Was it really dozen years ago that Trista Sutter, a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer, had her heart broken on the first season of The Bachelor and then became the very first Bachelorette, falling for poetry-writing firefighter Vail Ryan Sutter and getting married on national TV?…
Renegade Colorado crafters will be out in force this morning, delivering handmade “no thank you” cards to Attorney General John Suthers and telling him that birth control is #NotMyBossBusiness. Suthers filed a friend-of-the court brief in the Sibelious v. Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court will hear today along…
The brave souls who gathered Saturday at Lincoln’s Road House knew what they were in for when they sat in the barber’s chair: their heads shaved smooth as hard-boiled eggs, all in the name of charity. Good thing there was beer nearby…. Following is one woman’s transformation for the St…
If chickens are now legal in Aurora, can pit bulls be far behind? Tonight Aurora City Council will consider a proposal to change the breed ban that prohibits pit bulls in the city — and in advance of that meeting, at 6 p.m. repeal supporters will rally outside Aurora City…
Roll, the monthly roller-skate party at Exdo Event Center, took on a neon glow on Friday night with Wipeout!, a chance for skaters to don dayglo paint, lace up and circle the floor under black lights. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the colors swirling; have a look…
Novelty had its moment in hip-hop; vision had its moment; abstraction had its moment. But thanks in no small part to Top Dawg Entertainment and its star, Kendrick Lamar, good old fashioned high-quality rapping is once again the standard of the day. And now, K.Dot’s longtime running mate Schoolboy Q…
Cafe Society was busy eating its last meals for the Best of Denver 2014 this week, but didn’t ignore its normal duties. In her current review, Gretchen Kurtz visits Mecca Grill, which changed owners last year and is slowly switching from the old emphasis on Lebanese food to Moroccan cuisine…
Last November, when we first wrote about Brandon Campbell, we declared him an ideal Schmuck of the Week candidate. Too bad news had broken about his moronic crimes — robbing homes wearing a GPS monitor — long before Friday, when our latest Schmucks are announced. Fortunately, Campbell has given us…
Lorde and Robin Thicke are playing the Fillmore this weekend. Oh! Not together. No, it’s a Saturday/Sunday situation. But do you know who would make one exceedingly odd twerking couple? Those two. Elsewhere, the great Tower of Power hits our neighbor to the south, D.R.I. will be yelling at Englewood…
The 2000 block of Larimer Street was ready for its closeup last March when the Spike Network featured Zanzibar Billiards on its popular reality series, Bar Rescue. As part of a five-day overhaul of the bar in December 2012, show host Jon Taffer, a longtime bar-and-club consultant who has transformed…
What’s in a name? Wafflich, a restaurant that did not serve waffles but an Italian-style sandwich (a wafflich), has been replaced by The Pasty Republic — which does not serve pastries, but English-style pasties. The owners are British transplants, who decided to introduce their favorite treat to the Denver area…
Find of the week at Safeway: Jolly Rancher gelatin (never call it Jell-O), in the signature watermelon and green-apple flavors that still taste of childhood to many adults many decades beyond that. Jolly Rancher was founded in 1942 by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen, who sold the company to Hershey in…
Trent Reznor and pals will play betwixt the monoliths in Morrison in July with grunge hero Soundgarden. Red Rocks’s summer calendar continues to fill out — Daughtry, Goo Goo Dolls and Blues Traveler also announced shows there this week. The rest of the concert calendar updates follow…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The whole town was painted green from head to toe this weekend, but on Old South Pearl Street, the emerald sheen was positively glowing Saturday: From the Lucky Charms with green milk breakfast for families to the adults-only pleasures of green beer (and stronger spirits of…
Denver started celebrating St. Patrick’s Day last week, partied hard through the weekend — and the fun isn’t over yet. Bars and restaurants around town are featuring St. Patrick’s Day deals and parties today — some starting as early as 7 a.m. Keep reading for five of our favorites. And…
The SXSW floodgates probably extend as far as Denver, and regardless this week brings an exceptionally strong crop of bands to town. Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, subjects of a recent cover story in our sister paper in St. Louis, play the Gothic tonight. There are plenty more below…
Guinness and Jameson are the undisputed kings of St. Patrick’s Day drinking, but Irish coffee comes in a close third — and makes a good hair of the dog for the day after. Westword’s Bailey Geoghan talked to two masters of the drink, bartender Kari Cummings of Vesta Dipping Grill…
Two more restaurants are joining the brunch bunch tomorrow. Just over a year after it opened in LoHi, Old Major will launch a Saturday and Sunday brunch menu. And down the hill in Riverfront, La Biblioteca — a Sandoval Restaurant concept that took over for Al Lado last fall –…
Knowing that Ohio’s Greg Kasarcik has been arrested and extradited to Colorado for alleged sexual exploitation adds creepiness to one item on his Facebook page and dark humor to another. The creepy part? Kasarcik’s decision to share a notice about a missing fourteen-year-old — since his alleged victim is thirteen…
The Denver Pavilions has big celebrations planned for St. Patrick’s Day, with a Celtic celebration set for noon to 5 p.m., when DJ Aaron,the Celtic Steps and a leprechaun stiltwalker will entertain the crowd; there will also be an outdoor Irish photo both. Many of the businesses in the complex…
Hooo buddy. There are shows this weekend in Denver. Who needs Austin when you’ve got the legendary New Orleans Suspects, the even more legendary De La Soul and a bunch of dudes with laptops, right here in your hometown? Not us. We’ll be here, seeing what Chris Adolf is up…
Wafflich, the neighborhood breakfast-and-lunch joint at 4166 Tennyson Street that chef Benny Kaplan opened after closing Shazz two years ago, had some problems from the start — chief among them the fact that it didn’t serve waffles. Now the tiny spot on Tennyson Street has been turned over to the…
