Reader: Thongs and other things for under $10
Every Friday, Robin Edwards offers a list of “10 things to do for $10 this weekend,” a roster that most recently included Running with the Gays, a vinyl swap and Occupy the Debates. But no thongs…
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Michael Hancock’s cabinet heads east — to Walmart (and Walmartyr) country
When Mayor Michael Hancock hosted his second “Cabinet in the Community” last month in northwest Denver, the officials on hand outnumbered the number of people in the audience. But that’s not likely to be the case tomorrow, when Hancock takes his show on the road to east Denver — where…
Reader: If complaints from four residents can shut Rockbar, are other businesses in danger?
Since it opened six years ago, Rockbar has been a hipster hangout — the go-to place for Hollywood celebs during the Democratic National Convention, but also a regular stop for people out and about on the weekend, or who’re just looking for a place to park (the All-Inn that holds…
Reader: Here, Kitty, Kitty! Lollipop Gift lives, but should these parents?
This week Jenn Wohletz lamented the closing of Lollipop Gift, the Hello Kitty store that had closed, without explanation, in the Denver Pavilions. Now we’ve heard from Kenneth Chan, the owner, who provides that explanation. While the store was doing “fine,” he also owns other companies and just didn’t have…
Hearing officer recommends against renewing Rockbar liquor license
Liquor-license renewals are generally routine affairs in Denver — but for Jesse Morreale, nothing has been routine this year. He’s in a fight over his First Avenue Hotel, and has an October 1 deadline to satisfy the city’s demands — or face having the building closed. Again. And late yesterday,…
Reader: Girls in skin-tight minis have invaded Highland!
For days the discussion has focused on Cherry Creek North, once this town’s hottest restaurant neighborhood, which may — or may not — be making a comeback. But this morning we’re returning to Highland, the area that Forbes just declared one of “America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods,” citing many of the…
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DU isn’t all about presidential debate and politics: School gets straight to the art
The University of Denver isn’t all about political debates. The Lamont School of Music is offering 250 free concerts this year, for example. And in Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, DU arts administrators gave particularly intriguing answers to questions about the city’s cultural scene…
Westword ownership returns to Denver
The first edition of Westword hit the streets of Denver in September 1977. Over the past 35 years, Westword has gone through many changes — as has the publishing industry in general, and the alternative-newspaper industry in particular. But our basic mission has not changed: to cover (and sometimes uncover)…
Twenty years later, there’s still much we don’t know about Rocky Flats
Plutonium lasts forever. So does the saga of Rocky Flats. By U.S. District Judge John Kane’s count, the jurors had spent 69 days sifting through the evidence, then another seventeen deliberating. “Through this trial, I had a clipping from one of the newspapers that said — the headline was ‘Rocky…
Arts supporters, including Jill Hadley Hooper, get straight to the art
For Now Showing, the fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene — including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards — to answer three questions: – Aside from your organization (or yourself), who is doing the most…
Jesse Morreale and the First Avenue Hotel have another date with the city
Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel property – the circa 1906 building at 101 Broadway that holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings…
Walmart meeting cancelled after councilmembers oppose tax-increment deal
For a while, it looked like Walmart had Denver in the bag. But now, developers are going back to the drawing board…or at least the calender. After Denver City Council reps Mary Beth Susman and Jeanne Robb announced they opposed tax-increment financing for the project, the Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District…
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Reader: Cherry Creek is the Indian burial ground of restaurants
Before we move on to controversies in other restaurant neighborhoods, we’re taking one more turn around Cherry Creek. That’s where Rodney’s closed this weekend, prompting Denver Dave to say that Cherry Creek North is “just becoming another food court in any mall USA.” That rallied the CCN defenders, including JPL35,…
Reader: Marie Antoinette is no corset-sploitation flick
Jenn Wohletz first heard of Jeni Britton Bauer’s magical, frozen concoctions back in 2006, when Sophia Ford Coppola’s Marie Antoinette came out, and Jeni’s created a collection of whole-milk yogurt-based, specially-flavored ice creams inspired by the film. The Jeni’s flavors were almost as delicious as the movie that inspired them…
Westword‘s new ownership a 35th anniversary present
When Westword debuted in September 1977, pundits around town were predicting the demise of the paper. People gave it a month, a week, a year at most. After all, the only business more risky than starting a restaurant was starting a newspaper. And a free newspaper? Forget it…
Reader: Look around Cherry Creek — new independent spots are opening
Cherry Creek North is changing, and the most recent development is the closing of Rodney’s, after close to three decades in the neighborhood. That’s a sign, Denver Dave suggests, that CCN is “becoming another food court in any mall USA.” But other readers disagree. See also: – Big Easy Creole…
Reader: Best costumes does not mean best underwear!
There’s still more than a month until Halloween, but at Skylab at the Denver Coliseum this past weekend, the costumes came out. See also: -Twenty-five best costumed ravers at Skylab 2012 -Twenty best vaguely German costumes of Oktoberfest Denver 2012 /twenty_best_pirate_costumes_of.php”>–Twenty best pirate costumes of BrethrenCon 2012 And came off…
Five Points community gets to the point at cultural potluck today
Jack Kerouac visited Five Points when it was at its most vibrant, when it was the heart not just of Denver’s African American community, but of the entire Rocky Mountain West, when the Rossonian Hotel and other jazz clubs in the area were must-stops for black entertainers crossing the country…
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Reader: Cherry Creek North is becoming a food court in any mall USA
The Denver dining scene lost two long-time restaurants this weekend. Longo’s Subway Tavern poured its last beer — for now — on West 38th Avenue; after 52 years, the Longo family sold the circa late 1800s building to Larimer Associates, and although COO Joe Vostrejs says they’re not yet sure…
Westword ownership to be based in Denver, again, after Voice Media Group deal
The first edition of Westword hit the streets of Denver in September 1977. Over the past 35 years, Westword has gone through many changes — as has the publishing industry in general, and the alternative newspaper industry in particular. But our basic mission has not changed: to cover (and sometimes…
Reader: Proud to be a nerd at Nan Desu Kan!
People are still talking about the 2012 Nan Desu Kan convention that filled the Marriott at the Denver Tech Center with camaraderie and costumes earlier this month. Bree Davies was there for the entire weekend of anime and gaming of all eras, tropes and worldly origins — where she heard…
Lime closes its Landmark location
The Lime at Landmark has dried up. Since they’d signed the lease on the spot in 2007, the troubled Landmark development had gone through bankruptcy and assorted banks, and owners Pam Savage Sims and Curt Sims decided not to try renegotiating the deal again. “The latest problem was we were…