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Magnet Mafia Goes International

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

What happens when all the profanely monikered bands get together at once

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Picabo Hides Nothing

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

The Edge of Heaven

Storylines and cultures crash in this German/Turkish import -- and isn't it arty?

Chicago

Windy City hot dogs may not blow, but they're not the best.

Pizzeria Mundo

Getting back to basics – and 75-cent PBR.

Grand Lux Cafe

What happened in Vegas should have stayed there.

Film First

The Boulder International Film Festival unwinds.

Choreographed Commentary

The Boulder International Film Festival unwinds.

Dimmu Borgir

This Norwegian trio’s latest album is a valentine to the Bible’s biggest bad boy.

Eagle*Seagull

This Nebraska group has international appeal.

Classic Act

Discover a new world at Chinook Tavern: the Old World.

Double Cross Words

Diplomacy addicts smile and lie as they gamely try to conquer the world.

Consumed

And the Weiner Is...

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band.

The Plum Dumpling Gang

Conjuring up food flavored with memories.

The Voyage Out

Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon has touched the “devil's music” with her own world-class style.

All Mixed Up

Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

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Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

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Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

LETTERS

Vienna's Kruder & Dorfmeister have become many superstars' remixers of choice.

SWANEE'S SONG

AMBASSADOR HUNT LEARNS THE LESSONS OF ANTI-SEMANTICS.

Flick Pick

AMBASSADOR HUNT LEARNS THE LESSONS OF ANTI-SEMANTICS.

Revanche at Starz

AMBASSADOR HUNT LEARNS THE LESSONS OF ANTI-SEMANTICS.

At Foothills and the CVA, two shows explore what people do and what they're made of

AMBASSADOR HUNT LEARNS THE LESSONS OF ANTI-SEMANTICS.

Opposites Attract

AMBASSADOR HUNT LEARNS THE LESSONS OF ANTI-SEMANTICS.

Denver Blogs: Claudine Longet has nothing on this allegedly homicidal Aspen socialite

We haven't forgotten you, Claudine.​Denver blogs are bloggeriffic! George Jahn at Huffington Post Denver shares the fiery tale of Pamela Phillips, an Aspen socialite busted in Austria for allegedly killing her ex-husband with a pipe bomb in 1996. Oh, sweet memories of Claudine Longet... Stev ... More >>

Billy's Gourmet Hot Dogs hops on the wiener wagon

​Billy's Gourmet Hot Dogs, the brainchild of owner Bill Feid, a wiener-loving Chicagoan who couldn't find a noble Chicago-style dog when he moved to Denver, opened last Monday, February 8, at 2445 Larimer Street. The menu, a catchall of eight different Vienna beef, Polser and salmon hot dog ... More >>

Ten Denver hot dog joints to help you welcome back the boys of baseball

Biker Jim will do you right.​ Nothing goes with Opening Day like hot dogs. Why would you even try? And while the grilled dogs and brats - with everything, please - you can get at Coors Field are truly delicious, even if the buns never seem to hold up, Denver is rich with other options. The f ... More >>

Six porch-poundable white wines for hot summer nights

​Porch pound-er (n): A highly technical, wine industry term referring to a wine which, after as little as one sip, uncontrollable guzzling of said wine occurs almost immediately. Exaggerated licking of lips and eye-rolling ensue as accompaniments.Typically, the wine is extremely affordable an ... More >>

Measure for Measure gets tricked out at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival

​Porch pound-er (n): A highly technical, wine industry term referring to a wine which, after as little as one sip, uncontrollable guzzling of said wine occurs almost immediately. Exaggerated licking of lips and eye-rolling ensue as accompaniments.Typically, the wine is extremely affordable an ... More >>

A taste of Denver International Wine Festival 2010

Photo: J. WohletzWine sediment draining at Balistreri​The Denver International Wine Festival celebrated year six with a VIP tour of Front Range wineries and Roundhouse Spirits -- a tour that began Saturday with plenty of wine, ended with plenty of gin, and stuffed the middle with gourmet nibbl ... More >>

What week is it? Several weird ways to celebrate Christmas

​As a public service to compulsive drinkers, on Mondays, we usually give you a breakdown of all the obscure holidays you could be celebrating that week. This week, however, there's no need for that, because this week heralds the coming of the granddaddy of all holidays: Boxing Day, the Canadia ... More >>

David Eugene Edwards of Wovenhand on the influence of Middle Eastern music

Mark HolthusenDavid Eugene Edwards​ Wovenhand (due at The Marquis Theater tomorrow night with Git Some) is the current musical project of David Eugene Edwards. In his early bands, Bloodflower and The Denver Gentlemen, Edwards was developing an aesthetic that some consider synonymous with all ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Nature Valley Ski Big Air Challenge at Denver Big Air

​The 100-foot launch tower erected in Civic Center Park for the Denver Big Air competition will see its first official action today at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) for the Nature Valley Ski Big Air challenge, a Battle of the Brands format that will pit the ski teams from Icelantic, Line Sk ... More >>

Nihilistic Noir

​The 100-foot launch tower erected in Civic Center Park for the Denver Big Air competition will see its first official action today at 5 p.m. (doors open at 3:30 p.m.) for the Nature Valley Ski Big Air challenge, a Battle of the Brands format that will pit the ski teams from Icelantic, Line Sk ... More >>

Cured will finally give Boulder a specialty cheese shop

http://www.curedboulder.com/​When Boulder was named America's foodiest town by Bon Appetit last year, it won the honor despite the fact that Boulder has no specialty cheese shop. For the last few years, anyone looking for a unique cheese in this town would generally look for it at Whole Food ... More >>

4/20: A day that will really live in infamy

Deepwater Horizon.​Does any other day carry as heavy a load as April 20? The day's fate was sealed in 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born in a small village in Austria. In the early '70s, April 20 also became an underground stoner holiday, now so aboveground that it's celebrated across the countr ... More >>

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Deepwater Horizon.​Does any other day carry as heavy a load as April 20? The day's fate was sealed in 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born in a small village in Austria. In the early '70s, April 20 also became an underground stoner holiday, now so aboveground that it's celebrated across the countr ... More >>

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Deepwater Horizon.​Does any other day carry as heavy a load as April 20? The day's fate was sealed in 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born in a small village in Austria. In the early '70s, April 20 also became an underground stoner holiday, now so aboveground that it's celebrated across the countr ... More >>

Second Helping: Mile High Vienna

Mile High ViennaA taste of the Windy City in the Mile High.​At the tender age of incredibly-awkward-teenager, I was packed, along with an econo-sized bottle of zit cream and my discman, into my family's mini van for a summer road trip through the romantic Midwest. I was a terrible human to be ... More >>

Denver's five best hot dogs

Mile High Vienna Stand​Temperatures threaten to approach the triple digits as we prepare to celebrate our country's independence this weekend, which puts us smack into summer, the season of baseball, lazy patio nights and, of course, hot dogs, which we like to feast on as we wander the streets ... More >>

What's in a name? Otto von Habsburg's real name and other ridiculously crazy monikers

You can call me Franz.​This week the world mourns the death of Otto von Habsburg, who championed world unity, opposed the Nazi movement, served as a member of the European Parliament and was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. You know, back when Austria and Hungary were hyphenated, in 1 ... More >>

Keep the ski porn coming: Poor Boyz Productions drops trailer for The Grand Bizarre

​We know it's kind of torturous of us to keep showing you the new trailers for this year's forthcoming ski and snowboard porn in the middle of July, but we just can't help ourselves. Keystone and Breckenridge get some love in The Grand Bizarre, this year's film from Poor Boyz Productions, whic ... More >>

Three reasons why somms adore grüner veltliner (and you should, too)

​ We sommeliers have a tendency to spend an inordinate amount of time sussing out all kinds of weird and interesting wines (partly because it's our job, partly because we're total wine geeks). And most of the time, those slightly off-kilter bottles are best appreciated by, well, let's face it ... More >>

Rock-N-Dogs rocks gourmet links and old vinyl in Lakewood

Lori Midson​"It came to me in a dream one night," says Larry Bigay. "I have a pad of paper by my bedside, and I woke up early one morning, and started to draw what I'd seen in my dream." What he saw were visions of hot dogs dancing in his head.

Was the IFSC World Cup Lead Climbing competition an Olympic sneak peek?

​Austrian climbers dominated both the men's and women's competition this past weekend, before a sold-out crowd at Movement Climbing Fitness in Boulder for the 2011 International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) Lead Climbing World Cup. Many climbers -- and climbing fans -- hope this event ... More >>

Around the World in 80 Sips at Mile High Station

​What can you expect from an event called Around the World in 80 Sips? Wine, of course, from all around the globe, including vintages from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, France, New Zealand, Spain and the United States. Tonight's event runs from 7 to 9 p.m. (starting at 6 p.m. for VIPs) ... More >>

Arvada Beer Company and Manneken Frites are an ideal pair in the northwest suburbs

Lori Midson​Out in the northwest suburbs for family events this holiday season, I was looking for a low-key place to unwind with some out-of-town relatives after all the feasting and present-wrapping concluded. Unwilling to settle for one of the strip-mall chain restaurants that are so prevale ... More >>