It is Texas time in Denver. All we’d need is the Geto Boys and Gary Clark Jr. to hit the spectrum of Lone Star exports: St. Vincent brings her shock of white hair to town tomorrow, the Toadies’ Rubberneck victory lap hits Englewood and songwriting genius Joy Ely makes the…
There was a whole lot of shaking going on in northwest Denver last Sunday, when an attempt to make hash oil exploded in a rental duplex in the 2900 block of Julian Street. Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey formally charged 40-year-old Jeff Garbarek, 39-year-old Steve Donnel and and 43-year-old Scott…
For a while there it looked like Jammin Joe’s was really jamming. After opening a barbecue joint in West City Park last summer, Joe Van Dyke recently opened a second location at 4272 South Broadway, and right after that a third restaurant in Wheat Ridge. While the South Broadway spot…
Westword’s annual Best of Denver issue is on newsstands now. Within it, you’ll find several hundred of our favorite things about this city, everything from best handcrafted signs to best tater tots. Go find yourself a copy to earmark and keep in your car or bicycle basket or whatever. It’s…
Editor: Westword’s 2014 Best of Denver issue is on news stands now. You can peruse several hundred categories to find your next meal, night out or whatever thing you’re into. And while we’re thrilled with the results, we encountered plenty of debate while determining our favorites across this great city…
World of Beer Cherry Creek celebrated its one-year anniversary at CitySet this past weekend. It was the first restaurant/bar to open in the Glendale project, but far from the last. Although last summer the developers had predicted that “the state’s first urban gastronomic urban village” would be full by fall,…
Yes, that was Amendment 64’s author Mason Tvert — not John Belushi — standing outside the Governor’s Mansion last Friday in a bedsheet toga, complaining that John Hickenlooper was turning the place into an Animal House knock-off by installing a draft system that dispenses Colorado craft beers, liquid assets from…
Was it really dozen years ago that Trista Sutter, a pediatric physical therapist moonlighting as a Miami Heat dancer, had her heart broken on the first season of The Bachelor and then became the very first Bachelorette, falling for poetry-writing firefighter Vail Ryan Sutter and getting married on national TV?…
Renegade Colorado crafters will be out in force this morning, delivering handmade “no thank you” cards to Attorney General John Suthers and telling him that birth control is #NotMyBossBusiness. Suthers filed a friend-of-the court brief in the Sibelious v. Hobby Lobby case, which the Supreme Court will hear today along…
The brave souls who gathered Saturday at Lincoln’s Road House knew what they were in for when they sat in the barber’s chair: their heads shaved smooth as hard-boiled eggs, all in the name of charity. Good thing there was beer nearby…. Following is one woman’s transformation for the St…
If chickens are now legal in Aurora, can pit bulls be far behind? Tonight Aurora City Council will consider a proposal to change the breed ban that prohibits pit bulls in the city — and in advance of that meeting, at 6 p.m. repeal supporters will rally outside Aurora City…
Roll, the monthly roller-skate party at Exdo Event Center, took on a neon glow on Friday night with Wipeout!, a chance for skaters to don dayglo paint, lace up and circle the floor under black lights. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the colors swirling; have a look…
Novelty had its moment in hip-hop; vision had its moment; abstraction had its moment. But thanks in no small part to Top Dawg Entertainment and its star, Kendrick Lamar, good old fashioned high-quality rapping is once again the standard of the day. And now, K.Dot’s longtime running mate Schoolboy Q…
Cafe Society was busy eating its last meals for the Best of Denver 2014 this week, but didn’t ignore its normal duties. In her current review, Gretchen Kurtz visits Mecca Grill, which changed owners last year and is slowly switching from the old emphasis on Lebanese food to Moroccan cuisine…
Last November, when we first wrote about Brandon Campbell, we declared him an ideal Schmuck of the Week candidate. Too bad news had broken about his moronic crimes — robbing homes wearing a GPS monitor — long before Friday, when our latest Schmucks are announced. Fortunately, Campbell has given us…
Lorde and Robin Thicke are playing the Fillmore this weekend. Oh! Not together. No, it’s a Saturday/Sunday situation. But do you know who would make one exceedingly odd twerking couple? Those two. Elsewhere, the great Tower of Power hits our neighbor to the south, D.R.I. will be yelling at Englewood…
The 2000 block of Larimer Street was ready for its closeup last March when the Spike Network featured Zanzibar Billiards on its popular reality series, Bar Rescue. As part of a five-day overhaul of the bar in December 2012, show host Jon Taffer, a longtime bar-and-club consultant who has transformed…
What’s in a name? Wafflich, a restaurant that did not serve waffles but an Italian-style sandwich (a wafflich), has been replaced by The Pasty Republic — which does not serve pastries, but English-style pasties. The owners are British transplants, who decided to introduce their favorite treat to the Denver area…
Find of the week at Safeway: Jolly Rancher gelatin (never call it Jell-O), in the signature watermelon and green-apple flavors that still taste of childhood to many adults many decades beyond that. Jolly Rancher was founded in 1942 by Bill and Dorothy Harmsen, who sold the company to Hershey in…
Trent Reznor and pals will play betwixt the monoliths in Morrison in July with grunge hero Soundgarden. Red Rocks’s summer calendar continues to fill out — Daughtry, Goo Goo Dolls and Blues Traveler also announced shows there this week. The rest of the concert calendar updates follow…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The whole town was painted green from head to toe this weekend, but on Old South Pearl Street, the emerald sheen was positively glowing Saturday: From the Lucky Charms with green milk breakfast for families to the adults-only pleasures of green beer (and stronger spirits of…
Denver started celebrating St. Patrick’s Day last week, partied hard through the weekend — and the fun isn’t over yet. Bars and restaurants around town are featuring St. Patrick’s Day deals and parties today — some starting as early as 7 a.m. Keep reading for five of our favorites. And…
