Denver has evolved over the past twenty years — and so has DISH, Westword’s annual celebration of the metro Denver dining scene. On Sunday, September 22, DISH will return to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, a stunning outdoor venue on the edge of downtown. And for…
Pho Real opened this month in the former home of Tres Jolie in Littleton — and for pho-lovers in the southern suburbs, it’s a very pretty sight. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped in this week, and returned with this photographic taste of Pho Real. See also: Best Pho 2013: Pho Duy…
PHISH @ DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK | 8/30/13-9/1/13 Phish is playing at Dick’s this weekend. You know what that means, right? Yep –the end of summer. Bye-bye, barbecues and basking in the sun. Besides signifying the conclusion of the iconic Vermont band’s summer tour, the now-annual three-day extravaganza represents the…
The second in a quartet of Modmarket locations slated to debut this year opened this week at Kent Place Center, 3475 South University Boulevard. “We are thrilled to introduce Modmarket to this part of the metro area,” said founders Anthony Pigliacampo and Rob McColgan in advance of Wednesday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony…
Taki’s Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar has been a mainstay on East Colfax for years. But Hisashi Takimoto, who opened it as Taki’s Healthy Japanese Food Restaurant in 1998, passed away in 2009, and the restaurant has gone through some changes since then. Now there are more under way: A…
Hurricane Grill & Wings opened this week at 8025 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton; it’s the first Colorado link in the Hurricane Grill & Wings chain that got its start in Florida in 1995 and quickly took off on the strength of its wings. The expansive menu includes more than…
Bret Butler, 22, shouldn’t count on appearing in either recruiting posters or college brochures. The ex-midshipman was originally thought to have been AWOL from the U.S. Naval Academy, but that turned out not to be true. He reportedly hasn’t been enrolled there since December, and while he took some classes…
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND @ DICK’S SPORTING GOODS | 8/23-8/24 Twenty years ago, the Dave Matthews Band played Red Rocks for the first time, opening for the Tragically Hip and the Samples, and went on to build a loyal following with early shows at the Fox Theatre in Boulder. In the…
The 2013 edition of Chipotle-sponsored Cultivate attracted twice as many people to City Park as the 2012 festival did — a whopping 26,000 fans of good food and good music. But then, the weather on Saturday was also 60 degrees warmer than it was for the 2012 Cultivate. So it’s…
Restaurateur Noel Cunningham was the heart and soul of Strings, the restaurant he’d opened at 1700 Humboldt Street in February 1986, and after he took his life in late 2011, the life seemed to go out of the place. Finally his widow, Tammy, closed the restaurant at the end of…
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…
By Jason Roche One year ago, Baroness was touring Europe in support of its critically acclaimed record Yellow & Green. The ambitious double album was generating a strong buzz for the Georgia-based band. The momentum came to a screeching halt, though, on a rainy morning in August, 2012, when the…
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, is half of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart, Charlie Boots, will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell,…
Denver has evolved over the past twenty years — and so has DISH, Westword’s annual celebration of the metro Denver dining scene. On Sunday, September 22, DISH will return to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, a stunning outdoor venue on the edge of downtown. And for…
The sign on the Eden website reads “closed for remodeling,” and promises that the venue at 3090 Downing Street “will be announcing some major changes here. Please visit us again in the near future to learn about what we will be doing with the space!” That space on the edge…
This year’s edition of Channel 93.3’s Not So Silent Night is slated for Sunday, December 1, at 1STBANK Center. Young the Giant and Grouplove, will be joined on the bill by New Politics, Bastille, Saints of Valory and My Body Sings Electric. General admission tickets ($25-$29.95) go on sale this…
Yazoo Barbecue Company has won several Best of Denver awards since Don Hines opened his barbecue joint in a 700 square-foot bunker at 2150 Broadway a decade ago. Since then, Hines has opened a second location an East Arapahoe, and his places are so popular that Yazoo was a finalist…
PRETTY LIGHTS @ RED ROCKS | 8/16/13 Spirits were high as Pretty Lights took the stage on Friday night, the first night of the act’s annual two-night run at Red Rocks, both of which would feature a live band this year, something that Smith had hinted at in our interview…
For those jonesing for java from Aviano Coffee, which had to move — quickly — into a new location in Cherry Creek this winter, then closed this spring for what was supposed to be a relatively quick renovation, there are hopeful signs that the spot is about to reopen. Finally…
MY BLOODY VALENTINE @ OGDEN THEATRE | MON, 8/19/13 Few bands of the past two decades have had as profound an influence on as wide a spectrum of artists as My Bloody Valentine. Not only did the landmark 1991 album Loveless have a massive impact on the group’s peers at…
Fired Up, the restaurant that chef/ownerJosh Barhaug opened a year ago at 1135 Bannock Street in the former home of Chances, is living up to its name: The place is currently closed for repairs after a “small electrical fire,” according to its phone message. See also: – Chef and Tell…
When dudes are aching for a little somethin’-somethin’, they don’t want anyone getting between them and the object of their affection. But that doesn’t mean someone perceived as a cock-blocker deserves to get the ever-lovin’ crap pounded out of him. Rojorlo Naranjo will have plenty of time to learn this…
