In our hearts, Denver will always be a cowtown: not as a spot where boots are frequently stepping into bullshit, but as a frontier of eternal, endless opportunity. And while some short-sighted boosters might prefer to push this city as a major metropolis with mountains, today they’ll all be kicking…
“We’re officially in crunch time,” says Ben Davis, spokesman for the inaugural committee planning Colorado Can Do, the inaugural activities for Governor-elect John Hickenlooper and Lieutenant Governor-elect Joe Garcia. Assuming the committee survives that crunch, at 8:30 a.m. today Hickenlooper will officially resign his post as mayor of Denver, then…
Not surprisingly, Xarchy’s lament about the lack of good ethnic eating in this town inspired many suggestions — and a few excellent insults (read them all here). Still, for efficient put-downs, it’s hard to beat this from Harvey, who took commenter Alanis to task for suggesting that a free brunch…
And they’re off! John Hickenlooper won’t resign the office of Denver mayor until 8:30 a.m. next Tuesday (ninety minutes before he’s sworn in as governor), but the ever-increasing group of candidates who’d like to occupy that office next will be holding open houses over the next few days. First up:…
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! Last year at this time, state senator Chris Romer was gearing up to push a measure through the Colorado Legislature that would get Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry under control — and as thanks, our readers have just voted him Shmuck of the Year (the…
In 2011, Denver should resolve to get better ethnic restaurants. That’s the word from Xarchy, who just found our post about Travel & Leisure slapping this city for its poor selection of ethnic eateries. The mag’s survey was conducted more than a year ago, but the situation hasn’t changed, according…
A week from today, at 8:30 a.m., John Hickenlooper will resign his job as the mayor of Denver, then leave his office at the City and County Building (where he had a stripe painted around the top of the room at a point exactly a mile high) and walk across…
Is Denver’s new Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse all wet? The five-story, 310,000-square-foot building, the third and final structure in the Downtown Denver Justice Center campus that was authorized by Denverites in a 2005 ballot measure, was finished on time and on budget last July — but seems to have sprung a leak…
Our hat’s off to Denver attorney Michael Sawaya, whose law firm offered free taxi rides through the holiday season — for the fourth year running! — to drinkers who realize they shouldn’t drive. There’s just one roadblock to the project, as reveler blizzardo points out:…
Denver’s restaurateurs are an incredibly generous group, with chefs and owners alike stepping up to contribute to endless good causes throughout the year. Olivea — the eighteen-month-old restaurant owned by Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (who’re also responsible for duo) and chef John Broening and pastry goddess Yasmin Lozada-Hissom –…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests last week, ranging from an obscene sake container at Matsuhisa in Aspen to an unusual combo cocktail at Rackhouse Pub to a post-Christmas dish of steak and eggs . For correctly identifying that plate as coming from Pete’s Kitchen, Nate wins an…
The Calhoun family Cal-orado reunion — a crazy jumble of travel by planes (although not many from the snowbound East Coast), trains and automobiles — started yesterday morning at Snow Mountain Ranch outside of Granby, where I’d snapped a photo of a New Year’s Day rainbow, and ended last night…
All the talk about “In the Weeds” inspired Brian Melton to send in this missive about the restaurant industry. It’s our New Year’s Eve gift for everyone in the business –and anyone out on the town tonight who benefits from exemplary workers in the service industry. “My Love Affair with…
The sun just started to edge up over the horizon after we passed Fort Morgan: The California Zephyr is running an hour or so late, but the miracle is that it’s going at all, after the mess the snowstorm made of the East Coast…
Laura Shunk’s recent review of Barolo Grill prompted dozens of responses — some agreeing that Blair Taylor’s iconic restaurant needed to try harder, but many more incensed with Shunk’s criticism. After reading both the review and the comments, Ashley Hausman served up this:…
The discovery of medical-marijuana patient records behind the former Apothecary of Colorado has members of the MMJ community smoking mad. But poindenver had an interesting take:…
Time for some plein speaking: This is the last day to see the 2010 Denver Plein Air Festival Exhibition, a show of pieces produced during the largest urban plein air event in the country. The Golden Triangle Museum District came up with the concept four years ago as a way…
A reader has sent an urgent plea: I have irresponsibly neglected to make NYE dinner reservations in a timely fashion and now I fear I may have run out of options. We’re going to the White Rose Gala, and doing it up black- tie style to boot, so I’m hoping…
It wasn’t quite Law & Order, but the release of the Denver Police Department’s first promotional video — made by former Westword staff writer Frank Hogan, who now runs Let’s Be Frank Productions — prompted plenty of entertaining responses, including this from Spleen:…
Laura Shunk’s lament for the loss of the professional host inspired a few comments agreeing with her, as well as this from I Get It Now: OOOOHHHHH I get it now… see …. Shrunk is all about the Front of House staff… not the food y’all. She likes the host…
My first view of Colorado was from the train, at dawn, as the Denver Zephyr hurtled across the plains from Chicago. A horde of families from the ‘burbs were headed to the mountains for a budget ski vacation, and after fueling all-night shenanigans in the Dome Car with endless snacks,…
