The passing of Republican powerhouse Freda Poundstone has us thinking about how this city might look if she’d never had her considerable career as a legislator/lobbyist. For starters, Denver might sprawl the way that Phoenix and other Western cities do — but instead, the Poundstone Amendment, passed by Colorado voters…
Like the hairstyles it documents, “White People With Dreads: A field guide” just goes on, and on, and on, without benefit of much sanitizing. And that bothers Alisha, who just found the year-old post and offers this: Maybe half of you people out there should stop being racist and stop…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from a multi-cultural stumper to a meal Lori Midson could eat every day at Crimson Canary to this plate of doughnut holes. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jelly, Skggy wins an EatDenver deck…
David Sedaris will be talking pretty at the Paramount tonight, and many of his fans did the same when they entered our contest to win two tickets to the David Sedaris appearance. The rules? To enter, you simply had to tell us what you would do “when engulfed in flames…”…
After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…
Sadly, it’s too late to block the border. By now the professional picketers from Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps’s “god-hates-fags” group, have likely made their way from Kansas to Colorado, where they’ve announced plans to picket two Jewish General Assembly meetings downtown today. They’re also threatening to show up at…
The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…
Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader, gave Denver bars fits a few years ago, then took his campaign back on the road — most recently to Las Vegas. The slew of complaints he’s filed in Sin City against resort/casinos over special deals for bikini-clad babes are about to be featured…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. When Pirate: A Contemporary Art Oasis opened on January 1, 1980, it was a true oasis — both in an arts scene lacking…
On November 2, Adam Schlegel woke up to a very sunny day — and not just because he’s in San Diego, where a new Snooze (the first one outside of Colorado) will open in about two weeks. The sun had barely gone down on November 1 when he got the…
Although the fancy architect is gone and the ownership of Santiago Calatrava’s DIA expansion design is still up in the air, plans for construction of the South Terminal, including a light-rail station and a public plaza, are moving forward. That means Denver could soon commission another $3 million in public…
What’s your favorite Chipotle? The food at each one tastes different, founder Steve Ells revealed in his recent interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold, because employees at Chipotle actually cook. “When our employees walk in in the morning, they see food,” Ells told Gold. “They have to cook. At…
The tent-like roof that architect Curt Fentress designed for the terminal at Denver International Airport is not only beloved — as consultants revealed at Tuesday night’s town hall meeting on the DIA art program — but it may also be the only feature of the airport that has not inspired…
Initiative 300, the paid sick-leave proposal on yesterday’s ballot, would have affected just about every business in Denver — but restaurants became the real poster child of the campaign, on both the pro and con sides. The Yes on 300 campaign used scare tactics — including pictures of cantaloupes on…
After a month-long renovation and expansion project, City, O’ City reopened in September to both raves and rants from fans of what had been a casual hipster hangout, and is now twice as big and much more polished. Veggie Girl had loved the original City, so she was a little…
Harold Camping has predicted the end of the world three times — and each time, the ninetysomething Boulder native has struck out. Most recently, Doomsday did not arrive on October 21. Five months earlier, the Rapture did not occur on May 21. And there were earlier botched Camping forecasts, which…
Suspicions confirmed! At last night’s town hall meeting on the art program at Denver International Airport, consultants who’d interviewed hundreds of DIA travelers, and studied 1,600 online surveys, revealed that the most loved — and loathed — piece of art at DIA is Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang.” But they also documented…
There’s no business like snow business. Aspen has been celebrating Winterskol, its “toast to winter,” since 1951, as a way to perk up the dull weeks after Christmas. But while the 2012 Winterskol is still months away (it runs from January 12-15), discussion of the upcoming event has been anything…
Now that Halloween’s over, we can get on with the real holiday: Dia de los Muertos. The official day is November 2, but the festivities kick off at 5:30 p.m. tonight when the Dia de Los Muertos Procession y Danza will take off from Columbus Park at West 38th Avenue…
Today’s the day you can have a shipment of In-N-Out double-double burgers sent to your home in In-N-Out-deprived Colorado — if you’re willing to pay $50, plus shipping, for two of them. Deal, but no deal, says Devin: I love In-N-Out, but it is like a nice treat when I…
A week after Snobama buried the Front Range in hype and hope, we’re still shoveling out — and just dug up this fun fact: The Brown Palace has hosted every U.S. president since Teddy Roosevelt first visited in 1905, thirteen years after the hotel opened, except for two: Calvin Coolidge…
Love “Mustang,” the blue horse that stands guard outside of Denver International Airport? Loathe it? Tell DIA officials all about it tonight, when the airport and Arts & Venues Denver host a DIA Art Master Plan town-hall meeting at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, from 5 to 7 p.m…
