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The new happy hour at Trillium makes me ecstatic

You can sink a cheap drink at just about every watering hole in Denver, a city that's indisputably obsessed with the ritual of happy hour. The bar at Interstate Kitchen & Bar features a late-night happy hour, wherein a cooler of cold beers in cans -- barkeep's choice -- are a mere $9; the duo of dai ... More >>

Holiday cheer: Have yourself a psychedelic Christmas

The holiday season has felt a bit underwhelming this year. Maybe it's the lack of snow in Colorado -- which rules for those of us (read: grumps like me) who think weather below 65 degrees is pointless (but still results in this weird depression caused by a depletion of the feeling that I'm in Cathol ... More >>

Sexy Pizza's plans to fight the drug war with a store ménage à trois

There are many things that are better in threes -- including pizza shops. And now Denver-born Sexy Pizza is looking to add a third store to its current two for a Sexy Pizza threesome. See also: -Sexy Pizza gives pot-positive police a slice of the action -Sexy Pizza's sexy facelift -Sexy Pizza's o ... More >>

King Tuff

Tuesday, August 28, Moe's Original BBQ, 303-781-0414.

Plus Gallery offers Eric Shumake artist talk before going on hiatus

In July, as artist Eric Shumake was preparing for the opening of his first official exhibit -- "Charnival," part of the current Merge group show at Plus Gallery -- he was simultaneously accepted into the Vermont Studios Masters Program. As a result, Shumake was unable to attend the opening night of ... More >>

Vail and Burton Snowboards confirm rumors: Burton US Open is coming to Colorado

Vail Resorts and Burton Snowboards yesterday confirmed rumors -- first reported earlier this month by the Breckenridge-based Angry Snowboarder blog -- that the Burton US Open is moving to Vail after thirty years in Vermont -- 27 of them at Stratton Mountain. The 31st annual Burton US Open will be he ... More >>

Defense of Marriage Act ruling shows courts rejecting marriage inequality, activist says

Yesterday, the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals struck down a key provision in the so-called Defense of Marriage Act, shorthanded as DOMA. And while the ruling doesn't directly impact Colorado, where a fight over a civil unions bill killed not once but twice was the story of the just-completed legi ... More >>

Marijuana: Industrial hemp study bill approved, but hurdles remain

With the passing of HB 1099 yesterday, which creates a soil remediation study using hemp as the filtering agent, Colorado could be the first state in the nation to grow industrial hemp since the late 1930s. But passing the bill was just the first obstacle. Actually implementing the plan might be mo ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary re-review: Two years later at Walking Raven

Aside from 4/20, there's really no better day for celebrating cannabis than Thanksgiving. A good spliff goes great with stuffing, potatoes and entire turkeys waiting to be devoured. So to get your munchies going, here's our Thanksgiving day Mile Highs and Lows dispensary review of Walking Raven.

Simon Purvis, exec chef of EDGE, on love, sarcasm, smart arses and the customer he thought he murdered

Lori Midson​This is part one of my interview with Simon Purvis, executive chef of EDGE at the Four Seasons. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. Simon Purvis EDGE at the Four Seasons 1111 14th Street 303-389-3000 www.fourseasons.com/denver/dining Simon Purvis is siz ... More >>

Jon Fishman of Phish on how the band got its name, Yonder Mountain String Band and more

Jon Fishman is one timekeeper with some crazy get ups​The Grateful Dead and Phish are often compared because of their fanatical fan bases, trippy live shows and psychedelic-rock flavored extended jams and improv. Lead singer/guitarist Trey Anastasio, bassist Mike Gordon, keyboardist Page McCon ... More >>

MediaNews Group experiments with digital pay walls -- but not yet in Colorado

Dean Singleton.​In an interview earlier this year, MediaNews Group executive chairman Dean Singleton talked about experimenting with pay walls at his various newspaper properties. These efforts are now about to get a public try-out at 23 MNG properties -- although none in the company's home st ... More >>

Letters: Readers question Charles Farrar's sentence, but a judge won't reconsider it

Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Kentucky Hot Brown Sandwich

​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. In honor of Kevin Hickm ... More >>

Sixteen years after his death, not-so-famous novelist John Williams is finding his audience

Phish

Sunday, October 10 through Tuesday, October 12, 1STBANK Center, 303-830-8497.

Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Chicken liver pâté

​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Barb's sister Mariah, a ... More >>

Meet Phantogram, the pride of Saratoga Springs, New York

The guys who called Coloradans' d*cks small: Shmucks of the Week

"I'm small, but I'm powerful."​So ...I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I'm fully aware that they're complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged ... More >>

Waffle-pocalypse!!! An open letter to President Obama

​ Dear Mr. President. As you are no doubt aware, the Kellogg Company recently announced that it is experiencing a catastrophic waffle shortfall owing to a sort of "perfect storm" of circumstances: scheduled maintenance and upgrades to their army of waffle-making robots, flood damage in the ... More >>

What's Cooking? Dip into Gorgonzola to start Thanksgiving feast

​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Last month, Pete and B ... More >>

Exchanging Phish stories before the big gigs this weekend

​For fans of America's biggest cult band, the term "boys of summer" doesn't refer to guys who get paid millions to play baseball but rather four Vermont men in their forties who earn millions by playing goofy, unpredictable music while jumping on trampolines, having glowsticks thrown at and around ... More >>

Heavy Rotation, our top five spins for the week of April 20, 2009

As music critics, the most common question we get asked (and ask each other, for that matter) is, "What are you listening to?" The pervasiveness of this query is precisely what inspired Heavy Rotation, our latest feature. For the benefit of those who happen to be curious, we've compiled a list of a ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local-music radio playlists

Here's this week's playlists from the area's local-centric speciality shows. This week, we've added the Colorado Wave in addition to the others we're already tracking: Radio 1190's long running Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only and the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and is rebroadcast al ... More >>

Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner goes national with his pitch to lower the drinking age

Watch CBS Videos Online Remember the burst of publicity that accompanied word that Boulder Police Chief Mark Beckner had supported lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18 during an interview with 60 Minutes? If not, don't feel bad -- because the flare-up occurred in March 2008, as documented by thi ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Over the next couple of weeks, Backbeat will feature some Top Ten lists from around the Village Voice Media chain. Click here for previous year-in-review coverage from Backbeat and VVM. Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records t ... More >>

Friday Rap-Up: Basementalism, Hip-Hop 4 Obama, 50 Cent, Fat Joe, Juvenile

I Am Legend

That old “last man on earth” setup? It really works.

Sandwich Time

Adam Mali’s peachy-keen idea.

Massholes Need Not Apply

Let the farce be with you, Colorado!

How to Survive...A Summer Road Trip

Pack the sunscreen, hitch up the Impala, and just go for it.

Talking Shop

Shop to her heart's content.

Off Limits

Burn, baby, burn

Bite Me

Another Story

Target Practice

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11.

Hit Pick

Gregory Ego

Spellbound

Casting spells in a modern world.

Phish Out of Water

Jon Fishman gets swept up in Pork Tornado.

Worst Foot Forward

Denver’s smelliest feet make tracks to the Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest.

Divining Intervention

Skeptics say dowsers are all wet. But Greg Storozuk believes.

City Haul

All you ever wanted to know about the Denver City and County Building.

I See Dull People!

The only thing more boring than the surface of this Ford/Pfeiffer “thriller” is What Lies Beneath.

Not in Their Backyard, Either

Protestors in other areas aren't faring any better.

The Sprawful Truth

Overwhelmed by growth, the town of Superior struggles to transform a subdivision into a community.

Board and Restless

Catch a Falling Star

Feedback

Something's Phishy

Legions of neo-hippies latch on to the catch of the day.