Restaurants

Star Bar future looks dim

For the first time in decades, the Star Bar -- one of the very last classic dives left on Larimer Street (at 2137 Larimer, to be exact) -- was dark this weekend, with a sign posted on the door that it's been closed because of liquor-code violations. No word on...
By Patricia CalhounJanuary 25, 2010

For the first time in decades, the Star Bar — one of the very last classic dives left on Larimer Street (at 2137 Larimer, to be exact) — was dark this weekend, with a sign posted on the door that it’s been closed because of liquor-code violations.

No word on when it will reopen — but we can bet some of the more upscale establishments on the block hope it’s never.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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