With the news that Paul Feig is going to reboot Ghostbusters with an all-female cast, we wonder on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast what it would be like if they re-did another ’80s classic: Young Guns. We then move onto the latest Brad Pitt World War II movie, Fury,…
Jean-Philippe Failyau is about to open his biggest Park Burger yet, this one in the RiNo/Ballpark neighborhood, with a beefed-up bar lineup and hours — and live music. Frank Bonanno’s one-time right-hand man created his first Park Burger in Platt Park five years ago, then added a Park Burger in…
PalletFest filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex this past weekend with an ingenious layout built from recycled wooden pallets. Attractions included a maze, a music stage, a parkour course and vendor booths all made from pallets;demonstrations and merchandise all focused on recycled and upcycled materials. Photographer Brandon…
It’s been a tough month for the town’s top Chinese restaurants. Chef Liu’s Kitchen, named Best Chinese Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014, closed abruptly in Aurora; it will be replaced by a pho restaurant. And now East Asia Garden, our Best Chinese Restaurant in the Best of Denver…
The Denver Diner has been open 24/7 for over two decades in its current location on Colfax– but last night, the place was dark. Early Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the restaurant, damaging the kitchen and the roof and sending two firefighters to the hospital with minor injuries…
As with last weekend, there’s a decent assortment of acts, from Skrillex at Balch Fieldhouse at CU-Boulder with GTA, Nadastrom and Alesia, to Sondre Lerche, Big Freedia, Shonen Knife and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey. The rest of our picks are below…
This week in Cafe Society, our reviewer got a taste of the UK at Argyll Whisky Beer, where both the whiskey and Scotch eggs were delicious. Rioja chef de cuisine, For Chef and Tell, Mark Antonation talked with Tim Kuklinski about failing in the kitchen, his love of Italian food…
Hangar 2 Partners — a partnership between Larimer Associates and Hartman-Ely Investments — broke ground last fall on the “Lowry Dining District,” two new buildings outside of Hangar 2, the historic building in the Lowry neighborhood that once held Air Force planes when the area was a military base. This…
No. 69 Charred Tahini Cauliflower at Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs2148 Larimer Street 720-746-9355 Jim Pittenger, the “Biker Jim” behind two restaurants, a cart and a food truck, didn’t get to where he is by serving vegetables. He didn’t impress celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain with a salad. He did it with…
There’s an insanely eclectic array of shows this weekend. Swallow Hill is celebrating its 35th Anniversary at the Paramount Theatre with Josh Ritter, Brett Dennen and Elle King. Nas performs his classic album, Illmatic at the Paramount. There’s also the New Pornographers, Felice Brothers, the Hot Sardines, War on Drugs…
We had high hopes when brothers Andrew and David Marx opened Drew’s Denver Deli in the home of the original Spicy Pickle two years ago; Andrew already had experience in the sandwich business at Jimmy & Drew’s in Boulder, which earned accolades from Esquire after opening in 2006. But Jimmy…
The Great American Beer Festival is over, but it left us with lots of memories, as well as beer guts, stacks of stickers and favorite new brews. We sent videographer Andrew Bateman to capture the scene this past weekend. Watch his video to see what you missed — or simply…
The restaurant scene in northwest Denver is heating up, and while some longtime residents lament the loss of old-school restaurants, it’s impossible to see the opening of Brazen as anything but a bonus. After all, owner Christopher Sargent turned a strip-mall space formerly occupied by a former yogurt shop into…
The Great American Beer Festival is over, but the beer news keeps pouring out. Renegade Brewing Company and Elevation Beer Company just announced they’ve settled all litigation pertaining to Renegade’s use of the mark Elevation Triple IPA. In exchange for certain financial terms that will not be disclosed, Renegade will…
Miyabi Jr. Japanese Express, a quick-service hibachi restaurant from PJ Partners and Capital Japan, opened last month in Tiffany Plaza — and no, it’s not in the space recently vacated by Oshima Ramen, an offshoot of another Japanese group that has a chain of ramen noodle shops in that country…
You wouldn’t know, listening to the Felice Brothers’ latest LP, Favorite Waitress, that the record marks the first time they’ve recorded in a proper studio, abandoning the chicken coops and high-school auditoriums of their previous albums. Characteristically unhinged and scruffy without ever feeling unprofessional, the record has the warmth and…
If you’ve recovered sufficiently from the weekend’s festivities at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival to relive a few of the most colorful booths — or if you couldn’t score a ticket and just want to live the festival vicariously through photos, photographer Danielle Lirette captured the decorations, the drinkers…
What do you get when you combine 710 breweries, more than 3,500 beers, 3,200 volunteers and 49,000 beer-loving drinkers over three days? You get the mayhem that is the Great American Beer Festival. Westword photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture all of the beer-soaked fun. Take a look at…
The Gypsy Jane Cannabis Carnival brought two remarkably solid days of music to the Denver Mart over the weekend. Saturday was particularly good for fans of classic hip-hop, with sets from E-40, Too Short, Warren G and your headliner, Snoop Dogg. Snoop has spent plenty of time in Colorado since…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Glaze by Sasa, a new dessert and sushi restaurant that’s the baum. And just in time for the Great American Beer Festival, Mark Antonation talked to Scott Witsoe of Wit’s End Brewing about his old homebrewing days, his love of exotic ingredients…
On Thursday night, fashionistas took over the McNichols Building for a benefit fashion show gala reflecting the Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s continuing exhibit Fashion/Culture. Photographer Scott Lenz brought back these images and more from the high-class evening. See also: Playbill: Three Plays to See in Denver for October 2-5…
A firkin, in case you were wondering, is a small cask that holds about eleven gallons of liquid — beer, if you’re lucky. Epic Brewing had fifty of the little casks, each with a unique beer made by Epic, on hand last night to celebrate the first anniversary of the…
