No. 100 Chile Relleno at La Fiesta 2340 Champa Street 303-292-2800 The traditional chile relleno is soft — like the relleno served at El Chingon, which Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week; Gloria Nunez, who shares the kitchen there with her grandson, grew up in Mexico City. But crispy rellenos also…
The twentieth annual Westword Music Showcase brought over 11,000 people to the Golden Triangle to watch more than 150 bands of every possible variety. Our writers and photographers saw excellent lunacy and affecting songs — the bands and artists of Denver have built a music scene that contains the best…
The construction projects that have tangled traffic in Cherry Creek might have been the final straw. On Friday, as World Cup fans were hunting for a place to watch the game, they found that Earl’s in Cherry Creek had closed its doors. See also: Kitchen flood temporarily closes Glazed and…
We’ve talked plenty about the artists who played at this year’s Westword Music Showcase. But, as many of them noted, there isn’t much worthwhile about a music scene without fans. So videographer Bailey Geoghan talked to attendees at this year’s Showcase. She collected advice from them on summer festival fashion…
The Westword Music Showcase brought several thousand fans to see over 150 bands in the Golden Triangle over the weekend. You can find more coverage of the festivities elsewhere on Backbeat, but we wanted to give the bands a moment to weigh in. Earlier, we asked several artists playing the…
A few spectacularly heavy hitters come to Colorado this week — both Nick Cave and Merle Haggard are in town. Sharon Van Etten, playing Tuesday at the Bluebird, has plenty to show for her own relatively short career. You can read our extensive interview with her elsewhere on Backbeat this…
After months of delays, the owners of Glazed and Confuzed, the popular doughnut purveyor, finally opened the doors of their first brick-and-mortar location on Friday the 13th. But the real bad luck lay ahead: On June 19, after a much-needed day off, they showed up at the shop at 5301…
The Clark County Coroner is investigating the death of a 24-year-old who collapsed outside Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas Saturday morning. An autopsy was being conducted this weekend, but results aren’t yet available to the media, an official at the coroner’s office told us. If drug use is suspected,…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz reviewed Atticus, a restaurant that is still struggling to reach its grown-up ambitions. Lori Midson talked to chef Alex Figura of Lower48 Kitchen about ditching school to be a line chef, cooking abroad and more in this week’s Chef and Tell. And Mark…
If you’re going to the Westword Music Showcase — and why wouldn’t you be? — you’ll likely be prowling the Golden Triangle for sustenance and refreshments before, between, and especially after the shows. Luckily, in this neighborhood there is no shortage of options for the discerning palate, the ready-to-snarf, the…
“Creep. Perv. Douchebag.” That’s how we started a post earlier this year about the search for a man who allegedly took photos of two little girls under bathroom stalls at an area grocery store. And now, following the arrest of Bradley Oglethorpe for the crime, we can add one more…
LoDo is hotter than ever, with new bars and restaurants opening in anticipation of the return of Union Station — but for Gatsby’s, the neighborhood has gone cold. The wine bar that opened at the end of 2012 in the home of another defunct wine bar, The Wine Loft, has…
The Westword Music Showcase is finally here. Tomorrow right here in the Golden Triangle neighborhood, we’ll host over 150 of Denver’s best bands on 16 stages. And headliners Diplo and 2 Chainz will take to an outdoor set-up right in the heart of the festivities. There are other worthwhile shows…
The twentieth annual Westword Music Showcase is tomorrow. There are over 150 bands on the bill, which is a lot. Too many to see in a day. We’ve come up with a few ways of helping you make your decisions. But just in case you need a few more, we…
Your new favorite band is from Denver — you just have to find it! No small task in a city with thousands of artists and hundreds of venues, we know — but you can start this weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. More than 140 of our favorite local artists…
Wait, when is this Westword Music Showcase thing? This Saturday, June 21. How much daylight will there be? The most daylight. Happy solstice, everyone! When should I show up? Gates open at 11:30 and bands start at noon. There’s a schedule of the sixteen stages featuring Denver bands below (subject…
Even a fast deluge didn’t dampen spirits at yesterday’s sixth annual LoDo Bites, when eighteen restaurants in lower downtown — including Vesta Dipping Grill, Wynkoop Brewing Co. and Coohills — offered samples of some of their favorite dishes and drinks to guests who wandered through the neighborhood. We sent photographer…
Where can you find Link, The Joker, Spiderman, and half a dozen flavors of stormtroopers in one place? Denver Comic Con. We visited the convention, where cosplayers told us about the inspiration behind their getups, and the work that went into making them. See also: Photos: The costumes of Denver…
It’s a cherished music-festival tradition: You study the schedule, pick the bands you want to see, plot your day and ultimately throw the whole thing out the window. Still, with more than 140 bands playing this year’s Westword Music Showcase, you’ll have to at least try to make some decisions…
Michael Paglia visits Robischon Gallery and Ironton Studios in this week’s review, taking in two solo shows to start out the summer season. The exhibit at Ironton focuses on work from Stephen Batura. At Robischon there are four solos on view that match up beautifully with Batura’s Ironton excursion as…
Your new favorite band is from Denver — you just have to find it! No small task in a city with thousands of artists and hundreds of venues, we know — but you can start this weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. More than 140 of our favorite local artists…
This weekend’s Westword Music Showcase, a one-day festival in the Golden Triangle neighborhood, will feature more than 140 of Denver’s best bands. But they aren’t the only people who make up the music scene here; it takes venue owners, label heads, talent buyers, engineers, fans and so much more to…
