Brooklyn (New York City)

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The Sons Also Rise

A family recipe for success (and, of course, chili) lives on at Sam's No. 3.

Any way you slice it, Brooklyn M.C.'s Pizzeria is the taste of home

A family recipe for success (and, of course, chili) lives on at Sam's No. 3.

Fringe Benefits

A family recipe for success (and, of course, chili) lives on at Sam's No. 3.

Brooklyn’s at the Pepsi Center

A tutorial in concert etiquette, courtesy the Who.

La Praviana

Comfort, Salvadoran style

Full Circle

The original Sam's #3 is back.

A Doggone Good Contest

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Sexy Pizza is good, hot and tasty- natch

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Avon Bakery makes heavenly pastries

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Stone Fruit Martini at Venue

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Golden Boy

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Bright Lights, Big City

The original Sam's #3 is back.

Gastro Gift Guide: Textiles edition

​Pet peeve: You go over to someone's house for a dinner party, and you go to the bathroom, and there's a fancy pair of hand towels hanging there with ridiculous embroidered gold snowflakes or something, and you can just tell that even though they're towels, and they're hanging there in the bat ... More >>

Top 10 College Rock (or whatever you want to call it these days) Albums of the Year

Thanks to Micachu & the Shapes for making us keenly aware of a vacuum cleaner's emotional properties​Yeah, pal, that's "college rock," scare quotes very much included. Look, it's a meaningless term. As are "indie," "alternative," "hipster," etc., etc. Let's not overthink this: Here we have ten ... More >>

Moving Pictures: A first look at A Shoreline Dream's "Manhattan Beach" video

Playing like a vivid dream sequence in which the members of A Shoreline Dream gently lull you to sleep, the act's new video for "Manhattan Beach" looks precisely what you'd expect it to look like just based upon hearing the band's dreamy compositions. Extreme close-ups of the members faces and t ... More >>

The Antlers

Saturday, February 13, Ogden Theatre, 303-830-8497.

Crimson and Gold goes for a liquor license tomorrow

Lori MidsonThe former Aroma Cafe space will soon be Crimson and Gold​Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard -- but the brothers who've taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partne ... More >>

Coming and Going

Lori MidsonThe former Aroma Cafe space will soon be Crimson and Gold​Aroma Cafe lasted less than a year at 2017 South University Boulevard -- but the brothers who've taken over the space have a restaurant record that stretches back more than twenty years. Kevin and Craig Caldwell, the partne ... More >>

Deferred Hat Tip: Runaway Slave by Showbiz and A.G.

​ Just to be perfectly clear from the get-go: I'd heard of Showbiz and A.G. before finding this record, but had always had a difficult time tracking down their albums, which I'll attribute the fact the majority of their catalog has been in and out of print for a long time. One day, however ... More >>

Fang Island

Monday, April 26, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Yeasayer takes everyone higher at the Bluebird

Sleigh Bells. Photos by Kiernan Maletsky Yeasayer | Sleigh Bells 04.24.10 | The Bluebird Theatre If anyone is getting tired of Brooklyn, it didn't show Saturday -- a pair of the hippest bands from the hippest borough in the world packed the hell out of the Bluebird. We're talking sweaty backs lea ... More >>

Beer bucket lists: GQ did theirs. What would you put on Colorado's?

​Last week, GQ magazine put out a bucket list of fifty beers to try before you die (see it below). That sounds like a reasonable goal - even if some of the selections were a little odd. I wouldn't have put Anchor Steam on the list, for instance. It may have been a bucket list fifteen years a ... More >>

The scoop on Little Man Ice Cream

Liz KellermeyerSingle scoop, double flavor​The towering milk can poking out of the lower Highland neighborhood is hard to miss. Owner Paul Tamburello designed his ice cream stand as an homage to the Coney Island hot dog stand (the one that looks like a hot dog, not the one on Coney Island), l ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Bourbon, Beef University and hot dogs

​This week, Manny Howard signs a book about his backyard farm in Brooklyn, KGNU hosts a bourbon-tasting benefit and Colorado State University puts farmers through a Beef University. But there's lots more cooking if none of that wets your whistle. Here's a taste of what's to come: Tuesday, Jun ... More >>

East Enders

​This week, Manny Howard signs a book about his backyard farm in Brooklyn, KGNU hosts a bourbon-tasting benefit and Colorado State University puts farmers through a Beef University. But there's lots more cooking if none of that wets your whistle. Here's a taste of what's to come: Tuesday, Jun ... More >>

Miniature Tigers

Friday, July 30, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Marco Benevento on his latest album, circuit bent toys and Brad Mehldau

​As half of the Benevento-Russo Duo, Marco Benevento played bass lines with his feet and held down organ and Wurlitzer parts with separate hands. But in the trio format, he's completely at home behind the piano, which he says is totally his ax. The forward-thinking Benevento makes captivating ... More >>

Tennis takes on New York

​Okay, the level of attention Tennis has attracted is officially absurd at this point, especially considering the short amount of time the act's been together and the ridiculously low number of shows that it has played thus far. Don't know if you caught this, but in advance of its pair of show ... More >>

Overrated breweries: A six-pack of hype for the Great American Beer Festival

​I've tasted hundreds and hundreds of beers over the past twenty years, from Keystone Ice to Sam Adams to Odell to Dogfish Head, and I've loved almost every one. I love the craft brews especially, and thank god they are around - in force. But sometimes the hype about a certain beer or brewery ... More >>

Last Night: Matt and Kim light up the Ogden Theatre - 9/24/10

OMG, it's Matt and Kim! Last night at the Ogden.Matt and Kim • So So Glos • Picture Plane 09.24.10 | Ogden Theatre, Denver The hyper-positive drum-and-keyboard duo of Matt and Kim: From playing DIY art spaces to packing grand old joints like the Ogden Theatre, you have to wonder how much bigger ... More >>

Weekending in New York City: the Brooklyn pizza tour

Simone Roda​I'm fresh off a long weekend in New York City, where it's possible to buy a big, floppy slice of pizza on just about every block in Manhattan. But to go to New York and eat just those renditions, dripping with grease and kept warm under a heat lamp or reheated at the last minute in ... More >>

Woodsman and Gauntlet Hair embark on West Coast tour

​Woodsman and Gauntlet Hair have joined psychedelic forces for a two-week west coast tour, starting November 5. While the former act has already made a few trips to the closest coast, aligning with its fellow ambient wave crashers in Gauntlet Hair will offer a nice taste of what Colorado has b ... More >>

Tonight: Miniature Tigers at the hi-dive

​Tonight's hi-dive show headliner Freelance Whales are great and all, but we think tour mates Miniature Tigers are equally worth a mention. Part Ben Gibbard, part Kevin Barnes, bandleader and backbone Charlie Brand creates the kind of intelligent pop music that can only get better with time.

Phil Collins parade in Brooklyn: Five musicians more deserving

​Brooklyn's Greenpoint held a Phil Collins parade as an antidote to Valentine's Day (and sincerity, presumably). More than 250 people showed up, and the revelry got so out of hand that the cops had to show up and explain what was acceptable behavior for these sorts of things. Dancing on the ro ... More >>

David Sirota on Back to Our Future, Ghostbusters and the decade of "me"

The '80s thing about this picture is that the shower is in a women's locker room.​For much of his career, David Sirota has been a hard-hitting leftist political operative, running campaigns with what former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta once called his "instinct for the jugul ... More >>

Weekend Dance Card: Someone Else, Headhunter, Dubstep Function, Tigers on a Leash Label Launch, Boys Noize and Housemeister

Drawing inspiration from eccentric 1950s bandleader Spike Jones, as well as from found sounds and field recordings, Sean O'Neal (aka Someone Else) is an experimental minimal techno and house producer who is really doing his own thing. Having performed at the world's greatest nightclubs, including ... More >>

Liondub spins the Unity Gain Reunion on May 14 at 2200

Drawing inspiration from eccentric 1950s bandleader Spike Jones, as well as from found sounds and field recordings, Sean O'Neal (aka Someone Else) is an experimental minimal techno and house producer who is really doing his own thing. Having performed at the world's greatest nightclubs, including ... More >>

Brauns has closed Auraria Parkway location, but is alive and well on Blake Street

Britt ChesterInside the original, now-closed Brauns Bar and Grill.​Brauns Bar and Grill, which had been a prime hangout for Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets fans since it opened in 2002, has left its giant warehouse spot on the Auraria Parkway; the Pepsi Center, which owns the building, d ... More >>

Tonight: Liturgy at the hi-dive

​It is hard to believe black metal band Liturgy (playing tonight at the hi-dive with Collapse and Barnacle) has only been around for a handful of years. The Brooklyn quartet -- led by Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, whom we spoke with in advance of this evening's show -- sounds like it has put decades of ... More >>

TGIF! Behold and marvel at the Dark Side of Oz

​Okay, you've always heard that it could be done, and the Flaming Lips even went to the trouble of connecting the dots a few weeks ago at Red Rocks. But just in case you were too lazy or too stoned to try it at home yourself at some point, Bryan Pugh, a Brooklyn-based audio engineer has gone t ... More >>

Camea

Saturday, October 1, Casselman's Bar & Venue, gatf.us.

Gauntlet Hair's self-titled, Dead Oceans debut garners praise from Pitchfork with 7.8 review

Gauntlet Hair has plenty to smile about.​We imagine this has been a pretty bittersweet week for the members of Gauntlet Hair. After being stranded in Montreal for a few days due to a busted van, the dudes have finally made it to New York just in time for CMJ. Though the repairs to the van left ... More >>

Bamboo Bike Studio brings its DIY bike frame workshops to Denver, Boulder next month

Bamboo Bike StudioBuild a custom bike when the Celebrate American Bike Making Tour comes to town.​If building a custom bamboo bike frame is on your DIY to-do list, you'll be able to cross it off next month. That's when Bamboo Bike Studio, with locations in Brooklyn and San Francisco, takes its ... More >>

From Red Rocks to Emos, recreate the exact acoustics of the country's hottest venues

Are you ready to rock?When Matt Finn was able to finally quit his job as an e-mail server technician thanks to the success of his ClearTune guitar tuning application for smart phones, his world changed forever. From a humble office located on Denver's 16th Street Mall, Finn and his fellow innovators ... More >>

Beastie Boys' Licensed To Ill turns 25

​In hindsight Licensed To Ill -- released November 15, 1986 -- came to the table with a virtually infallible recipe: Rick Rubin produced the seminal radio-friendly rap album and Russell Simmons had not only signed Beastie Boys to a then baby Def Jam, but was also managing the three white boys ... More >>

Craigslist ad wants suicide girls for new fetish bar concept?

Found at www.suicidegirls.com​Surfing through Craigslist ads is always a fun time, and answering them can be pretty entertaining as well. It's neat -- and telling -- to respond to an ad for a used convection oven and get a middle-aged married man looking for sex, respond to an ad for a part- ... More >>

Photos: P.T. Barnum's Feejee Mermaid and other oddities from Circus Emporium

The Multi-Headed Goose, Circus Emporium Roadshow.​ There are circuses, and then there are circuses. For what that's worth, Circus Emporium, which brings its roadshow and Museum of Oddities to 3 Kings Tavern tonight, falls into the latter, more overtly gruesome category. Here are a few of our f ... More >>

Pariah is a moving story of coming of age and coming out

The Multi-Headed Goose, Circus Emporium Roadshow.​ There are circuses, and then there are circuses. For what that's worth, Circus Emporium, which brings its roadshow and Museum of Oddities to 3 Kings Tavern tonight, falls into the latter, more overtly gruesome category. Here are a few of our f ... More >>

Circus Circus

The Multi-Headed Goose, Circus Emporium Roadshow.​ There are circuses, and then there are circuses. For what that's worth, Circus Emporium, which brings its roadshow and Museum of Oddities to 3 Kings Tavern tonight, falls into the latter, more overtly gruesome category. Here are a few of our f ... More >>