Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown has spent the last three months thinking about medical marijuana — perhaps this city’s only real growth industry — and it showed yesterday, when council’s safety committee approved his proposal for regulating dispensaries in Denver. The proposed ordinance will go to the full council on…
“People unfamiliar with the Asian culture are often unable to comprehend how much the joy of the Asian peoples revolves around the preparation, sharing and discussion of food.” That’s from the website of India House, the upscale Indian restaurant that replaced Delhi Darbar at 1514 Blake Street. And this week,…
Cowboy-hatted Charlie Brown looked right at home in Teddy’s, the bar in the north Denver Holiday Inn, where the decor is Western (complete with a Willie Matthews print) and the Broncos game was playing on Sunday. But he marched resolutely past the TV and into the Cannabis Holiday Health Fair…
Alamos Verdes doesn’t have bad Mexican food, but the venerable Arvada restaurant has the “Worst Boss of 2009,” according to eBossWatch.com, which just ranked the 25 worst bosses. Coming out on top: Paul Martinez, co-owner and manager of the restaurant at 5304 Vance Street that his parents, Emma and John…
The former Dick’s Hickory Dock, a river-side restaurant on Highway 74 between Morrison and Evergreen, was sold at auction by Sheldon Good & Company on December 12. Dick’s, which opened back in the ’70s and snagged a Westword readers’ choice award for Best Barbecued Ribs in the Best of Denver…
“I was thinking I’ve got five minutes to go and no one has asked me about medical marijuana… that’s a good thing,” Governor Bill Ritter said. And then, just five minutes before the governor had to leave Monday’s legislative briefing, it came: the inevitable question about medical marijuana. No conversation…
Every December, my parents would pack the family into the station wagon and head to downtown Chicago, where we’d look at the displays in the department-store windows and all the Christmas lights that glowed brighter than the tail-lights in the traffic jam around us. Downtown department stores have gone the…
The Walnut Room brought new life — and cash — to NoDo, the area northeast of Coors Field. But for its next venture, it’s taking on an area that’s already ground zero for hipsters: Broadway. And at 9 a.m. today, Walnut owner John Burr will be at the Denver Department…
Denver International Airport has the money to start planning a transformation of the Jeppesen Terminal into a massive mall (and move security screening to the perimeter) — but it’s put the Scrooge to its annual holiday entertainment, blaming budget constraints for the $50,000 cut. For twenty years, the International Performance…
Time magazine is out with the Top 10 of Everything in 2009 — and Jason Sheehan’s Cooking Dirty makes the list of the top ten non-fiction books of the year, coming in at #9. Here’s what Time says about Sheehan’s book in its round-up: “It’s a paradox of the post-Bourdain…
Last month’s Kumbaya moment, which featured most of Colorado’s top GOPs uniting behind gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis and the Republican Party’s Platform for Prosperity, did not resound in southeastern Colorado. They’re singing a different song near Pinon Canyon, a stunning swathe of ranchland east of Trinidad, because the platform is…
With new dispensaries opening daily across Colorado, the prime names are getting snapped up faster than the docs who are willing to prescribe medical marijuana. Now to worry, though; with this handy medical marijuana matrix, you can devise a new dispensary name faster than it takes to light up a…
State senator Chris Romer could have used some medical marijuana last night, to soothe the headache of dealing with all of yesterday’s complaints over his just-released, 63-page bill to regulate the industry. Among its provisions: creating a state licensing authority to handle licenses for both clinics and growers and setting…
He missed a court date at the end of November — but disgraced developer Erik Osborn showed up in plenty of time for his trial in Denver District Court, which got under way on Monday. The crux of this case is Osborn’s involvement with One Lincoln Park, and how he…
At holiday parties this weekend, everyone was talking about pot. I haven’t been asked about marijuana this much since my first day of college in 1972, when I wore a hippie-print dress and my dormmates assumed I could hook them up. People were talking about the booming business in medical…
Paul Piciocchi is putting into the former home of Alto, opens tonight at 1320 15th Street. The Drink, a sports tavern, made its debut on November 20; Mix Music Lounge is set to open next week. But right now, it’s Rack & Rye, which will host private parties starting at…
It’s been a tough year for Peacejam, the homegrown nonprofit that over the past fifteen years has reached out to hundreds of thousands of kids around the globe, showing them that in the toughest circumstances, it’s still possible to push for peace — and then proving it by bringing ten…
First, the folks behind 8 Rivers open a medical marijuana dispensary up the street. Now comes word that Colorado’s first “gourmet marijuana restaurant” will be opening next week in Denver. The official details are being kept under wraps until next week, but yes, all the culinary offerings will contain pot…
“Oh, we know you were here,” a city official told me Monday, after I’d returned from my undercover mission to inventory the shlock and awe that is Denver’s annual holiday display on the steps of City Hall — and then explain why, exactly, it’s legal to have a Nativity scene…
An inventory of the annual awfulness that appears every holiday season on the steps of the Denver City and County Building (from left to right): 1) Plastic Santa in his sleigh, heading up a ramp behind four pairs of plastic reindeer, with red-nosed Rudolph in the lead. 2) Wooden stable…
This is not energy conservation here, folks, this is a glitch,” quipped Mayor John Hickenlooper at last Friday’s “Light the Lights” event, after he and son Teddy flipped the switch on the new LED light display at the City and County Building — and the entire scene went black a…
Ernie’s will open on schedule today, after a whirlwind renovation by Rod Wagner of the space that for years held 3 Sons, and for decades before that was home to Ernie’s. But while the original Ernie’s — which opened in 1943 and whose sign has been reconstructed for the new…
