It’s Colorado Gives Day, which means your phone and inbox are full of messages from non-profits across Colorado, urging you to donate today. Illegal Pete’s in LoDo is making it particularly easy to do good while also eating good food. From 5 to 11 p.m. tonight, this outpost of the…
Whether you’re into comedy, food and beer tastings, cannabis, history, or checking out new venues in town, this week’s 21 best events have you covered.
Since Guns N’ Roses frontman Alx Rose reunited with original guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagen at Coachella in April, the band has gone on to to hit the road with Not In This Lifetime Tour, which stops in at Sports Authority Field on Wednesday, August 2, 2017. The tour sold…
Denver’s annual Santa Pub Crawl was hatched in 2002 with a handful of intrepid Saint Nick impersonators who gathered to partake in some festive day drinking — and to donate toys to families in need. The tradition caught on, and these days more than 2,000 people participate, dressed as old…
The annual Parade of Lights lit up the streets of Denver this past weekend, a traffic-snarling tradition that delights even the biggest Scrooges. The parade featured lowrider cars, balloons, decorated horses and trash trucks and a special appearance from Santa himself. It all ended up at the Denver City &…
PARTYNEXTDOOR and Jeremih are at the Fillmore tomorrow night, while Alice in Winterland, featuring Fitz & the Tantrums and Gavin DeGraw, is at the venue on Thursday. Producer Illenium (aka Nick Miller) takes over the Ogden Theatre for two nights. This week’s lineup also includes Rooney, the Revivalists and Kristin…
The Arvada Center for the Arts’s holiday show, I’ll Be Home for Christmas, is a world premiere — but that doesn’t mean its world-class. In fact, I’ll Be Home for Christmas is nothing to write home about, according to reviewer Juliet Wittman. But one reader disagrees. Says Susan: Are you…
On the night before Thanksgiving, the Cherry Cricket — the iconic, seventy-year-old burger joint in Cherry Creek — suffered a kitchen fire that shuttered the Cricket. And while the current owner, Breckenridge-Wynkoop Holdings, was already in the process of turning Breck on Blake, a former brewpub at 2200 Blake Street, into…
Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of Interior – a position that hugely impacts the West, especially – is just one of a few stories we’ve followed lately about different environmental issues that are heating up as of late, from the I-70 expansion to Rocky Flats.
On Sunday, November 27, runners in the eighteenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run/Walk and their supporters started the morning at Riverside Cemetery, where descendants honored Captain Silas Soule, who refused to participate in the action that resulted in the killing of 200 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho at Sand…
The thrill of so many exciting restaurant openings — and there were plenty this fall — can be tempered by news that one of our favorites didn’t make it. But things other than bad food or bad business can doom an eatery. A kitchen fire shuttered the Cherry Cricket —…
On Wednesday, November 30, an angel from New Jersey graced the Tattered Cover. Bruce Springsteen stopped by the Colfax Avenue outpost to promote his new book, Born to Run. Tickets to the pictures-only event (no autographs or performances), were hard to come by. But for those lucky ticket-holders, it was…
This week we chomped our way through more than our share of fried chicken, as Gretchen Kurtz’s mouthwatering description of the bird at Steuben’s Arvada, which she reviewed this week, prompted us to update our list of the ten best fried chicken joints in town. Chicken also tempted us through…
Last call for listings!! By the time the clock strikes twelve on January 1, 2017, will your restaurant have struck out on getting all that holiday business? Not if it’s in our annual New Year’s Eve guide. If you have anything special planned for December 31, we want to know…
The lineup for this year’s channel 93.3’s Not So Silent Night includes Empire of the Sun, Kaleo, the Strumbellas, JR JR and 888 while Drive-By Truckers’ Mike Cooley is at Larimer Lounge for a two-night performance and Mike Watt & the Secondmen hit Lion’s Lair for two nights. My Morning Jacket’s…
Schmuck of the Week honorees need to do a little something extra to stand out from the pack. And committing an offense in a way that lets everyone know who did it definitely qualifies. That was the case with several students at Fort Lewis College in Durango, who not only…
Restaurant openings in November started out slow but then came on strong, far outpacing the closings. But there were a few surprise shutterings, including the Cherry Cricket and the Inventing Room, both of which plan to reopen in 2017. Here’s our complete list of restaurant and bar openings and closing…
Elton John brings his eleven-city tour in support of his latest album, Wonderful Crazy Night, to the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs on Thursday, March 16. The show will also include classic album tracks from his five-decade-long career. Tickets go on sale on Friday, December 9, at 10 a.m…
This week’s Denver dining scene brings something new to the Ballpark neighborhood with brunch at Latigo; seasonal fireside cocktails at the Hotel Teatro; and a chance to give to a great cause while enjoying food and drinks out on the town. Keep reading for the details of each. Dining Out…
It’s beginning to feel a lot like December, which is why this week’s 21 best events list is packed with all things cold weather, including a hockey game, the Holiday Flea and a screening of It’s a Wonderful Life. Keep reading for more things to do this week and beyond!…
The home of the original Spicy Pickle, which opened in 1999 at 988 Lincoln Street, is vacant once again with the closing of RT Cafe & Bar, which opened in the space two years ago, nearly to the day. The spot started out as a breakfast restaurant but soon added dinner…
Denver got lit on Friday, November 25, when the Grand Illumination flipped the switch on holiday decor downtown, where lights glowed from the Denver City and County Building to Union Station, and all along the 16th Street Mall. The lights will stay on through the holidays (they looked great on…
