It’s a good weekend here in Denver, with hip-hop deity KRS-One playing Cervantes’ and the criminally under-appreciated Ralph Gean playing Mutiny Information Cafe tonight. Elsewhere, the Gypsy Jane Cannabis Carnival brings E-40 and others to the Merchandise Mart. The rest of our picks are below…
Downtown will be hopping this weekend — and not just because thousands of beer lovers here for the Great American Beer Festival will spill out into the streets. There will also be free performances, art and other activities for all ages as Reimagine Your Downtown transforms the area, turning parks…
Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, along with LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson, talk about one of the big movies of the year, Gone Girl, which opens in about 3,000 U.S. theaters on Friday, but the trio also makes room for lesser-known films like The Blue Room, Men,…
Brandon Hansen is one of our more sought-after Schmucks of the Week. He’s been charged in two different jurisdictions, Denver and Jefferson County, for particularly perverse behavior. Among the allegations: He took videos up the skirts of women on the escalators of Denver Pavilions and images of unsuspecting women laying…
Nothing says fall in Colorado like the changing colors — and the show isn’t over yet. If you somehow missed the traffic jam of last Saturday’s leaf peepers heading up I-70, it’s not too late to catch some color. Here are five spots you should still be able to fall…
New restaurant openings filled the calendar in September, with more than two dozen spots opening their doors in metro Denver. The new eateries ranged from Mercantile Dining & Provision, Alex Seidel’s market/cafe/restaurant in Union Station, to another link in the homegrown Santiago’s chain. But Denver also lost a handful of…
By Chris Walker Do you have anything that goes well with Beethoven?” The clerk at the Denver Wellness Center looks at me strangely before motioning me over to a display case full of various THC-infused candies and baked goods. “Well,” he says, “we’ve got weed cookies, gummies, lollipops, chocolate…. I…
It’s no secret that Denver is blessed with an overwhelming amount of music venues, places boasting calendars packed full of local and national acts every night of the week. We wanted to highlight some of the best of the little guys — venues that can hold crowds under 500 people…
Falling Rock Tap House threw its tenth annual Fresh Hop Festival on Saturday, celebrating the bitter and aromatic flower and the beers that are made with only fresh, not dried or pelletized, hops. Beers from 36 Colorado breweries, plus a few from around the country, were pouring; photographer Scott Lentz…
No. 71 Oysters at Jax Fish House Glendale 650 South Colorado Boulevard 303-756-6449 Now that we’re back into months containing the letter “r,” it’s safe to eat oysters again, right? That old superstition hasn’t held much water since the advent of modern refrigeration, but there’s some truth to the idea…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz visited Saucy Noodle Ristorante, which just celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. It may not be the best red-sauce joint in town, but as she notes in her review of Sauce Noodle, the place has a faithful cadre of fans. For Chef and Tell, Mark…
Jake and Kendra Warrum may well have qualified for Schmuck of the Week status based enitrely on an alleged plan to burn down their house for insurance money. But they became locks for this week’s nod because they apparently allowed neighbors to collect money — a lot of money –…
Fiction Beer Company, owned by Ryan and Christa Kilpatrick, opened its doors on the first floor of the Phoenix on the Fax building last weekend, and will celebrate its grand opening tomorrow at 2 p.m. Located on busy Colfax Avenue, on the border of the Park Hill, Monclair, Mayfair and…
The Biennial of the Americas returns to Denver on July 14, 2015 — months away, but still NOW! That’s the theme for this third Biennial, which will feature festivals, exhibitions, events and dialogue over three themed days — Generation NOW, Business NOW, and Community NOW — culminating with Americas NOW!,…
Work Options for Women — the local nonprofit that helps train at-risk women (and men) for careers in the food industry through on-the-job training — is nearing the end of its indiegogo campaign to raise $5,161 to outfit the Barista Training Station at Cafe United, the facility WOW will be…
No. 72 Pickled Lake Michigan Perch at Trillium 2134 Larimer Street 303-379-9759 Upper Larimer’s Trillium brings Scandinavia to Denver, by way of the Great Lakes. Chef-owner Ryan Leinonen grew up in Michigan, where Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish influences shaped the food he grew up with. This shows on his menu,…
It’s been a rough September for the University of Colorado. First the Buffs football team lost to their now arch-rivals, the Colorado State University Rams, in the annual early-season battle at Sports Authority Field, and then the entire school fell off Playboy’s yearly list of the biggest party schools in…
As Bob McCall in The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays a regular Joe who turns into an eye-gouging, brain-drilling nightmare for Boston’s Russian mob. At first Washington “toodles about a Home Depot-like store, helping customers, decked out in New Balance shoes and jeans so last-century you’ll be looking for pleats,” writes…
The Rio Grande group got its start in 1986 in Fort Collins, where college students came to rely on the incredibly strong margaritas — limit three per customer, and no revealing the secret recipe — and big plates of gringo Mexican fare. A seventh Rio just opened in Frisco –…
No. 73 Smoked Turkey Croque-Madame at Acorn 3350 Brighton Boulevard 720-542-3721 Acorn in the Source has been earning praise almost since the day it opened. Of chef and co-owner Steve Redzikowski’s now-iconic kale and apple salad, our restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz wrote: “The recipe is now a classic; the salad…
The Saucy Noodle, which Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in August — a remarkable record for a restaurant that’s still in the founding family’s hands. But it’s not the only place in the area run by family members fifty years after it opened. Up in Louisville,…
Colorado’s master brewers know they’re good at making beer. But are they good at riding tricycles and throwing yeast-filled balloons? The answer to that became clear over the weekend at Vine Street Pub’s annual Uptown Neighborhood Block Party and Brewers Olympics, which along with the silly games featured live music…
