Eight years ago, after a $300,000 renovation job that installed low-maintenance plants, easily hosed-off pavement and benches where you could sit, not sleep, the city dedicated Edward J. “Eddie” Maestas Park at the corner of Broadway, Lawrence and Larimer streets, renaming Triangle Park after a longtime businessman and neighborhood Good…
While residents and users of Washington Park gear up for a fight over the proposed ban of 3.2 beer — the only alcohol allowed — from the park, another site of strife in the neighborhood seems relatively calm. It’s been a couple of years since Brown Dog Pizza finally gave…
Doors Open Denver will be back for its tenth-anniversary edition this weekend. “We’ve got everything the same and more of it,” says event organizer Jane Potts. But one thing is different: Denver Arts & Venues has cut way back on its involvement. “The City is a sponsor again this year,…
There’s no shortage of Mexican restaurants in the Denver area — and especially not in Aurora, where storefront taquerias and seafood spots seem to pop up every day on East Colfax Avenue and South Havana. But does Denver have enough TexMex restaurants? Not according to fans of Rusty Taco, a…
It’s Opening Day, and Coors Field has a new amenity. No, not a pitching staff, but the $10 million Rooftop, a two-story deck that features a Tavern Ballpark with a bar 52.80 feet long, as well as an outpost of CHUburger. And on a lower level, there’s a Rio Grande…
If you live in Colorado, chances are good that brunch is your favorite meal — whether you’re a yuppie, hipster or human who eschews labels. And metro Denver is full of great places to eat brunch, including Fooducopia, which just snagged the Best Brunch award in the Best of Denver…
Coloradans could vote on at least three new gambling proposals this November, including one that would allow Kiowa County to build a casino. The proposal’s boosters are asking legislators to put a measure on the November ballot that would ask Colorado voters to authorize casino gambling in the county, as…
After nearly six years at WaterCourse Foods, last week exec chef Rachel Kesley was let go. “It’s complicated, but ultimately it came down to direction,” she says. “I always gave 150 percent to my job….I put my heart and soul into that place, and it’s actually really sad.” What will…
No fooling: Casa Bonita is the restaurant that Coloradans love to hate. The manufactured Mexican village on East Colfax just celebrated its fortieth birthday, and fans and foes alike marked the occasion by spilling out memories of great times and bad food. But even Casa Bonita’s kitchen has its supporters…..
What does LoDo need? Two weeks ago, mysterious chalk messages suddenly appeared on sidewalks across downtown Denver — in 83 spots, to be exact — referring passersby to a website where they could share their thoughts on what LoDo was missing. “In 25-square blocks, LoDo has boutique clothing stores, multi-story…
While eating our way around town over the past few months to find the Best Brunch — an award that ultimately went to Fooducopia — we found many other brunches worthy of note, and served up a dozen in our list of the twelve best brunch spots in Denver. We…
Lawyer/politico and certified barbecue judge has added another accolade to his resume: His first book, Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time, is a finalist for the James Beard award; the winners will be named the first weekend in May. But first, on…
We’ve just published our annual Best of Denver issue, which includes more than a hundred awards in the Food and Drink section alone, all for winning restaurants, chefs and dishes that make the Denver dining scene something worth celebrating. For instance, there’s Rioja, which just won Best Chef’s Counter, almost…
Movoto, the “real estate made easy” site that also makes it really easy to hype its lists, recently revealed “10 Things Only People From Denver Will Understand.” But many people from Denver didn’t understand a number of inclusions: “I’m native Denver, I don’t own fleece, smoke weed or snowboard. I…
Look out below! For almost a decade, Doug Holread and the Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition have been alert for any furtherArmy incursions into Pinon Canyon, a stunning swathe of rangeland in southeast Colorado. Last year, a senior Army official assured ranchers that the Pentagon has no plans to expand…
As anyone traveler to Denver stuck downtown at midnight knows, it’s almost impossible to hail a cab. But not so long ago, it as actually illegal! The transportation scene has changed so much — with new ride options like Uber and Lyft joining an increasing number of cab companies, and…
When Trinity Brewing founder Jason Yester created the recipe for Red Swingline, a hoppy IPA that is also cheek-puckeringly sour, his goal was to make something “signature American.” But in doing so, he may have helped to pioneer a style that beer drinkers in the rest of the country will…
It’s March Madness time, when everyone decides to create their own Sweet Sixteen matchups for everything from movies to hot dog condiments. And speaking of hot dogs, Progress Now’s 22 state affiliates have tapped twenty politicians that they consider the “most outrageous, radical, out of touch right-wingers” for their “March…
Happy birthday, Casa Bonita! Tomorrow Denver’s amazing Mexican village in a shopping center, a Colorado landmark celebrated on South Park, will mark its fortieth birthday. In honor of that august occasion, yesterday Bree Davies served up plenty of puke-filled memories and secrets of this beloved spot, and readers offered many…
Cab drivers in Denver face a lot of challenges, as Joel Warner outlines in his current cover story, “Street Fights.” They not only have to pay high lease rates for company cars, but then have trouble making ends meet because of stiff competition on the streets not just from other…
Even before last night’s special meeting of the board of directors of Caprock Academy, a charter school in Grand Junction that had banned a nine-year-old girl from class on Monday because she’d shaved her head in solidarity with her best friend, an eleven-year-old undergoing chemotherapy for neuroblastoma, the school had…
While Colorado fans have been waving the flag — which only ranked twelfth in a national list of the best state flags, we’ve been buried in producing the Best of Denver, our annual celebration of everything we love about living in this state. Our thirtieth anniversary issue will hit the…
