Center for Visual Art/MSU

Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art (CVA) is an award-winning, off-campus art gallery. Founded in 1990, the gallery serves the school’s students as well as the community, and shows off the fact that MSU Denver has the only public higher education art program in the state.

Central City Opera House

The historic Central City Opera House is fascinating in and of itself: Built in 1878 by miners, it boasts gorgeous fresco on its ceiling, and there are names of notable Coloradans of yore — such as Horace Tabor and Buffalo Bill — carved on the backs of the seats. (Those carvings were transferred when the […]

Centro Mexican Kitchen

Not only is Centro a beautiful restaurant, a casual restaurant and an undeniably cool restaurant with a bar that pours some stiff drinks, its food is good, smart, original and stubbornly uncompromising. It’s nominally a Mexican restaurant, with a menu listing bocaditas of chips and salsas and rellenos; simple carne asada and enchiladas and carnitas […]

Century Boulder

Located at the corner of 30th and Canyon in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street complex, Century Boulder features made-to-order concessions, wheelchair-accessible stadium seating, a video arcade and select features presented in RealD 3-D.

Century Lakewood Belmar 16

This 16-screen theater is located in the Belmar shopping complex at Wadsworth and Alameda in Lakewood. Amenities include wheelchair-accessible stadium seating, concessions, made-to-order food and drink, and a large-format XD presentation for select features.

Cerebral Brewing

Even with all of its breweries, Denver needed a place that was cultured but unpretentious, intellectual but neighborhood-focused, nerdy but not condescending, something…cerebral. Oh, and with fantastic beer. That’s what it got with Cerebral Brewing, a mellow spot just off Colfax Avenue that is making some of Denver’s best beer and presenting it in a […]

Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom

As the Casino Cabaret, this venue was one of Five Points’ legendary jazz clubs, dating back to the ’30s, when it brought in such legends as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Benny Goodman; over the years, folks like B.B. King, Ray Charles and Ike and Tina Turner played there, too. And when the trio behind […]

Cervantes’ Other Side

The smaller part of Cervantes’, the 400-capacity Other Side brings in acts similar to those hosted by its bigger ballroom sibling, including jam bands, hip-hop, reggae and funk artists, and acts on its weekly bluegrass and electronica lineups. Since the venues are next door to each other and are connected by an inside doorway, some […]

Cerveceria Colorado

This is a side project from the beer experts at Denver Beer Co. next door, and the focus is the flavors of Mexico. The starting point is clean and refreshing lager perfect for a hot summer day, but the brewers explore international styles while adding rare ingredients from Mexico for surprising bursts of boldness. In […]