Colorado rang in 2014 with a bit of a mellow buzz — a certain relaxed attitude — and it was a feeling that lasted throughout the year. Sure, that mellow was harshed by continuing problems with police and sheriff’s deputies, as well as a very contested (and expensive) election season…
Denver blogs are feeling nostalgic for the year that was. Our Backbeat scribes compiled a list of Twelve People Who Made Denver’s Music Scene Great in 2014. Restaurant critic Gretchen Kurtz named her Top Ten Dishes in Denver for 2014 in the Cafe Society Blog. And we run down Twelve…
While war in the Middle East seems unwinnable, a book that profiles three women who’ve served in the National Guard just won a major victory. Helen Thorpe, whose Just Like Us was given the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2009, published a second book this year, Soldier Girls:…
Broken Shovels Farm is a working goat dairy that turns out a wide array of artisan cheeses, yogurt and even goat butter. This weekend the dairy hosted its annual Holiday Open House and Market, where guests mingled with the goats while selecting from holiday treats from local vendors. Photographer Danielle…
It takes more than musicians to make a scene: Venue owners, event planners, media members and people who just find ways to contribute to the music community play a critical role in ensuring that Denver is a great place to be a fan. Here are just a few of the…
Every year, we bring you the best examples of the worst behavior we can find from the past 365 days of news stories in Colorado. And from a shady sheriff to a cancer faker to the people who cursed us with exorcist politician Gordon Klingenschmitt, there was, as always, plenty…
Josh Epps and Christina Smith, owners of the two Jelly Cafes in Denver (the original on Colfax Avenue and Jelly U near the University of Denver), live in the Berkeley neighborhood and wanted a family-friendly restaurant to take their kids for a reasonably priced dinner. The solution? They decided to…
Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their ten favorite/best/top/whatever movies of 2014, along with Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl. Send barbs, jabs, claims or jokes to filmpod@villagevoice.com and follow us on the Twitter at @voicefilmclub. [Subscribe to the Voice Film Club…
Sit, Guinness. Roll over, Merlot. A website called rover.com, which bills itself as “the nation’s Airbnb for dogs,” has released a survey of the most popular dog names in 2014, and it turns out that people — especially in Denver — love to label their Labs after booze. In fact,…
The Christopher Nolan blockbuster Interstellar hit theaters in time for the holidays, and although the post-apocalyptic space journey flick is mostly concerned with actor Matthew McConaughey, it does feature Colorado in a very supporting role. Playing a corn farmer/engineer, McConaughey eventually journeys across the plains to NORAD — the North…
If you missed Roll’s Ugly Sweater Mixer Friday night at the Exdo Event Center, you likely missed some of the ugliest Christmas sweaters in town, which glowed in all their resplendent awfulness under colored lights as they zipped around the rink. Luckily, our photographer Scott Lentz was there to record…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz was transported back to the Reagan years with hearty, unpretentious breakfasts at Sunrise Sunset. We spotted a doughnut shop that will soon open on South Colorado Boulevard called the Fractured Prune that has become our new frontrunner for the worst restaurant name in…
Denver has been an incubator for fast-casual restaurants ever since Chipotle made a big splash with its first store in the mid-’90s. But the evolution of the concept has gone far beyond burritos and sandwiches. Fast and casual doesn’t have to mean cheap and greasy. Quite a few eateries opened…
Is Gregory Gauna a thief? A schmuck? Or a combination of the two? These burning Schmuck of the Week questions are prompted by Gauna’s arrest for swiping $1,250 in gift cards intended as Christmas presents — or did he simply “find” them? See also: Andres Sanchez-Luevano After Allegedly Killing GF’s…
We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a strange story about Giles Corey, who famously said, “More weight!” as stones were laid upon him during his witch trial. The end of the year is sort of like that for film critics, who are pressed upon with all the…
It’s a little bit of a quiet weekend in Denver, but there are still plenty of great shows, including Nathaniel Rateliff pulling double-duty tonight at the Ogden and T/SMM at Glob. The rest of our picks follow! Enjoy your weekend…
What kind of circle is time again? A year after blowing the doors off our annual critics’ poll, golden boy Matthew McConaughey won just a single vote for his turn in the loudest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s tears-in-space effort Interstellar, which has tied with the unprescient Transcendence as…
It’s now been almost an entire year since marijuana was legalized for recreational use here in Colorado. The experiment, by most accounts, has been a successful one, with other states following in our footsteps. It seems inevitable that we’ll see the entire country follow in the next decade. Although, because…
This year may have set a record for new restaurant openings in metro Denver. Trendspotting became difficult, as so much volume led to multiple variations of almost anything good, whether it was fast-casual service, tiny dining rooms, fried chicken, wood-fired everything, restaurants with their own attached markets, or simple typographical…
Sure, you have a lot to do today — cook, shop, maybe even go to work. But that doesn’t mean you don’t have time for a beer. Or two. Or three. After all, when you down a local brew, you’re also supporting Colorado’s craft-beer industry. Keep reading for two of…
After the Portulaca Cafe, a decades-old Slavic speakeasy in Globeville, closed in 2008, the White Owl moved in and transformed the space into a cozy dive bar. In 2011, metal artist Shane Evans took it a step further, dubbing the spot Crash 45 and making such improvements as expanding the…
“Once again, let it be known that Denver’s BBQ is atrocious,” wrote one commenter last week. It’s been an unusually tough year for barbecue in this town, with several of our longtime favorites closing up shop. But barbecue fans can expect big things come January, when the National Western Stock…
