This weekend’s most high profile dance event is Caffeine at the 1STBANK Center, featuring DJ Micro, along with Head Hunterz, Cassette, Icey, Jes and more. At Beta, meanwhile, Jesse Rose and Oliver $ bring techno, house and tech-house to the next level tonight, and Jacques Lu Cont performs tomorrow night…
Picking the Best Vegetarian Dish in a Non-Vegetarian Restaurant for the Best of Denver 2012 was a tough task. The owners of omnivorous restaurants have really gone above and beyond lately to cater to lacto-ovo vegetarians and totally plant-based eaters alike. In no particular order (save for number one), here…
Josh LaBure of vegan advocacy group Plants & Animals Denver had seen vegan proms in New York City and San Francisco, and he thought it was high time the Mile High City got in the game. So tonight, Plants & Animals and Vegan Coloradical are teaming up to present the…
Eating Mexican food as a vegetarian isn’t easy, and as a vegan? You might as well forget it unless you’re at a plant-based restaurant. Or at Old Blinking Light Kitchen & Cocktails in Highlands Ranch…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Celebrate the start of spring with a medley of fresh carrots, celery and nutty, firm green lentils. Served warm atop a bed…
Radio Slave is making up for lost time this weekend when he plays an underground party at Artwork Network, so if you were sad he couldn’t make it this past July, now is your chance to see what all the hype is about. The Others and DJ Carlos round out…
Spring is in the air, and while humans hit the tanning salons and browse the swimwear aisles at local stores, canines can get in on the action at the Doggie Swimsuit Fashion Event, which takes place today in Westminster at the Unleashed by Petco store. “We got a bunch of…
Black Box Burlesque is moving to once-a-month Fridays (that’s right: a weekend night!) at Bar Standard, and to celebrate, the troupe is presenting My Teen Angst Bullsh*t: Striptease to ’80s Movie Soundtracks. “As scary as it is, ’80s is now vintage,” says Reyna Von Vett, aka Cora Vette, Black Box…
Lose some, win some. Last August the original Bombay Bowl in Englewood closed rather than pay a rent increase, but the remaining Denver location was recently featured in the the New York Times. And despite the off-hour of our visit — 3:30 p.m. on a Sunday — business was steady…
House music lends itself well to worldwide variation and influence, so it’s not entirely unexpected that a subgenre like salsa house would garner a widespread following. And when you’ve got someone as talented as DJ Carlos heading up a movement to bring the style to the forefront, then it’s also…
Last summer was scheduled to be Radio Slave’s first visit to Colorado in several years, but the act had to cancel at the last minute — which makes this date all the more exciting. Matt Edwards and Serge Santiago were responsible for the Radio Slave concept, issuing bootleg electro-house mixes…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. Like all of the recipes we’ve featured here, vegan lasagna isn’t difficult to make. It does have a lot of ingredients, though,…
Mark Farina is back for another soul-filled evening that’s bound to pack the dance floors at Bar Standard; Detroit’s Mike Huckaby will also be in town tonight, which might make things difficult for lovers of electronic music in this city. And that’s far from the only such conundrum on this…
Sprout City Farms manages the nation’s first on-site farm-to-cafeteria growing space, the Denver Green School Community Farm, which provides kids with learning opportunities and fresh (organic!) food year-round. And any farmer can tell you it’s not easy to make hay when the sun isn’t shining, so think of the second…
In its four years of existence, Colorado Springs burlesque troupe Peaks and Pasties has established itself firmly in its southern niche, and now founder Lola Spitfire (aka Lindzey Martucci) wants to take things to the next level. “We’re trying to incorporate more higher education for burlesque dancers,” she explains, “so…
The annual Art Director’s Club Denver Paper Fashion Show had a growth spurt in 2011. “Last year, the day of the event, we’d sold 800 tickets, and we figured that would be more or less the end of it,” says event organizer Shanna McNeal, “and then we had 400 we…
Plants & Animals Denver coordinates many awesome activities, including the monthly Neat Market, where vegans and vegetarians can obtain hard-to-find and handcrafted food items, and the upcoming Fancy Plants Vegan Prom on Saturday, March 31. But one of its most popular and long-running events is the monthly Chomp! Vegan Supper…
Chicago and Detroit might be the cities you think of first when house music comes to mind, but believe it or not, Nottingham, in the United Kingdom, plays host to a vibrant underground house scene, due in part to the presence of the Kinky Movement DJ collective there. The crew…
No one’s saying you have to go meatless just because it’s Monday — but as incentive to join the growing movement, every week we’re offering an animal-free recipe. There are times when the last thing you want to do after getting home from a long day at work is to…
Friday night is going to kick this weekend off with a bang, and Saturday night is going to be truly killer, with Eats Everything (among several more out-of-town guests at one party), Pete Moss, Colorado’s own VibeSquaD with Phutureprimitive and much more providing the soundtrack to your weekend. Feel like…
These days, nearly every DJ wears the hat of producer, too, but electronic musicians who are as comfortable in the studio as they are controlling the dance floor are few and far between. The legendary Pete Moss is one; his music has been written up in all of the major…
Any restaurant that presumes to go by the name Falafel King had better serve excellent falafel. Fortunately, not only does the Falafel King at 825 Colorado Boulevard serve great falafel, but the people serving it were charming and happy to point out the vegetarian- and vegan-friendly dishes on the roster…
