While those of us at Schmuck of the Week headquarters love telling you about schmucky behavior, we also try, from time to time, to warn potential Future Schmucks about things to avoid if they’d prefer not to star in posts like this one. This week’s tip: Don’t steal urns —…
This weekend’s best shows include the Motet at Red Rocks, Garage Fest at the hi-dive and plenty of solid country shows. The full list of our picks follows. FRIDAY, JUNE 5 The Motet$37.50/$45 6:45PM Red Rocks Amphitheatre Hi-Dive Garage Fest$10 7:30PM hi-dive Whitey Morgan & the 78’s$20-$25/VIP $75 8:00PM Summit…
The Westword Music Showcase is just a few weeks away. Join us on Saturday, June 20, 2015, for Colorado’s largest one-day music festival. The Showcase is a celebration of our state’s vibrant music scene. Colorado is home to internationally renowned experimental bands, pioneering folk artists, Grammy winners and much, much more…
As we reported yesterday, Dan Landes is selling WaterCourse Foods, the legendary vegetarian restaurant he founded seventeen years ago, but he’s keeping City, O’ City — a community gathering place and vegetarian restaurant even non-vegetarians can love. Says Jacob: I’m not a vegetarian and I LOVE City, O’ City. Go at…
The second annual Wings & Whiskey throwdown will take flight at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 7, at Ace Eat Serve, to benefit the Denver Housing Authority’s Youth Culinary Academy, which provides mentoring, education, employment and training for students between the ages of 16 and 21 who are interested in a…
Denver International Airport and Westin DIA officials said on Monday that they plan to open the fourteen-story, 519-room airport hotel on November 19. The Westin will be part of the new Hotel and Transit Center — yes, that giant mustache-looking thing (or does it resemble a pirate ship?) — that…
Bassnecter took up residence at Red Rocks over the weekend, and fans of the California DJ turned out in droves, even on a rainy Friday. As photographer Brandon Marshall proved, you can’t keep a bass fan down. Below, you’ll find a few fans making the most of it. …
RiNo’s Final Friday, hosted by the MegaFauna boutique, returned on May 29 for another summer season of dancing in the streets to live music, shopping vendor booths and visiting local businesses along Walnut and Blake streets. The event continues every last Friday through August; find more information online. Photographer Danielle…
Oskar Blues threw its third annual Burning Can ExtravaCANza over the weekend in Lyons, a canned craft beer festival that the brewery calls the “first active beer fest” in the country. In addition to plenty of canned beers, festival-goers were treated to slack-line competitions, kayaking, a cornhole tournament and a…
May saw the departure of a couple of old Denver favorites: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, which had held down the corner of 18th and Wazee streets since 1999, and the much more storied Elitch Lanes, which bowled its last strike on Tennyson Street and then shuttered after more than six decades in…
The Red Rocks season continues to bring big names to Colorado: Cage the Elephant, Old Crow Medicine Show and Ryan Adams this week. Elsewhere, Old 97’s plays the Gothic and Arcade Fire’s Will Butler is playing Larimer Lounge. The full list of our picks follows! MONDAY, JUNE 1 Cage the…
First Watch, a Florida-based breakfast-and-lunch chain that got its start in California in 1983, opened its first Colorado restaurant last week in Northglenn. Over the next five years, the company plans to add seven more First Watch locations over the next five years along the Front Range, from Fort Collins…
This week saw a number of openings and closings haunted by the spirits of Denver restaurant history. Spruce Tap House closed without notice after only seven months on Blake Street, the victim of a redevelopment project that will result in new condos. The space had seen a fair amount of…
Last night, the Colorado Symphony Orchestra debuted its Turn Over the Keys series, wherein the ensemble serves as the backing band for a handful of local artists. The inaugural roster included Ian Cooke, Land Lines and Megan Burtt. We’ll have much more on the event in the coming days, but…
This weekend brings (another) massive EDM party to Red Rocks. Elsewhere, check out Bully and Speedy Ortiz at Lost Lake and Larimer Lounges, respectively, and the enduring Neil Diamond. The full list of our picks follows. FRIDAY, MAY 29 Bassnectar$47.50-$55 7:00PM Red Rocks Amphitheatre All That Remains$10.67 7:00PM Fillmore Auditorium…
As anyone familiar with the condition known as meth mouth knows, users of methamphetamine often grind their teeth. But the desire to bite something/anything can be a problem — especially if the something/anything within chomping distance is an officer of the law. Which brings us to 31-year-old Victor Aguayo, our latest…
The rain put a damper on the start of Civic Center Eats, but now the regular gathering of food trucks at Civic Center Park from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday is really rolling. In fact, when they were recently in town to film scenes for Wheel…
For the third year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis (pot put the high in the smile high city, after all) — but there were also an unsual…
No pop-culture sub-genre was left unturned at Denver Comic Con, as evidenced by the sheer variety of costumery on parade at the Colorado Convention Center over Memorial Day weekend. From the classic comic superheroes and weapon-toting warrior babes to a host of fantasy franchise favorites and easily every kind of…
Pourtions is now pouring at NATIV, the pot-friendly hotel at 1612 Wazee Street. As Lindsey Bartlett reported earlier today, the restaurant features a twenty-tap craft-beer wall with iPad controls so that you can serve yourself; you pay between thirty and fifty cents an ounce for everything from Dale’s Pale Ale…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra debuts its new Turn Over the Keys series on Thursday (the organization will play alongside a handful of local bands). Also this week: Chromeo and the Decemberists at Red Rocks (different shows) and more. The full list of our picks follows. TUESDAY, MAY 26 Chromeo$39.95-$44.50 6:30PM…
Carne Asada fries and fish tacos were on the menu this week as Gretchen Kurtz stopped by North County, a Baja-style Mexican restaurant in Lowry doing a booming business in the family-friendly east Denver development. It turned out to be a pretty good week for fried fish, as Mark Antonation…
