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January 5, 2012
Van Halen in Denver on 5/24 at Pepsi Center
Oh, hell yeah! Mark your calendars. It's really happening. Van Halen is coming to Denver. It's confirmed, and we finally have a date. Thursday, May 24, at the Pepsi Center, Van Halen will be here with Kool and the Gang. So stoked! Almost as stoked as we are to hear the new record, A Different ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Green chile discussion -- over sources, over spelling -- heats up in the new year
As an end-of-the-year public service to those who were going to need hot, hot green chile to cure their hangovers on January 1, Lori Midson offered her list of "Denver's ten best green chiles." Any discussion of green chile always stirs the pot. Fans of those that didn't make the list compl ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Reader: Only green chile spelled with an "e" for me!
Cafe Society took a quick break in all the opening and closing action at the end of 2011 to stir the pot of a long-simmering discussion: Who makes the best green chile in Denver? Lori Midson served up her list of the ten best green chiles in Denver, which inspired yet another debate over how ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Exceptional Women of the Counterculture at MCA Denver: An evening of alternative girl talk
In the video documentary Flashing on the Sixties by Lisa Law (, whose photographs are on view through February at the Byers Evans House Museum), it's noted that even in the early alternative hippie world of communes and co-habitation, women still did the traditional "woman's work" -- they coo ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Music Bar, karaoke haven on Tennyson, closed
Music Bar, a Denver landmark of sorts that opened in 1937, has closed. Jeffery Laws of Universal Lending Corporation, says the owner of the bar for the last nine years didn't renew the lease. Renown for its famed karaoke nights, which earned a Best of Denver nod last year, Music Bar brought e ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Denver named 15th Gayest City -- based on pretty much nothing
Yesterday, Denver made number fifteen on The Advocate's list of the Gayest Cities in America. But we need only to tell you (spoiler alert!) that Salt Lake City is ranked number one in order to convince you that our own status means nothing. Before you roll down the windows in your Prius, blas ... More >>
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January 10, 2012
Mecca Grill a central destination for vegetarian dining
Mecca Grill, 270 South Downing Street, won a Best of Denver award in 2010 for "Best Lamb That Mary Would Have Liked" -- but lamb is far from all that's on the menu at this mini-mall storefront. As that award noted, the music choice is a little bizarre (when we stopped in, wildly improvisation ... More >>
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January 11, 2012
National Western Stock Show has old city facilities, new parking lot prices
The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago, on January 10, 1952, with a "Salute to Soil." We didn't see starlet June Haver, the star of that show, during our afternoon at the National Western Stock Show yesterday, but we did spot at least one down-and-dirty move by the city.
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January 11, 2012
Reader: Basic Kneads deserves to be on a top pizza ten list...but Virgilio's?
Pizzeria Basta produced our favorite pies in 2011.Since the Best of Denver 2011, we've been posting occasional lists of our runners-up in some popular categories -- lists that are not only available here, but on our Best of Denver app. And, as always, certain categories provoke plenty of disc ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Reader: Terminal Kings may be world-class, but where are world-class local artists?
Terminal Kings is taking off at City Hall, where three world-class street artists -- Sam Flores, David Choe and Highraff -- are creating giant murals that will be displayed at Denver International Airport over the next five years, as the South Terminal project gets under way. Over the next t ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Susan Shepherd weighs in on No High Rises fight in Highland
The signs started popping up late last fall: No high rises in West Highland. But the residents fighting a massive, three-building complex proposed for the heart of Highland Square didn't stop at signs. They also pushed city officials, including Susan Shepherd, the new Denver City Council repr ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Denver's five best places for lunch near the Tech Center
Lori MidsonRavioli at the Wooden Table, a great option for lunch in the Tech Center.When I was growing up near the Tech Center, the place was something close to a culinary wasteland -- there were few dining destinations worth seeking out, and most restaurant real estate was devoted to nationa ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
Reader: An inglorious end to the year for Occupy Denver
Lori MidsonRavioli at the Wooden Table, a great option for lunch in the Tech Center.When I was growing up near the Tech Center, the place was something close to a culinary wasteland -- there were few dining destinations worth seeking out, and most restaurant real estate was devoted to nationa ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Hogshead Brewery, serving English cask ales, will open in West Highland
Denver's West Highland neighborhood is one of many hip parts of town that has been ripe for a brewery for years. Now that time has come. Hogshead Brewery, serving English-style beers, plans to open in March in a renovated service station at 4430 West 29th Avenue. The four owners, all beer lov ... More >>
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January 13, 2012
Medical marijuana centers react differently to U.S. Attorney shut-down orders
Letters from the U.S. Attorneys Office telling medical marijuana centers they have 45 days to shut down or face prosecution went out yesterday. Some shops are already receiving their ultimatums in the mail.
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January 16, 2012
Beyond Occupy: An MLK Dialogue for 2012 set for 3 p.m. today at Redline Denver
Today as the country honors Dr. Martin Luther King, a consortium of local hip-hop artists and community activists is getting together this afternoon at 3 p.m. at RedLine Denver (2350 Arapahoe Street) for Beyond Occupy: An MLK Dialogue for 2012, to engage in dialogue about the bigger picture o ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Eat your words! There are plenty of ethnic restaurants near the Tech Center
Mark MangerI love Jabo's as much as the next person -- but is it really ethnic food?The Denver Tech Center is "an area distinctly lacking in interesting ethnic food," I said in last week's review of Street Kitchen Asian Bistro. In fact, I almost expanded that sentiment to cover everything so ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Guerilla Garden hosts "How to Make it in America" panel this Thursday
This Thursday, January 19, you can get up close and personal with some prominent local creative types who are assembling to chop it up about making it in the worlds of music, art and fashion. Fittingly titled "How to Make it in America," the panel, which features Guerilla Garden's founder Jol ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Occupy Denver v. Occupy Boulder: Is the difference in tactics or police response?
If Occupy Boulder and Occupy Denver weren't fully supportive sister occupations located roughly an hour from each other, it would occasionally be tough to tell that they're even struggling against the same system. Comparisons between the two movements often end at opposite sides of the activi ... More >>
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January 18, 2012
Trader Joe's files paperwork to open its first Colorado stores
In what could potentially be the biggest food-related news in Denver this year, Trader Joe's, the California-based grocer with a cult-like following, is finally coming to Colorado. The specialty retail market, renowned for its "Two Buck Chuck" (among other things), filed the necessary paperwo ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Denver's best dive bars: old saloons for a new year
The Kentucky Inn, Denver's best dive bar in 2011.Several of our favorite dives dried up last year, including Club 404 (which will reopen under new ownership), Brown Barrel and the Mickey Manor. And 2012 has already been tough on fans of old-time watering holes: Both Gabor's and Music Box Musi ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
New perspectives from old favorites: Another Way to Go: 6 Artists, 12 Directions
Front, 'Liliacae,' steel, Tyler Aiello; back, 'Pillow People,' Tyler Aiello; far back, 'The Time Dynamic' (triptych) and 'Enfold' (diptych), Jimmy SellarsTo become well-known, artists usually have to find a niche. Once they become popular for their body of work within that forte, other projec ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
Denver's ten best charcuterie plates
Mark MangerThe salumi board at Crimson Canary.There's no limit to our love for salted and cured meat, so we're as happy as pigs at the feeding trough that some variation of the charcuterie plate has worked its way onto just about every menu in this town. But as more and more restaurants fill ... More >>
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January 19, 2012
The Book of Mormon tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday
The Book of Mormon's Denver premiere should have musical fans dancing.You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Sto ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Weekend's best dance bets: Z-Trip, Gabriel and Dresden and more
As usual, Denver is showing the world what's up in electronic music this weekend; on Saturday, you'll have to choose between Z-Trip at City Hall or Gabriel & Dresden at Beta, and that's far from everything that's on our Dance Card. Page down to see what else is in store this weekend.
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January 20, 2012
Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, January 20-22, 2012
Get out there this weekend.So by now you've given up on your New Year's resolutions, right? Of course you have. It's time to stop going to the gym on a Friday night, you tourist, and get back to having fun. There's plenty going on this weekend, whether you want to watch dudes wrestle in a bar ... More >>
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January 20, 2012
Reader: Officials may not have tweaked red-light cameras, but they didn't mind the extra cash
Our post about a bill to ban red-light cameras statewide found Senator Scott Renfroe, its sponsor, arguing that the devices were more focused on generating revenue that making intersections safer. Here's a comment from a reader who concurs.
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January 20, 2012
Denver Public Schools's graduation rate climbs while dropout rate stays the same
FlickrDenver's graduation rate is on the rise. Statistics released today show that 56.1 percent of seniors graduated "on time" in the spring of 2011, as opposed to 51.8 percent in 2010. "On time" means they graduated four years after entering high school as freshmen. Meanwhile, the dropout r ... More >>
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January 22, 2012
Spell and '57 Lesbian due at Pure Sunshine II at the Bluebird
Michael LavineSpell Mississippi, if you dare.Do you know what you're doing yet on Friday, March 2? Have plans? If so, you might consider canceling them. That night, Spell and '57 Lesbian, a couple of iconic Denver bands are getting together at the Bluebird Theater for Pure Sunshine II to pay ... More >>
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January 23, 2012
Denver's ten best Chinese restaurants
Cassandra KotnikDumplings at Super Star Asian.Today marks the Chinese New Year, which is a good reason to go forth into one of this city's excellent Chinese joints and feast on meats and vegetables loaded with Szechuan peppers, a vat of soul-warming beef noodle soup, dumplings or something much, muc ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Win tickets to Westword's Artopia 2012
February 18On Saturday, February 18, Artopia will fill five SoCo venues with work from some of Denver's best visual artists, local fashion, culinary creations and specialty cocktails mixed exclusively for Artopia attendees. Tickets for this mid-winter festival of the arts range between $20 ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Sultan Grill will feed you like a king...in an Arvada strip mall
Sultan GrillAfter readers responded to my lament about the lack of interesting ethnic food near the Tech Center, I decided to explore not just the southern suburbs, where I grew up, but the entire circle outside of Denver city limits, looking for the best ethnic restaurants in the metro area, ... More >>
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January 26, 2012
Barrel-aged cocktails hit drink lists all over town
Eric DuttonVesta Dipping Grill launched the barrel-aged cocktail trend in Denver.Six months ago, Eric Dutton, bar manager at Vesta Dipping Grill, unveiled a Vieux Carre he'd let sit in wood for a few weeks -- the first barrel-aged cocktail we'd seen on a Denver menu. Since then, though, we've ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Sunflower Market on Colfax inspires a food fight at Denver City Council
Unlike so many Western towns, Denver has a wealth of wonderful neighborhoods close to the heart of the city. But with that wealth of neighborhoods comes a surfeit of NIMBY issues that often spill out of their immediate area and into City Hall -- as the fight over a new supermarket on Colfax w ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Reader: Goodwill hunting for Cherry Creek shoppers a stupid idea
Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring -- one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can't even believe that they don't ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Reader: Colorado ski companies deserve better, Mother Nature!
Goodwill Industries of Denver is opening two new stores this spring -- one a major store in Longmont, which will hold a job fair to fill thirty positions starting tomorrow. Good idea. But that boutique store in Cherry Creek? Says Rockdove: Stupid idea.I can't even believe that they don't ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Negative Degree is trying to keep Denver's hardcore scene on a "street level"
Tiana Matsuko BernardNegative Degree is sweating to the oldies. Negative Degree, one of the more active hardcore bands in the Denver punk scene for the past year or so, is part of a small wave of new local bands playing hardcore punk music, which first sprang up in basements in the '80s and h ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Reader: Impossible Winterbourne's art should pop up everywhere! Full steampunk ahead!
Impossible Winterbourne knows the importance of public art. "It gives the public a voice, inspires people, makes people happy, makes rundown buildings beautiful, and does all this while asking nothing in return," he told Tiffany Fitzgerald for this post. And this Denver artist is putting up ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Hipp-E and Greg Eversoul: "When we tag-team, it comes out in our sound and in what we do"
Hipp-EArguably the biggest DJ ever to come out of Denver, Eric Galaviz aka Hipp-E made his bones promoting and deejaying at some of the earliest raves in Colorado. After leaving his indelible mark on our city, he moved to San Diego in the '90s, where he became an influential part of the West ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
100 Favorite Dishes: Raw carrot salad from Ambria
Lori Midson No. 44: Raw carrot salad from Ambria
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February 3, 2012
Denver's ten best nachos
Whether our team makes it or not, Super Bowl weekend is always a wonderful time of year. Mostly because it's an excuse to daytime drink on a Sunday while we munch down truly impressive quantities of bar snacks, which vastly enhances our viewing pleasure. The festivities wouldn't be complete, ... More >>
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February 3, 2012
Police brutality: Attorney blasts city for missing Denver Diner appeal date for reinstated cops
Denver Diner.Last month, Denver's Civil Service Commission reinstated officers Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine, who'd been fired for their actions in an alleged brutality incident at the Denver Diner in 2009. A lawsuit over the matter is still alive, but the victims' attorney is angry about the ... More >>
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February 6, 2012
Video: Sh*t people from Denver say, because why not?
Watch the video below.In Internet time, the "shit people say" videos really peaked about mid-January, but maybe like you, we seem to watch every one that comes across our browser. And since there have been a few Colorado-related videos that have come out, there hasn't been one about the phrases and ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Reader: More sh*t people from Denver say
In Internet time, the "shit people say" videos really peaked last month -- but we never came across one that really captured the phrases and idioms of Denver. So we made one. But apparently we missed some of the shit people say:
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February 7, 2012
Reader: Top Chef's main dish should be shark -- because they're jumping it every episode
Jorel Pierce: Does he look like a Top Chef contestant to you?Top Chef casting agents are coming to Denver -- as well as several other major metropolitan cities -- to test potential talent for the tenth season of the Bravo show. Notes the website: "Every season the bar gets higher, every seaso ... More >>
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February 7, 2012
Reader: Sh*t people in Denver say about wanting (and not wanting) native bumpersticker
Our Sh*t people in Denver say video has generated widely varied reactions, with some readers being amused and others feeling very differently -- like the commenter who branded it "fucking terrible." As a bonus, some were inspired to come up with other sh*t people in Denver say. Take these fi ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Reader: S*it video was mighty tasty
Westword writers may not have a future as filmmakers, but they do know how to capture what people say -- as evidenced by our "Shit people say" video dedicated to Denver. Even so, we missed a few standbys.
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February 8, 2012
What's the best comedy night? What's the best flea market?
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver 2012 Readers' Poll is now live, and we'd like your input. What's the best new public art? Best annual festival?
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February 8, 2012
Who's the best chef in Denver? What's the best new bar?
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver 2012 Readers' Poll is now live, and we'd like your input. Who's the city's best new chef? What's the best new bar in town?
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February 8, 2012
What is the best new band? What is the best new club?
Time to bring out your best! The Westword Best of Denver 2012 Readers' Poll is now live, and we'd like your input. Have a take? Give us yours on these questions and more: Best new band? Best new recording? Best karaoke night?
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