Denver blogs are thinking ahead to the new year. Our music blog has laid out Denver’s best New Year’s Eve events under $40. Streetsblog Denver reports on RTD’s long-awaited Smart Card, which should debut on January 1. And, in preparation for 2016, Westword’s food blog runs down the best bars…
Last week, during the first major snowstorm of the season, Denver Police Department officers began rousting people from their tents and lean-to shelters near the Samaritan House at Park Avenue and Lawrence Street around 6 a.m. The cops told everyone to get into shelters — shelters that had been too…
No. 1: Smoke House Buffalo BBQ Ribs at the Fort Our last favorite dish of the year is an oldie — a very oldie — but a goodie: the buffalo ribs at the Fort. Ad man Sam’l Arnold built that restaurant in the early ’60s as a scale model of Bent’s…
National Ugly Sweater Day came a day late at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, where hundreds of the 303’s worst-dressed denizens donned garish winter-wear for the Denver Ugly Sweater Run last Saturday. Here’s what that looked like, if you can bear to take a peek. Photos by Ken Hamblin III, and…
A plethora of Star Wars posts could Make this a starry, starry night. The Colorado Legislature often fails to attract the attention of anyone outside a circle of outsiders. But that could change if people started thinking of it as another installment of Star Wars, as does “VII Ways The…
Denver witnessed an average of twenty new restaurants and bars open every month in 2015 — and we were there for most of them. Add to that nearly 50 restaurant reviews from Gretchen Kurtz and we amassed quite a catalog of beautiful dishes from the city’s most creative chefs. If…
Over the past year, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. So far, the damage has been limited in Colorado, but that won’t last. So…
Pueblo County has weathered some stinky economic times over the past several decades, so it’s not surprising that even traditional boosters are seeing lots of potential in the cannabis industry, as Thomas Mitchell outlines in his story, “Can Cannabis Become Pueblo’s Next Cash Crop?” Still, there are some naysayers, including…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 on Saturday, February 20 — a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms of art installations and exhibits, curated by Jolt from Guerilla…
Holiday drinks and Playboy cut-outs made for a festive time at the XXX-Mas Craft Fair, a risque co-ed ornament-crafting evening at MCA Denver on December 18. Photographer Danielle Lirette captured the all naughty masterpieces crafted with love, glue and a little T&A. Now see the full XXX-Mas Craft Fair slide…
Mondays bring out the best and the worst in Denver blogs. Our food blog lays out our picks for the fifteen best new Denver restaurants of 2015. Agree or disagree? Westword music editor Katie Moulton asks this about Nathaniel Rateliff: Why this music, and why now? The Mile High Report…
Torchy’s Tacos, that Texas import, won’t open its first Denver location until January 12, but the Torchy’s sign lit up last week at 1085 Broadway, and that inspired quite an illuminating discussion of Torchy’s and tacos in general. Says Chris: Torchy’s is amazingly good! Maybe Denver will now know what tacos (and…
From mom-and-pop barbecues to flashy dinner clubs, the diversity of Denver’s restaurant scene grew with almost exponential vigor in 2015. While the sheer number of openings this year didn’t match the incredible pace of 2014, the variety and depth filled in gaps to make our city a competitor among the…
After more than three years of dining out several times a week — and then sharing the experience with you — Cafe critic Gretchen Kurtz will soon take a break to spend more time with her family. We’ll miss her reviews, but are pleased that she’ll still be writing other…
So many eateries have opened this year, it ought to be illegal! And, in fact, before 2015 ends the Denver dining lineup will add an Illegal Burger, the third link in a the homegrown Illegal Burger chain. Meanwhile, another homegrown chain that got its start twenty years ago just opened…
The best Schmucks of the Week are worth the wait. As proof, let us introduce you to Shelby Figueroa. The incident that temporarily transformed Figueroa’s face from the her normal look, as seen above on the left, to the battered visage at right took place way back in 2012, when…
This weekend’s lineup of shows includes YouTube sensation Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox at the Paramount Theatre, Victor Wooten at Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom, Patterson at the Soiled Dove and Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats’ two-night stand at the Ogden Theatre. See the full list of our picks below. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18…
With all the drum-beating over terrorism and refugees, it’s sometimes difficult to recognize those in our midst living with the realities. While Paris was under attack by extremists, the Kassir family — owners of Damascus on South Colorado Boulevard since 1990 — were sending a shipping container full of humanitarian aid…
AC/DC’s Rock or Bust Tour hits the Pepsi Center on Monday, February 8 and tickets ($95-$140) go on sale on Friday, December 18, at 10 a.m. My Morning Jacket returns to Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Saturday, May 28, and Sunday, May 29. Tickets ($45-$49.95) go on sale…
After years, decades of waiting for Denver’s economic boom to reach Five Points, that day finally seems to have arrived. But with all this newfound interest in the area, will Five Points lose its colorful past? Tom’s Home Cookin’ just closed after sixteen years…but that’s a relative drop in the…
Grown men — and one brave woman — hung ornaments in their beards (at least one of them fake) at Liquid Mechanics Brewing Company to compete for prizes at Decembeard, a contest this past weekend hosted by the Boulder Facial Hair Club. All photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see…
New Saigon was one of the first Vietnamese restaurants in the city, and for many years the very best, winning Best of Denver award after Best of Denver award. After more than thirty years in the business, though, husband-and-wife owners Thai Nguyen and Ha Pham were feeling burned out, so…
