On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes, including one sandwich that will drive you…
The Squeaky Bean Farm + Table presented its final farm dinner of the season at Acres, an educational farm at Warren Tech High School in Lakewood, on Sunday, September 18. The dinner was a fundraiser to benefit the school and farm, which teaches students about cooking, organic farming and soil-building…
No. 60-61: Sloppers at Diego’s and Gray’s Coors TavernPueblo has several culinary claims to fame (including the Super Pass Key sausage sandwich), but none bigger than the slopper, which landed on the foodie map after a story on the Travel Channel in 2010 that featured Gray’s Coors Tavern, a classic Pueblo watering hole credited…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. With so many great chefs cooking up…
The Counting Crows and Rob Thomas co-headline Red Rocks tonight while Chance the Rapper, Echo & the Bunnymen, Pat Metheny and Donny McCaslin, the saxophonist who played on David Bowie’s Blackstar, will be in town on Tuesday. This week’s lineup also includes Florida Georgia Line, Tegan & Sara, the Legendary…
This year’s annual Colorado Governor’s Tourism Conference, held last week in Breckenridge, included a panel on marijuana — a first. But while a state-sponsored survey showed that just 12 percent of visitors to Colorado used cannabis, some readers think that’s low — and doesn’t take into account those who moved…
New restaurants are opening all over Denver, but one reader worries that too many of them are coming from “hipster/trendy empire-builders.” And Jan has another concern: And the new places seem to all have similar menus. There are vegetables other than kale, beets and Brussels sprouts; I’d like to see…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Chris Sargent opened Brazen…
Denverites are very territorial when it comes to their specific neighborhood, and with so many neighborhoods offering up different personalities, that’s understandable. Still, we like to point out what makes your neighbor tick, all in an effort to make you laugh. Because isn’t laughter the great uniter? Keep reading for…
Filming started this past Monday on Our Souls at Night, the fourth film in which Robert Redford and Jane Fonda co-star. The others are 1966’s The Chase, 1967’s Barefoot in the Park and 1979’s The Electric Horseman — but one reader thought there was one more. Says Maddy: You forgot…
Bar and restaraurant openings so far this month have ranged from the return of long-forgotten neighborhood gems like the 715 Club to sleek new destination eateries like Avelina downtown. Here’s a list of what’s new, with links to the stories we wrote when they opened. First Look: The 715 Club…
It was a wild week in film releases. We reviewed John Krasinski’s Sundance favorite (which won’t break the dysfunctional family arc), found the final installment in the Bridget Jones saga, Bridget Jones’s Baby, to be a pleasant surprise, and an got spooked with an eerie Polish possession in Demon. Here are the eight best…
A few weeks ago the Museum of Contemporary Art had to close for a few days to mop up after a pipe break. Now it has to close for a few weeks to finish the repairs. And so MCA will be closed from now until Friday, October 7, when it will…
It’s hard to believe that in just three years, Lorena Cantarovici’s Argentinian bakery and cafe, Maria Empanada, has gone from a tiny shack on West Mississippi Avenue to where it is today, with a big, sunny Buenos Aires-style cafe on South Broadway, an appearance on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-ins…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. Brews from DISH beer…
Why has it been so long since we introduced you to a new Schmuck of the Week? We were just waiting for the right person to come along. And Nicholas Olson definitely fits the bill. Olson is accused of making “verbal sexual advances” to a female police officer — actions…
Skylab descends on the National Western Complex on Saturday with a stellar lineup that includes Deorro, KSHMR, Markus Schulz, DJ Dan vs Donald Glaude, Bro Safari and more, while the Telluride Blues and Brews Festival kicks off today and features Joe Walsh, Gary Clark Jr., Jason Isbell, Mick Fleetwood Blues Band…
The September 13, 2016 edition of NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross features an interview with comic and “Roastmaster General” Jeff Ross who produces and hosts Comedy Central’s celebrity roasts and others. During a line of questioning about changing audiences in an age of trigger warnings, Ross insists that more people want to…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. And we’ll have a…
Shawn Mendes, who’s set to release his new album, Illuminate, on September 23, will be at the Pepsi Center on Monday, July 17; tickets go on sale Saturday, September 17, at 10 a.m. Channel 93.3’S Not So Silent Night 2016, featuring Empire of the Sun, Kaleo, the Strumbellas, JR JR and…
All signs of the former Gypsy House Cafe have disappeared. The Capitol Hill mainstay that suddenly shut down in March is slated to reopen as a sushi restaurant: Little Ginkgo Asian Cafe. Dena and Doniece Derani, twin sisters, had opened Gypsy House in 2004 with their mother, Nomie Derani, as a…
On Sunday, September 25, Westword’s DISH, our annual celebration of the Denver dining scene, returns for its 22nd year. The festival of food will take over Sculpture Park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, where dozens of local restaurants will offer samples of their best dishes. One of those will…
