Megan Burtt brought the best of the Colorado music scene in Denver to the Oriental Theater this weekend. It was a celebration and release of her latest album The Bargain. The energy was explosive as it is the final Denver show for Burtt for a year, as she continues on…
Kyle Foster, chef de cuisine of Colt & Gray, has taken on a new challenge at Rebel Restaurant, which opened earlier this summer in RiNo. While he’s still in charge of the charcuterie program at Colt & Gray, he approached Rebel owners Dan Lasiy and Bo Porytko asking for more culinary…
It’s the first Tuesday in September, which means it’s World Art Drop Day. Denver Arts & Venues is celebrating World Art Drop Day by dropping clues and miniature blue bears around Denver that resemble Lawrence Argent’s “I See What You Mean”; Arts & Venues will be taking photos of the blue…
Last week, the team behind Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom took over operations of the Aggie Theatre in Fort Colls. The group has big plans for the future of this iconic venue. We talked to Scott Morrill, co-owner of Cervantes’, about what northern Colorado music fans can expect. The space will be renovated…
The Still Tide graced the stage of the Open Media Foundation with an ethereal performance at the Open Music Session for August 2015. Since their move to Denver from New York state in the beginning of 2015, the newly-local band is exerting a pull on audiences that’s almost, well, tidal. Alums…
As Straight Outta Compton sparks a new interest in hip-hop around the country, plenty of artists have long been working to embody what NWA did in its time, creating independent, unapologetic art. Denver is full of such artists. You can routinely find hip-hop in venues across the city, including the Roxy and…
Summer has been a great street-art season. The city has welcomed over 100 new murals this season, ranging from pieces done with Urban Arts Fund grants to the Namta Mural Project to private commissions. We scouted out every mural we could find, and narrowed down the offerings in this incredible…
The hi-dive and Nathaniel Rateliff are both a little rough around the edges, so it’s fitting that, last night, he and the Night Sweats played an instantly sold-out show there. The crowd felt like a family as it welcomed the Night Sweats to the packed stage. Fans and lifelong friends clapped along…
The Clinic’s sixth annual Charity Classic was a lovely day filled with golf, cannabis, water balloons, games, food and drinks, all for a great cause. In working with the MS Society, this cannabis do-gooder company has the opportunity to give back to their community on a local and national scale…
Finn’s Manor is nearly ready to open in River North. The food truck pod and craft cocktail bar on the 2900 block of Larimer Street (across the street from Ratio BeerWorks) is the creation of food industry veteran Noah Price, co-owner of the Populist and Crema Coffee House, Thomas Taylor…
The third High Plains Comedy Festival starts tonight in the Baker neighborhood. Festival founders Andy Juett and Adam Cayton-Holland have created the largest comedy festival in town, with talent ranging wildly from national to local heroes, and activities from standup brunch to highly inappropriate card games. “A lot of different looks, that’s…
Rocky Mountain Aerials is a photo company that goes where very few photographers can. High above the city in a tiny Sesna 182 plane, RMA founder and photographer Jeff Perry captures unreal images of the very real Mile High City. RMA was founded in 2013, and has been flying high…
The Denver Caffeine Crawl poured its way through the city Saturday, hitting up four favorite local roasters who are helping to brew the local craft-coffee scene. Although this was the 36th annual crawl, that scene has been growing fast over the last five years, exploding much like the microbrewery business. …
The Meininger family decided to do something amazing with the Biemedia wall facing the Meininger Art Supply store at 499 Broadway. Equipped with a grant from the city, Judd Meininger reached out to some of the most talented artists in Denver, and commissioned seven of them to create side-by-side works on the…
Thirty out-of-towners pile into a giant limousine-like bus parked outside the downtown Cheba Hut at noon on a summer Saturday. The group includes an eclectic array of visitors who range wildly in age and socioeconomic standing, and who hail from such disparate locales as Hannibal, Missouri, New York City and…
The Curtis Club, Denver’s new old-west saloon, will be hosting a Grand Ol’ Reopening Party this Saturday August 15 to unveil their new menu food and cocktail programs. Head chef Chewey Peralta collaboratively with owner Scott Bagus and GM Jeremy Randall made the menu more accessible to the working class…
On July 25, Mayor Michael Hancock, Denver Partners Against Graffiti and 200-plus volunteers took to the streets of Capitol Hill to “buff out” some of the graffiti surrounding East High School. This was the sixth annual “Brush Off Graffiti” event, celebrating another year of working to keep Denver beautiful, as DPAG’s…
Colorado Crush is Colorado’s largest independent graffiti and street art festival. The inaugural event took place in 2009 at the Exdo Event Center, where the original murals created at that festival have long been painted over. The sixth annual Colorado Crush, set for September 14 through September 20, will take…
Despite appearances, this isn’t just another hipster white guy with a beard and a synthesizer. It’s Chet Faker. And the Australian-born electronica artist just sold out two nights at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood for good reason. As I watch the man enter the packed Gothic stage to screams from adoring…
Denver street art is always popping up in unexpected places — including on local eateries, whether a trendy coffee shop, innovative food hall or historic cafe. Here are ten of our favorite street-art pieces on the menu at Denver restaurants. 12) AikoPops 1284 South Pearl StreetAikoPops offers more than just delicious…
Artist Delton Demarest has spent the summer creating portraits of deceased musicians — Amy Winehouse, Biggie Smalls, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jerry Garcia — that comprise an album of artists you wish were still alive today. It’s all part of his larger-than-life triptych mural project on the garage…
Yes, vomitstep is a thing. The dubstep world has outdone itself with this gross new form of music that’s like dubstep, but “wobblier.” To politely vomitstep, make sure you are near a toilet or have a barf bag on hand. EDM music is known for its bizarre off-set of genres…
