For over a year, neighbors and stakeholders in the area just northeast of downtown — the edge of the Ballpark neighborhood, Curtis Park, Five Points — have been discussing how to improve this part of town. They’ve come up with some answers, and one big question: Why is Sonny Lawson…
Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo’s tenth season of Top Chef, which was filmed in Seattle and will start airing in November. The lineupincludes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway’s. And yes, there’s a third Colorado chef, Eliza Gavin of…
What marks a resident of this state? Our Latest Word blog just served up You Know You’re From Colorado When Tumblr top ten, which includes this as number seven: You never understood why the Fellowship in LOTR had so many issues crossing the pass, when you trudge through that kind…
Forbes just published a list of America’s 10 Best Hot Dogs — with some help from startle.com — and Biker Jim’s makes the list. Not only makes the list, but kicks it off — although the top ten are unranked. Here’s the rave: See also: -Biker Jim on where he’d…
While the area around the new University of Colorado Health Sciences Center is booming, the buildings CU left behind a decade ago stand abandoned, and the property is now on its third developer. The city is ready for something, anything, to go there. Well, maybe not anything, say the Walmartyrs…
When Stella Cordova passed away three years ago, did she take her green chile recipe with her? That’s what one reader thinks, and another suggest thats no matter which member of the Cordova family is making the green chile, no matter where he or she might be making it, the…
Sign porn! Denver is a showplace for amazing signage from across the decades. For proof, look no further than #denversignporn, a popular Instagram hashtag. That’s what Michael Roberts did, and then compiled some of the best examples of this particular brand of porn in this Latest Word post…
Jesse Morreale has spent much of the summer in meetings with the city, which on July 10 slapped a “notice to vacate” on his First Avenue Hotel – which holds Sketch and El Diablo, as well as Morreale’s offices. And those meetings aren’t over yet. But his next meeting with…
Denver has not one, but two contestants on Bravo’s tenth season of Top Chef. The lineup, just announced this morning, includes Jorel Pierce, the exec chef of Euclid Hall, and Tyler Wiard of Elway’s. See also: –Euclid Hall’s Jorel Pierce on the egg man, life without salt and f*cking up…
The former home of Su Teatro is about to start a second act. Make that third act — the building at 4275 High Street was originally the Elyria Elementary School, then became the base for the theater company founded by Tony Garcia. But for the last few years the empty…
Yesterday Lori Midson served up a picture of some abysmal fried calamari, which a reader quickly pegged as coming from Odyssey Italian Bistro. But it could have come from so many other places that treat calamari just as abysmally…
Molly Ringwald started writing as a child — before she became an ’80s teen icon who starred in such John Hughes films as Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink and The Breakfast Club . She says she never really thought she’d publish anything, though — but last year, she released her…
Colorado is the purplest of states, with voters almost equally divided between Democrat, Republican and unaffiliated, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in a dead heat here. But there’s another contest that also shows the red state/blue state pull: The debate over Walmart and Trader Joe’s…
Open the door of the newly renovated Gaetano’s, Lori Midson reports, and you’ll see many familiar sights. The bar. The naked lady. The plates of pasta. It looks familiar, but better — once you’re through the door, that is. But the sign over that door? See also: – Exclusive first…
Next month William Morrow will join the Denver Art Museum as the new Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. He’s coming from Louisville, Kentucky, where he was founding director of the contemporary art space at 21c, a combination boutique hotel and museum. Michael Paglia met with Morrow…
Federico Pena — one-time state legislator, mayor of Denver from 1983-1991, and former director of both the federal Department of Transportation and the Department of Energy for President Bill Clinton — is now in private business. But as national campaign co-chair for Obama for America, he’ll join other Latino leaders…
It’s prime green chile season, which means things are smokin’ at Chubby’s-like outlets all over town. But which Chubby’s has founder Stella Cordova’s original recipe? Back in 1967, Stella noticed a “Cook Wanted” sign at the Chubby Burger Drive Inn at 1231 West 38th Avenue. At the age of 59,…
The Sleeper house, the Colorado home made famous by Woody Allen’s 1973 film Sleeper, is among our state’s most iconic buildings — and, according to a recent Forbes list, one of America’s ugliest mansions. The magazine claims “it’s perfect…for aliens” — but plenty of Coloradans love the place. Thumbnail image…
Not all brainstorms are as mind-blowing as Chipotle, the fast-casual chain that Steve Ells founded in Colorado two decades ago. Some brainstorms are really more of a trickle. Brainstorms like the BevBuckle, which will land a local inventor on the season premiere of ABC’s Shark Tank tonight…
Gaetano’s is about to reopen, after a major renovation/repair job that the owners bill as “respectful of the past” — which means the bar looks much the same, and the history of the family that started the joint, the legendary Smaldones, still permeates the place. But the Wynkoop Brewing Co…
Have pit bulls gotten a bad rap? That’s the premise behind Beyond the Myth, Libby Sherrill’s documentary on the misconceptions about the animals that screened last night at the Mayan, in the heart of a city that bans the breed. And despite all the information that Sherrill lays out in…
“We’re a family-owned Italian restaurant,” says Kim Miceli-Vela, one of the family members behind Mici Handcrafted Italian. “We’re extremely family-friendly. But you can’t have an Italian restaurant without wine.” And now, thanks to a new rule that Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, signed on…
