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Denver Steel Guitar Show aims to prove pedal steel guitar isn't just for country music anymore

When you hear steel guitar in a song, it's usually used as supplemental instrumentation, adding texture to the tunes. You generally don't expect to see the men and women of steel in the forefront, and yet that's the entire impetus for the Denver Steel Guitar Show, the second annual edition of an eve ... More >>

Video: Fracking protesters disrupt energy conference with balloon alarms

If you're looking for a crash course in how to be annoying, you could do worse than study the guerrilla tactics of Colorado Extraction Resistance, a group of activists bent on chafing the thick hides of energy interests who rely on hydraulic fracturing methods to drill for oil and gas. The group in ... More >>

New Year's Eve celebrations: sixteen sweet options

Still trying to decide what you're doing on New Year's Eve? Restaurants and bars around town are offering celebrations large and small, extravagant and intimate. Keep reading to see just some of the options (and if you know of other worthy end-of-the-year events, share the info in the comments secti ... More >>

2012 Pairsine Challenge: The ultimate food and wine throwdown

Wine never tastes better than when matched with its perfect food-based soulmate. So when the annual Pairsine -The Taste of Elegance Chefs' Food & Wine Pairing Competition rolls into town, we clear our calendars and start fasting -- because we know that it's about to go down. See also: - Chef and Te ... More >>

A Taste for Life benefits Project Angel Heart tonight

The Hyatt Regency, 650 15th Street, is hosting a benefit for Project Angel Heart from 6 to 10 p.m. this evening. The event will feature appetizers, entrees and desserts from some of the town's favorite restaurants.

The twenty best costumes at the 2012 Haunted Hotel party

At Halloween, what's better than a haunted house? How about a haunted hotel? Over the weekend, Kevin Larson Presents took over the Hyatt Regency in the Denver Tech Center for the fourth annual Haunted Hotel party. Spread across multiple floors, the spooky celebration featured live music and art as m ... More >>

Photos: Pub 17, pouring all Colorado beers, opens at the Grand Hyatt Denver

It's been a two-year project in the making, but the Grand Hyatt Denver now trumpets a restaurant and bar that just might lure locals, in conjunction with the hordes of tourists that bunk here on their visits to the Mile High City. Pub 17, which replaces 1876, the hotel's former street-level restaura ... More >>

Colorado on Screen

Photos: People of the Obama fundraiser

Ever wonder who can afford to go to presidential fundraisers? Or who gets to attend without paying big bucks? We asked photog Christopher Morgan to find out during yesterday's event at the Hyatt Hotel, which President Barack Obama highlighted shortly after delivering the commencement address at the ... More >>

Chad Brownstein's internship turns into Hottest Girl prize -- and turns him into a Shmuck

Denver attorney Norm Brownstein -- of Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck -- is often referred to a political power broker. But it's his sons who've been doing the brokering of late, and unfortunately "power" isn't one of the commodities they've been trading. On Thursday, Chad Brownstein was force ... More >>

Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table, on staging at Alinea and the restaurant he'd call "Butter and Veal"

Brett Shaheen Wooden Table 2500 East Orchard Road, Greenwood Village 303-730-2152 www.thewoodentablerestaurant.com This is part one of my interview with Brett Shaheen, exec chef of the Wooden Table. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Flipping pizzas at Pizza Hut. That was Brett Shaheen's firs ... More >>

What is your favorite spot for a first date in Denver?

For this week's cover story, "Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA," I spent roughly a month working with local matchmaker Jamie Richards. We've already covered her tips on finding a matchmaker, taking a profile picture and creating an online dating profile. But now w ... More >>

Epicurious Maximus

Ten infamous 2011 crimes with Colorado connections

And you thought you had a crazy year. Getting jiggy with a student at a Baptist school, driving a scooter without a license in Miami, possessing four grams of cocaine in Aspen, threatening to shoot out a Best Buy in Aurora over a video game and literally getting shit on in Boulder -- these are all s ... More >>

Gaylord Entertainment, Stock Show fan, sponsors Aurora's big night... in Denver

Proposed hotel.​There have been some tense times between Aurora and Denver officials since word came down this summer that Gaylord Entertainment would like to build a hotel/resort complex in Aurora -- and move the National Western Stock Show there, too.

Matt Prater, Broncos kicker: Will he lose job over hit-and-run DUI with strip-club employee?

Big pic below.​During the Broncos' first preseason game, kicker Matt Prater scored eleven points. But that's nothing compared to the score he racked up the previous week -- .142 blood alcohol content, following a hit-and-run crash in which he was accompanied by an employee at Shotgun Willie's ... More >>

NORML 40th anniversary conference in Denver preview: A celebration of cannabis commerce

​According to Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), today's 4/20 bashes in Denver and Boulder are the biggest rallies of their type "on earth." And he expects that they'll ready the faithful for NORML's 40th annual conferenc ... More >>

Chocolate Lovers' Lounge at Hyatt Regency Denver opens today

​How sweet it is! Starting today and continuing through Monday, February 14 -- yes, Valentine's Day -- the Hyatt Regency Denver , 650 15th Street, will feature the aptly named Chocolate Lovers' Lounge in the Peaks Lounge.

Making His Mark

The Peaks Lounge offers best skyline view until patio weather returns

Hyatt Regency Denver​We don't normally frequent hotel bars in Denver, but searching for a place to show some relatives the lay of the land, we stopped at the Hyatt Regency, 650 15th Street, over the weekend for a couple of drinks in the Peaks Lounge on the 27th floor, with its floor-to-ceiling ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, December 17-19, 2010

Home for the holidays!​As estranged family members start trickling into town this weekend for the holidays, chances are you're looking for something to do to show off this great city. You're probably also trying to do it on the cheap so you can save up for some awesome last minute gifts (or pa ... More >>

Aurora police shake-up: Why have hiring practices triggered a federal investigation?

​Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices.

Dining for a Difference

What you missed (or didn't) at Denver's Coca-Cola convention

Truth be told, plenty of us have personal obsessions that would convince people uninterested in our particular thang that we need to get a life. It's just that these pastimes differ from individual to individual -- and some are quirkier than others. Witness the just-completed 35th annual Coca-Cola ... More >>

Letters from the week of April 9

Librarians head to Denver for a quiet riot

Cooking tips from Mr. James Carville

The week ahead: Energy discussions and lots of hot air

Shmuck: The Obama plotters

Denvention Wrap-Up: Exile in Geekville

Carol Kreck: The Librarian Strikes Back

Carol Kreck: The Librarian Strikes Back

Best of Westword Winners: 1989

This Just In...

The latest nightlife news.

Bite Me

Alias Me

Mambo Italiano

This festival dishes up an al fresco extravaganza

The Sounds of Silence

Last December, Oscar Hernandez became the town's biggest story. It's over for him now.

Lights On

Denver gets ready to put on the Ritz.

The Bite

Reaching the next level at Dazzle

Year in Review

2001? What 2001?

Best Launching Pad for Cabinet Positions

Brownstein, Hyatt & Farber

Rocky Mountain High

A nouveau diner grows up.

Off Limits

Off Limits

Thrills for the week

Sealed Fates

Off Limits

Whistle Stopped

A proposed railroad merger threatens jobs throughout Colorado -- and, up in Minturn, a way of life.

Garden Pests

OFF LIMITS