The Broncos are back! The reigning Super Bowl champs kick off the 2016/2017 season tomorrow against Cam Newton and the Panthers here at home, starting at 6:30 p.m. That means it’s time to kick back, grab a cold beer and some hot snacks, and enjoy the return of football season…
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…
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…
When a second location of Black Eye Coffee opened last year at 800 Sherman Street, the owners knew they wanted to expand the scope of the popular Black Eye at 3408 Navajo Street. While the original spot is cozy and arty, this second spot is sleek and contemporary, with expanded hours…
Prophets of Rage, featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Cypress Hill and Public Enemy, take over Red Rocks tomorrow night while Bonnie Raitt is at the venue on Thursday. This week’s lineup also includes Blind Pilot at the Ogden Theatre, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears at the Bluebird…
A Taste of Colorado, now in Civic Center Park, doesn’t capture every taste in town. Laura Shunk, Westword’s former restaurant reviewer, just spent a year in China. While she was there, she realized just how much she missed green chile as well as other favorite foods and places in Denver, as…
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…
Kayvan Khalatbari, an early ganjapreneur, recently sold Denver Relief to Willie Nelson for his Willie’s Reserve. Now Khalatbari, an arts supporter (Sexpot Comedy) and activist (he ran for Denver City Council last year) has announced plans for Art&, a new event set for September 16 at the renovated McNichols Building. …
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…
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…
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…
A number of Denver restaurants closed in August, some longtime favorites like Z Cuisine and Black Pearl, others relative newcomers like Osaka Ramen in Cherry Creek. But no closure generated more response than the shuttering of Patsy’s, after 95 years on Navajo Street in northwest Denver, one of Denver’s most rapidly…
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…
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…
While Denver-based band Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats played a “triumphant” homecoming headlining show at Red Rocks last month, many in the audience wondered about the absence of popular trumpet player Wesley Watkins. Watkins has not been touring with the Night Sweats for a couple of months, which the…
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…
August restaurant openings got off to a slow start but picked up steam by month’s end, keeping pace with the rest of the year, which has averaged about twenty opening a month. Big-name national acts were part of the mix, with Sol Cocina, from Southern California, and Departure, from Portland,…
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…
Kayvan Khalatbari is a serial entrepreneur. He first landed on our radar with Sexy Pizza, a venture that helped found more ventures, including Sexpot Comedy, which in turn fed Denver’s growing comedy scene, and Denver Relief, one of Denver’s first dispensaries. This month he sold Denver Relief to Willie Nelson…
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…
It’s hard to believe that even in 2016, accused rapists still use the “she was asking for it” excuse in court and Congress still thinks it knows a woman’s body better than she does. Enter Denver Go Topless Day, which happened on Sunday. Hundreds gathered near the Capitol sans shirts…
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…
