News of closings overshadowed openings this week, especially with the loss of the Squeeze Inn (one of the city’s tiniest bars, which is now gone from our list of the ten best dive bars) and La Loma, which closed its doors on Monday after 35 years at the same address…
Denver’s dive bars are an endangered species. As developments continue to move into formerly forbidden territory, many lowbrow watering holes have dried up – or been cleaned up into welcoming neighborhood joints, and sometimes even renovated beyond recognition.
Budweiser Fear Fest is about as close to a pop-up haunted house as you’ll find in these parts. Located in an old Budweiser bottling plant at 4375 Brighton Boulevard, the late-night music event features zombies from the 13th Floor Haunted House.
Although we write about Denver food and restaurants for a living, we’re just like you: we have to eat — generally three meals a day, every day. Sometimes that means cooking at home, sometimes it means an extravagant dinner out for a special occasion. Often it means just popping into…
Emily’s Coffee, a refugee job-training program run by the Language Learning Center of Emily Griffith Technical College in the lobby of the Emily Griffith Campus at 1860 Lincoln Street, is celebrating its fifth anniversary by giving you the present: $1 drinks today. The coffee shop was designed to provide more…
There are a ton of Halloween shows and parties this weekend, including Widespread Panic’s three-night run at the 1STBANK Center, DeVotchKa’s annual Halloween run on Friday and Saturday at the Boulder Theater, the Infamous Stringdusters’ Big Top Halloween at the Fillmore Auditorium, Cherub at Red Rocks and Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe performing Prince’s Dirty Mind with Fishbone’s Angelo Moore. Also on tap this weekend are Joan Baez, Gang of Four, Screaming Females and the Sword. See the full list of our picks below.
Today’s Schmuck of the Week selection is multi-faceted. It’s both a schmucky salute to Derreck DeWitt, an alleged serial burglar currently living in the Grand Junction area, and a reminder to possible future Schmucks that DNA can stick to anything. Even a rock. Despite his relative youth, the twenty-year-old DeWitt,…
New Wave has gone country. Yesterday members of long-running rock band the Pretenders stopped in to Rockmount Ranch Wear, the downtown Denver purveyor of classic Western wear that frequently draws celebrity visitors. “We never know who is going to walk in the door,” Steve Weil, president of Rockmount Ranch Wear,…
Denver Restaurant Week, the annual discount dinner program put on by Visit Denver at the end of every winter, has seen tweaks and changes over the past dozen years. But one thing that has remained constant has been the pricing structure. While the per-person price went up a few years…
Last month, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds released the dark and deeply poignant album Skeleton Tree, along with the album’s companion film, One More Time With Feeling. Cave and company will stop at the Paramount Theatre on Sunday, June 18 as part of a nineteen-city North American tour. Tickets go on sale…
Lunch is getting just a little better in Denver, starting tomorrow with a lunchtime pop-up at Mister Tuna and a sushi giveaway at P.F. Chang’s. And one of our favorite barbecue spots will soon add Friday lunch. Keep reading for the details on all three. Mister Tuna 3033 Brighton Boulevard…
Glass is infinitely recyclable, so it’s easy to imagine that all those bottles and jars you put out at the curb every week are headed off to be melted down and remade — baby-food jar into baby-food jar, beer bottle into beer bottle, forever and ever, amen. But as Melanie…
Hundreds of runners went ape at the thirteenth annual Gorilla Run on October 22. This year, the event benefiting the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund moved from downtown Denver to Westminster, where the 5K fun run/walk wound up at the Westin Westminster for a vine-swinging Silverback After Party. Monkey see, monkey…
Denver’s best dive bars are an endangered species, and the city just lost another one: The Squeeze Inn. This was a classic dive, a tiny, single-room lounge with checker-tiled floors and red vinyl seats, set at the back of a large lot with a barely visible sign. And now it’s…
Last week, the Pretenders released the Dan Auerbach-produced album Alone, the band’s first album since 2008’s Break Up the Concrete. Fans who purchase the album at Twist & Shout (at the in-store register, not online) can get a wristband to see the Pretenders play an acoustic set at the store at 7…
The sun was shining in downtown Denver on Saturday, October 22, but the good weather didn’t keep a horde of zombies — thousands of zombies — from overrunning the 16th Street Mall. Here’s what it looked like at Ground Zero on the mall, courtesy photographer Aaron Thackeray. Now see the…
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the philosophy that inspired Denver International Airport to not only acknowledge all the conspiracy theories that started flying even before the new airport opened two decades ago, but celebrate them. As part of the fun, last week DIA hosted a costume party…
Be still, tween hearts across the Front Range. No, really, be still. Charlie Puth, the pop singer-songwriter behind the single “Marvin Gaye” and the hook of massive Wiz Khalifa hit “See You Again,” has fallen ill and cancelled the rest of his current tour — including his scheduled show on…
Menu changes around town this month include a few unique offerings, from a Yucatecan specialty called a panucho at Sol Cocina to a miracle berry-tasting menu at the Inventing Room to a brunch beverage bar straight out of the Big Lebowski. Keep reading to see what’s up at these three…
The witching hour is nigh, which means it’s prime time for exploring haunted houses — including City of the Dead, a 30,000 square-foot Henderson haunt overrun by the most horrific zombies the metro area has to offer. City of the Dead is open nightly through Halloween; for information and tickets, $22.99…
While there are a pair of huge shows at the Pepsi Center — Tool and Stevie Nicks — this week, there are a lot of other shows on tap this week that are just as worthy, whether it be Nelly, Margo Price, Meshuggah, Marillion or LVL UP. See our full list…
La Loma, one of Denver’s most popular Mexican restaurants, will turn out the lights for the last time tonight at its Jefferson Park home after a Denver Broncos tailgate party and dinner service. The eatery, which has been serving thick green chile, crispy chile rellenos and hearty combo plates since…
