Update, 6/14/13: Contest is over. Congratulations to @Rachel Davis and @David Lee. You’ve won a pair of tickets to see Datsik at the Ogden (Friday and Saturday, respectively). Please check your email for details. Datsik is bringing his monstrous sound to the Ogden Theatre this weekend, and we got our…
My Bloody Valentine, who was last in town three years ago at the Fillmore, will return to the Mile High City for an intimate and sure to be overwhelmingly loud show at the Ogden Theatre on Monday, August 19. Tickets for the show range from $45 to $50 and go…
DEVOTCHKA & COLORADO SYMPHONY @ RED ROCKS | FRI, 6/14/13 Teaming up with an orchestra can sometimes be a thin attempt to disguise a creative lag, but in this case, the pairing has produced an inspired, brilliantly structured melding of two aesthetics that relies less on contrast than it does…
Colorado may be getting a Trader Joe’s at Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street development, but the project is coming at a cost. Ristorante L, which got its start as Laudisio, closed yesterday — just shy of its 25th anniversary (with seven of those 25 years on 29th Street). Although founder Antonio…
You’ve got to figure there are a lot of ways to piss off a member of a SWAT team. But here’s one that’s certain to be near the top of the list: Steal his guns while he’s fighting cancer. That’s what Keaton Bell did. And now, he’s going to pay…
BIG HEAD TODD & THE MONSTERS @ RED ROCKS | SAT, 6/8/13 Twenty years ago, things were considerably different in the local scene. Denver had yet to produce any massive breakout artists on the level of the Lumineers or the Fray. Back then, Big Head Todd and the Monsters were…
Zeppelin Developments, which developed the nearby Taxi complex, is working hard right now to transform an 1880s ironworks building at 3530 Brighton Boulevard into The Source, a curated European-style artisan food market and retail space in the hot-hot River North (RiNo) district. Although Visit Denver is already touting the Source…
The Hawt Dog & Sausage Eatery originally opened in Cherry Creek North in January 2012. Its claim to fame was an elaborate take on a traditionally uninteresting tubular food (hot dogs and sausages), but that wasn’t enough to keep the place open. It closed last November. But last month there…
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…
While last month Broadway lost three restaurants just a few blocks up the street, other spots are quickly filling the gaps. Pie Hole just opened at 44 South Broadway, and the Illegal Pete’s going into an old auto-repair shop at 270 South Broadway is working fast to finish the homegrown…
For Westword’s first ever Comics issue, on stands now, we invited artists across the city to submit comics channeling Denver in some way — and the results tackled a diverse range of what we love (and laugh about) in our town. Although only eight could fit in the print issue,…
THE EAGLES @ PEPSI CENTER | SAT, 10/5/13 The Eagles, who just released the three-disc documentary History of the Eagles, hits the Pepsi Center on Saturday, October 5. The band will be performing classics spanning their entire career, as well as tunes from the bandmembers’ solo catalogues. Tickets, which start…
Oskar Blues toasted the canned craft-beer movement that it started more than ten years ago by putting on the annual Burning Can Beer Fest in Bohn Park in Lyons. More than thirty breweries — all of which can their beer — turned out for it. But the party, which has…
ALICE COOPER & MARILYN MANSON @ RED ROCKS | MON, 6/3/13 Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson at Red Rocks. Sweet Jesus! How this totally obvious and sure-to-be-awesome pairing has not happened before now is anybody’s guess. The music world’s O.G. shock rocker and his direct artistic descendent are slated to…
This year’s Denver Comic Con returned to the Colorado Convention Center Friday through Sunday with thousands of people in glorious costumes. The week before the con, ticket holders were hit with sad news — that Marvel mastermind Stan Lee would no longer be appearing — but those frowns turned upside…
Trader Joe’s fans in metro Denver have waited a long time to get one of the stores — and now they’re getting two, both of which could open this fall. The Trader Joe’s that’s going into Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street development was the first one announced, and the project finally…
This week, Mark Antonat’s travels up Federal Boulevard finally reached Lao Wang Noodle House, a spot already beloved for its soup dumplings — but he found plenty of other crave-worthy dishes there. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson interviewed Jimmy Bernat, who just opened Jimmy’s Urban Bar & Grill in…
Although more than a dozen restaurants opened in the metro area this month, pizza carved the biggest slice out of the market. Pizza Locale, which got its start in Boulder, opened a restaurant in Denver. Pizza Republica, which got its start in Greenwood Village, opened a restaurant in Denver. And…
The line separating Schmucks of the Week from the rest of humanity is a thin one. Choose to walk away when provoked and there’s a good chance you’ll avoid being tagged with a schmucky label. But act before your brain is engaged and you’ll have a helluva good chance of…
Later today we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for May, a compendium of all the openings and closings in town over the past month — and there have been plenty. But already, June is shaping up to be a very busy time for restaurants. Two new places have dates with…
ALABAMA SHAKES @ RED ROCKS | SUN, 6/2/13 Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes has a powerful and mesmerizing voice and she sings with an impassioned believability that sounds like she has experienced a fuller life than her young years could hope to contain. Her earthy vocals and the band’s solid,…
Update: Congrats to JamesB7! Check your email with details on how to claim your prize. Original post: Have you seen the lineup for Comedy Works this summer? The schedule includes Drew Carey, Jim Belushi, Dave Attell, our own Josh Blue and more big names than we’re going to list inside…
