The Ten Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend

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…

Ten People Who Belong in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame

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…

Andrew Blackman Escaped From Cop by Running to Police Station

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 Is Back From a Holiday Break

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…

Video: Coffee and Cats at the Denver Cat Company

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…

First Look: Snarf’s Opens Colorful New Sandwich Shop on 38th Avenue

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…

Twenty Predictions for Denver Music in 2015

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…

2014’s Five Most Popular Schmucks of the Week

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,…

Why Jennifer Lawrence Is Already a Legit Pop Star

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…

The 31 Best Colorado Albums of 2014

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…