Game of Thrones Season 2 premiere was full of tumult (spoilers within)

Warning: Spoilers within! In one of the final scenes of the Season 2 premiere of Game of Thrones, henchmen of boy-king Joffrey, the incestuous product of his mother and uncle, tear through King’s Landing, slaying the many bastard children of Robert, Joffrey’s official but now totally dead father. Because his…

Tennyson vs. Lower Highland: The Street 16 final four!

Lower Highland solidly won against Capitol Hill in the round of 8 in our restaurant neighborhood tournament, and Tennyson squeaked by the favorited Upper Larimer, due to some serious campaigning on social media. In this match-up of Tennyson and LoHi, who you got? Vote below!…

Audio: Michael Gira tells chatty audience members to get off his lawn

Michael Gira’s show on Saturday night at the Oriental Theater with Wovenhand included a few chatterboxes with whom the 58-year-old Swans mastermind just couldn’t abide. Page down to hear Gira tell the more vocal members of the crowd to “Go read Pitchfork,” after demanding that they kindly “Shut the motherfucking…

Boulder and South Federal face off in the Street 16 final four

As we’ve been doing for a few weeks now, Cafe Society is out to find the single-best neighborhood for eating-out in Denver with our Street 16 tournament. Size doesn’t matter, but restaurants do. We started with sixteen areas of metro Denver and now we’re down to four. In the first…

Photos: Steampunks take over the Tivoli Student Union

AnomalyCon 2012, Denver’s “first and only steampunk convention,” came down March 23 through March 25 at the Tivoli Student Union. The highlight of the weekend-long string of conferences, celebrity appearances and networking was Saturday night’s Grand Ball; Emily Driskill brings these photos back from the party. See the full slide…

The Street 16 final four is here!

It’s down to the final four neighborhoods in our Cafe Society reader voting tournament, with Tennyson catching the most attention from sideline gabbers and Boulder — “hey, that’s not a neighborhood!” — narrowly beating out Highland West in the field of eight. Below are the full results of our round…

Vote in every Street 16 elite eight match-up right here!

We started with sixteen neighborhoods on our quest to find the single-best restaurant neighborhood in Denver. Now we’re down to eight. And come Monday morning, we’ll have our final four. A few top seeds in our Street 16 restaurant neighborhood tournament were knocked out quickly (so long, Larimer Square!) while…

Upper Larimer vs. Tennyson: Which is the better ‘hood?

Coming off a big upset of Larimer Square in the first round, the Tennyson neighborhood and its backers now face hot Upper Larimer (which also beat out establishment-favorite Cherry Creek) in the second round. Below are our endorsements of each neighborhood, let us know which is the best with your…

Uptown vs. South Federal: Vote in our Street 16 match-up

Uptown — home to some restaurants that focus on the trendy side of life and a few bars where a single drink will have you seeing double. On the other side of the metro area is South Federal, home to a myriad of ethnic options — Vietnamese, Chinese and Mexican,…

Eat like a Man-ning: Catch these specials inspired by #18

If they want to celebrate today’s news, Denver residents don’t have to spend like Peyton Manning in order to cash in on the newest Bronco’s impending arrival. As soon as it was reported that Frank Tripucka’s retired number 18 could be on Manning’s back this fall, restaurants and bar specials…

And then there were eight: The Street 16 tournament continues!

After a few predictable first-round knock-outs, the first round of Cafe Society’s Street 16 neighborhood tournament was marked by landslides — the closest match-up had a percentage differential of 18 percent (Uptown vs. South Broadway) and the biggest difference was that of 73 percent (Havana vs. South Federal.) Just like…

Cafe Society’s Street 16: Vote in every match-up right here

In this season of Best Of, Cafe Society has set out to determine the top neighborhood for eating out in Denver. And in the spirit of the NCAA tournament (BRACKETS!), we settled on sixteen neighborhoods. Each day this past week we rolled out eight match-ups in eight posts. You can…

The Golden Triangle goes against LoHi in our Street 16 tourney

It’s been an opinionated first round in this first week of the Cafe Society Street 16 neighborhood tournament (“Boulder’s not a neighborhood!” “The more hipster neighborhood will win every time!”) All part of the fun. Now for the final match-up in the first round, the Golden Triangle goes up against…

Photos: Paper Fashion Show at the Denver Center

The Art Directors Club of Denver presented the eighth annual Paper Fashion Show Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Guests were treated to 50 original fashion designs created (almost) entirely of paper. Flowers, wings, lace and all assortments of…