Win tickets to see Datsik at the Ogden Theatre

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…

The ten best concerts in Denver this week

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…

Laudisio, aka Ristorante L, closes in Boulder

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…

The ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

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…

Construction Watch: The Source has targeted a mid-July opening

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 and Sausage Eatery reopens in Cherry Creek North

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…

Illegal Pete’s set to open on South Broadway this month

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…

The ten best concerts to see in Denver this week

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…

Trader Joe’s finally breaks ground on its Boulder store

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…

News, brews, reviews: A second helping of Cafe Society May 25-31

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…

Pizza, pizza, pizza: Restaurant Roll Call for May

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 ten best concerts in Denver this weekend

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,…

Win $100 to spend at Comedy Works! (updated with winner)

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…