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The ten best concerts in Denver this week

10. CLUTCH @ BLACK SHEEP | MON, 3/18/13 Clutch has dodged being saddled with a label, primarily because of the illusion of reinvention it's projected with each album. But the truth is that it's just an illusion. Clutch is set in its ways, yet all of its music sounds like bold experimentation -- even ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Monday, March 18, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Offended: Why Anthony Jeselnik will never be Joan Rivers, or The Onion

Comedy Central's The Jeselnik Offensive ran its fourth episode Tuesday, characteristically taking on the politically sensitive news of the day with an irreverent send-up of Adam Strange, a recent victim of a shark attack in New Zealand. "Was he killed? You bet your sweet ass he was," Jeselnik laughe ... More >>

The ten best concerts in Denver this week

ELECTRIC SIX @ LARIMER LOUNGE | TUES, 2/19/13 Electric Six has been bringing the party to the unwary for a decade. The group's songs combine '80s rock, disco and New Wave into a cranked-up, ultra-catchy sound all its own, with lyrics that mix a David Lee Roth-esque bravado with surreal barrages of i ... More >>

Heather Purcell Leja of Design OnScreen talks architecture and modernist preservation

Since 2007, Design OnScreen has worked to preserve modern architecture across America by producing and presenting films focusing on unheralded architects and designers, and also curating architecture-centered film festivals around the world. And it's fought this good fight from its headquarters in D ... More >>

Photos: Kirsten Steinke and Kallan Stithem before tragic New Zealand honeymoon crash

Photos shared on the Facebook pages of CU Foundation staffer Kirsten Steinke and new husband Kallan Stithem depict a fun couple -- a pair who loved good times and going to exotic places like New Zealand, where they traveled for their honeymoon. Let's hope these images of them delighting in each othe ... More >>

Top seven countdown to the best rolling papers: Stoner MacGyver marijuana product review

Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. This week, it's a Stoner Mac special: The top seven countdown to the best rolling papers.

In the world's toughest bike race, Justin Simoni rode from disaster to triumph

Also see: Video: Justin Simoni on what it takes to ride the 2,745-mile Tour Divide

Colorado beer calendar: Odell's Small Batch kicks off festival season

It's beer festival season and the fiestas -- from the high country to the plains -- are going to come fast. The first two kick off this Memorial Day weekend, but they'll be followed by new ones almost every weekend this summer. Enjoy -- and keep some Advil around.

Four reasons (and seven wines) that prove it's time to drink chardonnay again

"I'll have the chardonnay, thanks." After overhearing this from a nearby diner during a recent restaurant meal, followed immediately by the withering response, "Seriously? A chardonnay?" from said diner's snarky companion, we realized that chardonnay still has a bullshit reputation.

Four delicious California wines to [re]acquaint yourself with

There are two kinds of wine drinkers: Some seek out new wines like so many blind dates, eager to make the acquaintance of a lover more intriguing than the last; others are more like serial monogamists -- they form long-standing relationships with specific grapes, regions or winemakers to whom they r ... More >>

Ben and Maggie Weinroth clear their names after Colorado State Fair goat-doping allegations

Sue Weinroth describes it best: "This goat story got legs and ran," says the mom, shaking her head. Last summer, she watched her two children, nineteen-year-old Maggie and fourteen-year-old Ben, lose their titles, reputations and hobbies when they were banned from the Colorado State Fair on allegati ... More >>

Round two with the Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield

Patrick Canfield Trinity Grille 1801 Broadway 303-293-2288 www.trinitygrille.com This is part two of my chef and tell interview with the Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield. Part one of our chat ran yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Edwardo's in Westcliffe, Colorado. Going there always rem ... More >>

Winter Brew Fest, tequila, wine and bowls on this week's culinary calendar

​Happy Chinese New Year! Food events are picking back up for 2012 -- including a promotion from P.F. Chang's that starts today and runs through Monday, February 6; stop in to pick up a mysterious red envelope, then come back to find out what goodies you won. Visit www.pfchangs.com. And there ... More >>

Seven Colorado skaters lead Team USA into Roller Derby World Cup battle today

The first-ever Roller Derby World Cup gets underway today in Toronto at 5 p.m. EST (that's 3 p.m. here in Denver), kicking off with a Canada vs. France bout. The entire tournament is being webcast live at www.DerbyNewsNetwork.com, and DNN is calling Team USA the "prohibitive favorite," thanks in no ... More >>

Four stay-cool wines to savor this summer

​Last week we celebrated the official first day of summer, and the veritable heat wave that followed only served to drive the point home. Several days of 90 degree temps later, we found ourselves forced to confront what surely must be the most pressing question of the season: What sort of win ... More >>

On The Ball

Crooked Stave will rely on sour beers for sweet success

Crooked Stave​Chad Yakobson has a master's degree in beer. And like most academics, he's putting that degree to use for the greater good, namely by researching different kinds of yeast strains -- primarily brettanomyces, which is used in certain styles of "sour" ales -- and brewing beers base ... More >>

A Good, Hard Look

Hickenlooper, Vidal, a Merinotaur and a bunch of crossdressers: SIA Snow Show gets weird

Photo by Colin BaneMore cowbell! Colorado Ski Country president Melanie Mills, Gov. John Hickenlooper, and Winter Park Ski Resort president Gary DeFrange ring in opening day of the SIA Snow Show​The SIA Snow Show rang in its second year in Denver yesterday with Governor John Hickenlooper rocki ... More >>

3 the Hardway changes name and joins Kamikazi Airlines roster

​ Prime Element. That's the new name of the trio formerly known as 3 the Hardway. But that's not the biggest news coming out of that camp today. After years of hard work, the threesome, made up of A.V.I.U.S., Cysko Rokwel and Es Nine, has linked up with Kamikazi Airlines, an imprint owned by ... More >>

Girl Talk: The Village Cork, girly as it might be, will win over the most reluctant diner

Crowd pleasers: Four questions with Crowded House's Neil Finn

Can Chilean wines trump their French cousins? Four wines you can put to the test

​ In 1976, to coincide with our country's bicentennial celebrations, a wine merchant-turned-educator named Steve Spurrier organized an esteemed panel of wine cognoscenti to trumpet the (allegedly obvious) superiority of ultra-elite French wines over their Napa Valley counterparts. Spurrier go ... 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 >>

Go Toe to Toe With Rick Reilly

Cafe Society: Week in review

Lori Midson Mussels from Argyll Gastropub​What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while bickering over whether Argyll, Colt & Gray, Olivea or TAG should have walked away with the Best New Restaurant award in this year's Best of Denver 2010 (Argyll, if you didn't already know, won th ... More >>

Team USA's winning recipe from the 42 Below Cocktail World Cup

Bitter Bar's Mark Stoddard​As we reported yesterday, Mark Stoddard, the chief mixologist of Happy in Boulder and its lounge counterpart, Bitter Bar, along with team cohorts Todd Thrasher of Washington, D.C., and Sean Hoard of New York City, took home gold in last week's 42 Below Cocktail World ... More >>

Q&A with Paul Garcia and James Barone of Pacific Pride

Bailey Ferguson​Recalling the frayed pop sounds of New Zealand indie-rock bands of the '80s and the angular, contorted psychedelia of Pavement, Pacific Pride has always focused more on quality over quantity. Beginning in 2004 after the dissolution of the original lineup of the May Riots, Pacific P ... More >>

From the week of October 22, 2009

Liam Finn & Eliza Jane

Monday, October 19, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Grapes and grilling tonight at Strings

​If you didn't snag a ticket to tonight's shochu-tasting dinner at Elway's, don't weep in your Wheaties. You have other other culinary options this evening, including a grape-stomping and -grilling dinner at Strings (1700 Humboldt Street) that sounds like a perfect prelude to the weekend. The Stri ... More >>

Flower Power

Turn May Day into Lei Day at this Hawaiian celebration.

The Place to Be

A Beaux Arts Ball will raise money for UCD’s architecture and planning school.

Learn where the meat comes from

When Obama began his presidency, he pledged transparency. And last week, the USDA had new regulations go into effect for labels of origin. The labels of origin will be put on beef, pork, lamb, chicken, goat meat, fish and shellfish products, noting which country the product came from. When I heard a ... More >>

The List: Eating good in the neighborhood

  Venue, which I reviewed last week, was a tough restaurant to define.  It wasn't exactly American, certainly wasn't French, wasn't really Continental...  If it'd opened five years ago, I wouldn't have hesitated to call it a New American bistro, but these days, the phrase "New American" seem ... More >>

Road Trip: Around The World In a Toyota

Into the Scrum

Glendale is going from titty city to rugby town.

Man Bites Dog

Snappin' back at Steve's.

Towering Inferno

Pinnacle Club

The Brunettes

Tuesday, May 10, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

Freq Out

Just try keeping breakbeater Freq Nasty out of the spotlight.

Pop Quiz

Pray Ball!
April 3, 2003

Flick Pick

Reel Love: A Century of the Avant-Garde

Best Old-Fashioned Meat Market

Fred's Fine Meats

Risk-Ski Business

Can Aaron Brill's single lift save Silverton and earn salvation for the sport?

Mountin' Frustration

Too many shocks numb the senses in Vertical Limit.

Thrills for the week

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