Oktoberfest season is here, and with that comes the chance to eat brats, down pints and dress in pop culture’s best approximation of traditional German attire. In short, it’s a drunk, occasionally debauched form of heaven on Earth that took over LoDo this weekend, and will repeat next weekend. Continue…
Colorado’s largest indoor dance festival, Skylab, came to the Denver Coliseum once more on Saturday. Hosted by Triad Dragons and Beta nightclub, the night featured more than twenty acts and thousands of costumes. Continue reading for our favorite looks from the fest. See also: – Slide show: People of Skylab…
What’s the best way to celebrate your first birthday? By wearing a super-hero costume, of course. Down and Derby, Denver’s regular skating bash, did just that — on roller skates, no less — over the weekend with a party at Exdo Center presented by Beauty Bar. Continue reading for the…
The case of Ricky Mayber was a tough one for our Shmuck of the Week jury. Is he a shmuck because he thought a good way to cover his bills would be to rob a bank? Or because the person who turned him in was his wife? Hard to say…
Hola, amigo! Welcome to the weekend! A massive amount of musical goodness awaits you this weekend, the first of this fall season. Whatever you feel like getting into, there are a ton of shows to choose from, whether you’re looking for metal, rock, hip-hop or just want to party down…
By Leya Lynnette Goldrush Music Festival is the brainchild of Jake Martin, occasional Backbeat contributor Crawford Philleo and Ryan Pjesky. The three friends all knew each other from going to local shows and writing about experimental music on the internet. At some point, they began exchanging e-mails and hashing out…
Smart Balance has been busy since it purchased Udi’s Gluten-Free Foods, a spinoff of Udi’s Healthy Foods, a Colorado company that got its start baking bread, for $125 million this summer. Today it will launch five new Udi’s items at the Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore, the country’s premier…
In two weeks, the Denver Cruisers’ riding season will officially end for 2012, but not without a bang: Last night, hundreds of cyclists gathered on Talk Like a Pirate Day dressed as pirates, sailors, nymphs and a few seafaring shades in between. We guess you could say all hands were…
The Fritzler family will go down in history as proud, card-carrying Coloradans — in large part because this LaSalle family has already made its mark in corn. For the past twelve years, the Fritzlers have created epic and (mostly state-centric) corn mazes, the most recent of which honors Broncos star…
Pulitzer finalist Dava Sobel is definitely a star — the asteroid 30935 davasobel is even named after her. And tonight you’ll be starstruck when the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company offers a free reading of Sobel’s play And the Sun Stood Still, which dramatizes the events that led Nicolaus Copernicus to…
The first beer that Mayor Michael Hancock tried today at Denver Beer Co was a Sunnyside Hefeweizen. But it won’t be his last. Hancock got a crash course on the brewing process and beer ingredients when he dropped by the brewery today to help create a pumpkin beer that will…
In this week’s art review, Michael Paglia takes a look at two local galleries that are combining cultures. Throughout the Denver Art Museum’s “El Anatsui” and Goodwin Fine Art’s “Yoshitomo Saito,” Denver art enthusiasts can experience both Asian and African influence from veteran and first time artists. Continue reading for…
As people who think about, talk about, write about, listen to and make music, it shouldn’t be too surprising to find that the most common (and our mutually favorite) topic of conversation among all of us is the same: “What are you listening to right now?” Stick a quarter in…
Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s annual anime convention, took the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center by storm (and in costume) this past weekend as fans from across the state flocked there to to live out their fantasies. Dreamers representing all walks of fiction made the three-day fest a circus…
No sightings of Justin Timberlake yet, but the liquor-license hearing sign is up in the window of the future home of Southern Hospitality, at 1433 17th Street. And the owners of this branch of a restaurant Timberlake introduced in New York are going for both a standard restaurant license and…
Lucha Rama mixes luchadores, Jell-O wrestling, dancing and drinking into some good, old-fasioned debauchery. Which means that on Saturday, minor minor mayhem ruled for several hours at Beauty Bar. Photographer Christopher Morgan captured the night in our full slide show, which raises some serious questions, including this: How does one…
Welcome to another splendid week of music in the Mile High City. As usual, there are plenty of shows to choose from this week, from Kreator and Accept at the Gothic to DeVotchKa and the Airborne Toxic Event at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony, and we’ve got them all…
Call it a stampede. This weekend, the Marriott Hotel in the Denver Tech Center was taken over by Colorado’s largest anime convention, Nan Desu Kan 2012, and the fantasy enthusiasts who both populate and propel it. In our full slide show of the weekend’s costumes, you’ll notice well-dressed fans of…
Last June, the Rockstar Lounge closed after a year-and-a-half run. The spot is reopening tonight at Satori, after having been repainted and having the furniture reupholstered, in addition to having a new DJ booth built and a state of the art lighting and sound system installed. Prior to housing the…
The fourth location of Hapa Sushi opened Wednesday in the former home of India House at 1514 Blake Street. This latest outpost of the Boulder-based chain is the third sushi joint to join the swim in LoDo this year. Here’s a look at the space:…
Restaurant veterans Dave Chmura, Scott Bergin and Rob Young finally opened Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two this week after spending nearly two years renovating an antiquated house at the restaurant’s namesake address on South Pearl Street. The new space boasts plenty of outdoor seating, including a spacious rooftop patio and a rustic,…
How did Tammy Theis commemorate the day she officially became a candidate for House District 58? With a citation for shoplifting from a Montrose grocery store. Theis admits having taken the items in question — by accident, she insists. She has an explanation for a previous run-in with the law,…
