This week at westword.com/restaurants, Andy Thomas introduces former DJ Adriana Aguilar, aka Miss Audry, who joined her mother, Maria Gibson, in taking over Melita’s Greek Cafe & Market at 1035 Lincoln. Photos by Mark Manger at westword.com/slideshow…
El Bulli, the Spanish restaurant widely considered the best in the world, at least by people who have never eaten drunk at Jack in the Box at three in the morning, will close for two years starting in 2012 — and may not ever return, chef Ferran Adria announced today…
It was a busy weekend in Denver. Some highlights: • Lipgloss, a Friday-night party at La Rumba, was even crunkier than usual. • Suite 200 hosted what they called a “Model Night,” apparently giving our photographer cart blanche to ignore every Y chromosome in the room. • Git Some got…
Mustangs & Madras played its final show at 3 Kings Tavern on Saturday night. We were there. It was a pretty damned good party. Drinks were flowing. Saw you there, didn’t we? Dunno. Kind of a blur. Sorry. Luckily our resident shutterbug Aaron Thackeray on caught it all on film,…
Cobraconda spun house DJ Boyhollow’s birthday at La Rumba’s Friday-night Lipgloss party. See photos by Aaron Thackeray on the slideshow page…
Photographer/ski bum Scott Limbird sent the above photo of Vail from yesterday, a day he called “ridiculous.” Read his description of the day after the jump…
I like to imagine that all of our shmucks — every last one of them, from middle schoolers to the Mormon Madoff to the threesome from hell — are, upon earning the honor, rounded up and herded into one confined space, to trade stories of their shmuckdom and steal each…
Pepsi — a stalwart in the high-stakes Super Bowl Sunday advertising game — is bowing out this year, leaving a MacGruber-sized hole in the commercial breaks. So, while crossing our fingers that Bud Light doesn’t bail, we dug up some of Pepsi’s better efforts from years past…
For reasons we can’t figure, 3 Kings hosted jazz and burlesque on Monday night. Photographer Coleen Whitfield was there. See her photos on the slideshow page…
Among the most unfortunate developments of the Internet Age is the Sports Team Tribute Song, wherein a musically disinclined fan — often a wannabe rapper with a fondness for the letter “z” — posts a song on YouTube about the awesomeness of his favorite sports team. Assuming, for the sake…
The Meadowlark hosts Neighborhood Appreciation Night every Tuesday, featuring dollar PBRs and an open mic. According to photos of last night’s version, from Coleen Whitfield, it’s a much more sedate evening than you might expect. We’re disappointed in you, Hipster Nation…
Photo ninja Aaron Thackeray ventured into the wild on Friday night to dance with the restless natives, at Suite 200 (he missed LeBron, apparently) and something called Croc’s. His resulting photos are on display at westword.com/slideshow…
Photographer Aaron Thackeray ventured into the wild on Friday night for a glimpse of Denver in action; see his photos on the slideshow page. Also, Kiernan Maletsky climbed Mt. Hipster on Saturday night, taking in the Bad Weather California/Pink Hawks/Pictureplane show at the Hi-Dive. Read his review on the Backbeat…
Dads are always doing embarrassing shit. That’s just a rule. With my dad, it was usually his clothes, which were always about a decade off and a few shades too bright. But sometimes he inflicted his lack of style and grace on me, by sending me to school with my…
For his last supper (review) in Denver, Sheehan ate at Ondo’s, where he says Deicy Steinbecker’s fare is “easing into excellence.” See Mark Manger’s photos on the slideshow page…
Denver rang in 2010 like it rings in every year: with lots of booze. See New Year’s photos from around the city on the slideshow page…
Put down your mouse and get thee to the mountains, because that’s where we’ll be until next Monday. Thanks for reading On the Edge. Until next week …..
Westword’s bosses ran the numbers and decided that since you’ll all be drunk or shopping anyway, there’s no use in turning the lights on Christmas Eve or Day. So: We’ll be back Monday with more frivolity. In the meantime, thanks for reading, commenting, correcting our mistakes and listening to us…
It’s an NSFW world out there, and while the City of Mile Highness is no New York or SF when it comes to going shirt- or pantless, things do occasionally get a little saucy around these parts. Here, the most popular NSFW selections from westword.com in 2009…
It’s about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we’re taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most-read stories from the Cafe Society blog…
It’s about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we’re taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most popular concert reviews from the Backbeat blog…
It’s about damn time this year ended. But before it does, we’re taking a look back at your favorite stories of 2009. Here, the ten most popular stories from the Backbeat blog…
