Chefs for the Cause sounded like a philanthropic foodie’s delight — six of Denver’s top chefs creating delicious food to help raise money for the Denver affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. James Mazzio (of Cucina Colore and Via fame, now executive chef of Le Chateau), Justin Cucci…
Once upon a time, a man named Noah Alper created a little bagel company called Noah’s New York Bagels; it grew up to become Einstein’s Bagels. The man behind Einstein’s is also an author who wrote Business Mensch, and Alper will be speaking at 7:30 a.m. today at a breakfast…
To mark the fifth annual Denver International Wine Festival, set for November 12 and 13, Mayor John Hickenlooper has pronounced this Denver Wine Week. The festivities kick off today at Cilantro Fusion, the new restaurant at 1531 Stout Street, at an event sponsored by Loire Valley. The big tasting is…
Talk about an ideal pairing: classic cars and beer from some of Colorado’s best breweries. Making the match even better is the fact that tonight’s Hops for Hopes at the Lemay Auto Museum (11100 West Eighth Avenue in Lakewood) benefits the SCI Recovery Project, which provides exercise-based recovery programs for…
Have you ever had a meal where the food and the atmosphere meld so perfectly that you experience culinary epiphany? That’s what tonight’s Local Color, Local Flavor event at Bacaro, 921 Pearl Street in Boulder, is aiming for. Bacaro’s new chef, Fabio Flagiello, has created a four-course menu to complement…
“I think it sounds fun to dress up like woodsmen and march down Colfax,” says Kiki Nichols, who organized tonight’s All Jacked Up Lumberjack Colfax Crawl. And it’s hard to argue with her premise; it does sound like fun. It also sounds eminently doable: Almost everybody has a plaid flannel…
The womyn at Vox Feminista have legacy on the brain. No surprise there, considering 2009 marks the twentieth year that Vox has been comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable with its unique brand of activist theater. And the performers are pulling out all the stops with The Velocity of…
If you’ve attended previous incarnations of the fashion-show collaboration between Debi Belk (lele knits), Laura Woodward (Garden Girl) and Jil Cappuccio, you might have gotten the impression that the fashionistas designed their collections together, complementing one another. Actually, that’s not the case at all, reveals Belk. “Laura doesn’t necessarily know…
Things are looking up Down Under, judging from the array of Australian wines you’ll be tasting at tonight’s Innocent Bystander Wine Dinner at Restaurant 4580, at 4580 Broadway in Boulder. The four-course dinner is paired with wines from Innocent Bystander Winery, and includes vegetarian and gluten-free options for each course…
Our online Food & Drink listings include dozens of culinary events around Colorado this week, with benefits for March of Dimes and Project Angel Heart, as well as the University of Denver’s inaugural DU Vin Festival. A taste of what’s ahead: Through November 5: Jax Fish House in Boulder, 928…
Jason Sheehan enjoyed the food at Organixx — and now the natural eatery is making its food even more enjoyable, with an economic stimulus deal starting today and running through November. This month, you can get a salad, sandwich or combination lunch for only $7.95 — more than a buck…
Third-generation Napa Valley winemaker Marc Mondavi is coming to the Broker Restaurant, 821 17th Street, tonight to host an evening of wine-tasting from 7 to 9 p.m. Mondavi will share his knowledge while attendees sample Charles Krug wines and heavy hors d’ouevre. Attendance costs $125; call 303-446-4815 or visit www.thebrokerrestaurant.com…
Go on a bar crawl with a long-dead cinema star tonight when Matthew Martin, Bette Davis impersonator extraordinaire, leads a Bette Davis Bar Crawl in anticipation of the October 30 Awful Things in Denver party being thrown by the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life. The crawl starts at 8…
The freshly reunited Grateful Dead cover band One Kind Favor has decided to resurrect the Dead for one night only: Halloween, naturally. When One Kind Favor was playing regularly years ago, explains Swallow Hill’s Rudy Betancourt, “American Beauty was one of their warhorses. They’d play the entire album front to…
If you’re sick of being stuck in an orgy of candy and costumes, you should know that the origins of Halloween were about communicating with the dead. And today, those who want to get a little more spiritual oomph out of their Halloween can head to Isis Books & Gifts…
Fresh City Life’s big blowout bash Awful Things in Denver begins tomorrow at the Tivoli Turnhalle Opera House on the Auraria campus. The annual fundraiser raises money for the Denver Public Library’s adult cultural programming. But the fun starts tonight with a Bette Davis Bar Crawl, which kicks off at…
There’s a certain strangeness, à la M.C. Escher, in attending an event to help raise funds for a charitable theater organization that is in turn raising funds for non-profit groups through its stage productions. But that’s what will happen tonight at the Pumpkin Patch Cabaret, hosted by the Rocky Mountain…
Fuhgeddabout vampires and zombies — mobsters are really scary, and they really exist. Parisi, 4401 Tennyson Street, is celebrating the season Godfather-style with tonight’s Halloween Community Table. Dress in your best mob gear and enjoy an array of traditional East Coast Italian-American fare. The meal is $30; call 303-561-0234 and…
Celebrate a one-year-old’s birthday with drinking and debauchery! The Tavern Wash Park turns one today, and is offering $1 Shock Top Belgian white beers and a complimentary buffet — which will include the Tavern’s always-popular Kobe beef sliders — plus chances to win a gift card good at any Tavern…
You could be surprised by who’s at your service tonight at Celebrity Server Night at Maggiano’s Little Italy, 500 16th Street. If you purchase a table for ten, you can choose your celebrity server — but if you buy tickets for a smaller group or an individual dinner ticket, you’ll…
Put your money where your mouth is tonight at the annual Simmer & Stir for the Cure, which runs from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Kimball Distributing, 1400 West Third Avenue. The $30 ticket gets you in the door for chef demonstrations, wine tastings and more; all proceeds will…
Lorrie Moore might be best known for her short stories and essays — which have appeared in such prestigious publications as The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories of the Century — but her novels are nothing to sneeze at, either. Her latest long work, A Gate at…
