Lipgloss is changing locations. After an award-winning, eight-year run at La Rumba, one of Denver’s longest-running dance nights is on the move from the Golden Triangle to Capitol Hill, where it will land at Beauty Bar.This Friday, June 1, will be your last chance to experience Lipgloss as you’ve known…
Although there was no Biker Jim’s truck at the Food Truck Renegades event Friday night, Jim Pittenger was there, checking in on some of his favorite mobile vendors — and also accepting accolades from a visitor from Orlando, who’d stopped by his Biker Jim’s restaurant for a vegan dog earlier…
Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Been a long week, and now you’re about to get to enjoy a long weekend. As always, a plethora of enticing options this weekend and it’s another good mix: Tonight, a trio of local release parties featuring Signal Path, ManCub and Rockie kick things…
Micah True, the world-famous “ultrarunner” who was found dead in New Mexico in April, was profiled Sunday in a mammoth New York Times piece by Barry Bearak, who described True’s days as a furniture mover and prizefighter in Boulder. That’s when True, then going by the moniker “The Gypsy Cowboy,”…
Size does matter. We learned that as we sampled thirty different bottles of rose at the annual Pink Patio party at Elway’s Cherry Creek last night, and decided that we still loved last year’s winner, Chateau Peyrassol…which Aaron Foster was pouring from a very big bottle…
Welcome to the weekend! A wide variety of musical options await you over the next few days: Tech N9ne returns to Colorado, his home away from home, for a show at the Fillmore, Eric Church stops by Red Rocks, Creed relives the ’90s at the Paramount Theatre, Fear Factory shreds…
Beirut Grill is opening a second location at 1600 Champa Street, in what was once the home of Champa Street liquors. Although information is sketchy, we know that the menu will be the same as at the original location, 203 West Hampden Avenue: traditional Middle Eastern fare. Look for this…
Welcome to the weekend! The sun’s hiding this morning and rain’s in the forecast for the next few days, but even that can’t dampen spirits today. The Nuggets destroyed the Lakers last night, and you’ve got another full slate of local goodness on tap this weekend: Tonight the Fray kicks…
This week’s cover story, “Water World,” takes a look at the river that runs through Denver: the South Platte. Two decades ago, then-Westword staffer Robin Chotzinoff wrote her own cover story (with Kenny Be illustrations) about the Platte, a true piece of immersion journalism. For “I Cover the Waterfront” in…
We’re just over a month out from this year’s Westword Music Showcase, and we’ve already let you know who we have headlining the mainstage this year — but keep it locked on Backbeat for another big announcement this coming Monday. Now it’s time for us to give up the goods…
A river runs through the heart of Denver, this city’s most liquid asset. But the South Platte River wasn’t always regarded that way. “We came to the shallow, yellow, muddy South Platte, with its low banks and its scattering of flat sand-bars and pigmy islands — a melancholy stream straggling…
Today, the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo is taking place at Ramada Plaza in Northglenn (I-25 and 120th). For a $2.00 admission, you can sort through a treasure trove of vinyl from over forty dealers from all over the country. While there will also be CDs, posters and other stuff…
Not only will the 16th Street Mall have a bigger range of food vendors than ever before this summer, but those vendors will be keeping much more extensive hours: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, under new contracts with the Downtown Denver…
Welcome to another outstanding music-filled weekend in the Mile High City! Local music abounds: We’ve got a trio of CD release shows from Rubedo, the Congress and Chingaso, a three day Mini Fest with forty bands at 3 Kings Tavern and the hi-dive. If that weren’t enough, BoomBox is back…
After months of delays, both Adrift and Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub opened last month on the same strip of South Broadway. But from new pizza joints to mo’ pho, there’s action all over town. Here’s our restaurant roll call for April:…
See Also: • Cobraconda goes on Spring Break • Q&A with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate • Q&A with Alex Bleeker of Real Estate • Q&A with Jules Bethea-Rateliff and Joe Sampson • Q&A with Carbon Choir • Q&A with Kurt Wagner of Lambchop Welcome to the weekend! You’ve worked…
Individual results may vary.We’ve just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Denver concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We’ve also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the right hand side of that page…
See Also: • Twenty most gnarly metal shirts we saw last night • (Photos) Opeth at the Ogden Theatre, 10/11 • Q&A with Bill Kelliher of Mastodon • (Review) Mastodon at Ogden Theatre, 11/9/11 • (Review) Ghost at Marquis Theater, 1/27/12 The Mastodon, Opeth and Ghost tour may be the…
See Also: • Best of Coachella weekend one • Ten awkward Coachella dance moves weekend one • Ten awkward Coachella dance moves weekend two • Tupac hologram at Coachella: Here’s how it was done • Complete Coachella coverage The first weekend of Coachella was cold, damp and wet. The second…
Happy 4/20! Whether you partake in the green festivities or not, this entire weekend will be greener than Kermit. With a slew of album release parties to choose from, enough reggae to keep the bodies winding on the dance floor through clouds of smoke, and more, this weekend is shaping…
See Also: At the Helm – A throat cancer survivor, the Band’s Levon Helm can’t sing anymore — but the beat goes on Levon Helm, iconic drummer and singer extraordinaire of the Band, died yesterday at the age of 71, after a long and strenuous battle with throat cancer. Helm’s…
See Also: A 4/20 playlist from Westword’s marijuana critic William Breathes Happy 4/20! Welcome to the end of another work week. As always, there are plenty of music options to consider this weekend — and that’s whether you’re living the Mile High life or not. The second edition of the…
