DIY haven Rhinoceropolis and neighboring spaces Glob and Club Scum turned on the arts and music for an immersive experience at Fantasia 2016, two nights of psychedelic fun. All photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Fantasia 2016 slide show…
Motomaki, an innovator in big, bold sushi rolls that come foil-wrapped like a burrito, opened in Boulder two years ago — launched by the same folks who started Hapa Sushi. Motomaki is now poised for an assault on Lakewood and will open its second store at 14650 West Colfax Avenue. The…
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. Many of Denver’s top…
With the recent spate of restaurant closings around Denver, including Patsy’s, Mark Antonation just paid a visit to Carl’s Pizza, which has been slinging red sauce in northwest Denver since 1953. But so many other old-school spots have left the table. Says David: There are so many restaurants that have…
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. Interstate Kitchen came…
The news that Rooster & Moon will call it quits at the end of the month met with one universal response from readers: “Noooo!” But a few fans of the eight-year-old coffeehouse/pub in the Golden Triangle pulled themselves together enough to offer more specific comments. Says Tina: Now where am…
In 2013, Craig Jones and Eric Hyatt took over Angelo’s Pizza on East Sixth Avenue, giving the space and menu an overhaul and renaming it Angelo’s Taverna. Pizza and pasta stayed true to the original, which was opened by the Laveo family in 1974, but oysters and housemade limoncello were among…
Daryl Hall & John Oates headline Red Rocks tonight with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings and Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue opening while Goo Goo Dolls is at the venue tomorrow. This week’s lineup also includes Blink-182 is at Pepsi Center, Bloc Party at the Ogden Theatre, Butch Walker at…
December marks twenty years since JonBenét Ramsey’s father found the six-year-old child-beauty queen strangled to death in the basement of the family’s Boulder home. And all these years later, her case is still a mystery. At least five different television projects about her death will premiere in the next few months, and…
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. Fire Restaurant inside…
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. Churn & Burn…
Earlier this week, we wrote about the closing of the Good Son on East Colfax Avenue, which will only leave a vacancy in its spot in the Lowenstein theater complex for a few weeks before new owners open a new concept to be called the Goods. That’s not the only anticipated…
This week, our critics boldly reviewed a new Spock-doc, Clint Eastwood gave us a hero’s happy ending with Sully and our Trump-induced daydreams about moving to Norway slowly faded in In Order of Disappearance. Here is every new film that’s just opened in Denver, plus one bonus ongoing film that you must…
In a state where recreational marijuana is legal, why are some people still using faux pot? That’s a question that arose from the recent indictment of two men in Jefferson County for the “manufacturing, distribution and sale of herbal cigarettes laced with synthetic cannabinoid,” defined as “a chemical that is sprayed…
A critic’s voice is always an important factor in a mature restaurant scene. And restaurant critics are a hungry bunch, so Gretchen Kurtz, who reviewed nearly 200 restaurants between September 2012 and December 2015, has returned to Westword after an eight-month sabbatical that she initially thought would be a permanent…
It’s the weekend and we all have “Get Weird” scrawled at the top of our to-do lists. But beyond the usual hijinks and bad bar-mitvah dancing you’re applying to dance floors all over Denver, here are three concerts this weekend that are truly strange. 1. On Saturday, September 10, there’s…
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. Returning for the…
STS9 kicks off a two-night stand tonight at Red Rocks, and Luke Bryan starts his two-night stand at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. On Saturday, it’s the High Elevation Rock Festival, featuring Avenged Sevenfold, Volbeat, Chevelle, Pierce the Veil, Ministry, Killswitch Engage and more at Fiddler’s Green while Punching Mule Festival, featuring Ludacris, Galactic,…
What started out as a weekend shack at the BigWonderful in RiNo and then became a mobile kitchen — one good enough to win our Best Food Truck award — has found a permanent home in Parker. Jozi’s Kitchen & Shebeen is now the only South African restaurant in the…
Westword writers — and many other people who live and work in the Golden Triangle — are losing their home away from home. At the end of the month, Rooster & Moon, the classic coffeehouse (and bar! ) that moved into an old VFW post at 955 Bannock eight years…
The hardcore anime cosplayers of Nan Desu Kan wandered the hallways of the Sheraton Downtown Denver over Labor Day weekend, sporting elaborate costumes that take months to create. At the fan convention’s twentieth annual run, the otaku crowd frequented screenings, panels, parties, a game room and more. All photos by Danielle…
Stevie Nicks brings her 24 Karat Gold Tour to the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, October 27, with the Pretenders opening. Tickets ($49.50-$150) go on sale on Monday, September 12 at 10 a.m. Amanda Palmer will be at the Boulder on Thursday, November 17 and tickets ($24.50/$27.50) go on sale on…
