When the crowds came out on Santa Fe Drive to kick off Denver Arts Week on November 1, they found themselves crawling through a delicious collision of art, Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, in addition to the usual First Friday street life. Following is a picture sampler from photographer…
Update, 11/8/13: Congrats @kmartinico. You and a guest will be our guest at the show this Sunday. Check your email for details on how to claim your tickets. Thanks to everybody else for the entries — and for reading Backbeat! After nearly two decades, Mazzy Star is back with a…
Contrary to what one might think, bronies — cosplaying fans of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic — aren’t just bros with pony ears: They come in all ages, sizes and genders. And that describes the crowd that gathered this past weekend at the Ramada Plaza Northglenn for Running of…
WEDS | TORO Y MOI at OGDEN THEATRE | 11/6/13 With the recent release of the latest Toro Y Moi album, Anything in Return, Chaz Bundick should be able to transcend the chillwave label that’s been assigned to him by countless critics. Like his friend and mutual mentor Ernest Greene…
Pirate: Contemporary Art pulled out all the stops while honoring its long-standing traditions on Saturday night for its thirtieth annual Day of the Dead celebration. Families with painted faces crowded into the Navajo Street co-op for all-ages piñata-bashing, altar displays, a Muertos Mart for handmade Day of the Dead goods…
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of correspondent Shannon Brandt’s reports about the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver last week. To read part one, click here. To read part two, click here. To read part three, click here. For some in this movement, there is no opportunity…
The correct answer for the numbers of sets of antlers on the wall? 505. That makes LizBraun33 the winner. After decades as a legendary dive, the Old Curtis Street Tavern closed last January — and now it’s been reborn as the Curtis Club, a sleek, old West-styled gastro-pub with a…
It was a wild night last night in Denver, though we’re sure no one needs to tell you that. You’re probably just barely recovering from spending an hour this morning washing off the grease paint and chugging your coffee trying to shake off that hangover. Amirite? A trio of our…
When Mark Fischer turned Phat Thai into Harman’s eat & drink, which Gretchen Kurtz reviews this week, he was working off a great model — his Pullman in Glenwood Springs. There was just one obstacle, Kurtz reports: the space’s Cherry Creek location. Cherry Creek was once the heart of Denver’s…
It seems to a lot of us that selling tickets to major events for well over face value is pretty schmucky in and of itself, regardless of the fact that there’s a whole industry founded on the concept. But it’s way worse when the tickets in question are entirely bogus…
Update, 4:40 p.m. 11/1/13: Congrats to Minimalizedesign, the winner of our Curtis Club contest. Check your email for details on how to claim your $50 tab and table this evening. Thanks to everybody else for the entries. Keep it locked on Backbeat for more great giveaways. Next week, we’ve got…
SUN | OF MONTREAL at MARQUIS THEATER | 11/3/13 Among the most popular and successful of the bands associated with the Elephant 6 collective, Of Montreal started off as a sort of indie pop band with an experimental edge. The band evolved dramatically across several records, fearlessly exploring lyrical themes…
More than two dozen eateries opened in metro Denver this month, everything from coffeehouses to pizza joints (serving the taste of St. Louis!) to the stylish Session Kitchen. Old favorites closed, too, with Little Shanghai shutting its doors overnight, while Japon delivered a long goodbye that finally ended on the…
Happy Halloween! What are you doing tonight? Have you decided where to strut your get up yet? If not, lucky you; we’ve compiled a comprehensive list of everything going down tonight and this weekend. Keep reading to see what’s good, and of course, feel free to let us know if…
Editor’s note: This is part three of correspondent Shannon Brandt’s reports about the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver last week. To read part one, click here. To read part two, click here. Down the street from the convention, a few hundred people slowly gathered for a bit of…
Editor’s note: This is part two of correspondent Shannon Brandt’s reports about the International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Denver last week. To read part one, click here. A logo is often regarded as a condensed, compressed, symbolic summoning-up of everything that a big entity means to represent in everyday…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss the upcoming Dallas Buyers Club, the late Lou Reed, 1983’s Get Crazy, 1979’s The Visitor, and 2008’s In Bruges.Matthew McConaughey extends his streak of taking on challenging roles in Dallas Buyers Club (opening in Denver next week), playing AIDS victim,…
Music is life — or at least it is for us. When we’re not writing about it, we’re thinking about it, talking about it or listening to it. These are the things that were in heavy rotation for us this week. What are you listening to? What should we be…
Which state will be the next to legalize marijuana? What do the Obama administration’s recent announcements about marijuana legalization and mandatory minimums really mean? What are some solutions to the national overdose crisis that takes more lives than car accidents or gun violence? Those were just some of the questions…
Saturday’s Denver Gorilla Run not only broke the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people dressed in gorilla suits, but also featured an encyclopedic number of variations on the theme: There were pink gorillettes and samurai gorillas, Big Bang Theory nerdillas and some folks who plainly weren’t gorillas…
Railroad Earth return to the area to play a two-night stand at the Fillmore on Friday, January 17, and Saturday, January 18. General admission tickets (.$27.50/$30 and $50 two-day) go on sale this Friday, November 1, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what other shows are on sale this…
Friday night’s opening-night festivities at the Curtis Club were hot — so hot the fire department showed up when the smoke alarm went off. But once the smoke cleared, the party continued. The space looks very different from how it did in its Old Curtis Street Tavern incarnation, but the…
