Get ready to bust out those library cards. Last night, the winners of the Colorado Book Awards were announced. Among the selection are a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, a primer in counting via the weird world of octopuses (and their three hearts and nine brains), and a history of Colorado.
Last year, HBO announced it would be recording a special with T.J. Miller, at the Paramount Theater. The broadcaster just announced it will be releasing the special on Saturday, June 17 at 10 p.m. It’s title: T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous.
Memorial Day 2017 is coming right up, and there’s not a moment to waste. Get ready for the three-day weekend ahead by enjoying some of the great free entertainment offerings in Denver, starting with a yoga event that should put you in the right frame of mind for surviving the rest of the week. Namaste.
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre, who released his first album more than four decades ago, stops at 1STBANK Center on Wednesday, May 24, as part of his first ever North American tour.
Vesper Lounge, which replaced Lancer Lounge, is a good bar — but what has happened to Denver’s great dive bars?
Dozens of readers have weighed in on a recent story, Why It’s So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy. David A. posted on Facebook: The pay scale here isn’t keeping up with the rising rents. My first apartment 10 years ago cost me $620 for a…
With the opening of White Pie, the Uptown pizzeria from the owners of Dos Santos Taqueria, we’re taking the opportunity to look back on the year’s restaurant openings so far. There have been plenty of big-name launches from top Denver chefs like Lon Symensma, Andrea Frizzi, Elise Wiggins, Dave Query…
Yelp! A useful platform for crowd-sourced restaurant information, right? Or perhaps it’s just another online outlet for angry, hate-filled elitists to vent their ugly world views under the guise of a “review.” Feel free to show your worst self on Yelp or other online platforms; it’s just more entertainment for…
Project Pabst returns to the RiNo Neighborhood on Saturday, May 20 with a weighty lineup that includes Ice Cube, Phantogram, Danny Brown, Kurt Vile & the Violators, STRFK, while the Five Points Jazz Festival and the Global Dub Festival (featuring Flux Pavilion, Illenium and more) is at Red Rocks on Saturday as well.
Hunter Donnelly, a now former member of the Colorado State Rams, has been both an accused perpetrator of crime and a victim of one in recent weeks. He was dismissed from school after an arrest for allegedly violating a protection order involving a former girlfriend. But he also had thousands in bling stolen from him, reportedly by a teammate, Braylin Scott, who, according to law enforcers, tried to sell the stuff on Craigslist.
Paramore, which released its new album After Laughter last week, brings its Tour Two to Bellco Theatre on, Thursday, September 21 with Best Coast opening. Tickets ($38.50-$59.50) go on sale on Wednesday, May 24, at 10 a.m. Mary J. Blige’s Strength of a Woman North American tour stops at Bellco Theatre on Wednesday, September 6. Lalah Hathaway will open. Tickets ($49-$150) go on sale on Friday, May 19, at 10 a.m. HARD Red Rocks returns to the venue on Friday, July 28, with Dillon Francis, DJ Mustard, Destructo, AC Slater, Wax Motif and Kittens. Tickets ($49.75-$99.75) go on sale on Friday, May 19, at 10 a.m.
Seven of History Colorado’s community museums will be offering people eighteen and under free admission over the next few months. From Trinidad to Platteville to Denver, kids will have the chance to experience Colorado history in the very places it unfolded.
Apollo Peak, the Denver-based maker of Cat Wine and its aptly named canine counterpart, Dog Wine, has a new product that will hit pet-store shelves this week. It’s called Fur Loco, and it’s kind of like an energy drink for your four legged-friends who have already graduated to the hard…
Red Rocks will be playing host for two nights of electronic music when Colorado-raised EDM producer Derek Vincent Smith, better known as Pretty Lights, brings “An Episodic Festival” to Red Rocks.
Westword Music Showcase is right around the corner, and the lineup keeps getting better. Earlier this year, we announced the national acts gracing our main stage – Shakey Graves, the Revivalists, Cut Copy, Bob Moses, COIN and A R I Z O N A – as well as a handful of the locals who will be playing. Today, we’re announcing fifty more local acts who will perform at venues throughout the Golden Triangle.
This week you can welcome back an old favorite — the Denver Cruiser Ride, which starts a new, improved season on May 17 — as well as celebrate a new holiday: Colorado Public Lands Day, honoring this state’s very great outdoors. In between you can dance, drink, laugh and love. Here are the 21 best events in and around Denver May 16 through May 22.
Every weekend from now until the snow falls (and beyond), Colorado’s cultural calendar will be full of festivals, celebrating everything from light to sound to Shakespeare. Here are three favorites that were honored in the Best of Denver 2017, and will return this summer; they deserve a spot on your personal calendar.
This week, local creatives have grand entertainment in store for Denverites hunting for something to do…and in many cases, they won’t have to pay a dime.
It’s a great week for fans of Les Claypool as he’ll be with Primus at the Fox Theatre for a sold-out show tonight, at Red Rocks tomorrow, and with Sean Lennon as part of the the Claypool-Lennon Delirium on Wednesday.
The Alamo Drafthouse opened a theater at 4255 West Colfax Avenue this week, in the rapidly changing Sloan’s Lake area. This is the Texas-based chain’s second location in metro Denver, and it has blockbuster ambitions for cutting-edge programming. But at least one reader doesn’t appreciate this artistic addition to the neighborhood.
Overland Public Golf Course could host a major Superfly music festival this summer. The debate over whether that’s a good use of a golf course ignores a bigger question, says Rich Grant, who suggests that Denver consider closing some golf courses altogether and turning them into public parks for the entire city
Zengo and La Guera just closed; this reader thinks chef/owner Richard Sandoval could use a refresher course in good service.
