The eleven alternative weeklies of Voice Media Group are responsible for a tremendous amount of music writing: This year, we produced thousands of pages of printed stories and tens of thousands of blog posts. We’re proud to present the very best of that work in the second annual Voice Media…
Paint the town read! Show and Tell is off for New Year’s Day — and you should be, too. Get out and enjoy this city’s vibrant cultural scene (or at least find a spot with bottomless Bloody Marys). We’ll be back early tomorrow morning. Happy new year…
Paint this town read! Cafe Society is off for New Year’s Day, and will return early tomorrow. While you recover from last night, resolve to eat more, more, more in 2014 — and share the spots that are on the top of your dining wish list in the comments section…
Bars and restaurants have been rushing to open before the end of the year, with dozens joining the Denver dining scene this month. But a couple of other spots will close their doors at the end of service tonight. Keep reading for our Restaurant Roll Call for December. See also:…
While there are a number of high profile jam-centric New Year’s Eve shows this year, including dates with Yonder Mountain String Band, String Cheese Incident and Umphrey’s McGee, there are also a ton of other concerts and club events on NYE. We’ve put together a comprehensive list of ways for…
Welp, we’ve reached the end of another year, and what a year it was here at Backbeat. From delving into extensive Phish analysis and listing the best Swedish Metal bands to running down the best light shows and rap lyrics of all time to offering up a field guide of…
Hot Tuna, featuring former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, returns to the Oriental on Sunday, February 23; tickets are $30 and on sale now. The Bad Plus are due at Dazzle on Tuesday, April 23, and Wednesday, April 24. Tickets are $25 and on sale now. Mountain Sun hosts its…
If you were at Decadence last night, then you already have the drop on the first headliner for this year’s edition of the Westword Music Showcase. In keeping with our longstanding tradition of capping the night off with a blockbuster dance party, Diplo will have the honors this year. Tickets…
The Manitou Springs Fruitcake Toss has been cancelled for January. What to do with all those holiday bricks? Get them to Barbara Bailey, fruitcake recycler. Bailey started the Great Fruitcake Recycling Project in 2005, and this holiday season she has partnered with Glad Food Protection Products to help support the…
Denver blogs have us peering into the future. Westword’s own Backbeat blog writes up Sunday night’s the String Cheese Incident concert at the 1stBank Center. The refurbished Capitol Dome is making its slow reveal, a littler earlier than predicted, according to Denver Urbanism’s photos. The Mile High Report gives us…
TUES | WU YEAR’S EVE at CERVANTES | 12/31/13 More than just creating a free-associative style that would be emulated ceaselessly throughout the ’90s and to this very day, the Wu-Tang Clan engineered an aesthetic and model for profitability with only a spiritual guide, the GZA, a mastermind producer, the…
Since some people just can’t wait for Christmas to be over, 3 Kings threw open its doors on December 25 for the annual F%CK Xmas! celebration, a night of anti-holiday carousing with PBRs and the lovely ladies of Ooh La La. Photographer Brandon Marshall joined in the fun, snapping these…
Marking the final Friday of 2013, Denver’s blogs turned to politics, pot and Peyton. Westword’s own Backbeat blog asks whether John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” was really about pot. Colorado Pols continued its political stories countdown with number eight: “The Slaughter of Amendment 66 and How it Changed School Board…
Greg Gallagher knows bars — he owns Gaslamp and the Front Porch — and he knows the part of town on the edge of LoDo, where both of those bars are located. So he knew what he wanted, and what would work, when he decided to open another bar right…
Potato, sausage and eggs for lunch? Why not? And this traditional breakfast dish would no doubt taste just as good at dinner. A time-honored classic never goes out of style — not even after three decades. Can you guess where I’m eating? Watch for the answers to the last two…
Colorado State University’s football team beat the Washington State Cougars in thrilling fashion last weekend, coming from behind to win 48-45 in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl — the first bowl game that the Rams have played in since 2008. And the highlights made all the national sports broadcasts –…
Before you run out to see one of the several movies opening on this Christmas Day 2013, listen to this very special Voice Film Club podcast: Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl runs point while Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their top…
Denver just got another Dunkin’ Donuts when a second location opened this morning at Denver International Airport — this one inside DIA, at the center of the A Concourse. The original DIA store opened in September in the Final Approach, the new cell-phone waiting area. See also: Dueling Dunkin’ Donuts…
Update, 12/27/13: Contest is over. Congrats to Darkcabal and mtnmc1. You and a guest will be our guests at the show this Monday. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks for all the entries and for reading Backbeat! What better way to finish what was…
FRI | BAUUER at BETA | 12/27/13 Sure, it’s ancient history now, but remember earlier this year when you couldn’t escape the “Harlem Shake” phenomenon. In case you need a refresher, “Harlem Shake” is what happened when a thunderous trap record on Diplo’s Mad Decent imprint put the nation in…
Over the past year, Lori Midson asked chefs, cooks and pastry experts across the metro area to spill their secrets in her weekly Chef and Tell feature. Yesterday we shared some of our favorite responses from those fifty interviews; here’s a second helping. See also: Stirring responses from some of…
Every year, we bring you the best examples of the worst behavior that we can find from the past 365 days of news stories. And from secessionists to bigoted bakers to Tom Martino and Mother Nature, there was plenty of shame and shmuckery to go around in this year’s Hall…
