The City of Denver will decide today whether PETA can install a 250-pound, bloody and butchered chicken sculpture — dubbed “McCruelty,” but really looking like a worse-for-the-wear Foghorn Leghorn — on the 16th Street Mall. This isn’t PETA’s first stunt, of course. Last year, Jason Sheehan catalogued the animal- (and…
PETA isn’t chickening out on its push to put “McCruelty,” a 250-pound, bloody and bandaged chicken sculpture, on the 16th Street Mall — and today could be decision day for the City of Denver. PETA has filed all the required applications for the “temporary display of a sculpture…as part of…
Michael Roberts profiled John Scherer, the self-proclaimed Video Professor whose computer-education company was one of Colorado’s most unlikely success stories, four years ago — but in the time since, the prof has been racking up some failing grades, and plenty of complaints from critics. The most recent black mark came…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from World Cup drinks at the Irish Snug to some very fresh mozzarella. For correctly tracing that cheese to Luca D’Italia, the Real Joe pegging wins a DINR deck. Real Joe, send your contact info to…
While Facebook entries will come back to haunt college students of today, earlier generations get to hide their more humiliating chapters — unless, of course, they worked on their college papers, as Andrew Romanoff did. Not only do those papers mean hard copies of history exist, but so do the…
After more than a year of planning and construction, Cellar Wine Bar is now officially open at 2556 15th Street. It’s a great corner location, right at the turn where 15th becomes 29th Avenue — or it would be a great corner location, if not for the fact that the…
“Politics isn’t about left versus right,” says Jim Hightower. “It’s about top versus bottom.” The populist progressive will give the bottom line on cleaning up political campaigns tonight at the Hightower Lowdown Hoedown…
First came an appearance on Oprah. Now Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, is a panelist on America’s Next Great Restaurant, joining chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone (The Biggest Loser) and Lorena Garcia. They’ll be the judges as potential restaurateurs vie for what’s being billed by Magic Elves, the production team,…
It’s been in the works for over a year, but it looks like Cellar Wine Bar, at 2556 15th Street, is finally ready to uncork and open its doors. The glasses are stocked, the flowers on the bar. Cellar is in the heart of the very hot LoHi neighforhood, just…
Colorado will close a lascivious loophole today when Governor Bill Ritter signs SB 128, a law making it illegal to videotape other people (say, two girls trying on clothes in a hotel room) without their permission (say, through a peephole in the wall of a neighboring hotel room). You’d think…
You don’t have to travel as far as Ouray or Crested Butte to enjoy Colorado’s spectacular wildflowers. In fact, you don’t have to go any further than Lookout Mountain Nature Center, 910 Colorow Road in Golden, where Jefferson County Open Space is hosting its annual Wildflower Festival from 10 a.m…
“The Kerouac School is not a lineage with a program, but a program with a lineage,” says Lisa Birman, director of the Summer Writing Program presented by the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Co-founded by the late Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, the program is now…
Regulars at the Pearl Street Grill, an institution at 1477 South Pearl Street for close to thirty years, were shocked – shocked! – when they sat down and looked at their menus a couple of weeks ago. Because not only had the menu design gotten an overhaul, but so had…
Denver International Airport has already inspired a planeload of conspiracy theories — that it’s built on an Indian graveyard, that aliens live in tunnels below the terminal, that it’s set up to become a concentration camp for Denver citizens. The long-delayed installation of Luis Jimenez’s red-eyed demon horse, “Mustang,” which…
The new Blake Street Tavern, at 2301 Blake Street, isn’t yet open — but the staff will be serving free hot dogs on the patio at 5 p.m. today, before the Rockies game, as a welcome to the neighborhood. Of course, the tavern is no newcomer to the neighborhood; it’s…
Argyll Gastropub, proclaimed the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2010, is serving up a 5-Course Rose Wine Dinner tonight that’s a benefit for the National Kidney Foundation. “It’s our way to kick off summer — and patio season — with a convergence of rose wines and some…
“Now Open Under New Management,” says the beer banner installned by the now old-new management in the completely dark Jezebel’s Juke Joint & Brothel, the spot at 3862 High Street that was formerly the High Street Speakeasy and a host of other has-beens. The web site is only slightly more…
The announcements kept coming from the governor’s office yesterday: Bill Ritter would be signing this bill in front of this group, that bill in front of that group, with his eye on hitting constituencies across the state — and also hitting the June 11 deadline for action on all bills…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from this sushi platter at Taki Sushi to a sandwich at Avenue Grill to an incredible plate of street tacos. For correctly pegging them to Tacos El Gordo, Larry W wins a DINR deck. LarryW, send…
For a city that embraces reading, Denver has never really embraced the One Book, One Denver program — not even after last year’s votingpalooza for the fifth edition, tied to a secret National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Big Read program, which resulted in the pick of To…
The last time stunt-eater Adam Richman, star of Man V. Food, was seen chowing down in Denver, he was taking on the seven-pound burrito at Jack-n-Grill. And after many hours of prepping and filming and chatting and chewing, the burrito won. But that didn’t discourage Richman from making a secret,…
The Colorado Supreme Court does not care about my definition of a caregiver. This week, the court declined to consider the appeals court ruling that upheld the controversial conviction of Stacy Clendenin, a Longmont medical marijuana grower who was convicted of drug distribution because she did not qualify as a…
