This is National Wildlife Refuge Week, and the feds are encouraging you to “see what wildlife refuges are doing to conserve America’s wildlife heritage.” But when I asked if I could see Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, the regional U.S. Fish & Wildlife office declined that request, and instead suggested…
Mimi the elephant passed away at the Denver Zoo last week, without getting to really appreciate her new home in the Toyota Elephant Passage, which opened just over four months ago. Mimi had been at the zoo since 1961; she was a gift from Helen Bonfils, owner of the Denver…
To accompany this week’s cover story on bike safety in this city, Sam Alviani rolled out a list of Denver’s five best bike-friendly bars, culminating with the Denver Bicycle Cafe. But not everyone in this city is feeling so friendly to cyclists. See also: – Denver’s five best bike-friendly cities…
If Mitt Romney comes back to Colorado before election day on November 6 — and he will, since this state is still in play — he has an invitation for a “family meal” with the Aguirres at Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe. But if he accepts this invitation, he can leave…
Another day, another conspiracy regarding Denver International Airport. If it’s not Martians living under the floor, it’s “Mustang” shooting his devil gaze into the heavens, or the New World Order sending secret communications via the murals. See also: – New World Order! Conspiracy theories keep landing at Denver International Airport…
Every party has a pooper, and in the case of the 16th Street Mall’s thirtieth anniversary party, that would be the New York Times, which published an article on Tuesday’s celebration — both online and in print — that some boosters think made the event look a lot like Mayberry,…
A crew from Food Paradise stopped in Denver earlier this year to film at My Brother’s Bar, whose JCB rated a segment on the “Hamburger Paradise 2” episode that aired last night on the Travel Channel. The Denver shots included interviews with longtime bartender Jimmy Hayde (who had a big…
Bree Davies grew up in Denver, and is about the same age as the 16th Street Mall — which means she spent plenty of time on it as a teen. She reminisced about those days in a blog birthday card to the mall, a sort of love letter that accepted…
When I stopped by Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe last week for lunch, the restaurant was empty. When I returned this past Monday, it was jammed. The Colorado Forward Obama campaign RV was just pulling away — with a lot of Rosa Linda’s to-go food and Governor John Hickenlooper inside the…
Earlier this year, the crew of Food Paradise traveled the country in search of “the belly-busting best places to get your burger on — from a heart-stopping monster burger in Las Vegas, to cheese-stuffed burgers in Minnesota and wild game gut-bombs in Texas.” To the JCB at My Brother’s Bar…
The celebration started late yesterday afternoon in the neighborhoods around Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard, as news spread that Walmart had pulled out of the project that Jeff Fuqua plans to put in the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. If the timing had been a little different, they…
The Great American Beer Festival kicks off tomorrow, and fans of craft-beer are already pouring into the city. Tickets to the GABF sold out in under an hour, but Cafe Society managed to snag a few that we’ve been giving away in contests. The most recent asked people to spill…
Many well-known TV series have been set in Colorado over the years, everything from Mork & Mindy to Everwood to South Park. But there have also been plenty of obscure shows set in this state, and we dredged up ten of those in “Ten TV shows you didn’t know were…
No sooner had Josh Wolkon broken the news that executive chef Matt Selby was moving on after fifteen years at Vesta Dipping Grill (and then Steuben’s and Ace) that just where Selby is moving became clear: Selby will join James Iacino and Scott Kinsey as a full partner at the…
For Now Showing, our fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene — including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards — to take a survey about the state of the arts. We published many of the responses…
One of my great guilty pleasures, How the West Was Won, came on very early Sunday morning. I first saw this star-studded blockbuster as a kid at a drive-in movie in northern Illinois, and its Cinerama scenery fueled an early obsession with the West. Fifty years after its release, much…
Rebecca Conda has owned the Lancer Lounge since 1999 — — but she doesn’t own the building that houses what she readily admits is a “dive.” Even so, she poured $100,000 into fixing up the joint last year, building new bathrooms and even putting a big window in front. But…
Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, just issued his final decision regarding Rockbar’s application to renew its liquor licenses for the hipster hangout on East Colfax. Downey’s decision? No. And if that order stands, Rockbar will be high and dry within the month. See also:…
Joints keep getting snapped up in LoHi, which Forbes has rated as one of the “hippest hipster neighborhoods” in the country. The most recent takeover: the former Arabian Bar, which has been in business since the ’20s at 3360 Navajo Street. It’s now being transformed into Barry’s@Highlands by Barry Zadikoff,…
Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. And today, state offices will be closed to mark what remains a holiday — and was celebrated with a Columbus Day Parade Saturday. But that parade didn’t inspire the protests that have been regular sights over…
Would you pay $500 for a mask of James Holmes? One was offered last week on eBay for $500. And then would you wear it out in public? See also: – James Holmes ultra-realistic Halloween mask listed on eBay for $500 – Five tips for visiting a haunted house -…
A passerby saw the smoke coming from Tequila’s Mexican Restaurant at 17535 South Golden Road early Sunday morning, and called 911 at 1:20 a.m. Sunday morning. By the time firefighters from four metro departments arrived, the blaze had gone to the roof, and it took several hours to put out…
