At the State of Downtown 2015 breakfast briefing last month, the Denver Partnership rolled out a roster of impressive statistics, including the fact that Denver has seen the country’s “largest increase in residents with college degrees,” according to 2014 U.S. Census stats and has the “best commercial real estate market…
Twenty years ago, Denver native — and now Westword managing editor — Jonathan Shikes snapped photos of under-construction Coors Field, going up just north of LoDo in an old warehouse area often called NoDough, given the lack of economic activity there. Today the Ballpark neighborhood is not just a go-to…
This week Glendale officials revealed their plans for Glendale 180, a 22-acre parcel in the heart of the tiny town (a former dairy area that was later completely surrounded by Denver) which will one day boast 25 restaurants, shops and other businesses. But Glendale isn’t just looking to the future; it’s…
Spangalang Brewery opens today in the former Department of Motor Vehicles office on Welton Street, in the heart of Five Points, an area that was the African-American cultural center of the West decades ago, but started a slow slide in the ’60s. Now development is coming back — but is…
Coors Field opened twenty years ago this week in the area just northeast of lower downtown formerly known as NoDough. Even before the ballpark opened, though, the neighborhood – now one of the hottest restaurant districts in Denver – had started rolling in dough. And there will be plenty of…
The Colorado culinary scene sometimes feels like one big family — albeit sometimes a rather incestuous one. And last night’s Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spotlight awards ceremony at the Ritz Carlton was one hell of a family reunion, as individuals from around the state’s scene were honored by their peers…and…
City, O’ City recaptured the crown as Best Vegetarian Restaurant award in the Best of Denver 2015, but there’s also a lot for non-vegetarians to enjoy at the restaurant…even if service can be sporadic, according to readers. Says Sporobolus: City, O’ City does so many things right — variety & creativity…
Industry will celebrate its first anniversary on Brighton Boulevard this week, and in addition to offices and communal spaces, the project features Will Call, a brand-new concept from the Little Pub group, which Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed. Much to the dismay of Rocko220: So sorry for the unusual Westword over-reach…
Ietef Vita, aka DJ Cavem, is everywhere these days. The 2013 Westword MasterMind just spoke about his efforts to raise kids right through urban gardening at TedXManhattan, and tonight he’s hosting the Denver HipHop Green Dinner at Redline Art Gallery with his wife, Alkemia Earth, a vegan chef who’ll do a…
This week, Mayor Michael Hancock prohibited the use of city funds for “non-essential” travel to Indiana, citing the recent religious-objections law passed in that state. Not only did that announcement raise the question of why, exactly, city officials would ever think of using Denver funds for “non-essential travel” anywhere, but…
Denver Fugly has really taken off — like the city’s booming development that inspired the new Denver Fugly Facebook page from Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruisers, who’s now turned his eye to some of the more “fugly” projects around town. Or are they? Dozens of people have posted…
When we revealed the readers’ choices for the five finalists in the Best Italian Restaurant category for the Best of Denver 2015, red-sauce fans weren’t happy with the lack of spots in northwest Denver. A few mentioned places that had closed years ago, while others offered shout-outs to Lechuga’s (which…
When the trains pulled back into the renovated Union Station last year, one stop was conspicuous by its absence: the model train layouts that had graced the basement of the building for decades, and were featured at regular open houses for the public. The oldest was the 6,500 square food…
Our March 19 cover story, “Dead Again,” told the creepy story of Harold Henthorn, who looked very unlucky in love — two wives dead! — until an investigation into the death of wife Toni raised questions about the Douglas County investigation into the death of his wife, Lynn, seventeen years earlier…
How the hell did that happen? I hear that query, or a variation of it, a lot these days in booming Denver. I hear it a lot just on my block, where a gargantuan modern home now obscures many of the historic stone structures behind it. I fell in love…
Ah, El Paso County: What would we do for entertainment without the loonbags that voters there occasionally elect? But when El Paso County residents sent Gordon Klingenschmitt to the Colorado Legislature, they really outdid themselves. He started making waves from the start, and then last week, when the part-time legislator/part-time…
Brad Evans, founder of the Denver Cruisers, decided not to run for mayor of Denver — a quixotic mission he’d explored last fall — but he’s definitely got a campaign under way. Last week he founded Denver Fugly, a Facebook page dedicated to documenting some of the aesthetic disasters in…
Wade Kirwan is back in a LoDo kitchen. The chef was a fixture at Vesta Dipping Grill from 1999 to 2010, and after that “bounced around quite a bit,” he remembers. He worked at Solera, helped a friend open Crash 45 — which is now turning into Fort Greene —…
More than sixty years ago, when the federal government decided to build a nuclear weapons plant, it picked an eleven-acre spot on the Front Range northwest of Denver, a landscape studded with farms and ranches — and just sixteen miles upwind of a major city. When it opened in 1952,…
The Best of Denver 2015, which hit the streets last week, has already disappeared from more than 2,000 racks and newsstands around town. But it lives on at Westword.com, where you’ll find everything from our Best Guess for When the Broncos Return to the Super Bowl (we, like the readers,…
Choosing the Best Burger in Denver always involves an orgy of eating as we try out new spots and return to old favorites, all in our quest to find the perfectly cooked patty. A good bun and great toppings help, too, and this year our Best Burger was the beefy…
Sue Sisley is still having trouble getting her ground-breaking work on the effects of cannabis on veterans with PTSD recognized in Arizona, where she is based — and lost three state contracts last summer. But she’s found much more success in other states, including Colorado, which approved her grant application…
