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Arrivals and Departures 2019-20
Dallas Observer
We're here, on New Year's Eve, not to praise 2019, but to bury it. It's been ... a year. The Cowboys failed in the most Cowboys of ways. Donald Trump came back to American Airlines Center, as president this time. We've got a new mayor, a new district attorney and...
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Flood Warning Extended For Harris County As Beta Shifts Toward Northeast Houston
Houston Press
In a Tuesday evening weather update, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said that while Tropical Depression Beta continues to move slowly out of our region, it will likely keep dropping rain on the Houston area for “about 12 more hours." After south and southwest Houston were battered by heavy rainfall Monday...
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Another Former Brophy Priest Has Been Accused of Sexual Abuse
Phoenix New Times
James A. Sinnerud, S.J. was named in a lawsuit today.
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COVID-19: Colorado May Be Among Top Ten States for Virus Transmission
Westword Denver
Governor Polis's press conference was the most somber in months.
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No Emergency Session for COVID, but Anti-Protest Bill Could Get Special Vote
Miami New Times
Democratic lawmakers pointed out that Florida Republicans previously refused to call a special session on COVID-19.
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This Week in COVID: No More Mask Mandate in Scottsdale as the U.S. Hits 200,000 Deaths
Phoenix New Times
UofA has had 2,030 new cases since July.
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Homelessness Crosses Borders: It's a Challenge for Metro Denver
Westword Denver
A state task force could improve communication and collaboration.
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Streets and Highways Flood Across Houston [UPDATED]
Houston Press
Tropical Storm Beta has been pouring down rain across the Houston area since Monday night, and its rain bands will continue to cause potentially heavy rainfall for at least the next 24 hours as Beta moves east at about 2 miles per hour. “They’re dropping water, sometimes 2 to 3...
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Boycotts, Firings, and Twitter Debates: The ASU Campus Speech Wars Rage On
Phoenix New Times
"In less than an hour, I was fired."
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Cory Gardner: Supreme Court Move an Exploding Grenade, Pundit Says
Westword Denver
Our expert says Gardner was in a lose-lose situation.
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Courtney Whitehead Thought He Was Sad; Turns Out It Was Lyme Disease
Westword Denver
Bison Bone's Courtney Whitehead thought he was sad. Turns out, it was Lyme disease.
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The Equinox Sessions Celebrates Black Artists in a Virtual Concert Series
Westword Denver
Kid Astronaut, Kayla Marque and Nina de Freitas will perform as part of the Equinox Sessions
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Tiesto, Fitz and the Tantrums, Billy Strings and Lotus Wrap Up Red Rocks 2020
Westword Denver
Tiesto, Fitz and the Tantrums, Billy Strings, and Lotus will play Red Rocks Amphitheatre's final 2020 week before the venue is shut down.
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The Best Concerts in Denver This Week
Westword Denver
Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Nathaniel Rateliff, Dotsero and more of the best shows in Denver this week.
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Reader: Rateliff at Red Rocks Was Like a Private Concert
Westword Denver
Nathaniel Rateliff started a five-night concert series at Red Rocks this week. While fans were excited to see the break-out Denver musician live, the audience in the almost 10,000-person venue was limited to 175 people per night, under strict social distancing rules. There are two more shows in the series,...
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2MX2 and Aja Black Are Riding High on Life on "Elevator"
Westword Denver
The Denver hip-hop band just dropped the music video for its new song, "Elevator."
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Yawpers Frontman Nate Cook Will Cycle 700 Miles for Charity
Westword Denver
Donations to his journey to Oklahoma will go to the Sweet Relief COVID-19 Fund to help musicians and out of work music industry workers.
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Clarinetist Ben Goldberg Records a Song a Day for Plague Diary
Westword Denver
The avant-garde clarinet player is in his musical laboratory, breaking old habits and creating new ways of playing.
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The Show Goes On at the Boulder Theater
Westword Denver
After months in the dark, the Boulder Theater's coming back to life for 100 fans at a time.
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Colorado's Caffeine Crawl Looks Different in Its Tenth Year
Westword Denver
This year's Caffeine Crawl is spread out geographically and socially.
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Great American Beer Festival Celebrations Are Here — Sort Of
Westword Denver
America's biggest brew fest won't be held live this year, but Denver still offers plenty of beer-drinking possibilities.
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Hops & Pie's Nightly Specials Beat Standard Happy Hours
Westword Denver
Beer and pizza make for a happy combo any time of day, but it's extra-special on Tennyson Street.
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Head to Pueblo This Weekend — or Create Your Own Green Chile Festival
Westword Denver
Here's how to put together your own green chile festival.
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Manzo Lobster & Oyster Bar Opens This Week in Uptown
Westword Denver
The Lobster Bliss food truck owner has a new restaurant.
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The Six Best Events on the Culinary Calendar This Week
Westword Denver
Harvest week, a butcher's Italian dinner, and plenty of other great food and drinks are on the calendar this week.
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Last Call Pushed Back to Midnight in Douglas, Arapahoe Counties
Westword Denver
Most counties will be keeping their 11 p.m. last call.
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Reader: Is There Any Comfort Food Better Than a Great Cheeseburger?
Westword Denver
On National Cheeseburger Day, we served up seven favorites.
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Fermented Food Producer Invites You to Join Fermentation Nation
Westword Denver
Fermented foods are gaining in popularity for health reasons — and because they taste great — according to Ozuke's owner.
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Every Restaurant and Bar Opening and Closing This Week
Westword Denver
Find out what's new in the Denver restaurant scene and what places called it quits.
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Big Screams Are Coming to the Mile High Horror Film Festival
Westword Denver
After a five year hiatus, the Denver-based horror festival is coming to a living room near you.
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Colorado Creatives: Angie Simmons
Westword Denver
As a founding director of Evolving Doors Dance for the past fifteen years, Angie Simmons knows something about evolution.
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Ten Things to Do for Free in Denver This Week, September 21 to September 27
Westword Denver
Fall is here, and with it a cornucopia of new events.
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Muralist Cheslea Lewinski's Crushing Accident Inspires Community Fundraiser
Westword Denver
The community is raising funds for her recovery.
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Ten Things to Do in Denver This Weekend, September 18 to 20
Westword Denver
Start with Crush Walls, then branch out.
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Bryan Goldfeder Repairs the World, One Shard of Glass at a Time
Westword Denver
This Rosh Hashanah, Jewish artist Bryan Goldfeder repairs the world, one shard of glass at a time.
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Art Attack: Fifteen Ways to See Art Live or Otherwise This Week
Westword Denver
Get out and see some art this weekend.
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s Sabrina & Corina Wins 2020 American Book Award
Westword Denver
Denver's home-grown voice continues a national winning streak with her short story collection Sabrina & Corina.
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Immersive Art Was Red-Hot in Denver...and Then Came COVID
Westword Denver
Social distancing makes participatory performances tough.
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Wild Thing: Laura Krantz Pivots From Bigfoot to Extraterrestrials
Westword Denver
Laura Krantz's celebrated podcast explores whether we are alone in the universe and the people who care.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Pick: Two Hip Indie Classics Showcased in Jarmusch Festival
Westword Denver
As L.A. gears up for Jim Jarmusch’s zom-com this June, the American Cinematheque has prepared a double feature consisting of two of the director’s earliest films, co-presented by Beyond Fest.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: El Chicano's Latino Superhero Saga
Westword Denver
El Chicano is being billed as the first Latino superhero film. Co-written by Joe Carnahan (Narc) and co-written and directed by Ben Hernandez Bray (a veteran stuntman who plays one of the guys who gets eaten by wolves in Carnahan's The Grey), the film boasts an all-Hispanic cast and a low-fi look right out of the 1990s.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Heathers Is 30 Years Old?!
Westword Denver
Heathers, the wickedly funny 1989 cult classic about a teenager (Winona Ryder) who gets involved with a popular girl clique and starts dating a cool nihilist (Christian Slater), gets a special 30th-anniversary screening.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: A Tribute to Claire Denis
Westword Denver
Claire Denis, vanguard of the contemporary French cinema, will be in town this weekend for a retrospective organized by the American Cinematheque. The series begins on the day her newest film, High Life, opens on U.S. screens.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Dogman, Mary Magdalene and Emily Dickinson Unbound
Westword Denver
Matteo Garrone, the Italian filmmaker who helmed the internationally acclaimed Gomorrah and Reality (as well as the less acclaimed but equally interesting Tale of Tales), returns with Dogman.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Breakthrough Targets Faith-Based Demographic
Westword Denver
The story of a teen who falls through the ice and lands in a coma while his parents find hope in the power of prayer is based on The Impossible, a lightly fictionalized account of an incident.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: A Fresh Take on Hellboy
Westword Denver
A solid decade has passed since we last saw the hulking red hero in a movie — long enough for the franchise to have faded, if not quite vanished, from cultural memory.
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: After Takes a Cue From Harry Styles
Westword Denver
After is the latest film based on a "best-selling worldwide phenomenon," in this case a new-adult genre novel by Anna Todd about a good girl who goes to college and falls head over heels for the class rebel
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L.A. Weekly Movie Picks: Father-Daughter Drama Humanizes High Life
Westword Denver
High Life is a science fiction film with a strange pedigree. Claire Denis, a key architect of modern French cinema, had been kicking around the idea for more than a decade.
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Danish Thriller The Guilty Dazzles Without Ever Leaving a Call Center
Miami New Times
Pretty much the whole film consists of phone exchanges between Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren), a police officer who has been temporarily demoted to working the phones, and others out in the field as he struggles to save a woman who is being abducted by her ex-husband
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