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100 Favorite Dishes: Belgian Waffles from Waffle Up

No. 52: Belgian Waffles at Waffle Up 300 Elati Street 303-744-0174 In the streets of Brussels and many other Belgian cities, waffle vendors perfume the air with the aroma of yeast-risen batter and caramelized sugar. Tom McCarty fell in love with Liege-style waffles and perfected the recipe, bring the treats...
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Photos: Ten Bizarre Denver Terms on Urban Dictionary

This past summer, we shared our picks for the most memorable definitions of "Denver" on Urban Dictionary. But there are plenty of other Denver-oriented terms that are even more bizarre. Some are so disgusting we would feel wrong subjecting you to them: Look up "Denver Mudslide" only if you enjoy...
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Slim Cessna’s Auto Club Rang in 2015 With a Gothic Sermon

In a New Year's concert filled with country-gothic murder ballads and tent-revival doomsday sermons, Slim Cessna's Auto Club singer Munly Munly put on the creepiest performance of the night. Duded up in all black, Munly played the slightly unhinged sidekick to Slim Cessna's country preacher on Wednesday, stalking around the...
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Review: It’s Smooth Sailing With The Unsinkable Molly Brown

The Unsinkable Molly Brown is one of the Denver Center Theatre Company's most ambitious productions in its thirty-year history: The company has spared neither pains nor expense in having Meredith Willson's 1960 musical reworked and remounted -- and the results are impressive. See also: The Unsinkable Margaret Brown Was a...
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Mom Tries to Save Son From Death Penalty Even Though He Killed Her Parents

The debate over the death penalty couldn't be more personal for the mother of Brendan Johnson. In June 2014, Johnson and his then-girlfriend, Cassie Rieb, were arrested and charged in the murders of his grandfather and grandmother, Charles and Shirley Severance, in the eastern Colorado community of Sterling. A few months later, prosecutors...
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Theater Options for the Week of December 18

Anything Goes. Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included P. G. Wodehouse, had moved on,...
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The Eleven Best Concerts in Colorado This Weekend

It's a busy weekend in Colorado -- local favorite Railroad Earth is in town, the Toasters' tour heads south and there's plenty more. Our picks for the best shows over the next few days are below. See also: 50 Photos That Prove Red Rocks Is the Most Beautiful Venue on...
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Art in Action

Most of the year, Britt Madden of the Banshee Press printmaking studio handles big loads of finely crafted commercial work that's artful if not always actual art. But she's decided to have some fun this month – during what she calls her “down season” -- by collaborating with a handpicked...
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Introducing the 2015 Westword Music Award Nominees: Vote Now!

We held the first Westword Music Awards 21 years ago, in 1995. There were 55 nominees on the ballot that year, including such enduring names as Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Ron Miles and Tim O’Brien. There was a lot of great music being made in Colorado then, just as there...
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Justin Hale: Boyfriend Acquitted of Murder in One-Year-Old’s Death

Update below: Some deaths are so brutal, so shocking to the public conscience, that they seem to cry out for retribution. That seemed to be the case in the fatal trauma suffered by thirteen-month-old Brookelynn Palmer, whose head injuries were so severe that prosecutors maintained she must have been swung...
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The Story of the Man Behind Boulder’s Last Great Record Store

“There was a time when there was a thriving music scene in Boulder. At least [there were] a lot of record stores and shows, places with interesting music,” says filmmaker Dan Schneidkraut, whose feature-length documentary Old Man — about his father, Andy Schneidkraut, and his iconic record shop, Albums on...
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The Eleven Best Shows in Colorado This Week

We hope you're enjoying Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We'll be back to our full slate of commentary, news and concert coverage tomorrow -- for now, we've got a few shows to recommend. This is a great week in Colorado, with bands ranging from notorious metal outfit Mayhem to the...