Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that Mike Rosen has always been a pro. And expect the same today when the consummate radio talk-show host signs off after a long Denver career; his final show airs on KOA at 85 AM from 1 to 3 p.m. After that, Rosen…
Customers at South Broadway’s Pie Hole line up for late-night slices of pizza served on paper plates. And many of them are leaving paper plates behind — decorated with all manner of sketches, squiggles and self-portraits. Since 2013, the pizza joint has been decorating its once-bare walls with customer art,…
After headlining the Bellco Theatre, Puscifer returns to Colorado to perform at the Pikes Peak Center on Sunday, March 20. Tickets ($35.50-$55.50) went on sale yesterday, December 23. Dream Theater is set to release its double concept album, The Astonishing, in January and will follow up with a world tour…
Dogs and their humans gathered Tuesday night at Alpine Dog Brewing for beer and cheer and ugly sweater contests for all. The Yappy Hour event was a benefit for the Denver Dumb Friends League. All photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Denver Dumb Friends League Holiday Yappy Hour…
Denver-based pet-prosthetics specialists OrthoPets got a leg up this month, when the Small Business Revolution sponsored by Deluxe Corp. surprised the operation with a $25,000 check. A few of OrthoPets’ bionic puppy patients showed up at the dog-friendly Watering Bowl on December 2 for a surprise party that honored Martin Kauffman,…
Denver blogs are thinking ahead to the new year. Our music blog has laid out Denver’s best New Year’s Eve events under $40. Streetsblog Denver reports on RTD’s long-awaited Smart Card, which should debut on January 1. And, in preparation for 2016, Westword’s food blog runs down the best bars…
Last week, during the first major snowstorm of the season, Denver Police Department officers began rousting people from their tents and lean-to shelters near the Samaritan House at Park Avenue and Lawrence Street around 6 a.m. The cops told everyone to get into shelters — shelters that had been too…
No. 1: Smoke House Buffalo BBQ Ribs at the Fort Our last favorite dish of the year is an oldie — a very oldie — but a goodie: the buffalo ribs at the Fort. Ad man Sam’l Arnold built that restaurant in the early ’60s as a scale model of Bent’s…
National Ugly Sweater Day came a day late at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, where hundreds of the 303’s worst-dressed denizens donned garish winter-wear for the Denver Ugly Sweater Run last Saturday. Here’s what that looked like, if you can bear to take a peek. Photos by Ken Hamblin III, and…
A plethora of Star Wars posts could Make this a starry, starry night. The Colorado Legislature often fails to attract the attention of anyone outside a circle of outsiders. But that could change if people started thinking of it as another installment of Star Wars, as does “VII Ways The…
Denver witnessed an average of twenty new restaurants and bars open every month in 2015 — and we were there for most of them. Add to that nearly 50 restaurant reviews from Gretchen Kurtz and we amassed quite a catalog of beautiful dishes from the city’s most creative chefs. If…
Over the past year, more than a dozen craft brewers have been gobbled up, either by larger breweries, corporate breweries, European interests or private-equity investors. And there is more — much more — on the way. So far, the damage has been limited in Colorado, but that won’t last. So…
Concussion isn’t much of a movie, but it’s a fascinating bellwether for where the National Football League currently stands on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative brain disease associated with many of its former players. As it happens, the human brain isn’t supposed to whip against the skull like a…
Pueblo County has weathered some stinky economic times over the past several decades, so it’s not surprising that even traditional boosters are seeing lots of potential in the cannabis industry, as Thomas Mitchell outlines in his story, “Can Cannabis Become Pueblo’s Next Cash Crop?” Still, there are some naysayers, including…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 on Saturday, February 20 — a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms of art installations and exhibits, curated by Jolt from Guerilla…
Holiday drinks and Playboy cut-outs made for a festive time at the XXX-Mas Craft Fair, a risque co-ed ornament-crafting evening at MCA Denver on December 18. Photographer Danielle Lirette captured the all naughty masterpieces crafted with love, glue and a little T&A. Now see the full XXX-Mas Craft Fair slide…
Mondays bring out the best and the worst in Denver blogs. Our food blog lays out our picks for the fifteen best new Denver restaurants of 2015. Agree or disagree? Westword music editor Katie Moulton asks this about Nathaniel Rateliff: Why this music, and why now? The Mile High Report…
Torchy’s Tacos, that Texas import, won’t open its first Denver location until January 12, but the Torchy’s sign lit up last week at 1085 Broadway, and that inspired quite an illuminating discussion of Torchy’s and tacos in general. Says Chris: Torchy’s is amazingly good! Maybe Denver will now know what tacos (and…
From mom-and-pop barbecues to flashy dinner clubs, the diversity of Denver’s restaurant scene grew with almost exponential vigor in 2015. While the sheer number of openings this year didn’t match the incredible pace of 2014, the variety and depth filled in gaps to make our city a competitor among the…
After more than three years of dining out several times a week — and then sharing the experience with you — Cafe critic Gretchen Kurtz will soon take a break to spend more time with her family. We’ll miss her reviews, but are pleased that she’ll still be writing other…
So many eateries have opened this year, it ought to be illegal! And, in fact, before 2015 ends the Denver dining lineup will add an Illegal Burger, the third link in a the homegrown Illegal Burger chain. Meanwhile, another homegrown chain that got its start twenty years ago just opened…
The best Schmucks of the Week are worth the wait. As proof, let us introduce you to Shelby Figueroa. The incident that temporarily transformed Figueroa’s face from the her normal look, as seen above on the left, to the battered visage at right took place way back in 2012, when…
