Beau Jo’s may very well be the inventor and only practitioner of “Colorado-style pizza,” but soon there will be one less place to partake in the pies that sport a crust nearly cracker-thin in the middle but fat like a bicycle tire around the edge. The pizza chain will close…
It may not be April, but Denver can celebrate 4/20 anytime it wants to. Take, for example, the 420 Games, which take place on July 22. Don’t miss plenty of more action on this week’s event’s calendar, including outdoor movie screenings, art shows aplenty, and some axe throwing. Tuesday, July…
When chef Sean Kelly opened Desmond Bar & Grill at 2230 Oneida Street in November 2015, it marked not only a return to the roll of restaurateur for Kelly but also an opportunity for his Park Hill neighbors to enjoy a chef-driven menu in a part of Denver short on…
Slow Food Nations kicked off on July 13 with a Slow Food USA delegate reception at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, where Mayor Michael Hancock welcomed representatives from dozens of U.S. cities and Snooze founder Adam Schlegel, the unofficial mayor of Denver brunch, ushered in a night of hospitality and…
In summer, Denver’s calendar is so packed you can’t begin to hit all the festivals, markets, parties and celebrations around town. So this past weekend, we did it all for you. Keep reading for a look at four events in Denver we visited July 14 through July 16, with links…
Today, Jacob Magee was sentenced after pleading guilty to one invasion-of-privacy-for-sexual gratification count for taking an upskirt photo of a woman at a Broncos game. His punishment: eight years of sex-offender supervised probation and thirty days in county jail. He’s also required to register as a sex offender for life. Continue for our previous coverage.
Denver is a biker’s town. The city’s full of bike lanes and trails, mountain bikers need not drive for hours to tear up single track, and for people looking for a tuneup or a new ride, there are endless shops with competent mechanics – even coffee and gourmet chocolates.
It’s a week full of arena shows with Shawn Mendes at the Pepsi Center tonight, while John Mayer visits the venue on Wednesday, and Earth, Wind & Fire and CHIC featuring Nile Rodgers take it over on Thursday night.
There are loopholes that allow those who are underage to drink in Colorado. Here are five of them. We wrote about five of them.
Teague Bohlen has been offering tips for transplants to Denver all year, advising them on how to prepare for each new month in their own home. And here’s another tip: Whenever we publish one of his lists, including his July Tips for Transplants, natives and newcomers alike are quick to respond.
Westword’s Ana Campbell was outraged after attending a concert at a well-known country venue and finding that the performer seemed drugged out of his mind.
Marijuana needs an image makeover, this reader suggests. Is it time for the Don Draper of pot? For cannabis advertisements at Denver International Airport?
Artists and arts groups are being priced out of Denver, and for a while they found hope in Concept, an art-space project that longtime artist/developer Jeanie Nuanes King had planned for eleven empty acres in Commerce City. But now she’s pulled the plug.
Westword’s Kyle Harris reviewed the Queen concert on July 6, writing about the differences between the original frontman Freddie Mercury and the current lead singer Adam Lambert. Readers took to Twitter and Facebook, blasting Harris for minimizing the struggle Lambert went through as a gay man and celebrating both guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor’s performances as well as Lambert’s
New restaurants keep popping up, some — like French 75 (which opens Monday, July 17) — with chill summer dishes and others with the hottest food in town. And favorites like Comal Heritage Food Incubator are drawing attention as Slow Food Nations, a weekend-long celebration of good food prepared with…
Slow Food warriors are heading to Union Station and Larimer Square this weekend for Slow Food Nations, a celebration of traditional and sustainable food production and cooking. The weekend is filled with outdoor markets, cooking demonstrations, presentations and food festivals — enough to wear down even the most earnest food…
It’s a busy weekend at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre with Jack Johnson tonight, Daryl Hall & John Oates and Tears for Fears tomorrow, and Blondie and Garbage on Sunday.
Slow food is coming to Denver this weekend with a three-day festival called Slow Food Nations. But the Events page of the Slow Food Nations website presents a mind-boggling barrage of lectures, tours, demos, tastings, dinners and outdoor markets. Here are some of the best.
The Insane Clown Posse blew it like a two-liter of Faygo.
Toronto-based electronic music producer Deadmau5 will be at Red Rocks for a two-night stand on Thursday, October 19 and Friday, October 20, and he’ll be bringing his updated, custom-built 18-foot Cube 2.1.
Marvel superheroes have all but hijacked multiplexes during summer blockbuster season for more than a decade. And for good reason. Iconic characters like Spider Man, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy have been fodder for jaw-dropping epic stories, new myths that friends, parents and kids can bond over in air-conditioned, dark theaters with buckets of popcorn.
Las Delicias, the forty-year old Mexican restaurant in Uptown that closed in 2015 for a major remodel, is opening for two reservation-only events on July 12 and July 17 before throwing its doors open to the public next week.
