Since its inception, the Denver Center Theatre Company has included original works in its lineup. And its ten-play 35th-anniversary season includes four world premieres, all selected from the 2013 Colorado New Play Summit, which has helped solidify the DCTC’s position as host of one of the top-tier new-play festivals. “We…
Aurora has big balls — and we’re not just talking the globes out at Buckley. This morning, Aurora mayor Steve Hogan announced that the city, the Aurora Renewal Authority and RIDA Development Corporation is suing a group of eleven hotels — five with a common owner or operator — that…
Location, location, location. The Palm is located right off the 16th Street Mall, a location that has caused the steakhouse considerable headaches — and earned it a boycott by Occupy Denver that ended late last week when the national office of the Palm reversed its stance on the anti-camping ordinance…
Author/journalist Jennifer Egan, who won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Visit From the Goon Squad, writes with equal ease about punk rock, the ravages of time, the oddities of technology and, of course, the complexities of love. Goon Squad also has a strange focus on lists, and…
Last Friday — the day before an International Boycott the Palm protest was slated for the Denver steakhouse at 1672 Lawrence Street — The Palm announced that it no longer supports the anti-camping ordinance passed by Denver City Council on May 14, 2012. That announcement followed a months-long boycott by…
The Palm has announced that it no longer supports the anti-camping ordinance passed by Denver City Council on May 14, 2012. That announcement follows a months-long boycott by Occupy Denver, which turned its attention on the Palm after Snooze, the subject of the initial boycott efforts, rescinded its support of…
You wouldn’t think members of Occupy Denver were big customers of The Palm, an upscale steakhouse. But they figured out how to make their voices heard at the Denver location of the chain: They gathered outside the restaurant located just off the Sixteenth Street Mall, at 1672 Lawrence Street, and…
We were surprised last week to find that the third-worst restaurant in America might well be in Denver — and it’s not Casa Bonita. It’s Ho Mei, a trio of Chinese joints previously known — if they were known at all, for their cheap prices. Meanwhile, another cheap chain continues…
This week The Daily Meal released its list of possibly the five worst restaurants in America. Third on the list was in metro Denver — and no, it wasn’t Casa Bonita. It’s Ho Mei, a local mini-chain of cheap Chinese food, which the Daily Meal described with this: Ho Mei…
“I’m so happy to be here tonight,” said W. Bruce Cameron as he took the podium at the Tattered Cover in LoDo last night to address roughly fifty fans, many of whom sipped on plastic cups of complementary wine or nibbled at various cheeses and fruits through his talk. Tattered…
What’s in a name? Plenty, if you’re My Brother’s Bar. This Denver institution opened more than forty years ago in a building that is the city’s longest-operating watering hole; records trace the bar business at 2376 15th Street back to 1873. So owner Jim Karagas wasn’t happy when he heard…
You know Halloween is coming because pumpkins not only appear on porches, they’re all over the kitchen in one form or another. Every autumn brings an array of pumpkin, pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie-flavored eats and drinks — some of which are far more palatable than others, reports Jenn Wohletz…
Just Like Us, Helen Thorpe’s bestselling book, was a variation on “Head of the Class,” a 2004 Westword cover story that followed Pablo, a West High student whose grades and high school activities made him an ideal candidate for college, except for one hitch: Pablo was illegal. For the book,…
The Great American Beer Festival starts today, and tickets to the 32nd annual event, which runs through October 12 at the Colorado Convention Center, sold out within minutes this summer, leaving many would-be attendees high and dry — very dry. To help out, we’re giving away two tickets to the…
More than sixty years ago, Jack Kerouac watched a baseball game at a ballfield at 23rd Avenue and Welton Street in downtown Denver, a field known today as Sonny Lawson Park. He appreciated the crowd watching the game along with him that night, and commemorated “all humanity, the lot” in…
The Food Network’s Chef Wanted sent chef/host Anne Burrell to the Mile High City for tomorrow night’s episode, a “Mile High Melee” in which Burrell helps Second Home Kitchen + Bar find a new chef. See also: Second Home among Denver’s ten best plates of chicken and waffles…
Baker Street Pub & Grill, a Sherlock Holmes-themed eatery, has closed in Boulder; three more links in that national chain are still open in the Denver area. See also: Baker Street Pub & Grill in Boulder has closed…
The new spread fast yesterday: Little Shanghai has closed, after close to forty years on South Broadway. Ching Lei and her husband, Kim, had opened the restaurant in 1974, and in its heyday it had the strong support of regulars and hosted such out-of-towners as the Rolling Stones. But times…
In a town where politicians would go to the opening of an envelope, the debut of Final Approach — Denver International Airport’s new cell-phone waiting lot, which comes complete with a fancy building with four food vendors, flight information monitors and indoor bathrooms — was big news. And on September…
Denver International Airport’s new cell-phone waiting lot, Final Approach, has gotten raves since it opened on September 24: Dunkin’ Donuts! Free wifi! Even indoor bathrooms, to replace the Portpotties! Raves, but also a few rants — as people arriving at that lot after 10 p.m. to wait for travelers discovered…
“I want to be known across the board as a place that has great food, and that maybe doesn’t serve meat,” says Rachel Kesley, the exec chef of WaterCourse Foods, whichGretchen Kurtz reviews this week. And the food at WaterCourse can indeed be great, especially if you order from the…
Samm Sherman was in college when she found her calling — over pot au chocolat at The Kitchen in Boulder. Today she’s the pastry chef for Linger and both locations of Root Down, cooking up sweet treats. None of which contain breast milk — but as she joked in the…
