There’s a stellar line-up of music in town this week, including Peaches, Yo La Tengo, Broncho and Lucero. The full list of our picks follows: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Rob Thomas $45-$99.50, 7 p.m., Paramount Theatre City and Colour $35.75, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Peaches $20, 8 p.m., Summit Music Hall …
Among the qualities that help make Schmucks of the Week so noteworthy is their ability to learn absolutely nothing from past mistakes. Although, in the case of Marvin Luna-Lovo, he may simply have been too blotto to have the slightest idea what the hell was going on. That’s one explanation for…
Every First Friday, Open Media Foundation throws quite a party with Open Media Sessions, complete with a concert. Last month, PrettyMouth dominated the sessions stage. The moody Denver band says “Sinisterly” was perhaps the first PrettyMouth song ever recorded, and at the October 2 show viewers were treated to an…
While there are plenty of independent restaurants hoping to get their doors open before the end of the year, they’ll have to move fast to beat the onslaught of chains both coming to Colorado, and growing in Colorado — which has earned a reputation as the birthplace of successful fast-casual…
Snow is falling, but don’t forget to take your chances on Rockygrass and Telluride Bluegrass lotteries before you lose your mind — and your batteries — stuck in I-70 ski season traffic. Although tickets for the festivals don’t go on sale until December, the 2016 lotteries for Telluride camping spaces…
This weekend’s concerts include shows by Bruce Cockburn, Don Byron, Juan Gabriel and AWOLNATION. Read on for the full list of our picks. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 Bruce Cockburn$29.50-$39.50, 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater Sturgill Simpson $29.50/$35, 8 p.m., Ogden Theatre Don Byron Quartet $15, 7 p.m. & 9 p.m., Dazzle Pat Green …
This week Gretchen Kurtz reviews Fire, the restaurant in the Art hotel that opened this summer with relatively little fanfare. But maybe that’s good, because her meals there were uneven; chef Chris Jakubiec needs to light a fire under his crew if this place is going to last, she concludes…
Carrie Underwood will kick off The Storyteller Tour-Stories in the Round, her first tour “in the round,” in January; it will stop at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on Tuesday, March 29, and at the Pepsi Center on Wednesday, March 30. Tickets for both shows go on sale…
With Bradley Cooper’s Burnt about to hit the big screens, last week we unreeled our list of The Ten Best Food Movies Ever, which put the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the number one spot. Readers quickly took issue with that, as well as other inclusions and…
Today is officially El Dia de los Muertos, but families observed the Mexican tradition yesterday at Olinger Crown Hill Cemetery, where altars to the departed, face painting and live entertainment were all part of the event, captured in these photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Olinger Crown Hill…
A Pandora’s Box of characters from the darker side of fairy tales were let loose at Tracks over the Halloween weekend, where special guests included Nina Flowers, Trixie Mattel and Manila Luzon of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Were you there? Find yourself in these photos by Aaron Thackeray. Now see the…
On Friday we published our Restaurant Roll Call for October, a compendium of all the restaurant openings and losings around town over the past month. Win some, lose some: On the last day of October, Ian Kleinman finally got his Inventing Room open at 2200 Lawrence Street — but the…
There’s a wide variety of acts in town this week, including Sturgill Simpson, All Time Low, the Sword and Youssou N’Dour. See our ten picks below. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 All Time Low and Sleeping with Sirens $25/$35, 6 p.m., 1STBANK Center The Sword $19.99, 9 p.m., Gothic Theatre Local H …
The Colorado Independent’s in the money! Once Halloween’s over, what are you going to do for fun? How about hit a movie theater? Our list of the Ten Best Film Events in Denver in November is packed with options, starting with the 38th annual Denver Film Festival. The election…
Psst, hey you! Want some tickets to the Broncos-Packers game? Well, then you’re gonna have to pay up. Much has been made of the game between these two unbeatens, which takes place Sunday night at Sports Authority Field – and in front of a national TV audience – since it…
While there’s plenty of talk about ugly buildings popping up all over Denver, there are definitely some designs worth celebrating — and Mayor Michael Hancock did just that yesterday, when he and Brad Buchanan, executive director of Denver Community Planning and Development, honored sixteen projects at the 2015 Mayor’s Design Awards…
The new Westin at Denver International Airport will open next month, and while there won’t be a craft brewery on-site when the hotel makes its debut, a half dozen proposals were submitted to DIA to put not just a brewpub, but an actual brewery in the place. (The deal will…
Worried about the possibility of police brutality? There’s an app for that. Yesterday the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado launched Mobile Justice Colorado, a new police accountability tool that not only details your rights to witness and record police interactions, but also allows you to submit cell-phone videos of civil…
While a few of the concerts included in our Ten Best Shows on Halloween in Denver list were too good not to repeat here, we’ve added other shows scheduled for this weekend, including Michal Menert, DeVotchKa and Mimosa. Here are our picks for the best show’s this weekend: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30…
Fourteen Republican candidates for President headed to Boulder yesterday for the third debate, broadcast (and not very broadly) on CNBC. But did the debate make a difference? Not to Michael, who says. First of all, Republicans and Democrats are the same exact thing. Owned by the same people at the…
Like Taylor Swift’s countersuit, Denver blogs come from behind. Yesterday superstar Taylor Swift announced that she is countersuing the DJ who allegedly grabbed her ass backstage at a private meet-and-greet in Denver in June 2013. David Mueller had sued Swift earlier this year for losses he allegedly suffered after the…
Readers say the biggest obstacle to dining downtown is not finding a good restaurant (unless you’re on the restaurant-starved 16th Street Mall, some suggest), but deading with the problem of two-hour parking meters. Says John: Fortunately we live near an RTD station and so we can take the train. Much cheaper way…
