Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we discuss all things Hunger Games before moving onto a…
The negative temperatures and piles of snow last week were a pretty solid indication that winter has arrived in Denver. While every day of winter here doesn’t involve bone-chilling cold, plenty do, and it gets old, fast. Suddenly, concert calendars look a little bare and the idea of leaving your…
There’s always a lot of fake blood — and spare body parts — at the Denver Zombie Crawl, which runs down the 16th Street Mall every year. But the ninth annual incarnation of the event, which took place on October 18, ended with some real blood and plenty of pepper…
Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing celebrated its 21st birthday with a festival highlighting nitro-poured beers — its own as well as the creamy beers of 21 other breweries, both local and national. The Boulder Circus School was on hand to provide entertainment to go along with the nitrogenated libations, with trapeze…
Denver Off the Wagon and Eat Boston hosted the third annual Beer and Bacon Festival in the Curtis Hotel over the weekend, featuring beer from 20 local breweries and creative bacon-based dishes from 26 metro-area restaurants and purveyors of porcine products. Proceeds from ticket sales benefited Metro CareRing and Project…
Mark your calendar for Saturday, February 21, when Artopia 2015 will fill City Hall with art, culture and fashion. Our presale for the event starts this morning, and you’ll find some new twists added to Westword’s annual arts extravaganza…. See also: Artopia 2014 — the Artistic Lights Were Bright on…
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival decided to bring the summer event’s tried-and-true formula indoors this past weekend for the inaugural ArtDenver at the Colorado Convention Center. For extra glitz, fashion took center-stage at the first night of ArtDenver, which mixed runway shows and designer vendors with artist booths. Photographer Brandon…
Westword writer Bree Davies has made no secret of her love for the weirdly fun Denver institution, Casa Bonita, which celebrated forty years of business this year. But what seems to be a secret is why she couldn’t get permission to shoot video inside the 50,000-square-foot Mexican “village” that dominates…
The spirit of Burning Man and Apogaea will rise in the Rockies when the Telluride Fire Festival debuts in that town in January. On Friday night, Denver burners and other pyromaniacs got a taste of things to come at Crash 45, where the crowds, some in fire-inspired costumes, beat the…
Wonderbowl Vietnamese Restaurant opened last week on South Federal Boulevard after an extensive remodel of what used to be a KFC. Wonderbowl is a sister restaurant to Pho Duy in the same shopping center and features a few house specials not common to Federal’s Vietnamese scene along with a typical…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz declared Cart-Driver a winner in the fast-casual race, while Mark Antonation continued his pad Thai quest at Edgewater’s quaint Thailicious. See also: Paper Bird and Esme Patterson Had to Split Up Before Both Could Take Off…
The T-Wa Inn, Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant, closed earlier this year on Federal Boulevard, leaving a building with good bones for a new owner to take over. Given the demographic of the area, another Vietnamese eatery would not have been a surprise, but instead Mariscos El Licenciado — which started…
Weather is happening, people. We won’t bore you with it — you can figure that stuff out pretty easily. But there are some excellent shows, including the release of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s excellent new one, Totem. You can also see Dance Party Time Machine at the Ogden and a…
This week at Schmuck of the Week HQ, we’ve got a yin/yang situation. Or maybe we said say Schmuck/Anti-Schmuck, since the man Jeremiah Proctor allegedly tried to slice up with a samurai sword for the sin of towing his improperly parked car has responded in decidedly unschmucky fashion. See also:…
Tonight Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department will honor fifteen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making during the 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony at The Studio Loft of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “This year’s winning projects are phenomenal examples of what makes Denver…
Every holiday season, the Colorado Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund commissions a new Christmas tree ornament that is inspired by or modeled after an object inside the Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion; the ornament is then duplicated and copies are sold to the public as a way to raise money…
There is a difference between cannabis and a t-shirt. But the distinction doesn’t really matter much at Denver International Airport, which recently published the details for a public hearing at which it plans to ban the sale of marijuana-themed souvenirs. See also: Marijuana: Antique Row Backers Cool to “Green Mile”…
The Source opened its doors in late August 2013 for customers of its first restaurant, Comida Cantina. A month later Acorn set up shop, joined by a warehouse full of other businesses, many of which peddle fresh-made or packaged specialty food and beverages — think coffee, beer, bread and beef…
It’s a special The Daily Show edition of the Voice Film Club podcast, as we talk about Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher (starring Steve Carell) and move onto Rosewater, the movie Jon Stewart left The Daily Show for three months in 2013 to direct. Both are in theaters starting November 14. Here’s…
The crowds came out to Santa Fe Drive and other Denver arts districts on the first Friday of November, just as they do on every first Friday of the year. But because it was also the kickoff for Denver Arts Week, there may have been a few people experiencing it…
The 40 West Arts gallery is hosting a food-themed Farm to Table art exhibit through November 22, featuring pieces in various media from over 25 artists. As part of the exhibit, the gallery also hosted a food-as-art and Jello mold contest, with entries judged and awarded ribbons based on most…
Plaid flannel shirts and lots of beards: it must have been just another day at one of Denver’s top hipster hangouts. Actually, it was the Jacked Up Lumberjack Party at the ViewHouse on Saturday. Partiers grabbed their axes and suspenders to help raised money for Environmental Learning for Kids. This…
