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Five Best Gallery Openings This Week, June 14-17

You can’t say Denver’s art scene isn’t diverse. We’ve got it all: co-ops, highbrow galleries, indies, pop-ups, street art, nonprofit programs and more. Venture out, and you’ll find a little bit of everything opening up this week.
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Three Local Spirits to Drink Now: Rum, Gin and Whiskey

Colorado's robust network of distillers keeps putting forth excellent expressions of their craft. As we round into summer, here's a trio of local spirits worth seeking out in your favorite cocktail establishment, or adding to your home bar for porch sipping or warm-weather cocktailing. Ski Bum Rum 331 Corporate Circle,...
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Best Brewery Restaurant

Westbound & DownWhat happens when a high-caliber chef like Scott Parker leaves an excellent restaurant like Table 6 and decamps for a brewery kitchen in Idaho Springs? You get a brewpub that’s worth a stop, whether you’re drinking or not. Westbound and Down deals in sports-bar classics — nachos, pretzels, chili and burgers — and each dish […]
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Zoom In Offers an Object History on This Boom Town

For all the transplants — as well as longtime Denverites who’ve forgotten their civics lessons or skipped them altogether — History Colorado is now providing a primer with Zoom In: The Centennial State in 100 Objects, an exhibit that draws from its collection to offer a true object lesson in Colorado history.
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Why Colorado Tokers Love Blueberry Headband

Similar to Church or Flo, Blueberry Headband provides an incredibly balanced indica-sativa high that relaxes the body and uplifts the mind. I prefer it mid-day or early evening thanks to its ability to melt stress and muscle tension, but I know many smokers who enjoy it before bed for the same reasons.
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Opponents of Rocky Flats Wildlife Refuge Drop a Bomb on Feds

At the fourth and final "sharing session" to discuss the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge that occupies most of the site that was once home to the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, there was on sharing. So two weeks later, opponents shared something else: a motion to stop construction of the refuge.
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Best Museum for Out-of-Towners

Clyfford Still MuseumAbstract-expressionist giant Clyfford Still had only the most casual association with Colorado, having briefly acted as a visiting artist at the University of Colorado Boulder. But a huge hunk of his life’s work is right here in Denver at the Clyfford Still Museum. So how did it wind up here? When he died, Still left […]
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Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled Skims the Civil War Past

Ever since her feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), a dreamy, diaphanous tale about the mysteries of girlhood, Sofia Coppola has ranked among the finest distillers of mood (especially languor) and milieu. Those qualities abound in The Beguiled, her sixth film, an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s Civil War–set novel of...
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Teammates Hunter Donnelly, Braylin Scott Try to Out-Douchebag Each Other

Hunter Donnelly, a now former member of the Colorado State Rams, has been both an accused perpetrator of crime and a victim of one in recent weeks. He was dismissed from school after an arrest for allegedly violating a protection order involving a former girlfriend. But he also had thousands in bling stolen from him, reportedly by a teammate, Braylin Scott, who, according to law enforcers, tried to sell the stuff on Craigslist.
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Best Restaurant That You Thought Was a Fish House

Mister TunaDenver restaurant maven Troy Guard opened Mister Tuna in the Industry building on Brighton Boulevard in the summer of 2016 to near-instant acclaim. Near-instant, that is, after first-time visitors recovered from dashed expectations that the place was a fish house, based on its fishy moniker and Guard’s Hawaiian upbringing. Sure, you’ll find a little sushi […]
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Why Is Tom Cruise Even in The Mummy?

Over the years, Tom Cruise has been many things, but he’s almost never been marginalized — not in one of his own movies. Oh, he’s played supporting parts and done cameos here and there, but even in those smaller roles (in films like Tropic Thunder or Rock of Ages), he...
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Brad Pitt and War Machine Pick at the U.S.’s Afghan Mess

With his bow-legged power-walk, low-boil narcissism and tough-guy snarl, Brad Pitt is the comic ghost in David Michod’s all-too-real War Machine. The film, which is premiering on Netflix this week (and also getting an extremely limited theatrical release), was inspired by the late Michael Hastings’s book The Operators: The Wild...
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Trevor Tice Update: No Foul Play in Tragic Death of CorePower Yoga Founder

A medical examiner has determined that the cause of CorePower Yoga founder and Denver business legend Trevor Tice's mysterious December death inside his San Diego home was accidental. It's believed that the bloody head trauma that killed him came as a result of falls that took place while he was under the influence of alcohol and assorted anti-depressants.
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David Mueller: I Did So Pay Taylor Swift $1 Judgment — With Sacagawea Coin

The ugliness that marked the dueling lawsuits between Denver DJ David Mueller and pop star Taylor Swift over an alleged butt-grabbing incident at a 2013 Pepsi Center concert has provided a predictably nasty coda. As we've reported, Swift told Time magazine that Mueller had never paid her the $1 judgement she won during an August trial, adding that she considered his failure to do so "an act of defiance" that was "symbolic in itself." But Mueller quickly fired back, insisting that he had sent her the $1 in the form of a Sacagawea coin that served as a symbol for him.