STRING CHEESE INCIDENT at 1STBANK CENTER | 12/28-12/29, 12/31 String Cheese Incident will be presenting its twentieth-anniversary celebration with various openers during its New Year’s run at 1STBANK Center. The group has Bootsy Collins joining forces on Saturday, December 28, confetti rockers Flaming Lips on Sunday, December 29, and the…
In 1983, Lech Walesa of Poland won the Nobel Peace Prize, the last Deloreans were produced, Vanessa Williams became the first African-American Miss America, the final episode of M.A.S.H. aired with more than 125 million viewers tuned in — and partners Lee Goodfriend, David Racine and the late Dixon Staples…
Christmas is all about traditions, sure, but MCA Denver’s Black Sheep Fridays introduced a new holiday custom: decorating anatomically correct dirty cookies and making sparkly pasties pretty enough to adorn an adults-only Christmas tree — or something else. Photographer Ken Hamblin III shot the action as pastie-making expert and burlesque…
Local blogs stimulate geeky list-making and — potentially — the desire for streetcars. Need some items to add to your to-do list in 2014? Westword’s arts-and-culture geek extraordinaire, Cory Casciato, has some ideas for you. Denver Urbanism looks at how Philadelphia’s streetcars might (or might not) be used to influence…
. Restaurants are hurrying to get in the swim before the end of the year — and that includes Soko Sushi and Sake Bar, now open at 1600 Champa Street. That building is a real culinary melting pot — Cafe Berlin served authentic German food here before shutting down this…
Every year, we bring you the best examples of the worst behavior 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 the 2013 Hall of…
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. Here are some of our favorite responses from those fifty interviews… See also: The 13 most overcooked food trends from 2013…
Brother Ali is slated to close at the year in Boulder with a two-night stand at the Fox Theatre that kicks off on Monday, December 30, and culminates with a New Year’s Eve performance on Tuesday, December 31. We’ve got tickets to the show on Monday, and would love for…
Service Bar opened this past weekend, a real Christmas gift to diners heading to the brand-new Lower 48 Kitchen, residents of 2020 Lawrence Street and neighbors in downtown, Curtis Park and the Ballpark neighborhood. Here’s Danielle Lirette’s first look at the new space. See also: Lower 48 opens in Ballpark…
This year’s installment of the Vans Warped Tour, which features Saves the Day, Mayday Parade, For Today, I the Mighty, the Ghost Inside, Teenage Bottlerocket, is slated to drop by Denver on Sunday, June 15. Tickets range from $28.50-$48.95 and are on sale now. Keep reading to see what other…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
There are good years and there are bad years — the ones you wish you could have back for a do-over, could simply recall. And 2013 certainly had its share of events that we wish had never happened, from the entire Colorado Rockies season to the weather: the drought that…
How do you like to celebrate the impending Christmas holiday? For lots of Denver bar-hoppers, it made lots of sense to don Santa suits — and other Christmasy nonsense — to hit the town’s taverns en masse, as similar groups are known to do in cities like New York and…
When it comes to Denver blogs, there’s no ifs ands or butts. Westword’s own Cafe Society blog presented its top five ways to deal with the Srirachapocalypse. Predominantly Orange caught us up with Gatorade’s instant commercial celebrating Peyton Manning’s 51st TD of the season. And the Denver Egotist highlighted this…
Since Moe’s Original Bar B Que came down from the mountains, it’s been extending its reach in Denver. Its first location here was at 3295 South Broadway in Englewood, by the Gothic, where it added bowling to the ‘cue that had proved so popular in the Vail Valley, where it…
All photos courtesy of Sony PicturesAmerican Hustle, directed and co-written by David O. Russell, is undeniably the must-watch film this holiday season. With outstanding performances by an A-list cast (Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Lawrence), the period film is loosely based on the real-life Abscam FBI Sting…
Skoops Ice Cream and More will open as usual at 11 a.m. today — but it will close for good at 9 p.m. today, after losing the lease on its Capitol Hill space in a dispute with its landlords. Owners Tim Hamann and Eddie Horn will be hosting a customer-appreciation…
YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND at BOULDER THEATER | 12/27/13 Yonder Mountain String Band is a fast-paced act that manages to blow your mind with its excellent technicality while toying with your emotions with heartfelt lyrics. Together the four members work in musical harmony, with animated lead singer and mandolin player…
SAT | PURITY RING (DJ SET) at CASSELMAN’S | 12/21/13 A Canadian duo made up of Corin Roddick and Megan James, Purity Ring has made a name for itself with syncopated rhythms and dreamy, pop-oriented soundscapes. James, who designs and stitches the clothes that the pair wear on stage, lays…
FRI | ONEREPUBLIC’S DENVER ACOUSTIC CHRISTMAS at OGDEN | 12/20 Over the last few years OneRepublic has made its acoustic Christmas shows an annual event that helps local charities. This year’s show, which also features Gungor, is a benefit for Colorado flood relief. VIP ticket includes ticket to the show,…
With the temperatures dropping, Thai food — with all its fresh flavors and heat — is sounding very appetizing. Thai Monkey Club, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed, is just one of the exciting new spots that’s joined a line of favorite standbys. Spice junkies often quabble over the spots with…
Except the cronut. We love the cronut. (Photo: Tejal Rao)Here are thirteen food trends that have become ubiquitous and shed the sheen of novelty — now they’re just dull and sometimes annoying, in spite of an exciting debut. (To keep things interesting, we’ve included a few food trends we hope…
