Around town

Top ten people who resembled their scooters at Mile High Mayhem 15

By Nick Lucchesi Mon., Jul. 30 2012 at 10:19 AM
Categories: Around town, Culture, Events, Over The Weekend, Photos, Popular Culture, Style, Top 10

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The fifteenth Mile High Mayhem scooter rally went down in Denver over the weekend, attracting riders from all around. It only took a few minutes to see that many riders and their scooters seemed to share something: A color scheme, attitude or perhaps it was their shape of their body while sitting on their scooter.

Here are a few symbiotic scooter riders spotted during Saturday's ride from Sportique Denver to Sportique Englewood. Photos by Brandon Marshall for Westword.

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- Slide show: Mile High Mayhem 15
- Missi Kroge of the Secret Servix all-girl scooter club on the birth of Mile High Mayhem

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Denver, Englewood, Mile High Mayhem, Scooters, Sportique, Subcultures, Vespas
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Over The Weekend

Unreasonable Institute climaxes with venture pitches from 22 entrepreneurs

By Melody Parker Mon., Jul. 23 2012 at 2:29 PM
Categories: Events, Over The Weekend

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After six weeks of living under the same roof, 22 promising entrepreneurs from 16 different countries and every walk of life pitched their ventures to hundreds of potential funders, partners and local supporters gathered in Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus on a scorching Saturday afternoon. With business concepts ranging from innovative water-saving toilets to loans for Ugandan motorcycle drivers, the Unreasonable Institute's 2012 fellows confidently captivated their audience with plans to redefine progress in our time.

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unreasonable climax, unreasonable institute
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Books

Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas takes over Aspen Saturday

By Josiah M. Hesse Thu., Jul. 12 2012 at 2:19 PM
Categories: Books, Comedy, Culture, Over The Weekend, People, Performance, Popular Culture, Random weirdness

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"Hunter [Thompson] was always asking me and other people to read his work aloud," remembers Matt Moseley, friend and fellow freedom fighter with Thompson in the controversial Lisl Auman case. "He wrote his work to be read aloud. When he was working on a new piece he'd say, 'Read a couple of paragraphs, I want to hear how it sounds.'" And in honor of what would have been Thompson's 75th birthday, Moseley and the rest of the team that produced the Gonzo funeral in '05 are reuniting for an unabridged reading of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Jerome in Aspen. "This will be the Ironman of readings," he promises.

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Aspen, Cannon, Fat City, Freak Power, Hotel Jerome, Hunter Thompson
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Arts and Culture

Splat! 50,000 pounds of rotten tomatoes, costumes and beer at Colorado Tomato Battle

By Natalie Gonzalez Mon., Jul. 9 2012 at 7:57 AM
Categories: Arts and Culture, Contests, Events, Fight!, Over The Weekend

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The Colorado Tomato Battle at Dick's Sporting Goods Park Saturday was a mash-up of childhood frivolity and big-kid fun. Though the structure was more formal than the old Tomato Wars between Coloradans and Texans at Twin Lakes, the result was the same: utter chaos and tomato soup.

See Also:
-Slideshow: People of the Tomato Battle
-Slideshow: Tomato Battle at Copper Mountain
-Video: Copper Mountain Tomato Battle


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Colorado Tomato Battle, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Natalie Gonzalez, Tomato
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Street Fashion

What's in your bag? Dead animals, shades and more at the Westword Music Showcase

By Mauricio Rocha Wed., Jun. 27 2012 at 1:30 PM
Categories: Around town, DIY, Fashion, Festivals, Fight!, Nightlife, Over The Weekend, People, Photos, Street Fashion, Style, Tattoo

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Last Saturday was scorching, and not just because the temperature broke 100 degrees. There was also blazing local music at the eighteenth annual Westword Music Showcase -- with a record-breaking 15,000 fans in attendance. While many focused on remaining hydrated with booze or water, others were fixated on their own personal style. Satiate your stylistic thirst with these two examples of WMS style done right:

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Dance, DJ MU$A, Fashion, Q-Tip, Style-Spy, Summer, Vivienne Westwood, Westword Music Showcase
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Around town

Captain America is really popular in Denver

By Nick Lucchesi Mon., Jun. 18 2012 at 1:42 PM
Categories: Around town, Comix, Culture, Events, Over The Weekend, Photos, Popular Culture

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Provocative, yes. Captain America, no. From our Sidewalk Superheroes at Denver Comic Con
This past weekend we saw Captain America at a few different spots in Denver and Boulder, and while last summer's film left movie-goers unsatisfied, his role in The Avengers has returned him to the list of most popular super heroes.

Here's where we spotted Captain American this weekend.

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1940s WWII Era Ball, Captain America, Colorado Convention Center, Denver Comic Con
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Art

Photos: Love, murder and death, illustrated, at Emmanuel Gallery

By Chris Utterback Tue., Jun. 12 2012 at 10:55 AM
Categories: Art, Events, Over The Weekend

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José Guadalupe Posada's engravings adorned everything from National Enquirer-style stories of monsters and grisly crimes to devout religious pamphlets. Today, artist Jerry Vigil creates three-dimensional wood carvings that translate Posada's style for a modern age, just as the Mexican engraver translated the day's news into unforgettable illustrations.

The two artists merge in Posada's Broadsheets: Of Love And Betrayal & Posada Inspired, which opened last Friday at Auraria's Emmanuel Gallery.

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Art, Auraria Campus, Emmanuel Gallery, Jerry Vigil, UCD
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Over The Weekend

"Box Guy" Daniel Nilsson and stranger get boxed in for art

By Jef Otte Mon., Jun. 11 2012 at 7:45 AM
Categories: Art, Follow That Story, Over The Weekend

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Perhaps it was their shared propensity for posting weird ads on Craigslist that was fated to bring them, like so many missed connections, together. Or maybe they're just two weird dudes. Whatever it is, there's something approaching ironic about the fact that Daniel Nilsson -- who had been looking via the Craigslist housing section for a complete stranger with which to spend an otherwise totally isolated in a box with no food -- found his stranger not through a reply to his own ad, but by replying to another. "Basically I put up a weird Craigslist ad looking for film work: 'Artist Seeks Coming of Age Ritual' or something like that," explains Trevor Jahner, who is and will continue to be the stranger in Nilsson's box for the next five or so days. "Daniel contacted me, like, 'I've got something you might be interested in.'"

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Art

First Friday: Bright lights on Broadway, Side Show on Santa Fe

By Josiah M. Hesse Mon., Jun. 4 2012 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Art, Over The Weekend

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Tymla Welch and Lauren Seip of Lowbrow Gallery.
Broadway has become a major contender on First Friday, and the crowds turned out to welcome the arrival of the Ladies Fancywork Society's new brainchild, Lowbrow, a gallery that celebrated its grand opening Friday night. "It was great to see so many people come out to support us -- many of them not even related to us!" said Lauren Seip, who owns Lowbrow with Tymla Welch, a fellow member of LFS, a group known for its "yarn-bomb" work.

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Fancy Tiger, Lowbrow, Sarah Polzin, Side Show Studio
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Around town

Cirque Voltaire: Blitzkrieg's uniquely stylistic circus brings out the bizarre at The Oriental

By Tiffany Fitzgerald Tue., May 29 2012 at 8:16 AM
Categories: Around town, Arts and Culture, Over The Weekend, Theater

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When I parked the car on Tennyson Street Friday night, I was still two blocks away from the Oriental Theater -- and I could already hear the Whomp Truck thundering bass-heavy music into the night air as a prelulde to Cirque Voltaire III: Blitzkrieg. And as I walked to the theater, other pedestrians dressed like extras from an surrealistic French film -- striped stockings, lace bodices, top hats, capes -- passed me by. I was seriously under-dressed.

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Cirque Voltaire: Blitzkrieg, Impossible Winterbourne, Mad Tatters, Snodgrass Jones, Sophia Rose, The Oriental Theatre
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