Garbage, Wiz Khalifa and Every New Denver Concert Announcement

Megadeth brings its Dystopia World Tour to the 1STBANK Center on Saturday, October 1 with guests Amon Amarth, Metal Church and Havok. Tickets ($35-$50) go on sale on Friday, July 22 at 10 a.m.  Garbage, who released Strange Little Birds last month, headline the Fillmore Auditorium on Thursday, September 15 with Cigarettes…

Video: Fanciful Cakes and Fresh Loaves at Two Denver Bakeries

Bakeries, both sweet and savory were on the minds of our videographers this week. Dale DiMassi’s sweet tooth took him to Valhalla Cakes, where he captured owner/cake decorator Sam Slade turning confections into an edible llama. Slade opened her shop at West 44th Avenue and Tennyson Street in April, using…

Video: Beer and Metal at Black Sky Brewing

“The original idea was to be in a band and tour the world, and that didn’t quite work, so we decided to bring the bands to us,” says Harry Smith of Black Sky Brewery, a Denver collective where different brewers come together to make a variety of styles of beer…

Grab Your Tickets to the 2016 DISH Today!

Are you hungry yet? DISH, our annual celebration of Denver’s dining scene, will return to Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex on Sunday, September 25. Our 22nd annual event will again showcase unlimited samples of favorite dishes from dozens of restaurants recommended by Westword food writers and readers, including Adelitas, Syrup, Little…

Photos: Buskerfest Brings a Street Circus to Union Station

Hula-hoopers, giant puppets, jugglers, brass bands? You name it: If there’s a street performer doing it in the world, they were probably at Denver’s Union Station on July 16 and 17 for the revival of BuskerFest, a family-friendly street party that’s back after a break of several years. All photos…

Reader: Harman’s Is One of Cherry Creek’s Cursed Spots

Cherry Creek is changing, and changing fast. Some of those changes have occurred at 2900 East Second Avenue, where Harman’s Eat & Drink opened three years ago — after restaurateur Mark Fischer first tried to make a go of a Denver version of his successful Carbondale eatery, Phat Thai, in…

Reader: Enjoy Green Chile — It Shouldn’t Be a Negative Competition!

Mark Antonation came to Colorado the same year that John Elway did, and one of the Texas native’s early food discoveries was green chile, in all of its regional versions. He recently wrote about some of those green chile variations — and all their delicious differences. “What I’ve learned over the years almost has…

Reader: Would You Like It If Urban Campers Were Pissing on Your House?

This week, Chris Walker reported about a large police crackdown on several homeless encampments, including one near the Denargo Market. Like past homeless sweeps, this latest series provoked widely disparate responses from our readers. Some regarded the action to be inhumane, unnecessary and/or counterproductive, while others sided with the City of Denver’s…

Readers: Pokemon Go Players Need to Get a Life!

For the past week, people have been walking around Denver, phones held high as they searched for tiny monsters popping up on Pokémon Go, the virtual-reality game based on those characters that first came to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. But that fad didn’t explode as fast as this…

Andrew W.K.’s Speaking Tour Will Party Hard in Denver

Party hard and listen up! Andrew W.K. is spreading his message, “The Power of Partying,” through more than music this fall; today he announced a fifty-state speaking tour. Take a look at our “day in the life” of the rock star at 2010’s Warped Tour.  The Infamous Stringdusters: Big Top…

Photos: The Colorado Black Arts Festival

The Colorado Black Arts Festival celebrated thirty years of shared culture and community solidarity over the weekend of July 8-10 in City Park, with a spread of original art, African imports, music, drumming and dance. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught all the good vibes at the fest in the following images…