Denver’s annual Irish Pub Crawl brought in plenty of green over the weekend, with a drinking tour of several of the city’s Irish-themed spots. The same theme carried over to the costumes, which Westword photographer Christopher Morgan captured in our Irish Pub Crawl slide show. Continue reading for highlights from…
Westword’s eighteenth annual Artopia combined art, food, music and live performances at Vinyl, City Hall, Bar Standard, The Living Room and The Salty Dog on February 23, 2013. And to celebrate the event turning voting age, we asked Denver artists John Vogl to create a limited edition poster (above) commemorating…
KEGGS & EGGS @ LODO’S | FRI, 3/15/13 In addition to being a Denver institution at this point, Keggs & Eggs has become a signifier of spring and annual monument to daytime drinking. No matter who’s playing KTCL’s free St. Patrick’s Day shindig, the lines start forming in LoDo just…
Ah, yes, Sunday morning coming down. I believe that’s how Kris Kristofferson once described the tail end of an epic bender, what, with no way to hold his head in a way that didn’t ache and what have you. Hopefully you didn’t go too hard the past two days; there’s…
For those of you lucky enough to be up in the mountains this afternoon for day two of the SnowBall Music Festival gets ready to get underway, you’re probably going over the lineup and hatching a plan for what you’re going to see today. If so, we’ve got you covered…
As we know, plenty of people go to jail because of drugs. Sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly, but frequently. But only a chosen few face time behind bars because they try to bring narcotics into jail. Like, for instance, Schmuck of the Week nominees Sarah Wolfe and Ronald Boyken, who are…
Crazed collector Andrew Novick even collects food memories with his camera, and sometimes shares them with the world, as he does with Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate), an exhibit that opens with a reception from 5 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at cupcake emporium The Shoppe. Susan…
See also: 25 reasons the Denver music scene rules In our series of coveted Colorado music-industry jobs, we’ve covered a range of jobs, from guitar tech and handling publicity to being tasked with overseeing digital music delivery from a vast electronic music catalog to band management. Today, we complete our…
ALABAMA SHAKES @ OGDEN THEATRE | SAT, 3/9/13 A number of bands are returning to a Southern-rock sound these days, but much of the music they’re making is too derivative to be interesting. Alabama Shakes, fresh off a date warming up for Neil Young, bucks that trend. The group’s members,…
Update: Congratulations to amyreannie! You’ve won four tickets to see the Mammoth tomorrow. Check your email for details on how to win. Original post: Whether you’re already a fan of lacrosse or have never even seen a game, here’s your chance to capture the action for free. Our home team…
Update: Congratulations to nicage1125! You’ve won twenty free movie passes. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: We’ll cut to the chase: Movies are one of this planet’s greatest pleasures, and there’s nothing quite like seeing a film at a real theater. Show and Tell…
For Denver Restaurant Week, Stir Cooking School, 3215 Zuni Street, is hosting a special, three-hour cooking class on cooking with fresh herbs starting at 6:30 p.m…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it’s not surprising that the most common (and favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t you know it, off…
Over the weekend, BAD girls (Babes Around Denver attendees) took over Tracks with a party celebrating the lesbian club night’s tenth anniversary in town. The fun fete brought out brave dancers, bold dressers and even one dapper space man to ring in Babes Around Denver’s birthday on the scene. Westword…
First Friday in March was filled with pictures as Month of Photography 2013 kicked off at museums and galleries all over town, but the night was also all about food trucks and hip-hop dancers, street musicians, Anthony Camera’s junkie photo booth and folks strolling in the streets. Our photographer Danielle…
This past weekend, Animeland Wasabi turned the Doubletree Hotel into a veritable fashion week for wannabe manga characters, video-game stars and anime legends. And this is not kidstuff, as you will see: The most serious cosplayers spend months and big bucks preparing for their closeups. Our photographer Danielle Lirette brought…
Held at Avery Brewing in Boulder, the annual Boulder Strong Ale Fest featured more than one hundred of the biggest, the baddest and the boldest beers available from brewers in Colorado and around the country. The epic fest is designed to challenge even the most seasoned beer drinkers with its…
Looks like the Mile High Soul Club has settled comfortably into its new home at Beauty Bar, where it took up residence last month from its former digs at the Meadowlark. We sent Brandon Marshall, our resident paparazzo extraordinaire, out to check in with the cats and capture the scene…
At the Meadowlark this past weekend, #TheSolution6 culminated with the Art of Records II a series of events celebrating the Solution’s six year of existence. The second annual edition of the Art of Records II was curated by DJ Low Key and Dunn the Signtologist and featured talented area artists…
SNOWBALL MUSIC FESTIVAL @ WINTER PARK | FRI-SUN, 3/8-3/10 If the idea of standing outside in the cold and snow sounds positively unappealing to you, either you’re not from Colorado or you’re new here. Whatever the case, don’t let any of that dissuade you from heading up to the mountains…
More than two dozen restaurants made their debut in February, including the long-anticipated Old Major. But Pig & Block Charcuterie wasn’t around to greet its new neighbor (or benefit from some of those customers); it closed last month. Keep reading for all the openings and closings on the Denver dining…
By Bob McMahon From the perspective of a casual observer, it would be all too easy to label the members of Menomena as miserablists. The group’s mixture of reverb-laden piano, woodwinds, crashing drums and pretty much every keyboard voice and stringed instrument in existence has always cohered into a solemn,…
