- Denver Westword

While they didn't expect the mayor to solve all their problems in a day, west Denver residents, including children, told Mayor Mike Johnston at a town hall on Thursday, May 2, that he could at least provide more lighting and fencing to combat growing concerns with homelessness and drug use in their […]

“Seeing how the sausage is made” has long been an idiom for behind-the-scenes unpleasantness, but that’s not the case at Lottie’s Meats & Provisions, one of Denver’s newest purveyors of porky goodness. Sisters Cassie and Chelsey Maschhoff — whose family has […]

What do most Colorado new play festivals — including the Denver Center's New Play Summit, Local Theater Company's Local Lab and Durango PlayFest — have in common? Although the events are local, the majority of the writers come from out of state…

Once a hot spot for line, square and swing dancing with live country-Western bands, Stampede has taken on a new role as a club for Latin genres like rancho, banda, regional Mexican, Norteño and cumbia under the ownership of Chris Swank. Swank also owns Denver's best Latin dance […]

Since April 25, students at the Auraria campus in downtown Denver have set up a pro-Palestine solidarity encampment to protest the actions of Israel since an October attack by the terrorist group Hamas. The students want the University of Colorado, Denver and Metropolitan State University to cut […]

Westword's Burger Week is coming back, with seven days' worth of special burgers for just $7 each. Our second annual Burger Week starts Monday, May 6, and runs through Sunday, May 12…

The temperature's rising as we head into the weekend and the calendar is heating up, too. The next few days are packed with First Friday, May the Fourth (and Free Comic Book Day), the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo events, so be prepared!…

Did you mean to stock up on 4/20 weekend, but then you got high? (Or maybe you just didn't want to wait in long lines at the store.)…

By the time Shae District took the stage at Zodiac Hause on April 22, the room was buzzing with energy. Even before the musicians played a note, the duo's vision had created that precursory excitement…

Fans know Denver DJ and music producer Mersiv for his trademark “pretty dark loud” sound filled with heavy, free-form bass beats that he’s pioneered and perfected over the last decade. That sound has allowed Anderson Benoit Gallegos, the man behind the deck, to create his own […]

All it took was a lot of melted cheese for Matthew James to combine his passions into a successful business. He started out in Ontario, Canada, but his father's career as a civil engineer often demanded relocation, eventually taking the family to North Carolina…

Even Donald Trump isn't MAGA enough for the Colorado Republican Party. The Colorado GOP made the controversial decision to endorse candidates in the June 25 election, breaking a decades-long tradition of staying neutral in primaries…

This first weekend of May is packed with activities, from Kentucky Derby parties to First Friday art bashes to Cinco de Mayo celebrations and even Star Wars soirées. See our lineup of free events here, and keep reading for ten events worth the price of admission:…

Deion Sanders is continuing to try and save face on social media — posting multiple posts throughout the day on Wednesday, May 1, and Thursday, May 2, in defense of himself and the University of Colorado football program — after becoming public enemy number one in college football this […]

On Kentucky Derby day, this former cowtown is all about horses...and mint juleps, of course. Denver will be overflowing with parties that offer a chance to not only watch the ponies at Churchill Downs, but to catch the action with all kinds of animals...including humans in big hats…

Denver is the second-best city in the country for clean energy in a ranking of the 75 largest cities in the United States. According to the latest American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) ranking of the 75 largest United States cities, Denver has improved its clean-energy efforts in […]

Dear Stoner: My friend and I were visiting Lake Tahoe and decided to try weed for the first time, so we went to a dispensary. The budtender recommended twenty-milligram THC candies and a gram of hash rosin because they were "the best."…

Under the afternoon sun on a dry patch of land at the end of April,  Arthur Infante bounced back and forth across a dusty migrant encampment he set up in March, getting people air pumps, tent stakes, propane tanks, water jugs, heating equipment and bubbles for the kids. "The interesting thing […]

As the local brewery scene continues to evolve and grow, we're rounding up the news you need to know. Here's the latest:…

On a recent Friday, Zodiac Hause was brimming with the kind of nightlife energy you'd encounter at a camp in Black Rock City. The bass from the back room was palpable as glittery club-goers queued up for drinks at the front bar, gathering supplies before surrendering to the spacious dance […]

"I just want to scream it," says Brian Murphy, who is excited to have found a permanent home for his chopped cheese food truck. Big Apple Bodega is set to open in late May at 2231 South Broadway…

Lumonics Light and Sound Gallery has been around for decades, ever since artists Mel and Dorothy Tanner started working with light sculptures and sound to create immersive experiences back in 1969. Dubbed "Lumonics," the unique art form was conceived to engage multiple senses — primarily […]

Smashburgers are seemingly everywhere right now — including all over our list of the ten best burgers in Denver — and we're trying to eat through as many options as possible. In April, we checked out two that proved to be top-notch, though they're very different…

For many artists — glassblowers, painters, sculptors, you name it — there comes a time when they want complete control over how their work is seen and displayed in public. For Matt Selbovitz, known to high-end pipe and art collectors as Elbo, that time is now, even as talks of the […]

On April 27, embattled Grateful Dead venue and brewery So Many Roads announced that it was closing. Officially…