Pittsburgh

Photos: Ten worst domestic-travel cities for summer 2013 -- and why Denver was the best

CardHub.com has come up with its summer 2013 list of the best and worst travel cities, and Denver finished first in the domestic category when it comes to the combo of inexpensive flights, short travel times to popular destinations and accessibility, both logistically and financially. The methodolog ... More >>

Tobacco of Black Moth Super Rainbow talks about his favorite haunted houses

Although Black Moth Super Rainbow's dreamlike, psychedelic melodies sound like they could've been part of those '70s era Sid & Marty Krofft shows, the band actually formed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2003 in the wake of earlier projects from the act's singer and multi-instrumentalist, the unimoni ... More >>

New Morrissey Denver date: Moz now due at the Temple Buell Theatre on Thursday, February 21

Here's some news that ought to brighten your day -- assuming of course that you're suffering from a case of the Mondays like the rest of us and it needs brightening: A new date has been announced for Morrissey, whose previous date at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the beginning of November was po ... More >>

Meet the winners of Great American Beer Festival 2012

This year's Great American Beer Festival played temporary home to 580 breweries -- and with more than 2,700 beers poured, the fest's professional judge panel had its hands (and mouths) full when making decisions on the winners of all 84 categories. Continue reading for the full list of the weekend's ... More >>

It's not gravy-like green, but Chile Billy turns out some worthy green chile

Green chile-heads, I've noticed, divide into a couple of camps when it comes to debating who makes this city's best version of a food that graces just about every Mexican restaurant's menu in town: half swear by the Colorado-style gravy-like green; the others won't touch it if it's not in the chile- ... More >>

Chile Billy hits the pavement at 16th and Boulder this Wednesday

Bill Yalch may be a Pittsburgh native, but it took just a few trips to the southwest for him to become utterly obsessed with New Mexican food -- namely green chile. "If you live in Pittsburgh, you have no idea what good huevos rancheros are," he admits, adding that he first sampled worthy huevos on ... More >>

Tebowing photo stars (pained looking) Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

​Moments ago on his Facebook page, Mayor Michael Hancock posted a photo of Luke Ravenstahl, his Pittsburgh counterpart, Tebowing in a number fifteen Denver jersey. Hancock compliments Ravenstahl on "being a good sport and showing some Bronco love after a hard fought game on both sides" -- but ... More >>

Slim Cessna on the Auto Club's annual New Year's Bluebird shows and its 20th anniversary

Together for nearly two decades, Slim Cessna's Auto Club has played the Bluebird Theater on New Year's Eve for almost half the time the band has been together. The New Year's shows have turned into something of a tradition for the band, who usually toss in a little something extra. While Cessna is t ... More >>

Hooters lunch offers these students extra credit in physical education

​Just when you thought your kids were not getting a real education, a field trip has justified our faith in the teaching profession. A group of eighth-graders from Berwick, Pennsylvania, recently went to Baltimore on a school-sponsored field trip to visit the National Aquarium. The group of a ... More >>

Dylan Rau of Bear Hands on Burning Bush Supper Club and politics.

​Bear Hands first made waves in 2007 with the release of its first record Golden EP, bolstered by a nervy energy and politically pointed lyrics on songs like "Vietnam." On the Brooklyn band's latest release, Burning Bush Supper Club, Dylan Rau's incisive lyrics are very much intact, but the ba ... More >>

Red Bull Thre3Style: magMANimous from Denver takes home bronze

​ RED BULL THRE3STYLE 10.09.10 | Beta, Denver, CO Red Bull has been steadily establishing a reputation for championing the artistic expressions of up and coming artists, and this evening was no different. At Beta this past Saturday night, the Red Bull Thre3Style brought ten DJs from across t ... More >>

Mile High Music Festival: Rusted Root's Michael Glabicki on the act's first big tour in Colorado

Duane Rieder​ When Rusted Root formed in Pittsburgh in 1990, it made a world-beat influenced splash with a series of releases throughout the decade. During this creative period, the band released its most commercially successful song, "Send Me On My Way." The tune, which has been used on soun ... More >>

Denver Blogs: How now, brown cloud?

Breathe it or chew it: your choice.​ The road to good local blogs leads this way... The Colorado Independent's Katie Redding reports that air-quality programs here have lost over $31 million. That won't make anyone breath easier. Colin at South Stands Denver worries about the Broncos punting ... More >>

MDC is still riled up after all these years

Q&A with Dave Dictor from MDC

In this week's edition of Rough Mixes, we printed excerpts of Tom Murphy's recent chat with Dave Dictor from MDC. As you'll see from the full transcript posted after the jump, the band's frontman is still very much an iconoclast championing ideals that are as provactive as the revolving moniker of h ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: The end is near

Tyler Hansbrough. The March 18 blog "Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation..." shared NCAA men's and women's basketball picks made by my daughter Lora and me, which fell short of flawless. True, we had Connecticut making it to the women's finals on Tuesday, but not Louisville, whi ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: Have the Connecticut women even broken a sweat yet?

Connecticut's Maya Moore. The updates that have followed in the wake of the March 18 blog "Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation...," which shared choices in the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournament made by my daughter Lora and me, have been grim at times. Last night, thou ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: 0-2 in the women's tourney last night

Going slow and steady didn't help Marissa Coleman's Maryland Terps. The women's NCAA basketball tournament bracket my daughter Lora and I shared in "Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation..." have taken a pounding, and last night's pair of Elite Eight games didn't help -- not that ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: Savaged by (Baylor) Bears

Louisville's late burst plowed under Kelli Griffin's Baylor squad. The women's NCAA basketball bracket put together by my daughter Lora and me isn't quite as calamitous as our men's picks, but close. The big blow: Baylor, which we designated to reach the finals, went dry late in the second half of ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: The catastrophe worsens in the women's second round

Duke's Abby Waner, who's from Highlands Ranch, probably didn't enjoy the game against Michigan State. Oh. My. God. The headline on the first blog about the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournament picks made by my daughter Lora and me -- "Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation. ... More >>

Our March Madness predictions: The women's first round went well -- but what happened to Tennessee?

Legendary Tennessee coach Pat Summitt. Although most fans who fill out brackets during NCAA basketball tournament season only focus on the men's teams, the contest through the Archdiocese of Denver that my daughter Lora and I have participated in during recent years gives the women equal billing. T ... More >>

Our March Madness picks: A prelude to humiliation...

A photo-illustration from the University of Pittsburgh website. Each year, I sit down with my daughter Lora -- a rabid sports fan with strong opinions about 9News' Susie Wargin -- to fill out NCAA tournament brackets for both the men's and women's basketball championships as part of a friendly cont ... More >>

Everything Absent or Distorted (a love story) makes Top 20 adds on CMJ

Photo: Todd RoethEverything Absent or Distorted (a love story), an act profiled in these pages back in December and who just performed at Artopia, our gigundous annual arts celebration, over the weekend, earned the distinction this week of having its latest platter, the Great Collapse, listed as the ... More >>

Breathe Carolina premiers new video, tours until the end of time

Breathe Carolina, a band that tours so often these days that it almost doesn't seem like a Denver band anymore (seriously, with the exception of April and May, the act is going to be on the road from now until at least the end of August; check out the list of tour dates on the next page), recently p ... More >>

Gardell of Eden

A down-home comedian relishes the simple stuff.

Tickle Me Pink releases explicit version of "Typical Whore" video

Tickle Me Pink, who's in the midst of a cross country tour right now with Hawthorne Heights (full dates after the jump), has posted an explicit, NSFW version of their "Typical Whore" video. Like the the original version, the video features porn star Gabriella Fox crawling through comforters on her ... More >>

Old Meets New

Swap your vintage and retro clothing with Cynthia Joye.

Freeloader

Bringing you the best in artist-approved downloads.

Impressionist Moment

Landscapes From the Age of Impressionism decorates the DAM.

Let's Put On a Show!

The National Performing Arts Convention acts up.

DeVotchKa on NPR's All Songs Considered and Conan

Eye of the Tiger: State of the Obama/Clinton Race on the Eve of the Pennsylvania Primary

Grand Buffet

Saturday, January 5, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

A Simpler Time

You Can't Take It With You appeals to nostalgia.

Doin' Good

Drink it all in with the ladies of LUPEC.

Diesel Power

Dieselboy brings role-playing strategy into the drum-and-bass arena.

Off Limits

Cholo contendere

Italian for Intermediates

Scott Baio reawakens his heritage in The Bread, My Sweet.

Close Calls

Two new ethnic eateries make Wash Park a neighborhood to watch.

Gentlemen, Please! No Spitting!

Hark, good sirs, to a modest request aimed at further refining the honorable pastime of base ball.

Bad Karma, Sad Shawarma

Eating at the Sahara Restaurant can be a dry time.

Hard Lessons

Ten years ago, Colorado began to force batterers into treatment programs. but do they work?

All Choked Up

The Toast of Greeley

Mine or Yours?

Denver mine-safety workers enlist congressional help to keep their office from moving to West Virginia.

THE APPELLATIONS OF OUR EYE

MOUTHING OFF

SINBAD'S MAGIC TOUCH

MOUTHING OFF

THRILLS