It’s become a common sight in Colorado — at Broncos games, in movie theaters and malls, in the bathrooms at bars and clubs, even behind high schools and in employee parking lots. People will quickly, slyly grab a device from their pocket that looks like a pen and put it…
Roller skating is even more fun when it glows in the dark. And that’s what happened last Friday night at the Exdo Event Center, where the November edition of Roll! turned on the black lights while skaters spun around the rink in their best retro-rave wear. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught…
The Denver Diner has been an institution for decades, one of the few 24/7 spots around, a hang-out for people coming off work or a night of partying. But the place has been closed since October 12, after an early-morning fire cleared the room. The Denver Diner is still wrapped…
You may remember the shirt-disappearing epidemic we reported on toward the end of the summer. We have, of course, been monitoring the situation, but it appeared to be contained in Morrison. Canadian “ClubStep” duo Adventure Club made a stop at the 1STBANK Center over the weekend. AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENED?…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz declared Chop Shop a “quick hit,” but suggested that the crowd-averse hit this popular new fast-casual eatery later in the day. Mark Antonation met with the four owners of Bonfire Burritos, who bought the tiny Mexican food trailer in Golden after years of…
Solid weekend of shows here in town, with legends like Death From Above 1979 playing in Boulder and Dinosaur Jr.’s J. Mascis playing a pair of nights at Larmier Lounge. The rest of our picks follow. See also: 50 Photos That Prove Red Rocks Is the Most Beautiful Venue on…
A note to teenagers who think they need to post Every Single Thing on social media: It’s probably not a good idea to share a video of your dad punching someone out — because it could end with him going to jail, and becoming our latest Schmuck of the Week…
Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we discuss all things Hunger Games before moving onto a…
The negative temperatures and piles of snow last week were a pretty solid indication that winter has arrived in Denver. While every day of winter here doesn’t involve bone-chilling cold, plenty do, and it gets old, fast. Suddenly, concert calendars look a little bare and the idea of leaving your…
There’s always a lot of fake blood — and spare body parts — at the Denver Zombie Crawl, which runs down the 16th Street Mall every year. But the ninth annual incarnation of the event, which took place on October 18, ended with some real blood and plenty of pepper…
Longmont’s Left Hand Brewing celebrated its 21st birthday with a festival highlighting nitro-poured beers — its own as well as the creamy beers of 21 other breweries, both local and national. The Boulder Circus School was on hand to provide entertainment to go along with the nitrogenated libations, with trapeze…
Denver Off the Wagon and Eat Boston hosted the third annual Beer and Bacon Festival in the Curtis Hotel over the weekend, featuring beer from 20 local breweries and creative bacon-based dishes from 26 metro-area restaurants and purveyors of porcine products. Proceeds from ticket sales benefited Metro CareRing and Project…
Mark your calendar for Saturday, February 21, when Artopia 2015 will fill City Hall with art, culture and fashion. Our presale for the event starts this morning, and you’ll find some new twists added to Westword’s annual arts extravaganza…. See also: Artopia 2014 — the Artistic Lights Were Bright on…
The Cherry Creek Arts Festival decided to bring the summer event’s tried-and-true formula indoors this past weekend for the inaugural ArtDenver at the Colorado Convention Center. For extra glitz, fashion took center-stage at the first night of ArtDenver, which mixed runway shows and designer vendors with artist booths. Photographer Brandon…
Westword writer Bree Davies has made no secret of her love for the weirdly fun Denver institution, Casa Bonita, which celebrated forty years of business this year. But what seems to be a secret is why she couldn’t get permission to shoot video inside the 50,000-square-foot Mexican “village” that dominates…
The spirit of Burning Man and Apogaea will rise in the Rockies when the Telluride Fire Festival debuts in that town in January. On Friday night, Denver burners and other pyromaniacs got a taste of things to come at Crash 45, where the crowds, some in fire-inspired costumes, beat the…
Wonderbowl Vietnamese Restaurant opened last week on South Federal Boulevard after an extensive remodel of what used to be a KFC. Wonderbowl is a sister restaurant to Pho Duy in the same shopping center and features a few house specials not common to Federal’s Vietnamese scene along with a typical…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz declared Cart-Driver a winner in the fast-casual race, while Mark Antonation continued his pad Thai quest at Edgewater’s quaint Thailicious. See also: Paper Bird and Esme Patterson Had to Split Up Before Both Could Take Off…
The T-Wa Inn, Denver’s first Vietnamese restaurant, closed earlier this year on Federal Boulevard, leaving a building with good bones for a new owner to take over. Given the demographic of the area, another Vietnamese eatery would not have been a surprise, but instead Mariscos El Licenciado — which started…
Weather is happening, people. We won’t bore you with it — you can figure that stuff out pretty easily. But there are some excellent shows, including the release of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s excellent new one, Totem. You can also see Dance Party Time Machine at the Ogden and a…
This week at Schmuck of the Week HQ, we’ve got a yin/yang situation. Or maybe we said say Schmuck/Anti-Schmuck, since the man Jeremiah Proctor allegedly tried to slice up with a samurai sword for the sin of towing his improperly parked car has responded in decidedly unschmucky fashion. See also:…
Tonight Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department will honor fifteen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making during the 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony at The Studio Loft of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. “This year’s winning projects are phenomenal examples of what makes Denver…
