Later today, we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for November, a compendium of all the opening and closing action on Denver’s dining scene over the last thirty days — and there’s been plenty. But we expect still more in December, as entrepreneurs hurry to get restaurants open before the end…
Pho 95 has opened in its new location at 1401 South Federal Boulevard, right down the street from its original spot at 1002 South Federal. Although it’s still waiting on the okay of its liquor-license application, the pho remains one of this town’s liquid assets. Keep reading for a look…
In this week’s review, Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery for the second installment of its Toy Stories exhibit — the first half of which came around in the summer of 2011. The group show features paintings, ceramic works and sculptures that are all inspired by toys — though not…
By Christian McPhate For years, hidden messages have allegedly been embedded in music, cryptic musings that could only be heard by playing the vinyl backwards. Backwards masking, as this phenomenon became known, centered on songs by bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, acts that supposedly implanted subliminal satanic messages…
When you gaze out those big picture windows of the Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor of the Hyatt Regency Denver, you may not spot much snow on the mountains — but inside the bar, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Particularly if you try one of the…
The original location of Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli closes at 3 p.m. today, vacating the century-old building at 3130 Lowell Boulevard where it opened back in 1996. Owners Heidi and Steve Naples blame the closing on a dispute with the landlord; they say they’re looking for another spot in the neighborhood…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually 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…
Death Grips was in town this past weekend at the Larimer Lounge and delivered one of the more stirring sets that Tom Murphy, who’s seen and covered more than his fair share of shows over the years, has seen recently. Tom summed up the experience thusly: “More than most bands,…
When the class requirements are away, the students will play. This past weekend was a busy one for nightlife on Boulder’s Pearl Street. Our roving photographer Brandon Marshall spent Saturday evening capturing scenes at Boulder’s hotspots, including Press Play, Pearl Street Pub & Cellar and more. Keep reading for some…
Schooooool’s out! For. Winter. Or at least it was when Alice Cooper visited the Paramount Theatre this past Friday for a spectacularly spine-chilling show. Onstage, the never-aging (seriously, what gives?) rock icon navigated a series of tricky costumes including a skull suit, a ringleader uniform and a straight jacket, while…
Happy Monday! Another week, another great batch of shows on tap: After canceling a highly anticipated date this past spring, Action Bronson is more than making up for it with a pair of Colorado shows, one on Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, followed by another at Cervantes’…
This should have been a banner week for Hani “Henry” Sawaged, the owner of Daveco Liquors in Thornton, which in 2008 earned a nod as the world’s largest liquor store from the Guinness World Records organization. After all, people were, and still are, buying booze by the barrelful in advance…
The second annual two-day celebration of the bison that is MCA Denver’s Art Meets Beast kicked off on November 10 when Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods carved an entire bison. The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver shared these fun photos of the festivities, which combined art and education through…
Usually, Thanksgiving day means eating so much turkey we eventually feel like a turkey — and then fall asleep and have dreams about turkeys. But for the runners at the 2012 Mile High United Way Turkey Trot, yesterday involved actually dressing up as one (and also running to raise money…
Earlier this week, we created a contest for you, our glorious readers, to win tickets to Comedy Works by submitting your favorite jokes. The post, which earned more than sixty submissions, resulted in some flat, some bewildering and some pretty hilarious jokes, and we recently announced our final winners. (Some…
There’s no telling what the rest of his reindeer are up to (Thanksgiving obligations?), but Santa and at least a couple of his reindeer came to Denver early this year with a stop at El Diablo’s “Holiday Spectacular.” The Broadway hotspot invited family and friends to visit as it lit…
Welcome to the weekend — excuse us, make that the holiday weekend! Whoo hoo! If all is going according to plan right now, hopefully you’re reading this right now in your jammies — or better yet, you won’t be reading this for a few hours because you’re taking advantage of…
Sid Pink was heartbroken. So he did what any reasonable, red-blooded American man his age would do: He penned a rock opera about the ordeal — or a “rockeretta spectacular,” as the show’s poster proclaims. “About eighteen months ago, I suffered a devastating episode via Real Life,” Sid explains in…
For most of us, Thanksgiving is typically a time of vast reflection, a time when we get all sorts of introspective and express our gratitude for the lovely people and fortuitous moments in our lives — that is, of course, when we’re not preoccupied with our overwhelming sense of materialism…
The Denver Egotist passes along the perfect video guide to holiday etiquette — just in time to brush up for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton unleashes the word manimal in a look at Kenneth Faried, the capital-letter Manimal whom Morton praises as the Nuggets’ most welcome surprise,…
Update: Congratulations to playergeek! Your favorite movie has helped you win twenty tickets to Hollywood Theaters. Original post: We’ll cut to the chase: Movies are one of this planet’s greatest pleasures, and there’s nothing quite like going to see a film at a real theater. Show and Tell would like…
Tonya Carter loves living in Colorado. In fact, she loves it so much that she was inspired to write her own version of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” — celebrating all the “amazing outside activities,” she says. In fact, Colorado has so many amazing activities that “the song was not…
