Denver blogs are all-inclusive. While comic Jordan Wieleba has been performing standup since 2006, her life and career really took shape after 2011, when the Denver native came out as transgender. Watch Westword videographer Andrew Bateman’s report here. And the right-leaning Colorado Peak Politics blog got into Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s…
Denver blogs are getting out and about. Feeling down? Maybe you need a good happy hour. Westword’s Chris Utterback lines up his ten best happy hour dishes in Denver. Meanwhile, our arts blog continues its coverage of the Biennial of the Americas, highlighting five shows worth seeing. And the music…
Things change quickly in Denver. Anyone who’s lived here for more than a few weeks has already figured that out — probably while they were throwing an umbrella, some sunscreen, a sweatshirt and a swimsuit into their backpack for the weekend. And longtime residents and natives, well, they can barely…
The High Plains Comedy Festival will be back for a third round August 20 through August 22, and just released the full lineup. “Our schedule this year is insane — there’s no other way to put it,” said Andy Juett, who co-founded the festival with Adam Cayton-Holland, in announcing the schedule additions…
The Smashing Pumpkins and Marilyn Manson co-headlined a show last night at Red Rocks as part of the End Times Tour. One of those bands drew a ton of fans. We’ll give you a hint: It’s the one who played at the enormous Fillmore Auditorium in February. The other one…
While Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer’s new movie Trainwreck is “occasionally very funny, it also feels carefully constructed to make its points, chief among them that men can get away with all kinds of bad or crazy behavior that women can’t,” writes Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek in her review…
Denver blogs aren’t are feeling a little low in the Mile High City. Westword’s Bree Davies wonders about Colorado pride. “Is it anything more than a t-shirt,” she asks. Colorado Pols writes about how Facebook has deleted a post by Tom Tancredo advising ISIS to attack America on 4/20, rather…
On Monday night, while a lame-duck Denver City Council debated spending $400,000 to bus the homeless to a shelter on the outskirts of town, a dozen demonstrators and homeless advocates gathered in the rain in front of a locked public restroom on Welton Street by Sonny Lawson Field. A year ago,…
In an effort to increase residents’ participation in recycling by making it more convenient, Denver became the first place in Colorado to switch to single-stream recycling back in 2005. But a decade later, the glass that Denverites so carefully place in their purple bins is reused only once — as filler…
Twenty eateries will participate in an incredible movable feast from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. today: The seventh annual Tasty Colfax, presented by Colfax on the Hill, features stops at Annie’s Café, Bastiens, Denver Biscuit Company, Fat Sully’s,The Good Son, Goosetown Tavern, Heidi’s Deli, Hooked on Colfax, Humble Pie, Lula Rose General Store, Mezcal Café, New World Cheese, Parkhouse Tavern, Sie Film Center, Southside…
Denver blogs are enjoying the weather, food and summer pastimes. Everyone’s buzzing about Avanti, the multi-restaurant concept that opened today in LoHi. You can check out Mark Antonation’s Avanti preview, peruse an Avanti slide show or go in depth with Farmer Girl chef-owner Tim Payne. Weather5280 offers predictions for the…
Some of the best names in burlesque paraded past in panties and pasties during the four-day Colorado Burlesque Festival, a gathering of burlesque stars from near and far, in Denver this weekend. Brandon Marshall brought back these images from the Friday-night showcase at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. Now see the full Colorado…
After a huge weekend for live music, the excitement continues this week. There are the big names at Red Rocks (Wilco, Morrissey, Death Cab) and a few good club shows. ALL WEEK Biennial of the Americas Various venues throughout Denver — many events are free. Find more details here. MONDAY,…
DISH, Westword’s 21st annual celebration of Denver’s dining scene, will fill Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with food and fun from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 20. You’ll be able to try dishes from more than forty restaurants — all favorites of Westword food…
Bars and restaurants change fast along Federal Boulevard — but a transformation on Saturday may have set a record. Early in the afternoon, a sign on 1703 Federal promised the “grand opening” of El Patron Sports Bar in the space that had turned into El Luchador last summer. But that…
The big restaurant reveal comes Monday, when Avanti Food & Beverage opens at 3200 Pecos Street. But there’s been lots of other action on the Denver dining scene — so much that it’s spilled out of the Food section at westword.com, and on over into News. In Ask a Mexican, for…
Denver loves bacon. And tomorrow morning, when thousands of hungover hipsters sit down to brunch, they’ll be getting their bacon fix with eggs, in Bloody Marys, even on doughnuts, as Lauren Monitz reported in her list of Seven Dishes That Prove Bacon is Alive and Well — and Totally American…
The summer festivals continue in Colorado, with the debut of the Bluebird District Music Festival (featuring a heavy-hitting lineup of local talent) and the continuation of the Ride Festival up in the mountains. It’s also time for the Avett Brothers’ annual residency at Red Rocks — this year’s openers are…
Who among us hasn’t fantasized about kneeing a cop in the groin? Well, a lot of people, probably. Make that hopefully. But for those who have wondered would it would be like to drive your patella straight into the man zone of a boy in blue, the story of Christina…
Big is in when it comes to new restaurants. If 2014 was the year of the tiny restaurant — with the likes To the Wind Bistro, Bistro Barbes, Cart-Driver and Work & Class wedging customers into every nook and cranny — then 2015 is the year to go big or…
A capacity crowd crammed into Civic Center Park Friday evening for the annual Independence Eve Celebration hosted by the Civic Center Conservancy and Anadarko, with live music by Funkaphino followed by more patriotic fare courtesy of Buckley Air Force Base’s 101st Army Concert Band. It all wrapped up with the…
