Carl’s, please don’t change! Change can make a person hungry. And after standing in line in the sun for two and a half hours, watching speeches and bands for another five (Yes We Can!), hearing constantly about change, and then being funneled nearly a mile in the wrong direction by…
Vote for Floyd! One of the best Denver moments from Thursday night’s Democratic National Convention was the opening of vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s speech. “Ladies and gentlemen I always dreamed I would stand in this place,” he said to some laughs and comments from the audience (in Mile High Stadium?)…
Obamanator gets all political. Maibock lagers are a German-style beer, traditionally brewed in the spring and early summer and given a name that ends in “ator.” So even though it’s closer to fall, the folks at Wynkoop Brewing Company decided to make the beer now because they really wanted to…
Bringing Philly to Denver. Taste of Philly 1116 Broadway 303-861-5222 Mushroom Philly $7.25 for a 12-inch I haven’t been to Philadelphia since I was around twelve years old, and I don’t recall whether or not I had a cheese steak. In fact, I don’t remember much about the city at…
The 9/11 Truth movement may have found a friend in Buddy Moore, who is running for the U.S. Senate as an independent. Buddy Moore’s bus. Moore’s giant, and questionably road-worthy, bus led a contingent of Truthers down 14th Street Tuesday, while someone inside — likely Moore himself — shouted something…
Rock Bottom should stay out of politics. Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery was bumpin’ on Monday, August 25, at lunchtime, full of business crowd regulars, gawking Denver-tourists-in-their-own-town, and credential-clad delegate/journalist/politician types. And although it wasn’t the beer of the day, Rock Bottom, at 1001 16th Street, was pouring its Political…
Charlie Rangel painted the town blue. Denver, worked into a DNC lather, can’t get enough famous people. Either that or longtime Democratic New York Representative Charlie Rangel’s blue suit was the cutting edge of fashion. Because Rangel was absolutely mobbed by reporters, photographers and all-around glad-handers on Monday around 2…
Check one two. I didn’t learn much during the Pepsi Center’s community walk-through today that I didn’t already know, but I did get a feel for just how massive an operation the Democratic National Convention and the accompanying media coverage will be. Just getting to the Pepsi Center from the…
Bernar Venet’s “222.5º Arc x 5.” Within the last week, the City of Denver decided that Bernar Venet’s “222.5º Arc x 5” will be permanently displayed in Commons Park near Little Raven Street about a block north of 15th Street, which is just a short walk from the Museum of…
Avery’s in the running Nothing goes with politics and journalists like booze, and no one does booze better than Denver – the drunkest city in America according to Men’s Health magazine. While bars all over town have come up with special concoctions to celebrate the Democratic National Convention next week,…
Rock the vote on the rocks. Maker’s Mark plans to make its mark during the Democratic and Republican national conventions by selling special bottles of bourbon dipped in red, white and blue wax (or blue, red and white wax, depending on your politics, says company spokeswoman Jamie Hakim) and adorned…
Here’s to what ales you! I’ve heard of at least four Colorado beers that have been brewed specifically for the Democratic National Convention and the election season in general – something that took a lot of forethought, since brewing beer is a lengthy process. As a sucker for politics, seasonal…
Fernando Clavijo. After leaving the team last week to attend to a family emergency in his native Uruguay, Colorado Rapids coach Fernando Clavijo returned to Colorado and promptly resigned. Assistant coach Gary Smith will take over for the remaining ten games. Many die-hard Rapids supporters have been calling for the…
Madd at Dustin. Dustin Lee Chady didn’t want to go to jail. He really didn’t. And since Chady knew he might get thrown in the slammer if he didn’t attend a court-ordered drunk driving meeting in Colorado Springs last Monday, he made every effort to get there, including bum-rushing the…
It’s hot in the city — and it’s about to get hotter. Labor Day is the traditional kickoff to green chile season in Colorado and New Mexico, when vendors offering up to two dozen varieties line up along Federal Boulevard and other west Denver streets, roasting and selling their aromatic…
Colorado makes more beer than any other state (23.4 million barrels), has the highest per capita number of craft breweries (92), and is home to both the biggest beer bash of the year (the Great American Beer Festival) and the largest single brewing facility in the nation (Coors). Oh, and…
The sandwich is the perfect American food because it appeals to our sense of independence and individuality. You can put anything you want between two pieces of bread — from peanut butter and bananas like Elvis, to rigatoni and marinara sauce like my college buddy, Patrick. And although the sandwich…
There is no better spot to be in Denver on a warm, late summer evening than at Oblio’s Pizzeria in Park Hill, where Suzanne, the bartender, mixes up batches of perfect sangrias, neighbors walk — or drive their golf carts — over for hot, scrumptious pizza, and the patio sizzles…
Oh Henry? Here were the choices for Denver Broncos fans who wanted to buy a jersey at a fifth-level souvenir shop at Invesco Field at Mile High last Saturday during a pre-season game against the Dallas Cowboys: Jay Cutler; Rod Smith; Javon Walker; John Lynch. And here’s the problem. Three…
Pepsi may get the glory during the Democratic National Convention when the Pepsi Center takes center stage, but Coke will be cleaning up The Can. Last week, Coca-Cola became the “Official Recycling Provider” for the DNC – which means the company will send its employees to Denver with stolen grocery…
The Denver Broncos took on the Dallas Cowboys at Invesco Field on Saturday. It was the second of four pre-season games. Not that it matters, but the Broncos won. More than 60,000 people were there (in spite of the rain), which is good for a game that doesn’t count. But…
Vote for vintage Dodge-Lydick paraphernalia. Six-time Prohibition Party presidential candidate and Lakewood resident Earl Dodge, 74, died last fall before he could run for a seventh nomination. And in a strange twist of fate, Dodge’s would-be running mate, Texas insurance adjuster Howard Lydick, has also died. Dodge, who ran a…
