San Francisco

The chicken at La Polleria is a real bird in the hand

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Guess where I'm eating a vegetarian thali?

I just returned from San Francisco, where I pigged out on everything from oysters and noodles to quail and "world peace" peanut muscovado milk. I also made the unfortunate mistake of hitting up an Indian restaurant -- Dosa, if you want to to know -- that sucked, but the vegetarian thali at this Indi ... More >>

Weekend's best EDM (end of the world edition): Yooj, J.Phlip, Madlib, MartyParty and more

The countdown to the apocalypse has begun! So where do you want to be when the world ends, at home on your couch wrapped up in a Snuggie, waiting for the sky to fall, or out on the dancefloor, living it up and shaking your booty? Dancefloor? We thought as much, which is why we're offering up this co ... More >>

Yooj celebrates the end of the world at Beta this Friday

Stevie Wonder at Outside Lands: San Francisco gets life lessons from the School of Wonder

STEVIE WONDER @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/12/12The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He's more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he's our Dickens or Dalí: a figure o ... More >>

Adrift chef Wade Kirwan offers a colorfully worded explanation of his pet peeves

This is part one of my interview with Wade Kirwan, executive chef of Adrift. Part two of our chat will run tomorrow. Wade Kirwan Adrift 218 South Broadway 303-862-5749 www.facebook.com/adriftbar It's mid-day, and the lights are dim at Adrift, the tiki bar and restaurant that opened three months a ... More >>

Lemonade

Sunday, June 10, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007

Celebrate June with this recipe for a top-shelf watermelon margarita

June starts tomorrow, ushering in the summer season for barbecuing, bobbing around in the pool on a raft and sipping boat drinks, preferably made with some sort of tropical fruit.

Lulacruza wraps up Communikey on April 29 at BMoCA

Rachel Thoele of Flipper: "There would be times they would get up and play one song, but still it was amazing"

Rachel Thoele of Flipper (due tonight at the Lion's Lair) got her start in the Bay Area punk scene in her first band God (or G.O.D. aka Girls On Drugs or Girls Over Dosed). But the first band she was in that many people got to see was Frightwig, the legendary art punk band from the '80s that was oft ... More >>

Punk invades MCA this Friday: Steven Wolf on West Coast punk

The West Coast punks are pogoing into town this spring at MCA Denver, Gildar Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other locations, for a series of shows falling under the aegis of Search & Destroy. So-named for the San Francisco 'zine or the '70s), the ring of satellite shows will come ... More >>

Direct from the Boulder International Fringe Festival: The preliminary 2012 lineup

The Boulder International Fringe Festival has announced its preliminary 2012 artist lineup, which includes such past fringe faves as TinHouse Experimental Dance, Gemma Wilcox Productions, Square Product Theatre and Band of Toughs, as well as a wide range of on-the-edge artists hailing from New York ... More >>

Hipp-E and Greg Eversoul: "When we tag-team, it comes out in our sound and in what we do"

Arguably 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 Coast house s ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

I just got back from the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, which pimped, among other indisputably un-fancy weird shit, clam chowder (from a can) pizza and bacon lube (more on those later this afternoon), but I also hit several restaurants (three in an hour, plus a bakery, which may be my all-time re ... More >>

DJ DRC spins Friday the 13th at Lumonics

From Red Rocks to Emos, recreate the exact acoustics of the country's hottest venues

Are you ready to rock?When Matt Finn was able to finally quit his job as an e-mail server technician thanks to the success of his ClearTune guitar tuning application for smart phones, his world changed forever. From a humble office located on Denver's 16th Street Mall, Finn and his fellow innovators ... More >>

Paper Diamond added to Outside Lands

​Paper Diamond's stock just rose significantly. The Boulder-based act led by Alex B. (aka Alex Botwin) of Pnuma Trio and Elm and Oak, has been added to the Outside Lands festival happening a few weekends from now in San Francisco. Have you seen the lineup? He'll be in some pretty impressive c ... More >>

Circumcision: Colorado to stop Medicaid coverage of snipping newborn boys' foreskin

Flickr​ A week from today, Colorado is cutting -- pun intended -- Medicaid funding for circumcisions. According to the Associated Press, the state will join seventeen others in making the cost-saving move, which will likely please circumcision opponents, such as Paul Russo, the subject of a 19 ... More >>

Dubtribe Sound System, February 26 at Casselman's

Guess where I'm eating...in San Francisco?

Lori Midson​Years ago, when I lived in San Diego and Los Angeles, I'd end my drunken nights of debauchery holed up at a taqueria, where Cali-style burritos were slung 24/7. My favorite taqueria in the world is in Santa Barbara, but my second favorite is right here in the heart of San Francisc ... More >>

Mark Farina on Chicago house, Mushroom Jazz and what's new for him in 2011

Photo by Sandlin Gaither​Chicago house heavyweight and acid-jazz/downtempo darling Mark Farina has already made two trips to Denver this year -- but for his third, a set at the Gothic Theatre this Friday night, he's promoting the release of the seventh Mushroom Jazz album, just as laid-back an ... More >>

Saturday: J Phlip at Casselman's

​Raised on a steady diet of Chicago house music as a kid growing up in Champaign, Illinois, Jessica Phillippe emerged as one of the most in-demand underground female DJs over the past few years. Also known as J. Phlip, Phillippe studied engineering at the University of Illinois before relocat ... More >>

Shaun Durkan of Weekend talks about Sports and the foibles of music journalism

​Formed in 2009, Weekend started out as a trio comprised of guys from punk and hardcore bands in the Bay Area who wanted to do something with a broader sonic palette. Often compared to My Bloody Valentine and The Jesus & Mary Chain, Weekend doesn't really sound like either so much as a pop ban ... More >>

OpenTable lists America's top fifty restaurants "fit for foodies"

​ OpenTable.com, the free (for consumers) online reservations program, just released its 2010 Diners' Choice Awards for restaurants that are most Fit for Foodies, the victors of which were determined by more than seven million online reviews as voted by OpenTable diners. The question is, ho ... More >>

Frank Bonanno, Alex Seidel, Jennifer Jasinski, Steve Ells and James Rugile among James Beard semifinalists

Lori Midson Venue chef James Rugile ​Restaurant and chef semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards were released this morning, which gives all the nominees exactly 32 days to chew on their success before the five finalists in each category are announced on Monday, March 22. The ... More >>

The Dodos

Thursday, October 22, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Lazer Sword at the b.side Lounge

Musee Mecanique

Tuesday, February 10, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

DeVotchKa announces spring tour dates

This Friday night in Philadelphia, DeVotchKa is kicking off a fairly exhaustive eight week tour that will take the band across the country from New York to San Francisco to Austin -- not during South By Southwest, surprisingly -- back up through the midwest before culminating in Cleveland on Saturd ... More >>

Rap-Up: DJ Vajra shares a table of vinyl with Q-Bert

It's no secret that DJ Vajra is one of, if not the best turntablists out of Colorado. He recently took a trip to San Francisco and connected with one of the best DJ's on Earth: DJ Q-Bert. Vajra visited Q-Bert at his house and had a scratch session on Q-Bert's infamous table of four pairs of turntabl ... More >>

Gold Mime

The San Francisco Mime Troupe thinks

Beaten by Them

Thursday, August 21, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Eron Johnson Hosts an Art Exhibit to Celebrate the Opening of his New Showroom

The Boys of Colfax

TopR

TopR

This rapper’s been doing the walk of shame for so long, it feels like a marathon.

Purple Haze

Last Man Standing

Meat and potatoes of Denver’s restaurant scene.

Fully Loaded

Friday, March 17, Quixote's True Blue, 303-297-1772; Saturday, March 18, Dulcinea's 100th Monkey, 303-832-3601; Sunday, March 19, D-Note, Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Deerhoof

Tuesday, November 8, Larimer Lounge, 303-291-1007.

Sound Tribe Sector 9

Friday, May 13, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 303-297-1772.

Best Movie Theater -- Programming

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Forest Green

Free Willies

The Cockettes brings back nostalgia for a gay old time.

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Spin Maps

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Negativland

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Colorado Rockies' new uniforms

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