Taki’s has seen a lot of changes on Colfax since the restaurant opened more than two decades ago. And there have been changes at Taki’s, too. After Hisashi Takimoto, who opened the spot as Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant in 1998, passed away in 2009, the restaurant got a new…
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…
Every year, The Daily Meal does a comprehensive survey and then announces the 101 Best Restaurants in America. Yesterday, the Daily Meal revealed the worst, digging “deep into the recesses of the culinary dustbin” to discover the true bottom feeders. The result is a list of possibly the five worst…
Panic! at the Disco’s Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die tour hits the Ogden Theatre on Saturday, January 18. Tickets ($29.95) go on sale this Friday, October 18, at 10 a.m. Keep reading to see what other shows are on sale this week, what songs are being played…
Zombie season is just beginning to amp up in Denver, and the Shoppe on East Colfax Avenue dug up a few undead beauties to strut the catwalk — and drop a few body parts — under the stars this weekend at the street’s monthly Second Saturday Block Party. Photographer Ken…
MON | JUNIP at SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | 10/14/13 Formed in 1998, Junip fuses an acoustic folk sensibility with a meditative psychedelia driven by synthesizers. Before the Swedish outfit took off, guitarist and singer José González had a bit of a successful solo career with songs that were used in…
With around 2,700 beers to taste, Great American Beer Fest attendees have to burn off the calories somehow. One great, alcohol-friendly way to do it: play some table tennis. On Wednesday night, representatives of 32 breweries gathered at Ace for a Left Hand tap takeover and ping-pong tournament. If the…
Gretchen Kurtz loved the pizzas at the quick-serve, fast-casual Denver outpost of Pizzeria Locale, which she reviewed six weeks ago — and she found the prices ridiculously reasonable given the high quality of the food. Now those prices are even more reasonable: As of today, Locale’s contemporary, Neapolitan-style pizzas are…
How much is the sanctity of our nation’s honored dead worth to David Gillespie? If he’s guilty of what authorities believe, the answer is $124. The dollar amount is specific because Gillespie, 26, got that amount for cemetery urns he allegedly stole off grave sites, most of them occupied by…
FRI | GARY CLARK JR at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/11/13 Austin-bred guitar prodigy Gary Clark Jr. is focused on reconnecting the blues with its roots. The electric bluesman not only cites Jimi Hendrix as an influence, but with his slender frame, long fingers and soaring bellow, he might remind folks…
In this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss Captain Phillips and Machete Kills, both out on Friday, October 11…
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…
As it has done for many years now, the Falling Rock Tap House kicked off the week leading up to the Great American Beer Festival with a beer lovers’ party. The granddaddy of Denver craft-beer bars counted down the seconds on its digital GABF clock before tapping numerous beers from…
Vietnam Grill, our Best Vietnamese Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2013, closed abruptly last month, shortly after we featured Mark Antonation’s review of the place in A Federal Case, and was replaced almost as quickly by Lotus Vegetarian. Danielle Lirette stopped by the new restaurant, and sent back these…
WEDS | FRANK TURNER at OGDEN THEATRE | 10/9/13 Before striking out on his own, Frank Turner spent some time in London’s Million Dead, one of the better post-hardcore bands of the early 2000s. Rather than singing with nuance, as he does now, Turner screamed and yelled in that band,…
Phil Goodlaxson, owner/roster of Corvus Coffee Roasters, had hoped to hold a grand opening of Corvus’s new home at 1740 South Broadway — just two blocks away from its original home at 1947 South Broadway — at 10 a.m. tomorrow. In fact, construction was going so well that the outfit…
Impersonating a police officer is a schmucky thing to do under pretty much every circumstance — unless you’re starring in a TV drama or auditioning for the Village People, that is. But some impersonations are schmuckier than others. Proof can be found in the monumentally stupid story of Roland Herrera,…
FRI | LOTUS at RED ROCKS | 10/4/13 The jazzy electronic quintet Lotus, known for its precisely timed improvisations during live shows, is celebrating its fourteenth year as a group. From incorporating video-game music to performing David Bowie tribute shows and playing Black Sabbath covers, Lotus has figured out how…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else he’s…
After 55 years, the Candlelight Tavern is getting a facelift. It’s starting with the neon sign, which hasn’t been refurbished since the days when trolley cars passed by on South Pearl Street. The bar will host a grand-reopening party when the work is done — but fans of this classic…
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…
Join Plants & Animals Denver , a vegan advocacy group, for Chomp, a pop-up vegan dinner that starts at 7 p.m. tonight at the Horse Barn, 1031 33rd Street. In keeping with that setting — an old stable that’s been converted to a work space for non-profits and other do-good…
