Tickets for B.B. King's April 10 Boulder Theater show go on sale Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. There was a lot more action this week with concert announcements, including Scott Weiland's gig at the Gothic Theatre February 2, KBPI's Birthday Bash with Slipknot, Coheed & Cambria and Trivium March 3 at the Denver Coliseum, Railroad Earth's two-day run at the Ogden Theatre on April 3 and 4, and B.B. King's April 10 show at the Boulder Theater.
Oasis, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Matt Costa
Monday, Dec. 8
Broomfield Event Center
Better than: Seeing a band that's past its prime play in a high school auditorium.
Circa 1997, an Oasis concert would have filled a venue the size of the Pepsi Center, with its official capacity estimated between 18,000 and 19,000 people. Take a conceptual step further. The fact that the band could have even pulled in a respectable showing at Invesco Field during its heyday made the slim showing at the Broomf
The Denver Business Journal is reporting that Tim Wiens wants out of his agreement to manage the Broomfield Event Center, which opened in 2006 -- and that's not good news for local officials. The city bankrolled the 6,000-seat arena with $60 million worth of bonds that are supposed to be repaid from tax revenue from the facility. But things are so bad money-wise that Broomfield Sports, the firm Wiens runs with partner John Frew, couldn't even afford to pay the center's utility bill in November a
Rod BlackhurstBy now you may have heard about the Fray's "dress rehearsal," as it's being called, this weekend. The band has been running through its live show all week at Broomfield Events Center in preparation for its summer tour, which kicks off next Friday in Atlanta. The week's worth of rehearsals will be culminating with a private (read: closed to the public, invite-only) rehearsal this weekend for friends, family and their friends and family's friends and family -- because the band wants
The Broomfield Event Center has been twisting since at least earlier this year, when Tim Wiens announced that he wanted out of his contract to manage the venue -- a lack-of-success story almost from its opening in 2006. And while the willingness of Anschutz Entertainment Group/Kroenke Sports Enterprises, a joint venture of two big moneymen in the area, to run the facility is good news for the city of Broomfield, which bankrolled the arena with $60 million worth of bonds, it's hardly a panacea.
The June 22 edition of the Weekly Standard.
Phil Anschutz's slice of the Broomfield Event Center hardly represents his only recent investment. Last week, word surfaced that the Denver gazillionaire was negotiating to purchase The Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch, who may have decided that the right-wing bible had grown too conservative even for him. Now, the deal is done, making Anschutz the proprietor of magazine that regards the Obama administration as an affront to all that is true and pr
Mike Honcho.
He's spinning in a better place....
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• RIP Mike Honcho.
• Everything is ridiculous at the Air Guitar Championship.
• Kid Cudi remixes 3OH!3.
• Q&A with the Church's Marty Wilson-Piper.
• Q&A with Adam Franklin of Swervedriver.
• See the Epilogues for free next Saturday night at Herman's.
• Mile Hi-Fidelity playlist -- 06.17.09.
Today in Cafe Society:
• Tonight: Barbecue, beasts and biodynamic wines.
• Free beer still flowing for Coors em
A few days back, we talked about Kevin Taylor getting his catering operation up and running out of Palettes at the Denver Art Museum. Inside that blog, there were some questions about what had gone wrong with the launch of what was supposed to be his newest full-scale restaurant, Kevin Taylor Steak. It had originally been scheduled for a September 2009 opening, but here we are in October and no new steak house. So what gives?
I got a hold of Taylor this morning and asked precisely tha
