When you’re looking for a quick breakfast — coffee for one hand, sandwich or bagel for the other — and you want it meat-free, Hi Rise is an excellent choice if you’re near the Ballpark neighborhood. The coffee, bagels and breakfast sandwiches are all superb; service is fast; there’s seating…
Kosherie is a Middle Eastern dish comprising lentils, pasta, rice and a spicy, tomato-based sauce, topped with fried onions. This version (recipe adapted from Moosewood New Classics) features fried shallots instead, just to switch things up. Although this dish requires a four-burner stove with a lot of things happening at…
The world of electronic music is lucky that Max Cooper, a computational biologist who earned his Ph.D. at Nottingham University, decided to pursue a life behind the decks. Before 2010, music was an evenings-and-weekends gig for Cooper, who was working as a post-doctoral genetics researcher at University College London. These…
We’re always happy to see another multi-course vegan dinner being offered — and we’ll be really happy if TAG|RAW BAR continues to host its weekly vegan omakase meal for a long time to come. Every Thursday, chef/owner Troy Guard puts together a four-course, $30 menu for plant-based gourmands. See also:…
Need an appetizer to impress some guests — or just to tickle your own tastebuds? This vegan Thai-style coconut soup (adapted from a recipe in Forks Over Knives: The Cookbook) is smooth, complex and satisfying. You can buy mung bean sprouts at the store, or sprout them yourself — but…
A classically trained pianist who also sang and played cello and clarinet growing up, Laura Jones exploded onto the scene last year with releases on Leftroom and Visionquest; the songs “Love in Me” and “Live a Little” gained play on dance floors all over the planet, and she’s been remixed…
His Magnet Mafia partner may have moved to San Francisco, but Harrison Nealey’s sticking with Denver. He’s been working on commissioned sculptures for artists at Demiurge, and that inspired him to put together Beauty Is, a solo show that opens Friday, September 28, at Division West. We recently caught up…
There are few pleasures in life as satisfying as sitting down with a good friend and a bottle of wine, maybe sharing a snack. Before the weather gets too cold to enjoy this pleasure in the truly great outdoors, do yourself a favor and head to Flights Wine Cafe in…
There are so many monster zucchini ready to harvest in our garden that we’re planning to make zucchini bread. A lot of it. And take it to friends and coworkers. And probably complete strangers. This vegan recipe (adapted for mile-high altitude from The Joy of Vegan Baking) is moist and…
Greetings, weekend warriors! Ready to get your groove on? Good. The Dance Card is stacked again this weekend with Skylab 2012: Mission Blackout at the Denver Coliseum with Gareth Emery, Porter Robinson and more, the Crystal Method hits Beta, Sammy Bananas drops by TheHundred party at Beauty Bar, the mysterious…
Tom Mauser is no stranger to readers of Denver newspapers: His son, Daniel Mauser, was killed at Columbine, and Tom has been an outspoken activist for gun control ever since. He’s spent more than a decade talking about his son — and in his new book, Walking in Daniel’s Shoes,…
If you’re familiar with Fitness on the Rocks — the annual free fitness concert at Red Rocks — then you might have a general idea of what to expect from the OMG! Fitness Concert today at the Denver Coliseum. “I worked at 24 Hour Fitness a long time,” says Alex…
Stenchman is one of several monikers that producer, DJ and sometimes MC Jack Carter uses; you might also know him as Henchman, or as half of Suspicious Stench, alongside Suspect. He’s dabbled in dub-style sounds since his early days of production, which involved a lot of drum-and-bass, and his musical…
Beware: Even the medium-heat pad Thai at US Thai Cafe is hot enough to leave a substantial tingle on your lips. But between the tofu ladna and many other menu items that can be made vegetarian and vegan, there are also options for those who don’t like it hot –…
The Romans living in Pompeii in AD 79 were utterly unprepared for the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which buried the city in ash — and preserved it almost untouched for 1,700 years. In A Day at Pompeii, which opened this past weekend at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science,…
Vegan Black Metal Chef first popularized his version of this excellent recipe for pad Thai, one of our favorite dishes, and although we’ve made a few variations — we like more rice noodles and a little less sugar — it’s always fun to follow along with the video. Vegetarians can…
Greetings, weekend warriors! Ready to blow off some steam on the dance floor this weekend? Good, ’cause there’s a ton of stuff on this weekend’s Dance Card, from Paper Diamond at the Ogden Theatre to the Great American Techno Festival, which kicks off tonight and runs all weekend, to GATF,…
Pho is delicious year-round, but we’re coming up on the time of the planet’s rotation around the sun when it’s particularly satisfying: fall and winter. There are a few places in the metro area that offer this Vietnamese noodle soup made with vegetable broth instead of the default beef mixture,…
It’s the time of year when dozens of chile stands pop up along Federal Boulevard, complete with roasters. Although some people insist that green chile must have pork, the chiles are really key — and it’s easy to make a good meat-free version. This recipe was adapted from the Sam’s…
K.atou is one of the hometown heroes of Athens, Greece. Not long after she was honing her needles as a teenager at Bossa Nostra, one of the city’s biggest clubs, she was going to college in the United Kingdom, where she managed to expand her musical education while still keeping…
The venue formerly known as Swallows has kept its Pride-friendly vibe but polished up the kitchen and the decor as Eden. Chef Ching-yuan Hu has created a weekend brunch spread — with vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options — that fills the dining room, but the dinner menu is also a…
After completing their award-winning documentary King Corn in 2007 – about their attempts to farm an acre of corn — filmmakers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis decided that their next project should be to move to Brooklyn and grow something there despite the apparent lack of available arable land. The…
