Several restaurateurs apparently made new year’s resolutions to give their places a facelift. After more than a decade holding down a prime corner in Larimer Square, Tamayo has closed for a major renovation of both the space and the menu. The original Jelly is only two years old, but it’s…
By 9 a.m. this morning, Westword pot critic William Breathes had received at least three e-mails asking how he felt about his “real identity” being outed in the New York Times today by Frank Bruni, the former Times restaurant critic turned columnist. In a piece titled “Colorado’s Marijuana Muddle,” Bruni…
Is Colorado at the center of the U.S. cultural divide? Or does it just seem that way because the national media would rather capture America’s pulse in Denver than Dayton. Would a little beauty queen’s murder have gotten as much coverage if it had happened in Biloxi, not Boulder? But…
It’s not easy envisioning the perfect government, as the people at Evan Weissman’s Warm Cookies and Milk of the Revolution discussion at Buntport last night learned. And even when you manage to attract people to a “civic health club” where they can discuss differing views in a positive environment, someone…
At a potluck dinner party at my home a few years ago, I made the mistake of handing Pete Marczyk a can of Scotch Buy black pepper that had expired in 1988 — which meant the pepper was old as the friends’ marriage we were celebrating, and a lot less…
Ed Baierlein has sold the Germinal Stage building, the space his company moved into 25 years ago…and where “no actor is every more than thirty feet from your nose!” But while Germinal will be leaving that theater at the end of this season, Baierlein plans to continue putting on shows…
The discussion over Gretchen Kurtz’s review of Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two has demonstrated how passionately people care about Platt Park (however it’s spelled), why you shouldn’t eat Mexican food in Charleston, what constitutes low-country cuisine and other lessons of geography, including itsbootytime’s suggestion that “if I had to guess this critic…
What should happen to the site of a tragedy? It’s been a month since the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and yesterday members of that community met to discuss what should become of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 died. Aurora faced that same question after the July 20 Aurora theater…
There’s been a lot of action on South Pearl Street this season, with Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two joining the lineup, bringing low-country cuisine to the Mile High City. But when Gretchen Kurtz reviewed the restaurant last week, she found both highs and lows. But one reader thought her review was a…
Face it: Moustaches are in. That was clear at last night’s celebratory ‘Stache at Deer Pile, and in anticipation of that event, Sam Alviani and Bree Davies faced off with their own takes on moustaches. See also: – Mustaches: They’re gross, they scratch my face, and the Civil War is…
Update, 7:05 p.m., January 11: Attorneys for Morreale Hotels LLC filed a motion today in Denver District Court, asking a judge for a temporary restraining order against the City of Denver that would allow El Diablo and Sketch to reopen. And after a hearing that started at 2 p.m. today…
No sooner had the LoHi Merchants Group added up the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the neighborhood to a whopping 55 than some of them started disappearing. Gramma Dor’s is gone, as is 32nd Treat. And now comes news that Erika Cunha, owner of Living the Sweet Life, is…
And we thought the Broncos orange cowboy hat that Mayor Michael Hancock sported yesterday as grand marshal of the Stock Show parade downtown represented the ultimate cultural collision in couture. But just a block away, an icky icon has been gussied up in honor of “United in Orange Friday.” Finally,…
Restaurants and bars keep coming into LoHi — but what does the neighborhood really need? Parking, for sure, says Philo99: “It’s a great place to party but has become a terrible place to live.” But does it really need a fast-casual spot, as one reader suggests? See also: – Reader:…
Today is officially “Dress Western Day,” with a parade through downtown Denver marking the kick-off of the 107th National Western Stock Show; tomorrow is “United in Orange Friday,” pushing this town’s other show ponies, the Denver Broncos. What’s a busy mayor to wear?…
Ed Baierlein, the founder of Germinal Stage Denver, has sold the building the theater moved into back in 1986. Juliet Wittman took a look back at Germinal’s impact on Denver performers, and Denver itself, in a story posted here yesterday that included an interview with Baierlein himself. “I don’t know…
Six years ago, shortly after Lola moved from Old South Pearl into a corner space at 1575 Boulder Street, the LoHi Merchants Group counted the bars, restaurants and coffee shops in the Lower Highland neighborhood– bounded by West 38th to the north, Federal to the West, Speer and I-25 –…
The National Western Stock Show has not been rustled away from Denver, and that alone is reason for Mayor Michael Hancock to be the grand marshal at the annual Stock Show Parade, which will stampede through downtown at lunchtime today. “Working with Mayor Hancock and his staff over the past…
I live in the belly of the beast, Denver’s hottest restaurant neighborhood last year: Lower Highland, or LoHi, as developer Paul Tamburello dubbed it when he started work on the Olinger project. (In response, I refer to my particular block as SoLola — south of Lola, which moved into the…
As lawmakers head to the State Capitol for opening day of the Colorado Legislature, critics are already taking aim at new gun-control proposals. Some will be rallying outside the building for a 1 p.m. Guns for Everyone event. Others are arming themselves — literally — for the legislative battles ahead…
Did you vow to eat more veggies in 2013? You can’t beat the roasted beets and arugula salad that Lori Midson recently found. Unless you hate beets, of course. Or are just over them. See also: – Guess where I’m eating an arugula and beet salad? – Guess where I’m…
If at first you don’t succeed, tri, tri again. The first Biennial of the Americas was a very ambitious, very confused celebration that brought international stars to Denver in July 2010. So confused, in fact, that when the time came for a second biennial, the event was pushed back to…
