Central Bistro & Bar will start serving lunch tomorrow, eight months after Isiah Salazar opened his restaurant on the very edge of LoHi, almost three months after opening exec chef Lance Barto abruptly left the kitchen. That kitchen is now in the hands of Gerard Strong, who’d come from Z…
The Colorado Brewers Guild, which represents more than 100 of the state’s 160-plus breweries, took over Colorado Beer Week this year, revitalizing it as Colorado Craft Beer Week. Brothers Scott and Jason Kerkmans started Colorado Beer Week as a for-profit production in 2011, but it needed more of a push…
Oh, man! What a spring concert season you have in store. We originally set out to assemble a list of the 25 best concerts this spring, and we found there were so many great shows, we had to expand it to the fifty best shows, from hot buzz bands like…
Left Hand Brewing pulled out all the stops on Saturday with Hops & Handrails, a family-friendly beer festival featuring 23 Colorado breweries, live music, local food, and a 25-foot-high ski and snowboard ramp that was built just for the occasion. Check out our photos of the event or click the…
The New Kids on the Block Party, part of Colorado Craft Beer Week, went down last Saturday night at the Lobby American Grille, and being there was like being in a cold beer time machine. The point was to celebrate breweries that have opened in Colorado in the past two…
It’s fair to say that the fans who stuck it out at Friday night’s FIFA World Cup qualifier match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park were the diehard variety. During the game between the U.S. men’s soccer team and Costa Rica, Mother Nature covered the field in layer upon layer of…
In our preview of the Concoctory’s impending arrival, owner Mar Wiiams described the new South Broadway shop as, “a fusion of electronics and arts,” and our visit to its grand opening cemented that sentiment with a fun and friendly DIY experience. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped by the new spot and…
LOW @ LARIMER LOUNGE | FRI, 3/29/13 Since its inception in 1993, Low has created a body of work characterized by a fragile intensity. Although often lumped in under the banner of “slowcore” with a group of bands of similar sonic leanings, like Red House Painters, Galaxie 500, Tarnation and…
After the Aurora theater shooting last July, plenty of people across the country were nervous during their next trip to the movies — especially if the flick they were seeing was The Dark Knight Rises, which was unspooling as a gunman killed twelve people and injured seventy others. Still, Ohio’s…
It’s not time for the Denver County Fair quite yet — that won’t happen until August 9-11 — but it’s time to start getting excited about it. To help you with your immediate pie cravings and future funnel-cake dreams, we present this year’s Denver County Fair poster, the third in…
CONSPIRATOR @ OGDEN THEATRE | SAT, 3/23/13 Conspirator is an apt name for this supergroup of sorts, which comprises members of several well-known acts. Exploring the ethereal realms of EDM, the quartet — Aron Magner and Marc Brownstein of the Disco Biscuits, KJ Sawka of Pendulum and Chris Michetti of…
Three years ago, Blake Street Tavern moved a block south from the spot it had been for close to seven years, into the massive warehouse space at 2301 Blake Street that had once been home to Polly Esther’s (and many clubs before that). The first floor was filled with a…
The Wazee Supper Club got a makeover last year, so it will be ready for its close-up at 6:30 p.m. Monday, when fifteen women will be there to audition for three spots on Denver’s newest reality show, Mile High Social. This group of finalists has already been whittled down from…
Although Mile High Social, Denver’s newest reality show, is pegged as an honest project with a humanitarian bent, its creators were still amazed by how “real” the first casting call turned out. “I was surprised by how open the women were on camera,” Koncrete Media co-founder Dennis Flippin says. “It…
We’d missed the closure of Hoot and Howl — just as most people missed the restaurant/venue when it was actually open in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton. That development isn’t very old, but already the space at 8270 East Northfield is getting a reputation as a black hole, having already…
With the additions of everything from neighborhood taverns to high-end lounges, Denver’s bar scene got even better in 2012. Residents and tourists alike have many more options when they’re looking for fun after the sun goes down — or even before that. Here, in no particular order, are Cafe Society’s…
The Bubba Chinos that opened downtown last year is currently closed, reportedly for “remodeling.” Leonard Cordova, a grandson of Stella Cordova, founder of the original Chubby’s , started the homegrown Bubba Chinos chain; this location at 1361 Court Place was a franchise. See also: – Bubba Chinos expands into downtown…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it’s not surprising that the most common (and favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t you know it, off…
The Wazee Supper Club got a facelift last year, almost four decades after it first started slinging pizzas in a part of downtown that was at least ten years away from being nicknamed LoDo. Since then, watering holes have come and gone from lower downtown, but the Wazee just carries…
Remember Lisa Frank — the designer behind all those technicolor stickers and binders and backpacks that achieved a cult status for girls raised in the ’90s? Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta certainly does. Last night, the burlesque troupe performed a tribute to the love of all ’90s girls at Voodoo Comedy…
Alamo Drafthouse will open its doors at 7301 South Santa Fe Drive in Littleton on Monday, March 25. The first Colorado link in the Texas-based cinema chain — which offers food and drinks during screenings — boasts seven screens, 900 seats, 32 local beers on tap, and an extensive menu…
An Original Chubby’s is about to open at 14th and Kalamath, and as evidenced by the sign already in the window, it wants you to know that there’s no connection between this restaurant and any with similar names — except at other Original Chubby’s up in Thornton. See also: -…
