Tour and Taste at the Denver Performing Arts Complex Saturday

The fall arts season is under way, and the Denver Performing Arts Complex is offering a major sneak peak on Saturday morning — complete with mimosas — that promises to show you where the stars of Book of Mormon get ready, as well as the secret passages that ballerinas use to…

Photos: High-Flying BMX and Skateboard Skills at the FISE World Series

Downtown Denver got a high-action, extreme-sports makeover on Labor Day weekend when France’s Festival International des Sports Extremes landed squarely in the Denver Performing Arts Complex Sculpture Park for international BMX and skateboarding competitions. Photos by Brandon Marshall. Now see the full FISE Denver slide show…

Photos: Getting Corny at A Taste of Colorado

A Taste of Colorado returns to Civic Center Park for its fourth and final day today — but you’ll still find plenty of Colorado art, live music and tastes of local products. Our top taste at Taste? Colorado corn, roasted right on-site. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. today, and the…

Musicians Gregory Alan Isakov, DJ Cavem Offer Food for Thought

Food for thought comes from our music section, which recently visited musician Gregory Alan Isakov, who’ll headline at Red Rocks tonight, on his four-acre farm just outside of north Boulder. Isakov, who was born in South Africa and raised in Philadelphia, originally moved to Colorado to go to horticulture school. He’s…

The Five Most Talked About Issues in Denver Right Now

Between numerous homeless sweeps, new development popping up like weeds, crime on the 16th Street Mall, the upcoming election and the ever-evolving pot industry, it’s been a busy summer. There’s no better time than the present — and a three-day weekend — to catch up on the latest news on…

Photos: A Taste of Colorado Returns to Civic Center Park

On Friday the 33rd annual A Taste of Colorado unpacked in Civic Center Park, where the fun will continue through Labor Day. Hungry for a turkey leg? Want to buy some Colorado art? Listen to big-name bands? Get down to Civic Park, where gates open at 10:30 a.m. today and tomorrow…

The Six Most Surprising Restaurant Closings in August

August kept up the pace of restaurant openings this year, with twenty new eateries and bars debuting. But it was the closings that caught our attention; we lost some old favorites as well as newcomers that had quickly won our hearts. Fortunately, some we’d miss most have already announced plans…

The Ten Best New Bars of the First Half of 2016

Earlier this week we brought you our list of the most promising restaurants to open in Denver so far this year. But we’d be remiss if we didn’t also steer you toward our favorite new watering holes, too. This year has seen a surge of creative new bars offering seemingly…

Riot Fest, Phish and the Best Concerts in Denver Over Labor Day Weekend

A slew of bands will perform this weekend at Riot Fest, which starts tonight at the National Western Complex. The lineup includes acts like Jane’s Addiction (performing Ritual De Lo Habitual), Death Cab for Cutie, Deftones, Ween, Sleater-Kinney, the Original Misfits, Nas and many more. Phish returns for its annual three-night Labor…

New Denver Concert Announcements

Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe will perform Prince’s Dirty Mind with Fishbone frontman Angelo Moore at the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, October 29. Tickets ($25) go on sale Friday, September 2, at 10 a.m. St. Lucia, who recently played at the RiNo Music Festival, will headline the Ogden Theatre on Friday, October…

Is Mona’s on the Move?

For twelve years, Mona’s would attract crowds of hungry weekend brunchers to its storefront home at 2364 15th Street, in a neighborhood that became increasingly hip during that time. And it started out pretty cool: The eatery was just down the street from My Brother’s Bar, and Mona’s took its name from…

Reader: Hipsters Do Not Understand Ethnic Foods or Chocolate

Squeaky Bean’s Johnny Ballen and his partners will open a new place today: Cochino Taco, a Mexican cantina that’s transformed a former gas station into what’s sure to become a hip, happening place in a quiet area of Englewood hungry for more eateries. But some readers didn’t wait for the…