Tomorrow is the Day of the Dead, but the Olinger Crown Hill cemetery in Wheat Ridge celebrated El Día de Los Muertos on Saturday with music, dancing, art, food, chiles and sugar-skull painting for kids (at least while the sugar skulls lasted). And the party was hot — or at…
Some of them sneak up when you’re not looking. Some are brazen enough to do it right in front of you. But all of them — every squirrel — eat pumpkins. And I’ve had it. It’s bad enough that these varmints sit in their trees and yell at me while…
Update: Two new events have been added (Avery’s Rumpkin tapping at Euclid Hall tonight and Vine Street Pub’s tapping on Sunday), while the info for the Bull & Bush pig and pumpkin beer tasting has been expanded. See below for details. Pumpkin beers are an acquired taste, but if you…
Props to the Spicy Pickle for having the guts to roll out its new Harvest Panini, essentially a Thanksgiving — or Pilgrim — sandwich remade and given a less holiday-specific (or politically thorny) name. I have a long and delicious history with Thanksgiving sandwiches but have bemoaned the difficulty of…
Jimmy the Butcher isn’t used to performing for a large audience. “He spends most of his day bundled up in a sweatshirt and fourteen coats in the meat-processing room which, frankly, is how he likes it,” says Barbara Macfarlane, co-owner of Marczyk Fine Foods, where Jimmy “the Butcher” Cross works…
Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians did it as often as they could, following the herds, hunting them, breaking down the animals they killed and taking away the meat, the skin, the bones,…
Dads & Dudes Breweria, a new pizzeria and brewpub in Aurora, 6730 South Cornerstar Way, is planning to open on November 1, after having to push back its first day by a week. Once it opens, the father-and-son team of Tom and Mason Hembree will toss pizza made from the…
Proximo Spirits, a New York-based liquor distributor that made a name for itself by buying or investing in such niche brands as Hangar 1 vodka, Kraken Black Spiced Rum and 1800 Tequila, is in the process of buying Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey. An executive with Proximo, who spoke on the condition…
Ken Buck: Too extreme for Colorado? How about, Ken Buck: Too embarrassing for Colorado. We seem to have our own Joe Biden in the house, a guy who can’t stop putting his foot in his mouth. In some ways it’s refreshing to see a politician who’s not slick enough to…
The Starz Denver Film Festival has announced its film lineup for this year’s twelve-day extravaganza, and it includes a lead-off production directed by George Hickenlooper, the mayor’s cousin, which will open the new Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. All told the fest, November 3-14, will showcase 200 movies, as well as receptions, panel…
Fifteen years ago, Old Chicago was the place to go in Denver if you wanted to try unusual beers. Known for its World Beer Tour, the restaurant — a part of what is now the Colorado-based Rock Bottom empire — offered unusual and international brews. And while the craft-beer scene…
Don’t be surprised if you see a lot of male flight attendants on Halloween. Costumes making fun of Steve Slater, the JetBlue steward who cussed out passengers before grabbing a couple of beers and sliding down the emergency exit chute, could be very popular this year. Hell, there’s even a…
Landmark Theatres, which is known in Denver for its unusual or historic movie houses and its lineup of arty, foreign and independent flicks, said Tuesday that is has purchased the AMC Olde Town 14, a fifteen-year-old mainstream multiplex in Arvada. The addition of the Old Town 14 – effective this…
Four business partners have applied for a liquor license for a former carpet warehouse located behind Colorado Lace at 200 East Seventh Avenue. Aside from the cleaners, the large building is currently gutted inside. The location is just a block from East Seventh Avenue’s restaurant row — a stretch that…
Is Stranahan’s Colorado Whiskey for sale? If you believe the bar talk, it’s already a done deal. Jess Graber, managing partner and co-founder of Stranahan’s, says he’s been getting a lot of questions from people who have heard the rumors. But he won’t confirm or deny any of them. Still,…
The organizers of the Great American Beer Festival will make two changes for next year’s big show, which will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the world’s largest commercial beer extravaganza. For starters, GABF — which drew 49,000 attendees and 3,523 different beers in 2010 — will return to a later…
It’s Friday afternoon. Do you know where your fresh-hopped beers are. If not, then here are two suggestions. All 27 Old Chicago locations began pouring Colorado IPA Nouveau this week. It’s a limited release that was made especially for Old Chicago by Tommyknocker Brewing in Idaho Springs. The beer uses…
In the past week, metal thieves have been working hard. The likes of Richard Goodface and Duane Brown, have allegedly been stealing the cast-iron metal storm grates for meager recycling money. Others have stolen the metal vases off of gravesites at cemeteries in Denver, Golden and Wheat Ridge…
It’s a pizza joint. No, it’s a brewpub. Pizza joint! Brewpub! It’s both. It’s a Breweria! The father-an- son team of Tom and Mason Hembree are getting ready to open Dad & Dudes Breweria in Aurora later this month…
Fifteen years after Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the Army is getting ready to hand over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and…
The Oskar Blues Brewing Company has expanded its empire of oddly-named eateries yet again, adding The Old Chubway: Expeditious Chow Dispensary in Lyons. Oskar Blues already runs its original Grill & Brew in Lyons, the Tasty Weasel Tap Room in Longmont and Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, a full-service…
Nearly two years after Argonaut Liquors moved into its new store at 760 East Colfax, the shell of the old one next door could finally come down. A fence surrounded the property today, and demolition material was on hand; a tangle of zoning restrictions had prevented Argonaut from tearing it…
