point than the order handed down by the Colorado Supreme Court yesterday, in response to a 56-page petition by defense attorneys trying to learn why the presiding judge was abruptly removed from a long-running death-penalty...
At first blush, a proposed amendment to the Denver city charter seems unlikely to stir passions. But including Denver's Office of the Independent Monitor in that document is important to the Denver Justice Project, which is planning a rally in favor of such a proposal at 4:30 p.m. today at the...
Sometimes it may not feel like it, but much progress has been made in the fight for women's rights. Take birth control. It's hard to imagine now, but a hundred years ago it was illegal to even tell someone about it, much less try to practice it. A pivotal contributor...
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The collective head of planetary sports media exploded this week when agents for former Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow announced that he's interested in tackling a career in Major League Baseball and will be holding a try-out for teams later this month. Never mind that he hasn't played baseball since...
For Tree Stories, their intelligent group show at Michael Warren Contemporary, gallery co-directors Michael McClung and Warren Campbell have put together what are essentially three interconnected solos. In their discrete spaces, Meredith Nemirov, Jeff Baldus and Gwen Laine all focus on trees — deconstructing them in paintings, sculptures and photos,...
It doesn’t so much arrive as it does infiltrate. The Boulder Fringe Festival sweeps into town for its twelfth annual celebration, twelve days beginning August 17, sprouting up in the most unlikely, ad hoc places all over downtown Boulder. Twenty-five acts will freewheel along, entertainers from around the world that...
We recently reported about three Denver deputies fired for excessive force and why they may not stay fired. But while the cases involving the three men — William Jackson, Steven Roybal and Monwell Fuller — may be the most serious disciplinary matters involving Denver Sheriff Department personnel of late, they're hardly the...
Sci-fi took a right turn at the Victorian Age and never moved on – and the result was steampunk, a cult genre that's here to stay. And that's particularly true right here in Denver, where steampunk fans gather each year at AnomalyCon for a stellar weekend of cosplay, guest panels,...
Last Saturday, June 25, marked the biggest festival in the 22-year history of the Westword Music Showcase, which spanned more than a dozen stages around Denver's Golden Triangle and featured nearly 100 local bands and artists across many genres. This lineup was drawn from the finalist nominees for the 2016...
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Driving east along Colfax Avenue from downtown is a bit like journeying from Denver south through Central America. As you leave the modern, redeveloped blocks and head past Colorado Boulevard, the population thins and the scenery becomes a little more gritty. But diversity grows, with a patchwork quilt of international...
If you’re having a hard time girding for holiday shopping this year, you’re not alone. The weather’s been weird and so are the politics, and it’s hard to turn your thoughts to trimming the tree and filling the space beneath it when nothing feels quite right. Here’s a secret...
The controversy over a new Denver Police Department draft policy about the use of force flared up again last night at a contentious community forum at the Shorter Community AME Church, with activists, faith leaders and other community members letting Denver Police Chief Robert White and other officials how unhappy they are with the way the document was assembled and presented.
Like American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood’s Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining the gunfire, roaring helicopters and wailing bystanders of Fallujah playing out on a turned-off television as his children race through the house. In Sully, Chesley...
Conejos County Sheriff's Office The official search for Mr. Keller has been suspended but the investigation is continuing. We have exhausted the search resources available to us for the time being and have uncovered no information that would lead us to believe that continuing to search right now is the...
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets...
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On August 17, the website Blabbermouth.net reported that Denver thrash metal band Havok had been kicked off of a tour with Megadeth, just as it was about it hit Mexico. The tour, which also features Suicidal Tendencies, Amon Amarth and Metal Church, was just the latest in a series of...
The summer is coming to an end and that means the beautiful, scorching-hot Colorado weather is going to turn into a beautiful, less-scorching Colorado fall. In just a few weeks, the summer schedule at Red Rocks, Fiddler's Green and Hudson Gardens will be done for the year, and the outdoor...
In the 32 years he’s lived on Humboldt Street, David Engelken has seen many changes in his neighborhood. He remembers the early ’90s, when prostitutes and drug dealers occupied the brownstones across the street from his house. A decade later, he helped secure the area’s historic designation. Now Engelken, the...
Since forming 1993 and putting out a self-titled debut album in 1995, Garbage has not been a band to take the easy road. Famously composed of three guys known primarily for their production work prior to this band, it was Steve Marker who spotted Shirley Manson singing with Scottish alt-rockers...