Best Shows in Denver for Thanksgiving Week, November 21-27, 2016

The Fray, who released Through the Years: the Best of the Fray earlier this month, play an intimate show at the Fox Theatre on Friday, November 25 before headlining 1STBANK Center the following night. Leftover Salmon performs the music of Neil Young at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox on Friday, November 25 and headlines the Fillmore Auditorium the following night with Los Lobos opening. This week’s lineup also includes FIDLAR, 12th Annual Last Waltz – Revisited, Paper Bird and Snow Tha Product.

The Best Concerts in Denver This Weekend, November 18-20, 2016

Charleston, South Carolina’s Shovels & Rope is at the Ogden Theatre for two nights this weekend while Rufus du Sol and Faceman also have two-night stands. This weekend’s lineup also includes Life Aquatic’s Tribute to David Bowie featuring Seu Jorge at the Gothic, Darlingside at L2 Church,  Glen Phillips at Swallow Hill, the Posies at the Oriental Theatre, Andy McKee at the Soiled Dove Underground. See the full list of our picks below.

What to Do on Colorado’s Ski Slopes in November 2016

Depending on how you look at things, we either got a lovely extended fall or were robbed of primo skiing due to unseasonably warm weather. If you fall in the latter camp, you’ll be glad to know that resorts are finally opening – and offering more than ever this year.

Bruno Mars, New Kids on the Block and Every New Denver Concert Announcement

Bruno Mars, who set to release his new album on Friday, brings his 24K Magic World tour to the Pepsi Center on Monday, October 30; tickets ($49.50-$150) go on sale on Monday, November 21, at 10 a.m. New Kids on the Block headline the Total Package tour at Pepsi Center on Saturday, June 10, with Boyz II Men and Paula Abdul; tickets ($29.95-$199.95) go on sale on Saturday, November 19, at 10 a.m. As we announced earlier this week, Sting will be at the Fillmore Auditorium on Tuesday, February 14, and Devendra Banhart is coming to the Boulder Theater on Friday, February 3.

Pearl’s Launches Indiegogo Campaign to Stay Open

Nearly a year ago, Pearl’s opened at 603 East 13th Avenue in the space that been the Beauty Bar for the last five years and a longtime home of the Snake Pit before that. Mike Barnhart, who was a co-owner of the Beauty Bar, and Tucker Schwab, a Beauty Bar bartender and manager, opened Pearl’s with a dance club in one room and a neighborhood bar in another room. But now they’re trying to keep the venue afloat with an Indiegogo campaign to raise $60,000 over the next twelve days.

The 21 Best Events in Denver, November 15-21

Denver may not have seen any snow, but there’s been a flurry of activity around town. In fact, the metro area is buried in great events — large and small, intimate and extravagant, upscale and downhome. Keep reading for the 21 best events in Denver this week. Tuesday, November 15…

Top Ten Things to Know About Terpenes

Want to design your own high? Pay attention to the newest area of cannabis research: terpenes. These essential oils give each cannabis strain the unique smell, flavor and taste that you’ve come to love (or hate). Terpenes also offer special medicinal and therapeutic benefits that help with everything from insomnia…

Photos: Anointed BBQ & Soul Food Hosts Neighborhood Service Day

Good food, good cause: Mo Jones opened Anointed BBQ & Soul Food at 2504 West Hampden Road three months ago — but keeping the fires burning hasn’t kept him from his commitment to the community. The founder of Hedges & Highway Outreach Ministries, which helps youth and homeless individuals, Jones…

Sting Coming to the Fillmore, Devendra Banhart Headline Boulder Theater

Sting, who teamed up with Peter Gabriel at the Pepsi Center last July, returns to the area but at the much more intimate Fillmore Auditorium on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14. The tour is in support of the singer and bassist’s brand new album, 57th & 9th, and features his longtime guitarist Dominic Miller, drummer Josh Freese and guitarist Rufus Miller.

Michael Hancock Announces Mayor’s Arts & Culture Awards

Mayor Michael Hancock has been busy honoring the people and places that make Denver great. On November 10, he handed out the Mayor’s Design awards; today he named the 2016 recipients of the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture at a luncheon at the McNichols Civic Center Building…

100 Favorite Dishes: Mile High Nachos at Racines

No. 40: Mile High Nachos at Racines Racines is Denver’s go-to restaurant, a place where diverse groups of diners have gathered for more than three decades, always with the knowledge that there will be something for everyone on its menu. And, in fact, one menu item could feed just about…

Mayors Design Awards Recipients Include Denver Restaurant Projects

At a ceremony on November 10, Mayor Michael Hancock and Brad Buchanan, executive director of Denver Community Planning and Development, honored seventeen projects for excellence in architecture, design and place-making at the 2016 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony. Several of those projects house restaurants, and one, the home of Torchy’s, might…

Aoba Sushi Leaves the Crowded LoDo Pool

Back in 2012, permitting glitches delayed the opening of Aoba Sushi at 1520 Blake Street, in the former home of Organixx (an,d for two decades before that, the Egg Shell) — and in the meantime, LoDo was flooded with plans for other sushi spots, including Hapa Sushi next door at…