The National Western Stock Show got off to an unofficial start yes with the traditional sashay through the streets of downtown Denver yesterday, with b-ball star Chauncey Billups leading the way as the 2015 Grand Marshal. Photog Brandon Marshall was there to capture all the longhorns, cowpokes, prancing ponies and…
After a slow week following the New Year’s Eve festivities, this weekend brings a solid slate of shows to Denver. The Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony is tonight, and you’ve got two chances to see the legendary Rosanne Cash. The rest of our picks follow! See also: Ten…
Governor John Hickenlooper is a big fan of both beer and music; tonight he’ll be at the Paramount Theatre to speak at the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s latest induction ceremony, where the organization will be honoring the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Poco, Firefall and Manassas. The very first inductee…
In 2011, the Colorado Music Hall of Fame’s first inductees were John Denver and Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Since then, local legends like Judy Collins, Barry Fey, Sugarloaf, Flash Cadillac, Serendipity Singers and others have been welcomed into the Hall. This year’s class includes the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Poco, Firefall…
Our Schmuck of the Week staff may be large (operative words: may be), but we still appreciate it when community members bring schmuckiness to our attention. So we offer a tip of the uniform cap to the Denver Police Department for a Facebook post whose headline definitely caught our attention:…
La Casa de Manuel reopened yesterday after a holiday break — and after close to six decades in business, it deserved one. Manuel Silva’s modest Mexican joint got its start at 20th and Larimer streets, where it lasted for forty years, until Coors Field opened nearby and the area started…
The Denver Broncos spent $30 million last spring to sign defensive end DeMarcus Ware, one of the best defensive players in the NFL, as a way to send a message to the rest of the league and to help the team get back to the Super Bowl in 2015. Denver…
Get ready for The Moth Radio Hour meets Trailer Park Boys. After a successful stop in Trinidad last month, when it filled councilwoman Pat Fletcher’s house with off-color humor, Swearfest is coming to Denver this weekend. Swearfest is “storytelling at its best,” says Scott Mastro, aka Tender Bastard, who stages…
In November Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, visited Lola, whose space in the former Olinger’s mortuary building at 1575 Boulder Street includes the place where William F. Cody’s body was put on ice after he died on January 10, 1917, until the ground on Lookout…
When Waffle Brothers closed on Corona Street in April last year, John Powers thought he and Rod Dupen would be able to reopen the waffle bar in its new location in just a couple of months. The gestation period turned out to be a little longer, but the new Waffle…
The Denver Cat Company opened last month as one of the first cat cafes in the U.S. Customers can sip coffee and cuddle with a number of cats, provided by Rocky Mountain Feline Rescue, while perusing books, jewerly and other items for sale. Videographer Andrew Batemen dropped in to visit…
Jim Seidel just opened his eleventh Snarf’s in the Denver-Boulder area; this one brings his sub sandwiches to a former convenience store on 38th Avenue on Denver’s western border. The pagoda-style building, originally part of a chain of convenience stores in the 1960s, has been decked out in Snarf’s familiar…
2014 was an excellent year for Colorado music — several excellent new venues opened, our state’s bands released more worthy albums than anyone could keep track of and fans turned out in droves to the hundreds of thousands of shows. 2015 promises more of the same on those fronts, but…
We celebrated dozens of schmucks in 2014 — but who were your favorite Schmucks of the Week this past year? We’ve collected the top five below, featuring original photos, videos, text and more. Count them down below. See also: Andres Sanchez-Luevano After Allegedly Killing GF’s Kitten: “That’s What You Get,…
By Jesse Sendejas Sometimes in life, we normal human beings must shelve our own insecurities and recognize that some among us are simply good at anything they attempt. Like that song from the Annie Oakley play, they can do anything better. Some of us recognize these people with awe and…
Denver blogs are tingling your senses. Westword’s Beer Man unloaded his list of ten breweries that plan to open in Denver in 2015. Is one near you? The Backbeat blog attended Decadence again this year and discovered where fans put their cell phones while barely wearing anything. And Stephen King…
This week, we took a final look back at some favorites — the year’s ten best new bars and the top trends — and also compiled a list of nearly 300 new restaurants, bars and specialty markets that opened in 2014. But now it’s a new year, so now we’re…
Decadence once again proved among the most extravagant options for New Year’s Eve in Denver, with three stages of world-class DJs along with enough decorative insanity to lead our reviewer to compare the scene to a carnival. The fans spent about as much time on their costumes/outfits as the organizers…
New Year’s Eve revelers went back in time to the ’70s and the ’80s at Time After Time, a retro nod to the era of funky grooves, mullet hair and rainbow afro wigs. Photographer Danielle Lirette followed revelers into the way-back machine at City Hall; a taste of the action…
Denver blogs wish you a happy new year. The Backbeat blog runs down The 31 Best Colorado Albums of 2014. And our Geek columnist takes a Look Ahead at Our Geeky 2015. Hungry? Here’s our Restaurant Roll Call for 2014, With Nearly 300 Openings for a Record Year…
If 2013 seemed like a busy year in the restaurant industry, 2014 was positively manic, with nearly 300 bars, restaurants and specialty markets opening in the Denver metro area. You could have had a meal or a drink at a new place every weekday this year without hitting them all…
So active and vibrant are the musicians of Colorado that we could never truly compile a list of the year’s best releases. There were simply too many, from big-label full-lengths by exports like Tennis to obscure demo tapes by nascent punk bands. Taken as a whole, the musical output of…
