The hike leads to a southern Utah canyon with a stunning view. The canyon itself has a name that stuns many of the hikers who hear it: Negro Bill Canyon. And this name was changed in the ’60s to clean up a more derogatory title that ostensibly honored a black…
‘Tis the season for endless reruns of It’s a Wonderful Life. But how wonderful did early critics consider this movie? J. Edgar Hoover thought it was Communist propaganda, reports Josiah Hesse. But 65 years later, “the film’s take on social welfare, real estate loans and class warfare remain poignantly relevant…
Is this state big enough for both cyclists and automobiles? it doesn’t seem that way on some mountain roads. Byron Nix was riding through Deer Creek Canyon with a group of other cyclists earlier this month when a truck hit his bike, knocking him off, pulling the bike under and…
Just in case you didn’t spend enough time in front of the television last night, Colorado Public Television is giving you two more hours of very good reasons to stay seated: a mini-marathon of the time-machine shows that the crew behind Colorado Inside Out, which normally focuses on current events,…
Before she put the turkey in the oven, Gretchen Kurtz made many visits to Makan Malaysian Cafe, the restaurant she reviews this week. At Makan, Karen Beckman and her husband feature real Malaysian dishes, many of which Karen learned how to make at her mother’s side. And during her meals…
Yesterday one reader stopped to give thanks for a facility we named Best New Building in the Suburbs in the Best of Denver 2012: the Parker Arts, Culture and Events center, otherwise known as PACE. The facility, which opened in the fall of 2011, includes a theater, an auditorium, a…
Tony Pasquini has had a very wild year…and it’s not over yet. His history in the local restaurant business stretches back to 1986, when, barely of legal age to have a liquor license, he founded the first Pasquini’s Pizzeria, at 1310 South Broadway. He later sold it to his sister…
Shortly after 8 a.m. on Sunday, 911 got a call from Christopher Perea, who said that his wife, Loretta Barela, was “cold and her jaw is stiff.” Denver officers soon arrived at the couple’s home in southwest Denver, found Barela’s lifeless body, and arrested Perea on suspicion of homicide. But…
Every day, Lori Midson serves up another entry in her Guess Where I’m Eating series, asking readers to identify the restaurant serving a particular dish — in yesterday’s case, enchiladas. But one reader declined to play along, citing a major problem with that dish. See also: – Guess where I’m…
No kidding around: Show and Tell is giving away tickets to shows at both Comedy Works — and all you have to do to be eligible to win is tell us a joke. A number of readers already have. Our current favorite comes from Jeff: Broncos are 9-2 Superbowl favorites…
The Fainting Goat — the go-to holiday escape for working Westworders — realized there was a need for official Thanksgiving hours early today, when they got a call from a group that wanted to make a reservation for thirty…at ten o’clock on Thanksgiving night. We’re sure that the Goat, which…
Who’s the biggest turkey of the year? With the election season barely over, it’s easy to focus on all the pundits who insisted Colorado’s swing-state vote would decide the election — when Barack Obama had already won his second term before our polling places closed. But there are many, many…
Were you at Chef & Brew, which paired some of the town’s top toques with some of its best brews? Lori Midson was; she helped judge the event. And so was Mantonat — which is why he was not at Westword’s Denver Web Awards, to pick up the prize for…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones’s Further was the most highly anticipated snowboard film of the season — and it lived up to the hype. “This film is inspiring people to get out there and do something big,” Jones told us last month. “That’s really a cool thing.” See also:…
So far, much of the talk about the Pasquini’s Pizzeria that opened on East 17th Avenue in early November has focused on the new paint-job outside. Today, the discussion will move indoors, when Pasquini’s applies to the city for a cabaret license, which would allow the venue to offer live…
Esquire magazine has chosen its “Americans of the Year 2012,” and is rolling out stories on the fifteen honored Americans this week. Already revealed: Bradley Cooper (the cover boy), Bruce Springsteen, Lena Dunham, Elon Musk, Travon Martin, John Roberts, Prince Harry (Honorary)…and Colorado’s governor, John Hickenlooper…
Since Peyton Manning doesn’t work fulltime as a Papa John’s spokesman, CEO John Schnatter doesn’t have to cover the quarterback’s health insurance (which has to be hefty). And he’d like to make sure that as many Papa John’s employees as possible work under thirty hours a week, so that the…
The Man in Black is gone from 13th Avenue. So is Bender’s, replaced by Jerry Garcia (albeit a defaced Deadhead) and Quixote’s True Blue, which opened on Thursday in its new home. And what’s the moral of this messy mural story? See also: – Quixote’s True Blue: The new Jerry…
Lotus Concepts is raising the roof — literally — on the Victorian building at 2015 Market Street that for decades held Mori Japanese Restaurant. But Mori closed abruptly four years ago, and club king Francois Safieddine bought the spot from the Nisei Veterans Heritage Foundation for a reported $900,000 in…
Chef/owner Ryan Leinonen says that a rare flower, the blue trillium, was the inspiration for the restaurant that he opened last year in the Ballpark neighborhood, Trillium. But a flawless meal here is also a rare thing, as Gretchen Kurtz discovered when she reviewed the place this week. See also:…
Developer Mickey Zeppelin bought the old Victorian building at 1434 Blake Street back in the early ’80s, moving his office upstairs, putting an architectural bookstore in the basement, and then opening the iconic City Spirit Cafe with his wife, artist Susan Wick, on the first floor. After the closed City…
To mark the transition of the former Bender’s space to the new home of Quixote’s True Blue, which opens tonight, the Johnny Cash mural on the eastern wall was replaced with one of Jerry Garcia — which was then painted over while the artist came up with a replacement Garcia,…
