Drummer Crawford Philleo is the Foursquare mayor of the bathroom at Gabor’s on Thirteenth Avenue because he was mad that another user, Colfax J, took over the mayorship of Gabor’s itself. Funny. But not as funny as some of the other places with Foursquare mayors…
On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn’t powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its main quality is light freshness. It’s fermented for just a few weeks and is meant…
King Soopers didn’t merely open a liquor store inside its massive new grocery at Leetsdale Drive and South Cherry Street yesterday. It declared war. War on other liquor stores, big and small, in central Denver, war on SuperTarget, war on all the political and business interests that have kept the…
America will get a beery wake-up call on Sunday morning when CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood highlights the Wynkoop Brewing Company on its annual pre-Thanksgiving show, one that is typically dedicated to food and drinks. The crew from the show was in Denver at the Wynkoop all day Tuesday,…
Rock Bottom Brewing, which was founded in Denver in 1991 and now has 35 locations nationwide, has merged with the Tennessee-based Gordon Biersch brewpub chain to form one of the largest craft beer-focused companies in the country. The new firm, called Craftworks Restaurants & Breweries, also now owns Rock Bottom’s…
Thanksgiving dinner isn’t complete without a big glass of wine, and King Soopers will open its first and only grocery/liquor store just in time to take advantage of that. The store, at 4600 Leetsdale Drive in Glendale, will roll out the shopping carts and slide open the automatic doors on…
It doesn’t take much to be a Shmuck of the Week: Just add the term “R-Colorado Springs” to the end of your name. It’s a sure bet. Take former state senator Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, who landed on the list a whopping three times, or representative Larry Liston, R-Colorado Springs,…
Take twelve breweries, a hundred-plus beer bloggers and a buzzer, and go! During the first-ever Beer Bloggers Conference in Boulder last week, organizers lined up an event that they called live blogging, but it felt more like speed dating. A dozen brewers each had five minutes to present a beer…
Oh, Coors! You make it impossible for me to keep dissing your giant aluminum face when your feisty little award-winning subsidiary, AC Golden Brewing, is so cool. Anyone who sends their name and address to AC Golden, which makes Colorado Native lager, by November 15 will get a hops rhizome…
It wasn’t bloody, it wasn’t smelly and it didn’t attract flies. But then, the bison had already been slaughtered and quartered at a Nebraska ranch, separated from its head, hide and organs and hung up to age for two weeks. Anything more grisly might have been too much for the…
The owners of Marczyk Fine Foods, who have run their upscale neighborhood market on Seventeenth Avenue for eight years, are planning to open a second, similar location in the vacant Fairfax Ace Hardware at Colfax Avenue and Fairfax Street. Tomorrow night, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Pete Marczyk, Barbara Macfarlane…
Yeah, it’s snowing. We can see it, too. Love it? Hate it? Either way, snow means your local neighborhood watering holes and eateries want to warm you up — and some are offering specials. Look below for a few tweets we’ve seen recently. .bbpBox2137744897740800 {background:url(http://s.twimg.com/a/1288981003/images/themes/theme10/bg.gif) #2d4f8b;padding:20px;} p.bbpTweet{background:#fff;padding:10px 12px 10px 12px;margin:0;min-height:48px;color:#000;font-size:18px…
The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, plans to make a special beer in January to coincide with John Hickenlooper’s inauguration as Colorado’s governor. Hickenlooper co-founded the Wynkoop in 1988 and ran it until he decided to run for Denver mayor in 2002. His connection with the company ended during…
There are as many styles of beer blogging on the Internet as there are blogs, and there’s a new beer blog starting out there every other day. Last weekend, at least a hundred of those bloggers — from all across the country — showed up in Boulder to talk beer…
The glitz! The glamor! The desire for popcorn! The Starz Denver Film Festival began on Wednesday and continues through November 14, but this weekend promises to be a big one. You can get in on the action by reading Michael Roberts’s roundup of must-see movies provided by festival artistic director…
Feeling nostalgic about 2010? The Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, will help you relive the good times by cracking open a keg of all 35 beers that the brewery made over the course of the year when the second annual Beers of the Year event takes place Saturday from…
Sometimes we deserve the ticket. Sometimes we don’t. And sometimes, well, sometimes a little human courtesy would be nice. But Denver’s parking enforcement officers aren’t known for their human courtesy. In fact, they often go out of their way to give tickets to people who borderline infractions. It’s almost like…
Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians and white buffalo hunters did it as often as they could, following the herds, hunting them, breaking down the animals they killed on spot. While that would…
If you know the names Greg Heffley, Roderick, Rowley and Fregley, then you know about the mesmerizing combination of snarky, sometimes off-color stories and adolescent drawings that make up the immensely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The four books — which are aimed at the seven-to-twelve-year-old crowd but…
Chile pepper season is coming to an end in Denver, and the vendors who sell the smoky-hot goodness from New Mexico and southern Colorado will soon be packing up their roasters, bushel baskets and awnings for the winter — if they haven’t already. But the city’s new zoning code –…
Last week, Impulse Theater, which has leased basement space from the Wynkoop Brewing Company for the past seventeen years, announced plans to move to a building at 55 South Broadway, next to the under-construction Punch Bowl bowling alley and diner. Since then, says Wynkoop spokesman Marty Jones, he and the…
The Yard House, which started interviewing job candidates last week, is tentatively hoping to open for business on December 18, just a week before Christmas…
