After all the Washington, D.C., pomp and circumstances (one major circumstance being that, Barack Obama’s astonishing rise aside, most of those in power are indeed insiders), it’s refreshing to consider Colorado’s citizen legislature, which has a hundred part-time lawmakers who work until early May, then return to their real lives…
Looks like the new year has claimed another casualty. There’s no answer when you call Maxwell’s — an American Brasserie, an ambitious, upscale eatery that occupied a stand-alone space at 7340 South Clinton Street in Englewood. If and when Maxwell’s reopens, the owners might want to do some fast proofreading…
Fat Daddy’s — the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook — was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen + Bar, which was done in by — well, who knows what.But now the…
Jason Sheehan wasn’t bowled over by Second Home, which opened last March in the old Mirepoix space in the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. And now Peter Karpinski, chief operating officer of Sage Restaurant Group, has announced that Jason Rogers is the new executive chef at Second Home, with Anton…
Since it first opened at 19th and Pennsylvania more than three decades ago, Las Delicias has become one of Denver’s most successful homegrown chains. And today from 11 a.m.- 9 p.m., the outlet at 7610 Conifer Road (off Highway 36 and Broadway) will donate 15 percent of all food sales…
The Cherry Cricket makes one of the town’s great hamburgers (here’s Jason Sheehan’s List of the town’s Best Burgers), which is why the Travel Channel will be stopping by Denver’s Best Burger Bar at 2641 East Second Avenue today, to film a segment of Man v. Food with host Adam…
In so many ways, the Democratic National Convention of last August seems like a dream, a dream that packed the streets and businesses of Denver, and sent images of this city around the world. Looking out the window now, I can barely make out the silhouette of Invesco Field at…
The coffee’s already on at Cora Faye’s, the soul-food restaurant that Jason Sheehan raved about back in July 2007. The TV’s on, too, making this restaurant at 2861 Colorado Boulevard one of the best spots in the city for watching the inauguration of Barack Obama.Channel 31 host Shaul Turner is…
Laudisio Ristorante Italiano, at 1710 29th Street, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary tonight from 5-10 p.m., with special discounts and live music. And through the month, if you bring a canned good donation to the restaurant, you get a free mini dessert. It may be Laudisio’s birthday — but you…
Back in 1994, Westword published “Prints Charming,” a profile of Barry Hirschfeld, who helmed a then-almost-century-old local printing business. A printing business that last week announced that National Hirschfeld will soon will close up shop altogether — without paying severance to longtime employees, and just after passing the hundred-year mark.You…
So far, we haven’t sighted Barack Obama wearing a brand-new Stetson during the inaugural festivities, but hope springs eternal. On Saturday, Josh Shayne, a 25-year-old Boulder-based filmmaker (he moved back home with his parents after NYU film school, an act of desperation he documents in the web production Lowered Expectations),…
Although all eyes are on the action in D.C. this week, there’s plenty going on in Denver. It starts with the MLK Marade today, when this city hosts the country’s largest annual gathering (a combo march/parade) in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., which gets under way at 10:45 a.m…
Jack-n-Grill, the Martinez family’s great New Mexican restaurant at 2524 Federal Boulevard, will get its fifteen minutes of fame this week — and then some. The focus of all the national attention is Jack-n-Grill’s big burrito deal: Take down the house’s seven-pound burrito in one sitting (no fair visiting the…
We have a dream — that no one in Colorado will go hungry today. For the first time, the Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission has partnered with Food Bank of the Rockies, by hosting a soup/chili food and fund drive at the beginning and conclusion of today’s Marade…
On November 14, 2007, Phung Van Dang, toting a shotgun, entered Ha Noi Pho’s kitchen intent on robbery, but wound up shooting it out with detectives in plainclothes who were lunching in the restaurant at 1036 South Federal. Today Denver District Judge Martin Egelhoff sentenced Dang, a habitual offender, to…
Reading Jason Sheehan’s description of the Fainting Goat, the watering hole that’s taken over 846 Broadway, made us hungry for another taste of their chicken wings. But when we dropped in yesterday afternoon, we found ourselves in fried-item heaven: the Goat was testing out some new appetizer possibilities, all courtesy…
Right before he headed into his lovefest/confirmation hearing for the Secretary of the Interior post, still-Senator Ken Salazar and new Senator Mark Udall sent President-elect Barack Obama the names of three candidates for U.S. attorney, since that post generally goes with the winning party, and Republican Troy Eid has tendered…
Eating buffalo is not only good for you, but it’s good for the future of the animal, as Jonathan Shikes notes in this Save the Buffalo post. And thanks to Colorado Buffalo Grill, you can get it on the go. From 6 a.m.- 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday (weather permitting), the…
This town has a real shortage of good Irish bars — as Jason Sheehan lamented in his review of Celtic Tavern — and we just lost another one. Last night employees of the Auld Dubliner held a wake for the pub at 2796 South Broadway that we’d celebrated in a St…
“Want to be smarter? Subscribe to the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post and read them for a half-hour each morning.” We were on our annual rounds of the Hall of Education at the Stock Show, and stopping by the Denver Newspaper Agency booth to see what shwag the DNA…
Restaurants are outdoing themselves offering bargains this month, trying to bolster what’s always a blah month. But it’s going to be tough to beat the deal that Bistro Vendome, the charming French restaurant tucked into the back of Larimer Square, is offering in January: moules & frites for $9. Usually…
As I was running out of my office last night, late again, I got a call from a neighbor. “Do you know why the police are in front of your house?” she asked. Uh, no, I said, wondering if the mess of ungifted holiday gifts and unfinished Christmas projects clearly visible in…
