The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
Scout Niblett, Oh My God, Wye Oak The Hi-Dive September 22, 2009 Better Than: Getting punched in the face. Sounds like a bad thing, I know, but think about it – that’s kind of exciting, and I said the show was better than getting punched in the face. Besides, this…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check the Cafe Society blog through the week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the…
The Great American Beer Festival, the nation’s largest, staggers into the Colorado Convention Center this weekend. Last year, 46,000 attendees sampled nearly 3,000 beers, and this year’s Fest is already sold out. Check Cafe Society all week for survival tactics and beer recommendations from some of the breweries bringing their…
Danielle Anderson does not like hugs. Despite this, she might as well be Tigger at Disney World every time she plays a show. The sound guy, the promoter, the other bands, the fans — everyone’s got to get a squeeze. It’s an understandable mistake. After all, she’s young and casually…
Fell, Astrophagus, Peña September 4, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better Than:Watching one of your friends squirt out a kid and get lame. Barely better. More up-front bias from Columbia boy (that’s me!). I like noisy shows in sparse bars. They remind me of the good ol’ days at Mojo’s some three…
Pictureplane, Josephine and the Mousepeople, Hideous Men Rhinoceropolis August 28, 2009 Better Than: Getting high at a planetarium. Not that I would know. This sort of feels like Travis Egedy’s shot. As Pictureplane, he’s got the national press (from Fader and Pitchfork) and a new album, Dark Rift, with some…
Taking Woodstock is in theaters Friday. Maybe it will be really good, or maybe taking a stand-up comedian and sticking him in a semi-dramatic movie about Woodstock that doesn’t feature any — any! — musical performances is a terrible idea. Still, rock ‘n’ roll and Hollywood have been ugly, messy…
The Dead Weather, Tyvek The Ogden August 17, 2009 Better Than: Porn What’s your Jack White flavor? Are you a vanilla fan, a consumer of the pale white God of garage rock, or would you prefer vintage chocolate Jack, shy and drinking moonshine? Or perhaps you’re interested in our newest…
Native peaches belong on a short list of the best things about Colorado. The Forte Farms stand has other things as well — plums and tomatoes — but the peaches are the real draw. In the five or ten minutes I was standing there at last Tuesday’s Civic Center Eats,…
I’m taking a piss in the bathroom at the Crowne Plaza during Sunday’s closing dance for the Rocky Mountain Fur Con. I’m not trying to eavesdrop. But it’s sort of hard to tune out this particular conversation. Two guys are talking about their poor showings in the dance off. One…
It may yet prove to be the case that being able to throw a football really hard does not make you a good NFL quarterback. In fact, it may require intelligence and grace and a good offensive line, and Jay Cutler does not have any of those things. His most…
Starting next week, you can enjoy some alcohol with your meal at An’s Lemongrass Grille — at least the downtown location at 1617 California Street. It was recently awarded a liquor license, and the plan is to start serving beer and wine, and maybe some sake as well. The local…
The Knux is made up of brothers Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey, who go by the nom de tunes of Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio, respectively. The siblings moved to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina destroyed their childhood home in New Orleans. When they were kids, their mom made them join marching…
Don’t let the tight jeans and thick-rimmed glasses fool you. The brothers who make up The Knux were raised about as far away from the suburbs as you can get: New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. Still, Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio (aka Kentrell and Alvin Lindsey) found their sound by listening…
Today in The Latest Word: -A few hundred pages inside the NFL. -Southwest’s prices will probably go up. -Boobs! I dare you not to click that. -Top ten Apatow joints. -101.5 the Pole? Trust me — click that. Today in Cafe Society: -Boulder Beer Festival. -Half-price cheesecakes. -Best Denver burgers…
Give us this day our daily blog. And send links. Broncos training camp opens. (Mile High Report) And the Rockies make a move, right under the trade deadline, for some left-handed relief. (Purple Row) Another Jared Polis link? Why not. (Square State)…
This week’s shmuck is state Senate minority leader Josh Penry of Grand Junction. He’s also gunning for Bill Ritter’s Governor job, and the short version of the past few weeks’ convoluted saga of schmuckitude is that Penry cares a lot more about his political future than his constituents. (Which makes…
We don’t have an outpost of author Dave Egger’s 826 program in Denver, where kids can learn to dream like a writer and write like a writer and even get published like a writer. What we do have, however, is a group of people inspired by Egger’s project to do…
Since when does July transition straight into mid-September? Today in The Latest Word: -Here’s your daily installment of the Adventures of Jared Polis. -Singalong with former CU football player. -Denver: We’re list-tastic! -Things are getting exciting in the buyout of Frontier. -Jay Cutler is a p***y. I mean a pussy…
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Betsy Markey is one of Capitol Hill’s 50 most beautiful people. Ummm, huzzah! (Colorado Independent) You know that brewing scandal Face the State wrote involving a Longmont Councilwoman? Yeah, that wasn’t really fair. Or entirely true. (Colorado Pols) Biofuel Plant comes…
