Summer is almost here, and this season at Red Rocks Amphitheatre promises plenty of opportunities for emotional catharsis with its sunshine and good vibes. Here are the ten best indie rock and emotional (while spanning many rock genres) shows coming to Red Rocks in 2016. Pack your tissues and a poncho…
March 14 is known as National Pi Day (it’s 3.14, after all) — the nerdiest, most delicious unofficial holiday of the year — and spots across the country are celebrating with specials. Some involve a stretch of the imagination, some a bigger challenge, but all should be delicious. Let the…
Springtime cometh! The inaugural Lantern Festival in Denver is a two-night event where people will light up the skies like in a traditional Chinese lantern send-off, but with a Mile High twist. The festival will be lifting off April 23 and 24 from the Colorado National Speedway, technically in Dacono, but the…
Zoës Kitchen is the newest out-of-state chain to make its way to Colorado, with a goal of bringing the freshest and healthiest food possible in a fast-casual setting to our lovely state, or as Zoës CEO Kevin Miles calls it, the “birthplace of fast-casual.” (We’ll take it.) But Zoës feels…
The near one-hundred-year-old Aztlan Theatre in the Art District on Santa Fe has sat (mostly) empty for the past decade. That’s all about to change with the promise of a concert on April 16 as a platform for local music, put together by Emily Owens and Cody Noha. With the blessing…
Modern artist Herbert Bayer, creator of “The Articulated Wall” that rises by I-25 at Broadway, has made quite an impression on Denver. Now more eyes are seeing his work here than ever, thanks to step-grandchild Koko Bayer. Two years ago, Koko started working on a documentary on Herbert Bayer; her mother…
The DeMarcus Ware mural at Project Colfax entitled “BE WARE,” created by acclaimed artist and Broncos fan Gamma Gallery, was vandalized over the weekend. The urban-art piece wraps around the south- and east-facing walls of the enormous outdoor art project at Williams Street and East Colfax Avenue, which boasts the work of…
Artopia is this Saturday night guys and Westword gets all nostalgic about the amazing times had at the past 20 years of parties celebrating art, culture, Whiteout fashion, local creatives, international artists and all of the above. Plus, it’s shaping up to be the hottest Artopia in history, with a…
Hey Denver, did you know it’s winter? I know it must be hard to tell with all the blue skies and sixty-degree days, but technically we’re still in the dead of the chilly season. We’ve rounded up a list of the coziest music venues in Denver, the steamiest, most intimate,…
There were so many amazing moments captured on social media during the Super Bowl 50 win and subsequent Broncos parade that we just had to share some of the love. Photographers captured kids playing hooky, dogs playing hooky, adults playing hooky… well, you get the picture. Thanks to all of…
Anthony Russo Band performed at the September edition of the Open Music Sessions, the free monthly concert and party hosted by Denver’s Open Media Foundation. Fresh off a tour behind Curtis Hawkins’ LP South Clarkson Street, the local trio — which includes Hawkins himself on bass — brought its blend of…
Today is officially Orange Friday, as proclaimed by Mayor Michael B. Hancock, and buildings all over the city will get lit up in orange and blue to celebrate the home team. But the celebrations have spilled far beyond Denver, all the way to a sculpture hoax in Asia. Keep reading for…
Say the name “Rossonian” to Denverites, and more often than not, they will recall The Rossonian, the historic hotel in the heart of Five Points and the center of that neighborhood’s storied jazz scene. Over the last few years, local band Rossonian has been making a name for themselves with…
Project Colfax is a stunning new urban-art installation created at the former car wash at Williams Street and East Colfax Avenue, a project involving the paint, sweat and tears of thirty local and national artists. The site is currently owned by Kentro Properties and the future fate of Project Colfax…
It looked like an indie wedding, or a page out of a Pottery Barn catalogue — but it was a marijuana-pairing dinner. The Headquarters cannabis boutique team and Blackbelly Market’s Hosea Rosenberg hosted a winter dinner event last weekend where marijuana normalization reached a new high, at a sold-out (by private…
Dickinson Plaza at the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street had been in Henry Dickinson’s family for 115 years — until he sold the .8 acre property to Trammell Crow Residential on January 13 for a cool $6.8 million. The Texas company’s plan? To tear down the building…
Karl Marx has been quoted — not quite accurately — as calling religion the “opiate for the masses.” If art is your religion, you’ll want to overdose on Opiates for the Masses, a new show at Helikon Gallery that’s guest-curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, the busy duo who own Sally Centigrade gallery. In…
Quiznos, the homegrown toasted-sub company, is growing up: It just opened Quiznos Grill at 1147 Broadway, a few blocks from where Jimmy Lambatos opened the first Quiznos at 1275 Grant Street back in 1981. The brand has had a bumpy ride over the past 35 years, and occasionally got toasted…
When Straight White Teeth performed at Open Media Foundation’s monthly Open Music Session in June 2015, the locals pulled out their most-loved pieces including “Hot Blood Shaking in a Cage,” “Hurricane” and more. While indie guru Patrick McGuire was the frontman for the Denver band Flashbulb Fires for the past five years,…
Baby, it’s cold outside – but that’s no reason to stay inside. All good Coloradans have a stockpile of winter hiking gear that will keep them warm in the great outdoors, and those stunning snow-capped views are always worth the trek, no matter the temperature. Here are our ten favorite…
The philanthropic Oskar Blues did not waste a minute lending a hand to Flint. It’s sending canned water to the Michigan town through its non-profit CAN’d Aid, which is using the brewery’s North Carolina Brewery and cans from Colorado’s Ball Corporation. Here’s the Flint water crisis in one hard-to-swallow serving:…
City, O’ City awoke to a surprise yesterday: A mystery graffiti artist had used the west-facing utility box in front of the restaurant at Sherman Street and East 13th Avenue to create this hybrid Lemmy Kilmister and David Bowie wheat-paste piece. And the artist really nailed the culmination of loss people…
