It might be strange to think of Hooters as an institution, but that’s what the one on South Colorado became. Not only was this breastaurant the first link in the chain in Colorado, it was the first Hooters west of the Mississippi. But after 23 years, the shirt-bursting establishment shuttered…
There’s some stellar music on tap this week to look forward to no matter your flavor. The week kicks off with an absolute bang this afternoon at the Summit Music Hall with Cannibal Corpse, which headlines the Summer Slaughter tour with Between the Buried & Me, Job for a Cowboy,…
See also: – Brennen Bryarly goes Into the Night as option4 – Parting words: A Sauna Q&A before its farewell show – Sharon Van Etten Q&A: “I get nervous sometimes that my songs are too personal” – Q&A with Brendan Perry of Dead Can Dance – Q&A with Derek Vincent…
In this week’s food review, we dished on the British Bulldog, the Pakistani-Brit hybrid located in a building on Stout Street with a considerable history of its own. Cafe writer Jenn Wohletz trekked down to the Union Jack-wrapped restaurant and tried bangers, mash, curry, fried pickles and aloo gosht salin,…
The Denver Cruisers have been known to get wild and wacky on their weekly Wednesday rides. (On their website, however, they will warn you: The group is not intended for hook-ups.) Last night’s celebrity theme brought out the troops once again, this time in easy-to-recognize (and occasionally, impossible to peg)…
The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. One thing crowds at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival do pretty well is get down. Despite the relentless wind, heavy fog and numbing temperatures, we saw plenty of good moves last weekend — and some…
See also: – Slideshow: Big hair and glory at Grizzly Rock – Nair today, gone tomorrow: Cinderella canceled Grizzly Rock gig because stage was too small Lakewood’s Grizzly Rock is no stranger to a spectacle. Although it celebrated its grand opening only last month, the venue has welcomed both mainstream…
It’s hard to tell which part of the Denver County Fair is better: the food, the festivities or the half-sick, half-elated, entirely dazed feeling you get when you’re done with them. Regardless, the annual tradition combined all three (plus a freakshow) once again at the National Western Complex this weekend,…
Looking that good isn’t as easy as it seems. The proof of that is in the photos of Denver Fashion Week, now a burgeoning tradition on the local style scene. The week-long event rotated through venues across the city August 5 through 12, with hundreds of models, designers and artists…
More than 800 people — most of them dressed in costumes or not adverse to snuggling up to one — flocked to the DoubleTree Hotel this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, an unabashed annual celebration of Furry fandom. But while the anthropomorphic lifestyle offers a lot…
This looks like it hurts. A lot. This morning, Westword photographer Christopher Morgan headed to the opening hours of this year’s Denver County Fair to capture the pained and friendly faces at the Freakshow Pavilion in the National Western Complex. This year’s event runs August 10-12 and promises “real freaks”…
See also: – Dave Gonzalez of Paladins fame on the Stone River Boys and playing country soul – Review: The Reverend Horton Heat at the Odgen, 1/28/12 – Kappa Cell takes over the Lion’s Lair with its dark, dystopian hysteria Welcome to the weekend! As per usual, there’s a gajillion…
See also: – Slideshow: Skrillex at Red Rocks – Skrillex at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 8/9/12 – Dubstep for Dummies – Dubstep Parking Lot Last night, Skrillex and his fans hit Red Rocks like a shipwreck. Seriously, that’s the metaphor our reviewer, Britt Chester, used for the noisy, dynamic and neon-outfitted…
Colorado is having a tough time. The ramifications of widespread wildfires and the Aurora theater shooting are still coming into focus, and many questions won’t be answered for months. But we’re not going anywhere. In Westword’s annual attempt to chronicle on paper — to count the ways, if you will…
From purple mountains majesty to amber waves of beer to 300 days of sunshine per year, there’s a lot to love about Colorado…even this summer, the most trying in recent memory. No sooner had we recovered from killer cantaloupes than the state faced crippling droughts. Then came the fires, which…
See Also: – Four reasons Lollapalooza needs EDM – Enjoy these dance-move GIFs from Global Dance Festival – Ten Coachella dance-move GIFs to make you feel good about yourself This past weekend’s running of Lollapalooza in Chicago was intense. The heat, the monsoon-like storm on Saturday, and even the lobster…
Photo by Erik HessSee Also: – Lollapalooza Sunday: The Hottest Day of All – Ten things your Lollapalooza outfit says about you By IAN TRAAS With every year that passes, it feels like electronic dance music gains a bigger foothold in the summer festival circuit, and the climb in popularity…
Photo by Erik Hess BY ERIK THOMPSON The 2012 installment of Lollapalooza has thus far brought the requisite extremes, in terms of performances and potent weather. A two-hour delay cut through the middle of Saturday’s entertainment at Chicago’s Grant Park, and a good many people were wishing they had just…
Photo by Erik Hess BY REED FISCHER Now more than ever, Lollapalooza is a mélange of different fashion decisions to accompany the varied musical offerings crammed together throughout Chicago’s Grant Park. When EDM butts up against metal, alt-country, and whatever the hell you’d call Die Antwoord, there’s really no wrong way…
There was plenty of action on the Denver dining scene in July — even without the open-shut-open saga of Sketch and El Diablo. Here’s our restaurant roll call for July:…
See Also: – Sarah Slater, brainmother of Titwrench Fest, discusses her female-centric music fest – The Lumineers shed light on life in Denver and their evolving sound – Ravi Coltrane’s love of music comes naturally – Trace Bundy on the impact of YouTube and getting his start playing metal -…
See Also: – Justin Martin Q&A: “Everything is crazy right now…the scene has really exploded” Justin Martin is coming into town tonight with fellow Dirtybird artist Claude VonStroke, kicking off an insane night and fabulous weekend with DJ ESP (aka Woody McBride), Jonn Hawley and more. Page down to see…
