Best Heavy-Metal Club Bottoms Up Tavern.Best After-Hours Club Enigma Afterhours.Best Summer Bar for Gay Men and Women Fox Hole Lounge.Best Gay Bar for Straight Men Charlie's.Best Traveling Gay Theme Night Denver Guerrilla Queers.Best Place to Pick Up an Artist Funky Buddha Lounge.Best Place to Pick Up a Guy Diamond Cabaret.Best Dance Club for Hooking Up Alley Cat Night Club.Best Dance Club for Looking Up Club Purple.Best Dance Club for Dancing During Reconstruction Starline Lounge.Best Place to Watch The Simpsons William's Tavern.Best Dance Club for Dancing Before the Roof Fell In Vinyl.Best Approximation of Love Story by a Boulder Author God-Shaped Hole.Mostly, we love that Twist & Shout remains an actual family-style store - complete with in-house cat! They shake it up, baby.
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We also love Paul's willowy white hair, the ample listening stations, the Little Homies for sale. (The Flaming Lips and Elvis Costello are recent drop-ins.) It's one of the few outlets where local musicians are invited to sell their merchandise without the hassle of consignment. It regularly hosts in-store performances by artists stopping through town on tour.
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Why do we love it so? For starters, Twist has the city's best selection of new CDs from artists both mainstream and totally remote. Of course, if members of the Twist staff were feeling a little smug, we couldn't blame them: Fifteen years after vowing to cultivate the best record store in Denver, owner Paul Epstein and his wife, Jill, preside over a rarified retail gem. Lurking around every one of Twist & Shout's cash registers, display racks and merchandise cases are employees who'll share a little - or a lot - of what they know without the music-snob sneer.