You send us your questions and every week, our resident stoner answers them. He’s told you everything from how to pass a drug test to where you can stash pot at concerts. We’ve rounded up the ten most popular Ask a Stoner questions of 2016 (most of them from this…
Our restaurant critic, Gretchen Kurtz, took much of 2016 off — but she returned in August revitalized after her sabbatical. And a good thing, too, because restaurants continue to open at an unprecedented pace in metro Denver. Her mission remains the same: to visit a restaurant anonymously — and more…
Let’s face it: Between a holiday debacle that left pissed passengers stranded in various airports, an investigation into possible gender discrimination, and continued ridiculous fees, it’s hard to have faith in Frontier Airlines these days. The Denver-based carrier has fallen from a once-trusted airline to nearly dead last in every…
As the year comes to an end, we’ve started looking back at the best of what Denver chefs and restaurateurs brought to the table in 2016. Gretchen Kurtz chalked up her final restaurant review of the year — and it was a good one. Read what impressed our critic about…
What will be the best restaurant to open in Denver in 2016? We just rolled out our list of the best restaurants that debuted before December, and several more contenders have opened in the last few weeks. But some readers already have favorites. Robert is a fan of Matsuhisa, and…
If Christian Shearer had simply parked his vehicles in a place where they didn’t block a snow plow, he would have avoided the felony drug charges that made him our latest choice as Schmuck of the Week.
This weekend’s concerts are all about the holidays.
Broken Shovels Farm is a special place: Andrea Davis’s patch of land at 8640 Dahlia Street in Commerce City holds an artisanal cheesery, working goat farm, animal shelter, petting zoo, concert venue and rural pocket of love. On December 18, it was a very snowy, cold pocket — but the…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year — especially if you’re helping others and having fun at the same time. And that’s what folks were doing Monday night at Retrograde, the bar tucked behind Frozen Matter that ranks as one of our ten best new bars of 2016. A…
Chic’s Nile Rodgers, the producer behind Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” and David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” will be receiving an award for musical excellence.
Whether or not you celebrate the holidays, we’ve got an event for you.
Denver rapper Trev Rich’s new album, To Make a Long Story Short, released by the hip-hop powerhouse label Ca$h Money Records hit stereos yesterday.
The Original Chubby’s on West 38th Avenue just opened a brand new dining room and kitchen over the weekend that replaces the tiny, takeout-only joint operated first by Stella Cordova and then by her grandson, Danny, over the past fifty years. But another grandson, Julian, has opened and closed a…
It never quite feels like the holidays until Christmas lights start twinkling around Denver and the Denver City & County Building glows like a color-blind kid’s birthday cake. Many of the biggest light displays in town have already kicked off, including downtown Denver’s Grand Illumination, but there are still more to come. Keep reading for where you can get lit through Christmas.
Seinfeld has been off the air for nearly twenty years, but gags from the show still live on. The fifth annual Denver Beer Festivus, held on Saturday, December 17, celebrated the alternative holiday observance created by character George Costanza’s dad, who wanted “a Festivus for the rest of us” to…
What’s scarier than I-25 in a snowstorm? Krampus, a Haunted Christmas, which took over the home of the 13th Floor Haunted House, at 4120 Brighton Boulevard, for two nights of a very scary Christmas this past weekend. Photographer Brandon Marshall braved the elements to bring back these pictures of a…
Remember Wurstküche? The sausage emporium out of Los Angeles was one of the first restaurants to close in 2016, but hardly the most memorable. Since it lasted less than a year, we barely got to know the place before it shuttered. But sadly, some of our favorites spots around town, from…
The New Orleans-based Rebirth Brass Band funks up the Bluebird Theater for two nights this week while Grammy-winning gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama perform Christmas songs at the L2 Church tonight and Celtic Woman teams up with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra tomorrow for an evening of holiday favorites at Boettcher Concert Hall. Also, the Denver Noise Fest is at Globe Hall on Wednesday, December 21, and Thursday, December 22.
Gretchen Kurtz recently reviewed the Steuben’s that opened in a former Gunther Toody’s in Arvada earlier this year. Not only did she find it a worthy, smart addition to Josh Wolkon’s Secret Sauce group of local restaurants, but the fried chicken immediately joined that of the original Steuben’s on East…
From the DEA’s recent reclassification of CBD to a tasty cannabis-infused granola bar recipe, here are ten stories we’ve recently written about marijuana.
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, honored for her work pushing and promoting Denver’s arts scene as a member of Westword’s first class of MasterMinds in 2005, took a break from writing about The Mayday Experiment, her tiny-house project, to pen a defense of DIY in the wake of the Ghost Ship fire and the…
Denver’s population was exploding long before recreational marijuana was legalized in late 2012; in November 2011, William Frey of the Brookings Institute said that U.S. Census figures from 2008 through 2010 showed that the Denver was the top destination for millennials. And not just millennials; people were moving to the…
