Want to know where to go and what to do in Denver? Your essential mobile guide — also known as our Best Of app — just got better. You already know you can count on the Best Of app to offer restaurant, shopping and nightlife recommendations from Westword’s expert critics…
Want to know where to go and what to do in Denver? Your essential mobile guide — also known as our Best Of app — just got better…
Want to know where to go and what to do in Denver? Your essential mobile guide — also known as our Best Of app — just got better…
Comic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the third of her reports. Twenty years ago, Emily the Strange first appeared on T-shirts and other odds and ends. Now, the thirteen-year-old girl with…
Courtesy of ArchaiaComic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the second of her reports. Ben Blacker had just arrived at San Diego Comic-Con when we met. The writer was preparing for a…
Liz OhanesianJ.G. Quintel, creator of Regular Show, left, meets Muscle Man come to life. Comic-Con has been packing in talent and fans alike in San Diego all weekend. Liz Ohanesian is covering the action for our media group; here’s the first of her reports. J.G. Quintel has been going to…
Pro-gun advocates, including members of the NRA and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners club, held a rally today at Cherry Creek State Park, near where a memorial ceremony was being held for the victims of Aurora theater shootings, on the eve of the first anniversary of those events. The memorial…
Life’s not easy, but when things get you down — even when you’re in trouble with the law — there’s always one person who understands, one person who will pinch your cheeks, give you a big smile and feed you cookies: grandma. After all, grandma always loves you, no matter…
“WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC @ BOULDER THEATER | SUN, 7/21/13 “Weird Al” Yankovic’s zany parodies catapulted him to fame in the ’80s, back when pop culture was in dire need of some deflation. He never got critical props for his oddball iconoclasm, though, and after his 1989 film, UHF tanked at…
The Crown Plaza Hotel Downtown was the site of the fourth Retox Pool Party hosted by Collective 360 on July 14. Westword photographer, Jim Wills was there to capture all the party-goers as they lounged by the pool. Keep reading to see some of the scene, and for more photos…
If you’ve noticed that there haven’t been the usual throngs of people milling around outside the second Snooze location at Seventh Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, waiting for a table, it’s not because the restaurant has lost any of its morning (or afternoon) cachet. See also: – Best Pancakes 2013 –…
The Blue Bonnet will mark its 45th anniversary on July 25. That’s a long time for a restaurant to last on the Denver dining scene — but it’s even more remarkable that the Blue Bonnet has been in the same family’s hands for all those years. And the Blue Bonnet’s…
Well, it’s a wrap. The nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase Awards are now officially in the books. The Bluebird was packed, and, man, what a good time. Drinks, food, friends — what else do you need? Next to the Showcase itself, this is one of the best nights for local…
For this week’s cover story, “Foiled Again!,” Lori Midson interviewed Chipotle founder Steve Ells about the twenty-year legacy of the locally based burrito chain. Over the weekend, Chipotle officially turned twenty — and Chipotle wants a few of its fans to celebrate the anniversary in style. Chipotle introduced catering this…
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…
Breckenridge Brewery celebrated its 23rd anniversary with a Kalamath Street block party on Saturday, featuring specialty beers, barbecue and live music. The party space was expanded this time around to include the entire block of Kalamath between Fourth and Fifth avenues, allowing for additional attendees and extra room for dancing…
Torches, hot glass and oil took over the Wright Group Event Center this weekend as America’s first dab festival, the 710 Cup, hit Denver. The three-day competition pitted the state’s best extract technicians against each other to see who had the best hash, and it served as a giant meeting…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots is part of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri…
Saddle up! The Colorado Gay Rodeo came to the Jefferson County Fairgrounds over the weekend for its Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo, and Westword’s Christopher Morgan stopped by to capture scenes of the livestock and their handlers in action (and in rainbow colors). Continue reading for more scenes from the show…
MELVINS @ SUMMIT MUSIC HALL | MON, 7/15/13 Since 1983, the Melvins have been perfecting their brand of influential rock, inspired in part by punk and in part by the music Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover grew up hearing as kids in the ’60s and ’70s. With the Melvins, the…
As a general rule, three similar items make a trend. But we’re suspending that regulation in honor of two schmucky incidents that took place on CU-Boulder’s Regent Drive within 24 hours or so. One involved an alleged drunk driver taking out some parking meters. The other found another alleged drunk…
DAVID BYRNE & ST VINCENT @ BOTANIC GARDENS CHATFIELD | 7/13 David Byrne and Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) initially met at an AIDS/HIV benefit in 2009. But after they ran into each other at a collaborative performance between Björk and Dirty Projectors, it was suggested to Byrne that he…
