Photos: Denver Chalk Art Festival 2014

Larimer Square was jammed over the weekend with spectators watching an asphalt canvas come alive with color during the annual Denver Chalk Art Festival, a favorite summer kickoff for fest-goers of all ages. Scott Lentz was there to capture the crowd, the artists and the masterpieces-in-progress. See also: Hoodlab will…

Photos: Kinfolks Soul Food Festival sells out Civic Center Park

The Kinfolks Soul Food Festival made a stop in Denver this past weekend, and sold out all 10,000 tickets available for Saturday’s soul-food celebration in Civic Center Park. In addition to food from local soul-food vendors, festival-goers enjoyed music by artists including Bootsy Collins, Cameo and Morris Day. Kinfolks will…

The five best shows in Denver from June 2 to June 5

There are bigger concerts, sure, but for our money there is no better way to see Red Rocks than during Film on the Rocks. The series, which features Colorado bands opening for beloved movies, starts Tuesday with Ark Life, Covenhoven and Caddyshack. You can also see some masterful old-timey updates…

Range heats up, Le Grand closes up: Our Restaurant Roll Call for May

Over two dozen restaurants opened in metro Denver in May, ranging from new outposts of homegrown chains (Modmarket, Live Basil Pizza, Park Burger) to Range, a new-style Old West saloon in the stunningly renovated old Colorado Bank Building. But only a few blocks away, another vintage building lost its restaurant…

The ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

It’s the most wonderful time of the week. There are some excellent concerts in town on this final weekend of May, including John Prine with Emmylou Harris and Bootsy Collins in Civic Center Park for the The Kinfolks Soul Food Festival. There are some fresher faces too, like Bassnectar at…

Eight great Western comedies you should watch

The Western genre isn’t entirely comprised of spaghetti or John Wayne talking out the side of his mouth: From its earliest days, filmmakers were putting a comic spin on stories set on the dusty trail, with the genre hitting its apex between the mid ’70s and mid ’80s. We’ve gathered…

Photos: Blooming Beets Kitchen in full-bloom in Boulder

After a successful Kickstarter campaign, Blooming Beets Kitchen, a paleo-friendly restaurant in Boulder, is now in full-bloom. To celebrate the opening, owner Iva Paleckova is offering half-off on all ciders and wines this week. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped by Blooming Beets this past weekend; keep reading for a taste of…

Ten rules to follow at underground dance music concerts

By Sarah Stanley-Ayre Electronic music’s recent surge in popularity comes with serious side effects for underground-party aficionados. Suddenly, Daft Punk is winning Grammys, and drunk girls (and guys) are ruining life at 4 a.m. in a warehouse somewhere. Take this recent incident: Under a haunting pink hue Dustin Zahn tended…

All aboard for the Crawford Hotel job fair

Want to work in a piece of history? The Crawford Hotel — the independent luxury hotel that will soon debut in the renovated Union Station — will be hiring more than fifty employees before its July 12 opening. And from 1 to 6 p.m. Friday, May 30 and 10 a.m…

Photos: ArtStir at the Denver Pavilions

Over Memorial Day weekend, ArtStir — a Colorado-centric festival of fine art and craft — brought a taste of local culture to downtown Denver and the Denver Pavilions. Crafted by Samuel Schimek of the I Heart Denver shop in the Pavilions, the fest cast a modern, urban slant on an…

Think…and drink…pink at Elway’s Cherry Creek tonight

Think pink! As Kendra Anderson noted last week, it’s rose season — and tonight, Elway’s Cherry Creek will host its annual Pink Patio Party, where guests can sample more than thirty rosé wines from around the world — and help Elway’s sommelier Adam Vance pick the three wines for the…

The seven best concerts in Denver this week

We hope your long weekend was as full of smoked meats and assorted outdoor activities as ours was. And now we’re back and ready to talk about Denver concerts some more. Obviously the selections are a little lighter in this week’s show round-up given that we lost a day. But…

Photos: Toques and ‘Tails 2014 at Casselman’s

Bartenders and chefs from Session Kitchen, the Corner Office, Ace, Old Major, Central Bistro and Bar, Squeaky Bean, Lower48 Kitchen, and TAG went head to head in the second annual Toques and ‘Tails at Casselman’s last night….and photographer Danielle Lirette was there to catch all the action. Keep reading for…