Visit Denver just announced the people who will be inducted into the Tourism Hall of Fame at the thirteenth annual celebration set for March 14, 2012, and the list includes two key people from the Colorado drinking/dining scene: Great American Beer Festival president Charlie Papazian and Pete Meersman, president and…
Were you there last night when Club 404 issued last call under the ownership of the Feld family? If you can’t remember, take a look at our slide show — it might help you remember. And there is plenty to remember about the legendary Club 404, which Jerry Feld opened…
Looking for a quick — if pricy — gift for theater lovers? You can name a seat after them in the Ricketson Theatre in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The price is $1,000 per seat, but this is a gift that keeps giving — the money goes to the New…
Wild Catch reopened last night — several weeks after partner/chef Justin Brunson walked out and most of the staff followed him — with Mandi and Tony Clement rolling out a meaty menu that’s a major departure from the sustainable seafood focused on in the original lineup. Many regulars caught the…
In the 1860s, the town fathers of baby Denver realized the city would never grow without the railroads — but the transcontinental route was moving full-steam ahead through Wyoming. So Denver boosters funded a spur line that ran from Cheyenne to Denver, and saved the city. That move involved a…
Greg Baumhauer hosted his last open-mic comedy night at the Squire on Tuesday, leaving behind lots of memories — some good, some bad. First the good, from Veronica: I feel sick that I missed Squire’s last comedy night. I feel sick that I wasn’t able to see Greg up on…
The businesses of Lower Highland have been decking the halls — or at least their doors — for the holiday season, and the Laughing Latte, the coffee shop at 2001 West 32nd Avenue, just took top prize in the LoHi Merchant Wreath Contest with a wreath made of coffee filters…
Dreams & Directions, the fourth annual anthology of poetry written by Denver Public Schools elementary school students, will be released at a celebration from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today at the Tattered Cover in LoDo. DPS teacher Steve Replogle compiled the work, which DPS superintendent Tom Boasberg calls “an inspiring…
Last week the Huffington Post served up a food trend list — which Jenn Wohletz thought was one of the worst food trend lists ever, confessing that she was “Bugged by the Huffington Post’s ’11 Biggest Food Trends of 2011.'” After all, meatballs? Fancy donuts? Macarons? And insects for number…
Good news! The world is not going to end on December 21, 2012. That’s the word from Dawn Engle, co-producer of 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, which airs tonight on Colorado Public Television. But just in case she’s wrong, we asked some state leaders for their can’t-miss Colorado activities in…
Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air tonight…
In “Occupy Christmas: What protesters could learn from the true meaning of the holidays,” Jef Otte explained how the Grinch was about to steal Christmas from the 99 percent — unless they had secured a nice temporary job in some retail establishment, so that they could give nice presents to…
It’s not yet December 25, but Cafe Society would like to play Santa early, stuffing a reader’s stocking with suggestions for where he and his friends can enjoy holiday atmosphere — and beverages. Here’s the note that Charles sent Santa:…
Denver has Sun Spot, a giant dog sculpture created out of dog tags outside the new municipal animal shelter. Now Boulder has Alfie, a huge rooster made out of more than 3,000 pieces of old farm equipment by longtime local artist Robert Bellows. The sculpture was dedicated this past weekend…
What’s next for Frontier Airlines? Charging to use the bathrooms? Selling off the mascot animals to a circus? The latest cost-cutting move for the onetime hometown airline is the end of its in-flight magazine: The Wild Blue Yonder is heading off into the mild blue yonder. Here’s the announcement from…
Denver has always been a center of the beer-making world — but until recently, you could have argued that Boulder was a better craft-beer town. But after counting up the number of craft brewers coming to Denver, Jonathan Shikes just asked, “Has Denver finally surpassed boulder as a beer city?”…
Two years after a traumatic brain injury knocked him out of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Kevin Pearce is back on board — and will be riding one in Breckenridge today, before he moves behind the mike for this week’s Winter Dew Tour’s Nike Open. Pearce emceed the U.S. Grand Prix…
This afternoon’s holiday event at the beautiful Byers-Evans House Museum could be just your cup of tea. The Christmas tea that starts at 1:30 p.m. includes a tour of the circa 1883 house that was once the home of William Byers, founder of the Rocky Mountain News, as well as…
For decades, the area around Union Station was Denver’s heart, the place where many people (myself included, on a train from Chicago) got their first glimpse of the city. But a century after Denver’s founding, air travel was taking over the “Travel by Train” touted in neon above the station,…
Inspired by her visit to Mama Sannino’s, Laura Shunk served up a list of Denver’s five best neighborhood Italian restaurants. Which inspired fond memories of Fratelli’s and Valente’s from some readers, as well as a slap from another for skipping Cafe Jordano. And then there was this rave from Barslinger…
Last Monday Tim Davids offered up “The 50 worst sports movies ever,” including Pride of the Yankees and, yes, Field of Dreams. But apparently no bad deed goes unpunished. Writes Tammymarie: Does the author of this article have some kind of fucking chemical imbalance or is he just a fucking…
Gene Sobczak, who was a VP and marketing guru for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra when he left in 2007 to head the Arvada Center, will soon be making beautiful music with the CSO again: The symphony board has appointed him to replace interim director Jim Copenhaver, who returned this fall…
