Get ready for The Moth Radio Hour meets Trailer Park Boys. After a successful stop in Trinidad last month, when it filled councilwoman Pat Fletcher’s house with off-color humor, Swearfest is coming to Denver this weekend. Swearfest is “storytelling at its best,” says Scott Mastro, aka Tender Bastard, who stages…
In November Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, visited Lola, whose space in the former Olinger’s mortuary building at 1575 Boulder Street includes the place where William F. Cody’s body was put on ice after he died on January 10, 1917, until the ground on Lookout…
When Waffle Brothers closed on Corona Street in April last year, John Powers thought he and Rod Dupen would be able to reopen the waffle bar in its new location in just a couple of months. The gestation period turned out to be a little longer, but the new Waffle…
The Denver Cat Company opened last month as one of the first cat cafes in the U.S. Customers can sip coffee and cuddle with a number of cats, provided by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue, while perusing books, jewerly and other items for sale. Videographer Andrew Batemen dropped in to visit…
Jim Seidel just opened his eleventh Snarf’s in the Denver-Boulder area; this one brings his sub sandwiches to a former convenience store on 38th Avenue on Denver’s western border. The pagoda-style building, originally part of a chain of convenience stores in the 1960s, has been decked out in Snarf’s familiar…
2014 was an excellent year for Colorado music — several excellent new venues opened, our state’s bands released more worthy albums than anyone could keep track of and fans turned out in droves to the hundreds of thousands of shows. 2015 promises more of the same on those fronts, but…
We celebrated dozens of schmucks in 2014 — but who were your favorite Schmucks of the Week this past year? We’ve collected the top five below, featuring original photos, videos, text and more. Count them down below. See also: Andres Sanchez-Luevano After Allegedly Killing GF’s Kitten: “That’s What You Get,…
By Jesse Sendejas Sometimes in life, we normal human beings must shelve our own insecurities and recognize that some among us are simply good at anything they attempt. Like that song from the Annie Oakley play, they can do anything better. Some of us recognize these people with awe and…
Denver blogs are tingling your senses. Westword’s Beer Man unloaded his list of ten breweries that plan to open in Denver in 2015. Is one near you? The Backbeat blog attended Decadence again this year and discovered where fans put their cell phones while barely wearing anything. And Stephen King…
This week, we took a final look back at some favorites — the year’s ten best new bars and the top trends — and also compiled a list of nearly 300 new restaurants, bars and specialty markets that opened in 2014. But now it’s a new year, so now we’re…
Decadence once again proved among the most extravagant options for New Year’s Eve in Denver, with three stages of world-class DJs along with enough decorative insanity to lead our reviewer to compare the scene to a carnival. The fans spent about as much time on their costumes/outfits as the organizers…
New Year’s Eve revelers went back in time to the ’70s and the ’80s at Time After Time, a retro nod to the era of funky grooves, mullet hair and rainbow afro wigs. Photographer Danielle Lirette followed revelers into the way-back machine at City Hall; a taste of the action…
Denver blogs wish you a happy new year. The Backbeat blog runs down The 31 Best Colorado Albums of 2014. And our Geek columnist takes a Look Ahead at Our Geeky 2015. Hungry? Here’s our Restaurant Roll Call for 2014, With Nearly 300 Openings for a Record Year…
If 2013 seemed like a busy year in the restaurant industry, 2014 was positively manic, with nearly 300 bars, restaurants and specialty markets opening in the Denver metro area. You could have had a meal or a drink at a new place every weekday this year without hitting them all…
So active and vibrant are the musicians of Colorado that we could never truly compile a list of the year’s best releases. There were simply too many, from big-label full-lengths by exports like Tennis to obscure demo tapes by nascent punk bands. Taken as a whole, the musical output of…
Development is finally arriving in Five Points; the latest project is the conversion of the Melbourne International Hotel & Hostel, which was purchased for $1.8 million last month by Loft Brokers, into The Rail, a residential complex. According to the Denver Post, Loft Brokers company plans to convert the three-decade…
As artists find more and more creative ways to deliver their music to fans, music videos have left MTV (left it completely, in fact) and become the territory of local creative communities. The medium is much richer for it, as tons of clips produced this year in Colorado prove. A…
One of the biggest live music nights of the year is upon us: The last night of the year, specifically. If you want to end the year right, you may as well go big! Here is a list of some pricey parties that promise to end 2014 with a lavish…
Denver blogs is feeling transitional with the new year. Here are art critic Michael Paglia’s list of the Five Best Denver-Area Art Shows From 2014. We opine on why the D Note’s January 3 Closing Will Leave a Hole in Olde Town Arvada. Cafe Society makes it known that these…
One of the biggest live music nights of the year is upon us: The last night of the year, specifically. You’ll pay handsomely for the privilege of drinking with strangers while bands play at plenty of places in town (and hey, if that’s your thing…), but there are also no…
On Christmas Eve, while some folks gathered ’round the tree, Denver’s hip, young Jewish crowd bellied up to the bar — and a treasury of video games and pinball machines — at the 1up Colfax for an evening celebration of a different sort. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch…
Colorado rang in 2014 with a bit of a mellow buzz — a certain relaxed attitude — and it was a feeling that lasted throughout the year. Sure, that mellow was harshed by continuing problems with police and sheriff’s deputies, as well as a very contested (and expensive) election season…
