Even with so many great restaurants opening in 2016, readers were most excited about the return of an old standby: Godfather’s Pizza. But the temporary closure of a RiNo nightclub over a shooting this past fall also drew plenty of attention. Beyond that, we learned that Denverites love breakfast, brunch,…
In 2016, art imitated life. It was messy and beautiful, simultaneously serving as an escape from the world and a reflection of it. And our readers appreciated all of it. Here are the ten most popular arts stories from the past year, along with links. 1. The Lantern Festival Is Coming…
From the stories of incoming Juggalos and LoDo bros to Nathaniel Rateliff and our own nostalgic contributor and apparent ’90s teen raver Bree Davies, the music news we covered and that you ate up in 2016 was often booze soaked and stank of night sweats
.More than 220 restaurants opened in metro Denver in 2016, serving everything from Chinese hot pot to inventive American comfort food. Here are the fifteen best.
More than 220 restaurants and bars opened in metro Denver in 2016. Here’s the complete rundown of openings and closings.
Marijuana stories that prove reality is stranger than fiction.
Complicated subjects dominated cinema in 2016. Take The Lobster, a strange story about finding love (or not finding love) in the modern world, or Moonlight, in which director Barry Jenkins inspected the psyche of a gay black man growing up in poverty in south Florida. Our critics reviewed them all…
The Chateau Kittens’ budding Denver burlesque troupe decked out in cat ears and teddies rebooted the tired sexy-kitten trend in its dazzling Holiday Purrlesque Show, the group’s first performance.
Strange but true transplant stories from the past year prove that truth is definitely stranger than fiction.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — and when you want to blame someone or something for the latter in 2016, you can start here.
Looking to bring in the New Year with style? Check out this stellar lineup of concerts and events.
According to WalletHub, Denver is the fourth-best place in the country for celebrating New Year’s Eve. (By its count, Orlando rates the top slot.) But we disagree: We’re high on all the different ways you can spend December 31 in the Mile High City, from watching free fireworks to running…
For the tenth year running, the Sawaya Law Firm will pick up the New Year’s Eve tab for your cab ride home. It will actually pay your fare tonight, as well — the program runs through January 2. If you grab a cab any night over the next few days…
Many of the issues that dominated local headlines in 2015, including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, continued to be hot topics this year. But from an unpredictable, insane election to the media frenzy over the twentieth anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s death, 2016 threw…
Many of the issues that dominated local headlines in 2015, including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, continued to be hot topics this year. But from an unpredictable, insane election to the media frenzy over the twentieth anniversary of JonBenét Ramsey’s death, 2016 threw…
In late 2014, Small Wonder Food & Wine took over what had been the Coral Room at 3489 West 32nd Avenue; the West Highland eatery gave up the ghost earlier this year, leaving a glaring vacancy in a popular restaurant neighborhood. But now neighbors can get a taste of something…
No. 31: Chicken Tenders at the Fainting Goat Chicken tenders aren’t just for kids — not at the Fainting Goat, a great downhome bar at 846 Broadway that makes its own tenders. A $10 order gets you five big pieces of actual chicken, hand-breaded to order, then fried, along with…
Denver is the country’s fourth-best place for New Year’s Eve, according to WalletHub. Who tops the Mile High City? Orlando (number one), San Francisco (two) and Atlanta; Gilbert, Arizona, holds down the sad hundredth-best spot. The rankings are all based strictly on science, of course. “In order to identify the…
Even the best skier or snowboarder has been on a chairlift and had this fleeting thought: “I could fall off this thing.” That nightmare scenario became a reality for Seth Beckton in January, when Thomas Proesel pushed the snowboarder off an Aspen Highlands chairlift after Beckton made a casual comment…
Ring in the new year with a tasty dinner at Cart-Driver, then put on your dancing shoes for Decadence 2016.
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the death of JonBenét Ramsey on December 26, 1996. Many of the issues that dominated local headlines this year — including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, and an increasingly crazy election — were all too easy to…
Killswitch Engage and Anthrax bring their co-headlining Killthrax tour to the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, April 28.
