Win tickets to the opening of Les Miserables!

Update: Congratulations to superiorforchange and pogomojoho! You’ve each won two tickets to the film. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: One of the year’s biggest Christmas movies might also be one of its biggest tear-jerkers. And then there’s that cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman…

Kevin Burke fills Catherine’s Cup with holiday cheer

To celebrate the luckiest day of the year — 12/12/12 — Ron Abuelo rums asked a dozen mixologists across the country to a create a signature cocktail as a toast to the holiday season. Kevin Burke of Colt & Gray, who won our Best Bartender award in the Best of…

Denver brought the ugly for the 2012 Christmas Ugly Sweater Run

Warning: these photos are graphic. You may need to look away and take deep breaths. Denver brought out the worst of its eye-searing Christmas cardigans on Saturday at City Park for the 2012 Ugly Sweater Run, which included contests for everything from best mustache to ugliest sweater, hot-chocolate aid stations…

The 1940s White Christmas Ball turned back the clock in Denver

Denver rewound the clock by seventy years on Saturday night at the 1940s White Christmas Ball, which took place, appropriately, inside the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. See also: – Photos: The 1940s White Christmas Ball slide show – Reader: 1940s WWII Era Ball is worth every…

The ten best concerts this week: December 10-14

We’re blessed to live here, you know. If you haven’t already come to this conclusion on your own from feeling the ever-present sunshine and observing the wondrous sunset paintings we’re treated to each evening, all you have to do is take a look at the brimming concert calendar. Whereas the…

The ten best concerts this weekend: 12/7-12/9

Welcome to the weekend, y’all. Breathe easy. You made it. Good Friday to you. And, oh, what a good Friday it is. Another stacked weekend of music awaits you. Just like the Broncos win streak continues, so does the steady stream of solid shows, whether you’re hankering for some old-school…

The twenty baddest movie villains of 2012

The year 2012 was a big one for creeps — living, breathing, oozing, killing-Batman creeps. So we asked Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl to choose the year’s twenty baddest from the scores of contenders. Continue reading for his picks — a spoiler-free selection of this year’s spookiest screen villains…

Win tickets to the opening weekend of The Hobbit in Denver!

Update: Congratulations to Nerdgasm and kmurtaugh08! You’ve each won two tickets to the film. Check your email for details on how to claim them Original post: During the last decade, few movies have inspired as much box-office awe (and costumed panic) as Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or…

Photos: Beer and cheer at Wynkoop’s Parade of Darks

Just before the Parade of Lights lit up downtown on Saturday, the Wynkoop Brewing Company hosted the Parade of Darks, an annual winter beer fest featuring brews “in the amber-to-opaque color spectrum.” This time around, Denver’s oldest brewpub gathered together 82 beers from 34 breweries, an expansive list that included…

Photos: The ten best costumes of the Santa Claus Pub Crawl

The Santas came in all shapes and sizes on Saturday, accompanied by elves, angels, reindeer and who-the-hell-knows on Saturday, when the annual Santa Claus Pub Crawl came unwrapped along the streets of LoDo and the Ballpark neighborhood. Britt Chester was on hand for this gift that kept on giving; see…

Photos: Nightlife in Upper Highland

Suspicions confirmed: It seems like whatever neighborhood you venture out to in Denver on the weekend, the nightlife is on and poppin’. This past weekend, we sent our intrepid roving photographer Chris Morgan out to capture the scene in Upper Highland, and he brought us back a grip of shots…

Photos: The ten best scenes from Pop Art Drag Nation at Tracks

Friday night saw the combination of two worlds and four big names at Tracks as drag queens Nina Flowers and Ongina channeled the art of Louis Recchia and Zoa Ace through live performances. The results were fierce, to say the least, and we’re still reeling from our favorite scenes. Continue…

The five best concerts this week: December 3-7

Good morning, y’all! And oh what a joyously good morning it is, eh? Is it just us, or is the sun shining a little brighter today? With the Broncos clinching the AFC West division yesterday here at home on an unseasonably agreeable day at Invesco, well, it just feels like…