Rocktober is living up to its name so far, especially this weekend: On Friday, Chromeo electrifies the Ogden, while Frank Turner throws down at the Marquis and Lupe Fiasco raps at the Fillmore. On Saturday, there’s some agonizing decisions to make between seeing OFF!, which features Circle Jerks frontman Keith…
This week’s cover story, “Buzz Kill,” profiles Jesse and Corey Knapper, 24-year-old twins and students at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, who created a gang of cartoon characters — and the trouble stemming from that inspiration. Playing off the slang phrase “It’s all good,” the twins wondered…
Restaurant openings far outweighed closings last month, with the long-awaited Charcoal heating up the scene. Here’s our Restaurant roll call for September:…
This week’s feature story, “Phish Story,” shines a light on the music bootlegging world, specifically those tasked with making sure a band’s not getting ripped off in the parking lot outside its shows, by those who sell counterfeit merch. It’s supposed to be a civil matter, but as a video…
This week’s feature story, “Clear Thinking: Vodka makers hope pure spring water from Colorado pushes them to the top shelf,” focuses on Spring44, a Colorado-based company whose inspiration comes from a natural spring in the middle of Roosevelt National Forest, a spring that also supplies a key ingredient for the…
After receiving $13 million to design Denver International Airport’s new south terminal hotel and commuter rail station, world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava abruptly quit the project because it lacked sufficient funding. Rumors about his exit had been flying around for weeks, but it became official earlier this month when Santiago’s…
This week’s feature story, “Kink of the Jungle: A field guide to Denver’s wild life,” explores the various sub-sects of the kink scene in Denver. We go inside the world of the kinksters, who have an adults-only, sex-play headquarters in the heart of town. Given the edgy nature of this…
Phish wraps up their summer tour this weekend with three nights at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in lovely Commerce City, ending what many a blogger and message board phanatic have argued is their strongest tour in the two-plus years they have been back on the road. Phish is coming off…
The restaurant industry is softening, according to the National Restaurant Association. But you wouldn’t know that from all the activity on the Denver dining scene, including two important openings –Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar and Wild Catch — at the very end of August, as well as the closing…
We ventured on to a local restaurant website recently, only to hear what had to be a MIDI file — yes, the synthy, cheeseball music from the Internet of 1998 — loudly playing in the background. Then we tried to click over the menu — but first we had to…
Wild Eggs has gone wild, breaking out of its home in Louisville, Kentucky, where it has three restaurants, and landing in West Washington Park — where the breakfast and lunch (with liquor!) joint opened today. Here’s a first look:…
Hot dog joints are on a roll in Denver, with Uber Sausage joining a scene that also welcomed the largest IKEA restaurant in the country. But Denver also said farewell to Bistro Felix and Organixx, as well as some of the earliest food trucks. Here’s our Restaurant roll call for…
Cafe Berlin is now open in its new location at 1600 Champa Street — quite a switch from its original home on 17th Avenue, where Jason Sheehan reviewed the German restaurant (that spot is now occupied by Il Posto), and also from its last downtown address on 14th Street (now…
It didn’t quite hit the July 1 target, but Belvedere Restaurant is now open at 323 14th Street, in the former home of Cafe Berlin. (That restaurant moved to a second-floor spot at 1600 Champa Street.) Kinga Klek, who also owns Kinga’s Lounge, transformed the spot into a fine-dining restaurant…
The Boulder Blind Cafe has had several incarnations over the past couple of years, and it’s now back at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine Street in Boulder, this week. Nightly installments of the vegetarian (gluten-free and dairy-free, too), multi-course dinner and concert in the dark run through Saturday, July…
More than eighty years after Maid-Rite got its start in Muscatine, Iowa, the chain has finally made it as far west as Denver, where Ralph’s Maid-Rite Sports Diner opened last week in Littleton. Ralph’s serves the loose-meat and breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches that are hallmarks of Maid-Rite, but it’s also…
Linger topped the action last month, with a stunning space that takes Highland to new heights. Chinook Tavern also blew back onto the scene, almost three years after it left its home in Cherry Creek. Gone for good? The old Northwoods Inn, which is now a swingers club. Here’s our…
Every year, we enlist our Backbeat writers to host various stages at the Westword Music Showcase, and in addition to their emcee obligations, we ask them to pull double duty and write up the acts that appear on their individual stages. Click through to read travelogues from Thorin Klosowski, Ru…
Hundreds of people converged on the Denver Zoo last night for Do at the Zoo, where they observed the animals — both four- and two-legged — and ate amazing food served up by some of Denver’s top restaurants. Photos by Kate Levy. View the full Do at the Zoo slideshow…
Top Chef Angelo Sosa and Lon Symensma didn’t make good on their promise to come out in Speedos for dessert at Wednesday night’s Celebrity Chef Tour dinner benefiting the James Beard Foundation at ChoLon Modern Asian Bistro Wednesday night, but that was the only disappointment at a very delicious event…
Summer! Everyone loves summer, particularly in Colorado. The days are long, the nights are warm, and you can perfect your farmer’s tan while hiking or rafting or riding your bike or just imbibing a fruity drink on the patio. At least until a couple of weeks into the season, when…
Today, eight proposed 2012 marijuana legalization ballot measures were considered by the Colorado Office of Legislative and Legal Services. However, few changes were made and little was said by the initiatives’ backers…
