Although Roger Ebert’s health problems prevent him from participating in the World Affairs Conference, the annual intellectual orgy that’s coming to Boulder from April 9 through April 13, the film critic’s interruptus program is still a featured attraction — and is now named after him. This year’s film? Tinker Tailor…
For Street 16, our culinary homage to March Madness, we called in the cartologists and pulled out our history books. The LoDo Historic District, for example, was created before Denver had a major league baseball team, much less Coors Field; technically, LoDo ends at the alley between Market and Larimer…
Mayor Michael Hancock didn’t record just one new message for the DIA train — he recorded six, which are now in rotation. Sadly, none of them are the rap version he tried the first time out, nor do any pay tribute to DIA’s most famous feature: conspiracy theories…
Feminism isn’t a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody. Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women’s Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece…
Is South Pearl Street being overrun by pizza joints? Last week, Sexy Pizza opened in the former home of the Crushery, just a block away from the popular Kaos. But the comments have Harris wondering if South Pearl has really been overrun by hipster doofuses and douchebags:…
While First Lady Mary Louise Lee was touting culture yesterday, announcing the new Bringing Back the Arts program, Mayor Michael Hancock was urging visitors to the city to catch one of Denver’s seven professional sports teams in a new recording of his welcome that plays on the Denver International Airport…
And the kudos keep coming in for Dominique Ashaheed, the Slam Nuba member who just won the 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam, held in Denver…
Many readers sent as heartfelt accounts of their Denver Restaurant Week experiences, offering an interesting snapshot of the town’s two-week eating orgy. And then there was this hilarious bit of satire from an alleged suburbanite, which went right over the heads — and stomachs of some of the other commenters:…
In the summer of 2010, 21 past and present Yellow Cab drivers — all African immigrants — filed a lawsuit in federal court, charging that the taxi company had favored American drivers and billed plaintiffs for questionable fees. The lawsuit was dismissed at the request of the filers after Yellow…
All those eatery employees who survived Denver Restaurant Week deserve a break — and District Meats, Charlie Palmer’s spot that opened last fall, will provide just that with tonight’s Denver Restaurant Week Industry Wind Down Party. The bash runs from 8 to 11 p.m and will feature complimentary apps from…
Poetry will win! That was the prediction of queencityslamster on Saturday, before the twelve finalists competed in the last round of the Women of the World Poetry Slam at the Denver Art Museum that night. But poetry wasn’t the only winner: Denver came out a champ, simply for hosting the…
Things don’t look too sweet at Sugar House these days. A broken window in front is covered with plywood and a card from the Denver Police Department dated February 16. The door is locked up tight. The voicemail box is full. Both Sugar House, the swingers club that Scottie Ewing…
Things don’t look too sweet for Sugar House, the swingers club that Scottie Ewing opened in 2007 after selling Denver Players, a hip hooker business. A broken window in front is covered with plywood, the door is locked up tight, the voicemail box is full. Its closure (for now) ends…
Aurora, Denver’s upstart neighbor to the east (and the focus of this week’s cover story, “Wish You Were Here”), has just released Yum!, a guide to the city’s independent ethnic restaurants — more than 150 of them, ranging from Thai Street Food Restaurant to Jai Ho Indian Restaurant. It’s an…
Saving Face may be set in Pakistan, but the crew behind the film is from Colorado — and they brought an Oscar back to this state after winning the best short documentary award. The team included co-directors Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, producer Allison Greenberg, editor/producer Davis Coombe and Dr…
National pundits have been touting John Hickenlooper as a potential presidential candidate in 2016, with perhaps a slot as Barack Obama’s 2012 running mate as a warm-up. And lately, Hick’s been sounding very vice-presidential — if Obama is looking for a veep as gaffe-daffy as Joe Biden…
The raves are coming in for the Wooden Table and its talented chef, Brett Shaheen, the subject of this week’s Chef and Tell interview. Shaheen has worked at kitchens around Denver, and left a gig as exec chef at Osteria Marco to do his own thing — in the ‘burbs…
American Idiot is in the middle of a very short run at the Buell Theatre, and after seeing the show opening night, Susan Froyd wondered what Rodgers and Hammerstein would make of the Green Day-penned musical…
The sell-out crowd at yesterday’s 25th annual Colorado Business Committee for the Arts annual awards luncheon was treated to planned entertainment by local arts organizations, as well as some unscripted entertainment from Governor John Hickenlooper, whose introduction of Mayor Michael Hancock turned into an R-rated joke about showers…or something. But…
It would have been so much easier to just pay that bar tab. Instead, Robert Engles is slated to be in court in Boulder today, where he’ll face charges of criminal mischief, felony menacing and defrauding-an-innkeeper. On Saturday night, 42-year-old Engles was drinking…and drinking…at Centro Latin Kitchen, a Big Red…
Balls! Yesterday Lori Midson revealed that Jensen Cummings, the executive chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar, will be launching a new venture devoted to meatballs — yes, meatballs — with two partners, probably in the University of Denver area. “I’m not leaving Row 14, but I am opening…
Timing is everything in politics, and in birth control — especially in the bad old days of the rhythm method, which it seems like some pols would like to return us to. In honor of Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Colorado Legislature today, state senator Greg Brophy should choose to…
