Last weekend we shared a note from Meg, who’d moved to Denver just a few days before — long enough, though, to have an important question for this city. “I have lived in your seemingly wonderful city for just five days,” she wrote. “My fiance was relocated here for work and…
Donald Trump could be headed to Colorado for the state’s Republican Party convention next weekend — but he won’t get a warm welcome from many of the people who heard the comments Trump made at a recent MSNBC town hall regarding the legalization of marijuana, and the “very serious reports…
The 16th Street Mall is one of Denver’s top tourist attractions — but do the endless souvenir shops, panhandlers and petitioners encourage tourists to come back? To explore ideas and opportunities for enlivening the mall, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District will host the 2016 Prototyping…
Today the former LimeXS at 730 East Sixth Avenue will be resurrected as the $5 Buck Drinkery, featuring food and drink menus with nearly everything priced at five dollars or less. Owner Curt Sims says he wants to give the neighborhood a gathering space, explaining, “Clearly there’s always a market for inexpensive things.” And…
Iggy Pop comes to the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday with Josh Homme and Dean Fertita (both of Queens of the Stone Age) and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders in support of his new album, Post Pop Depression. Legendary Los Angeles punk band X headline the Summit Music Hall…
Chris Hoover was so fed up with the potholes in city streets that he recently sent us his “Potholes: Enough Is Enough” proclamation. And plenty of people who read it are now ready to sign on to Hoover’s cause. Says Jeff: Excellent bit from the guy who contributed and he is dead on…
Tom Petty and Mudcrutch, the pre-cursor to Heartbreakers he formed in 1970, kicks off its first national tour at the Ogden Theatre on Thursday, May 26. The band is releasing its sophomore release, 2 , on May 20 on Reprise. Tickets ($84.50) go on sale on Friday, April 1 at 10 a.m…
MCA Denver likes to mash up things that don’t necessarily belong together, and so last week’s Black Sheep Friday social feted both Mad Max and Purim with Max-inspired costumes, live klezmer music and those all-important cheap drinks on the rooftop. Photographer Ken Hamblin documented the artsy party. Now see the…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” And so we compiled this handy roundup of the Ten…
Last weekend, Nina Flowers pulled the best of Denver’s drag queens – along with some of her RuPaul’s Drag Race friends – out of her magical, glittery headdress for Drag Nation’s seventh anniversary bash at Tracks, and it was anything but a drag. Oh, wait…! Have a peep at these…
The possessions collected in the homeless sweeps occurring around Denver are currently locked up in a building at 1211 Glenarm Street. Chris Walker recently visited the place, and found that only one person has retrieved possessions so far — but there are reasons for that, as readers were quick to…
Although people lament the lame barbecue options in Denver, we’ve found plenty of places that serve up worthy platters of ‘cue, including the spots on our list of the Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver. We’re about to reveal our favorite in the Best of Denver 2016 — and in…
The father of the Taxpayers Bill of Rights is back in jail. Last week Douglas Bruce was sentenced to two years in prison for violating probation, the latest chapter in a checkered past that the Gazette captured in its cover story, “A Greek Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of TABOR…
The beautiful underworld of modern comics — from wee zines to big graphic novels — was open to the public over the weekend at the inaugural DINK, an art-centric comics convention where fans and artists from Colorado and across the nation could shoot the breeze and share their obsessions. All…
The rumors have finally been confirmed: this August, you get to dance yourself clean on the Rocks. LCD Soundsystem will return for two consecutive nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre this summer. James Murphy’s reunited band will perform August 2-3 in Denver, as part of a slew of summer dates including…
First the Barker Lounge went dark on Santa Fe Drive in January. Then Crown Social closed this past weekend on South Broadway. Now comes word that the Eagle will be shutting its doors after the end of business on April 2; the building in hot-hot RiNo has been sold and the bar will…
In the March 24 edition of Westword, we published the winners of our fourth annual Comics Contest. For more comic relief, you can read “May Gal, the Zombie” and many of the other cartoon entries here. Denver’s gay community has lost a couple of its favorite spots recently, with the…
Sci-fi took a right turn at the Victorian Age and never moved on – and the result was steampunk, a cult genre that’s here to stay. And that’s particularly true right here in Denver, where steampunk fans gather each year at AnomalyCon for a stellar weekend of cosplay, guest panels,…
In January, Denver pop-rock band One Flew West released its video for single “Had It All,” an increasingly absurd, dark parody on ’90s-sitcom credits inspired by the viral short film “Too Many Cooks.” For its next video, for the song “These Old Bones,” premiering right here, right now, the band…
The sun is shining and it’s a beautiful spring day in Denver. But reminders of last Wednesday’s storm linger, in the form of broken branches, broken travel plans and piles of snow in private parking lots that give no signs of melting before July. The ire of certain residents may…
We’ve just sent the Best of Denver 2016 off to the printer, and already have a file full of possibilities for the Best of Denver 2017 — places that were too new to consider for this year’s edition, or have yet to open but are eagerly anticipated. The Grateful Gnome,…
It’s a big week for arena shows, including the Who at the Pepsi Center on Tuesday, Carrie Underwood is at the venue on Wednesday and Bruce Springsteen is there on Thursday. The Smashing Pumpkins, Chairlift and Murder By Death are also in the area this week. See the full list of our…
