It was an exciting month for rugby here in Denver, as long as you weren’t rooting for the home team. Denver played host to North America’s marquee rugby event, the Churchill Cup, this year. The six competing teams — Ireland, England, Argentina, Canada, the US and Georgia — played two…
Sand Creek Lounge turns 27 this weekend — and it’s been an eventful time. The first owner lost the bar when he sold cocaine to an undercover cop; the second lost it to noise complaints. Then Paul Engel won $10,000 on the dog races at the now-closed Cloverleaf Kennel Club,…
Of classical music’s many charms, vitality is hardly one of them; most of the big names are long-dead white guys. So Eclectic Concerts, a chamber music series now in its third year, is remarkable for including music from around the world and from this century alongside the powder-wigged Europeans…
The problem is a familiar one to Colorado residents by now: two million acres of dead trees, forested mountainsides turned entirely red. The high country has been turned into a giant tinderbox by a beetle the size of a grain of rice. The solution? Not to stop the pine beetle…
At Elway’s, the usual drug of choice is botox. But on June 1, it was ecstasy. That’s the night that Marcus Long took his girlfriend to dinner at the Cherry Creek restaurant. Meanwhile, out in the parking lot, Jamie Medina was allegedly selling ecstasy out of Long’s car — to…
At the regional Air Guitar Championship, everything is ridiculous. There’s a guy onstage wearing a fur vest and a rhinestone handgun belt buckle, taking shots of Jack Daniels and diddling the air three inches in front of his crotch. But the most ridiculous part is less what’s going on tonight…
Are you a kid who owns a business? If so, the deadline is fast approaching for the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs, where you can win $1,000 if you’ve got the best business in your age group (6-11, 12-14, 15-17, and 18-21). A $250 prize goes to two additional finalists in…
See more photos from the Bannock Street Garage at westword.com/slideshow. Red Stinger, 12 p.m. One of the defining characteristics of punk is guys who love the people in the room exactly as much or more than they hate the System. No one who played Saturday at the garage embodied this…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby,…
The Bonnie Brae Tavern turned 75 on Sunday, and celebrated by serving 75 cent beers and plates of spaghetti for $1.75. “It was crazy in here,” says Michael Dire, who co-manages the place with his cousin, Rick. Michael and Rick are the third generation of Dires to work at the…
How to describe the voice of Colorado-based Barron Christian, who has a small part in Imagine That, an Eddie Murphy movie shot partly in Denver that opens on Friday? It’s a deep baritone delivered warmly and confidently — and there’s a cadence to his vowels that gives his sentences incredible…
If you give a hungry customer a happy hour… First came the patio, then the liquor license and now Catlin’s Café, at 4379 East Mississippi, is open for dinner from 4 to 9 pm on Thursday and until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Owner Eric Abney says he decided to…
It seems odd that in a financial storm where massive commercial institutions of all kinds are crumbling left and right, a writer’s workshop run out of an old poet’s house on Downing street would be unaffected. And yet, Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop keeps on growing. “In times of stress, people go…
Megan Riley is sitting next to her publicist on the patio of Stella’s Coffeehaus, which is the kind of place where people aren’t going to bat an eye when they overhear someone talking about her psychic powers. That’s exactly what Riley is doing, and I’m wondering how this will go…
Sometimes we need a little physics lesson: When a 1,000 pound steel and glass box traveling at 40 mph smashes into another 1,000 pound box containing two people totaling something like 250 pounds, the result is, well, just look at the picture above. Sharing scary lessons like these is the…
Applying for permits of any kind isn’t thrilling stuff. But for the next two weeks, the process of getting the city’s building department to check off on your home improvements involves the words “free” and “bonanza.” What’s more exciting than that? From June 1 until June 15, during what the…
