Nectar House, a raw, vegan cafe and elixir bar, just opened inside Kindness Yoga on South Broadway — which means when you’re done exercising your body, you can refuel it with all kinds of healthy fare here. We sent photographer Brandon Marshall to visit the new place; get a taste…
Denver blogs get into the spirit of 2014. Westword’s Cafe Society reports on West Flanders Brewing, which is releasing Recreational Smoke as a tie-in to legal weed: “30 cents per ounce.” Colorado Pols updates us on Magpul Industries, the ammunition maker, which is getting million in incentives to leave Colorado…
FRI | ILL.GATES at BETA | 1/3/14 With more than two decades in the electronic-music scene under his belt, ill.Gates is now helping to inspire a wave of new-school producers via his ill.Methodology online courses and the events he hosts, which cater to those interested in stepping up their game…
FRI | SLEEP at GOTHIC THEATRE | 1/3/14 Stoner rock and doom metal gained mainstream popularity over the past decade thanks to acts like Queens of the Stone Age and High on Fire, whose reach expanded beyond metal fans. Before playing in the latter band, guitarist Matt Pike had been…
Hundreds of restaurants opened in metro Denver in 2013, including spots as ambitious as Old Major and Beast + Bottle, and others as formulaic as several Dunkin’ Donuts that, along with Voodoo Doughnut, had this town rolling in dough. Some of the restaurants that opened in 2013 also closed in…
Colorado blogs are feeling frisky in 2014. Westword’s own Beer Man runs down twenty of his favorite Colorado brews from 2013. Wait, so South Stands Denver is saying the Cleveland Browns would ruin Josh McDaniels? Shouldn’t it be the other way around? And Denver Egotist likes it calligrahy on naked…
What are the hundred things everyone should do in Colorado before they die? We posed this question to our writers and editors, and over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out their answers across our blogs. First up on the Denver Bucket List are Latest Word’s 25-16 picks. Count…
The eleven alternative weeklies of Voice Media Group are responsible for a tremendous amount of music writing: This year, we produced thousands of pages of printed stories and tens of thousands of blog posts. We’re proud to present the very best of that work in the second annual Voice Media…
Paint the town read! Show and Tell is off for New Year’s Day — and you should be, too. Get out and enjoy this city’s vibrant cultural scene (or at least find a spot with bottomless Bloody Marys). We’ll be back early tomorrow morning. Happy new year…
Paint this town read! Cafe Society is off for New Year’s Day, and will return early tomorrow. While you recover from last night, resolve to eat more, more, more in 2014 — and share the spots that are on the top of your dining wish list in the comments section…
Bars and restaurants have been rushing to open before the end of the year, with dozens joining the Denver dining scene this month. But a couple of other spots will close their doors at the end of service tonight. Keep reading for our Restaurant Roll Call for December. See also:…
While there are a number of high profile jam-centric New Year’s Eve shows this year, including dates with Yonder Mountain String Band, String Cheese Incident and Umphrey’s McGee, there are also a ton of other concerts and club events on NYE. We’ve put together a comprehensive list of ways for…
Welp, we’ve reached the end of another year, and what a year it was here at Backbeat. From delving into extensive Phish analysis and listing the best Swedish Metal bands to running down the best light shows and rap lyrics of all time to offering up a field guide of…
Hot Tuna, featuring former Jefferson Airplane guitarist Jorma Kaukonen, returns to the Oriental on Sunday, February 23; tickets are $30 and on sale now. The Bad Plus are due at Dazzle on Tuesday, April 23, and Wednesday, April 24. Tickets are $25 and on sale now. Mountain Sun hosts its…
If you were at Decadence last night, then you already have the drop on the first headliner for this year’s edition of the Westword Music Showcase. In keeping with our longstanding tradition of capping the night off with a blockbuster dance party, Diplo will have the honors this year. Tickets…
The Manitou Springs Fruitcake Toss has been cancelled for January. What to do with all those holiday bricks? Get them to Barbara Bailey, fruitcake recycler. Bailey started the Great Fruitcake Recycling Project in 2005, and this holiday season she has partnered with Glad Food Protection Products to help support the…
Denver blogs have us peering into the future. Westword’s own Backbeat blog writes up Sunday night’s the String Cheese Incident concert at the 1stBank Center. The refurbished Capitol Dome is making its slow reveal, a littler earlier than predicted, according to Denver Urbanism’s photos. The Mile High Report gives us…
TUES | WU YEAR’S EVE at CERVANTES | 12/31/13 More than just creating a free-associative style that would be emulated ceaselessly throughout the ’90s and to this very day, the Wu-Tang Clan engineered an aesthetic and model for profitability with only a spiritual guide, the GZA, a mastermind producer, the…
Since some people just can’t wait for Christmas to be over, 3 Kings threw open its doors on December 25 for the annual F%CK Xmas! celebration, a night of anti-holiday carousing with PBRs and the lovely ladies of Ooh La La. Photographer Brandon Marshall joined in the fun, snapping these…
Marking the final Friday of 2013, Denver’s blogs turned to politics, pot and Peyton. Westword’s own Backbeat blog asks whether John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” was really about pot. Colorado Pols continued its political stories countdown with number eight: “The Slaughter of Amendment 66 and How it Changed School Board…
Greg Gallagher knows bars — he owns Gaslamp and the Front Porch — and he knows the part of town on the edge of LoDo, where both of those bars are located. So he knew what he wanted, and what would work, when he decided to open another bar right…
Potato, sausage and eggs for lunch? Why not? And this traditional breakfast dish would no doubt taste just as good at dinner. A time-honored classic never goes out of style — not even after three decades. Can you guess where I’m eating? Watch for the answers to the last two…
