Reader: The Food and People at Damascus Are Awesome

With all the drum-beating over terrorism and refugees, it’s sometimes difficult to recognize those in our midst living with the realities. While Paris was under attack by extremists, the Kassir family — owners of Damascus on South Colorado Boulevard since 1990 — were sending a shipping container full of humanitarian aid…

Reader: I’m Just Glad Hipsters Are Spending Money in Five Points

After years, decades of waiting for Denver’s economic boom to reach Five Points, that day finally seems to have arrived. But with all this newfound interest in the area, will Five Points lose its colorful past? Tom’s Home Cookin’ just closed after sixteen years…but that’s a relative drop in the…

Photos: Santas Deliver at the Denver Harlequins Santa Pub Crawl

South Broadway was inundated with Santas, elves and ugly holiday sweaters over the weekend when the Denver Harlequins rugby organization hosted a Santa Pub Crawl to benefit Tots for Tots, beginning at Gary Lee’s Motor Club. Photographer Mile Chrisinger embedded with the holiday crew as they donated toys and made…

Photos: Ugly Sweaters and Great Brews at Denver Beer Festivus

The fourth annual Denver Beer Festivus lured beer lovers and their ugly sweaters to Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum on Saturday, featuring only breweries with a Denver address — nearly 50, in total. Guests got into the spirit of the fake holiday — originally created for an…

The New Wizard’s Chest Now Open on Broadway

The new Wizard’s Chest is open! On December 1, the Wizard’s Chest opened the door to its new castle at 451 Broadway, where there’s even more space for cool costumes, games and all the gifts you could hope to find this holiday season. The Wizard’s Chest at 230 Fillmore Street…

Photos: Denver’s Most Excellent Cosplayers of 2015

There’s no question that Denver loves cosplay, with fans aping their favorite pop-culture characters with elaborate costumes that take months to perfect. Photographer Danielle Lirette caught some of the best on camera at fan conventions large and small held throughout 2015. Here’s a look back. Now see the full Best of…

Reverend Horton Heat, !!! Top This Week’s Best Concerts

This week’s shows include !!! at Lost Lake Lounge, Reverend Horton Heat at the Fox Theatre, Battles at the Bluebird Theater and Jackie Evancho at Boettcher Concert Hall. See the full list of our picks below. MONDAY, DECEMBER 14 !!! $15, 9 p.m. Lost Lake Lounge Terror $15/$17, 6 p.m. Marquis…

Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

This weekend’s lineup of shows includes an wildly diverse section of acts, including Psychic TV, Jason Isbell, Shpongle, the Dwarves, Trace Bundy and the Infamous Stringdusters. See the full list of our picks below.  FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Psychic TV $2023, 9:23 p.m. Summit Music Hall Shpongle $20, 7 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium…

Reader: Tucson Should Be Grateful That Illegal Pete’s Is There

Pete Turner founded Illegal Pete’s in Boulder twenty years ago, when he opened his first burrito joint on the Hill. Yesterday afternoon, he opened his first out-of-state restaurant in Tucson — which attracted a packed house of customers and an estimated fifty protesters with a petition demanding he change the name, claiming that…

Photos: The Crafty Men of Holiday ManCraft

Holiday shoppers can’t get enough of Holiday ManCraft, the only artisan fair in town (and the world?) devoted to handmade wares made exclusively by men. This year’s fair, bigger than ever, moved up to the Forney Museum for its fifth edition on Friday night, when it featured more than eighty…