The fourth annual Red Ball painted the Exdo Event Center red last night, when hundreds gathered for the event’s combination fashion show/fundraiser to benefit AIDS awareness and research. Continue reading for a sneak peak of the ball — and visit our full slide show for more photos. See also: -…
More than a dozen restaurants opened in Denver this past month, including the long-awaited Punch Bowl — Social Food & Drink and The Populist. But there were some surprise closings, too, including Il Mondo Vecchio, the pork palace that’s gone to hog heaven, and Del Norte Brewing, the first brewery…
Update: Congrats to KDBryan! For your story, you’ve won a $20 gift card to Pete’s restaurants. Original post: Pete’s Satire Restaurant & Lounge, 1920 East Colfax Avenue, turns fifty this weekend — an impressive tenure, especially considering it’s been under the same ownership that entire time. The six-restaurant, family-owned Pete’s…
Santa’s Parade of Lights starts this weekend, but with all the crowds downtown, you might not get close enough to the Denver City and County Building to see what a mishmash has been installed on the steps — the better to balance the nativity scene and help the city avoid…
Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Long week, everybody, or is it just us? Well the good news is that we made it to end of another. The even better news is that there’s no snow in the forcast, and there’s another batch of good shows worth checking out. While…
Marcel Maldonado seems like the kind of criminal who doesn’t know the meaning of laying low. A wanted man in Washington state, he managed to make it to Colorado, only to tweak the cops here. But after getting away again, where did he hide? In the car police were chasing…
The idea that it’s hard to look good while getting warm is a myth — one dispelled by Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering last night at its combined winter fashion show and retro costume party. In addition to more than thirty current cold-weather looks, the event featured several blasts from winter style…
Later today, we’ll post our Restaurant Roll Call for November, a compendium of all the opening and closing action on Denver’s dining scene over the last thirty days — and there’s been plenty. But we expect still more in December, as entrepreneurs hurry to get restaurants open before the end…
Pho 95 has opened in its new location at 1401 South Federal Boulevard, right down the street from its original spot at 1002 South Federal. Although it’s still waiting on the okay of its liquor-license application, the pho remains one of this town’s liquid assets. Keep reading for a look…
In this week’s review, Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery for the second installment of its Toy Stories exhibit — the first half of which came around in the summer of 2011. The group show features paintings, ceramic works and sculptures that are all inspired by toys — though not…
By Christian McPhate For years, hidden messages have allegedly been embedded in music, cryptic musings that could only be heard by playing the vinyl backwards. Backwards masking, as this phenomenon became known, centered on songs by bands like Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, acts that supposedly implanted subliminal satanic messages…
When you gaze out those big picture windows of the Peaks Lounge, on the 27th floor of the Hyatt Regency Denver, you may not spot much snow on the mountains — but inside the bar, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Particularly if you try one of the…
The original location of Heidi’s Brooklyn Deli closes at 3 p.m. today, vacating the century-old building at 3130 Lowell Boulevard where it opened back in 1996. Owners Heidi and Steve Naples blame the closing on a dispute with the landlord; they say they’re looking for another spot in the neighborhood…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be surprising to find that the most common (and mutually favorite) topic of conversation among us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in us, and, boy, wouldn’t…
Death Grips was in town this past weekend at the Larimer Lounge and delivered one of the more stirring sets that Tom Murphy, who’s seen and covered more than his fair share of shows over the years, has seen recently. Tom summed up the experience thusly: “More than most bands,…
When the class requirements are away, the students will play. This past weekend was a busy one for nightlife on Boulder’s Pearl Street. Our roving photographer Brandon Marshall spent Saturday evening capturing scenes at Boulder’s hotspots, including Press Play, Pearl Street Pub & Cellar and more. Keep reading for some…
Schooooool’s out! For. Winter. Or at least it was when Alice Cooper visited the Paramount Theatre this past Friday for a spectacularly spine-chilling show. Onstage, the never-aging (seriously, what gives?) rock icon navigated a series of tricky costumes including a skull suit, a ringleader uniform and a straight jacket, while…
Happy Monday! Another week, another great batch of shows on tap: After canceling a highly anticipated date this past spring, Action Bronson is more than making up for it with a pair of Colorado shows, one on Wednesday night at the Fox Theatre in Boulder, followed by another at Cervantes’…
This should have been a banner week for Hani “Henry” Sawaged, the owner of Daveco Liquors in Thornton, which in 2008 earned a nod as the world’s largest liquor store from the Guinness World Records organization. After all, people were, and still are, buying booze by the barrelful in advance…
The second annual two-day celebration of the bison that is MCA Denver’s Art Meets Beast kicked off on November 10 when Pete Marczyk of Marczyk Fine Foods carved an entire bison. The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver shared these fun photos of the festivities, which combined art and education through…
Usually, Thanksgiving day means eating so much turkey we eventually feel like a turkey — and then fall asleep and have dreams about turkeys. But for the runners at the 2012 Mile High United Way Turkey Trot, yesterday involved actually dressing up as one (and also running to raise money…
Earlier this week, we created a contest for you, our glorious readers, to win tickets to Comedy Works by submitting your favorite jokes. The post, which earned more than sixty submissions, resulted in some flat, some bewildering and some pretty hilarious jokes, and we recently announced our final winners. (Some…
