You’ve drunk beer. Maybe you’ve made bread out of it, or even cooked up some beer-battered onion rings. Now the Ritz-Carlton is offering a higher-brow — and way more expensive — way to get your hops on: a full-body spa treatment. The Mile High Malt Scrub and Microbrew Massage, part…
In the cavernous central hall of the Aurora Municipal Center are portraits of the 85 men and women from Colorado who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the corner of each of their service portraits is a photo that their family submitted to the project called Remembering Our Fallen,…
Way to support drinking, Colorado State University! Look for wines made by CSU starting next spring. Blended at Stoney Mesa Winery because CSU is still in the process of applying for the necessary licenses, the bottles with the CSU mascot — called Ram’s Point — will sell for $10 to…
You’ll recognize it by the fake-blood-covered masses walking down the 16th Street Mall. Last year’s Zombie Crawl in Denver broke the world record for largest zombie-related flash mob, with 7,500 costumed participants. That was soon overtaken by a non-Halloween-related event in Seattle earlier this year, and Zombie Crawl creator Danny…
The 79 full-time musicians of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra have been taking steep cuts. They collectively agreed to give up $530,000 in September, and they took another hit when fall programming was trimmed back. To help soften the blow, the CSO Musicians Assistance Fund was created on October 6. The…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra is struggling: it’s over $1 million short on cash; its musicians are seeing massive pay cuts; and twenty of its board members (read: big donors) have left. The CSO cut five programs, which totaled ten shows, from now through early-December and brought back old personnel to…
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…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has made a lot of changes over the past few weeks, including hacking almost half of its performances in October and November. In September, more than twenty members of the CSO’s board of trustees resigned; Jerome Kern and his wife, Mary Rossick Kern, have been brought…
Andrew Haigh’s IMDB filmography includes editing credits for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal Rising. He’s also written and directed two films, the latest being Weekend, a movie about two gay men that has little sex, a good deal of drugs, and lots and lots of talk — without a…
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, Brit filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s documentary-slash-hatchet job, opens today at the Denver Film Center. In the film, Palin is seen as a polarizing, sideshow personality in the world of politics — the equivalent of Lady Gaga in the realm of music. In the cage match for media…
This is not Sarah Palin’s version of Alaska. Primarily set in her home town of Wasilla, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! reveals a wintery non-paradise filled with backstabbing, petty squabbles and scientifically “creative” characters. It’s a Palin documentary not to be confused with The Unde-feated, the quasi-propagandistic film written and directed…
While the Denver Housing Authority’s 1099 Osage Street building, part of the South Lincoln/Mariposa Redevelopment project, won’t be completed until January 2012, it’s already making changes in the neighborhood. And on Friday, Guerrilla Garden will unveil a 5,000 square-foot mural at the corner of 11th Avenue and Osage Street…
NEON INDIAN at BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/10/11In a year of terrible ’80s remakes (Footloose, anyone?), Neon Indian’s show proved that borrowed doesn’t have to be staid. While the ’80s were well and alive in the synth chords and frontman Alan Palomo’s hip-swiveling dance moves, they came out of the mixing…
Street art is usually a fly-by-night phenomena, one that the artists prefer no one — especially the police — witness. Just ask the Knapper twins, the subjects of this week’s Westword cover story. But Denver has recently taken to the idea of live street-art events. And last Friday night, UnseenDenver…
10. Bloomberg Businessweek On Friday, Bloomberg Businessweek revealed its tribute to Steve Jobs. With a photo essay, an incredibly thorough biography and first-person input from Eric Schmidt, John Sculley and Steve Jurvetson, it’s impressive in scope and quality. But it’s just one of many innovative tributes inspired by the death…
While Hazel and Dewey is named after owner Jenna Miles’s great aunt, there’s nothing geriatric about the store. Located on South Broadway, the shop (which opened in June) is William and Sonoma’s spunky, Etsy-ified little sister where juicers have gnome heads, aprons are printed with apple motifs and cake stands…
Corey and Jesse Knapper, a pair of art-school students who were arrested for pasting massive posters on the sides of buildings, are the focus of “Buzz Kill,” this week’s cover story. Some people call their work vandalism, some call it art, some call it both. Their graphic poster art is…
Buy a red car and find someone young and spry to liven up your life. That’s what most people would do when staring down the precipice of a life crisis. I applied for The Real World online. Last Tuesday I got an e-mail telling me that I was a very…
“I was able to view an album titled ‘Homies’ by ‘Ray Jin’ on Facebook.” That was some of the excellent police work done by the Wheat Ridge Police Department while investigating Corey and Jesse Knapper, the subjects of this week’s Westword cover story, “Buzz Kill.” The twins and art-school students…
The Colorado Symphony’s financial woes continue, and now they’re directly impacting programming. Say “finis” to five programs originally scheduled for the next two months: the Halloween Spooktacular (October 30) for families; Shuffle (November 11), part of the innovative Inside the Score that attempts to make classical music easier to digest;…
“We like to call it ‘not your mama’s annual fundraiser,’” says Jami Duffy, executive director of Flobots.org, the charitable arm of local band Flobots. And Bowling Ball 3 is certainly different. The event pits local celebrities — including members of DeVotchKa, OneRepublic, Bop Skizzum, the Colorado Rapids, the Rocky Mountain…
The Denver Symphony Orchestra, the professional orchestra that called Boettcher Concert Hall home, went kaput in 1989. Twenty-two years later, it’s looking like the Colorado Symphony might face the same fate. Barry Fey, the legendary rock promoter who stepped in to save the symphony two decades ago, recognizes the signs…
