Cruiser bikes have been all over Denver this summer, and so have critics of Josiah Hesse’s “Cruiser bikes suck: They attract Philistines and ruin cycling for the rest of us.” But as it turns out, those commenters were just getting rolling. Even as the USA Pro Challenge starts today, showing…
What’s your favorite homegrown fruit? Those tart cherries that inspired the Tree Line, Marnie Ward’s winning Colorado cocktail? The juicy peaches that will be celebrated at the Palisade Peach Festival this weekend? Or the beleaguered Rocky Ford cantaloupe, wrongly fingered last year as the cause of a listeria outbreak that…
Rocky Ford farmers and growers have spent much of the last year doing damage control, after their melons were wrongly fingered as the cause of a listeria outbreak that actually originated a hundred miles away, at Jensen Farms, and ultimately killed over thirty people. But while doing damage control, they…
Summer’s searing temperatures have finally been turned down, but this weekend will still be perfect patio weather. And there’s nowhere better to enjoy it than at a ringside seat on the 16th Street Mall, which offers the city’s best people-watching. This week, we served up our “Ten best patios on…
Blockbuster has joined forces with Dish, and with that move Colorado gains a new corporate headquarters: This week Governor John Hickenlooper cut the blue ribbon to Blockbuster’s shining new offices in Douglas County. In her piece reporting on the Blockbuster ceremony, Natalie Gonzales linked to an earlier post by Jef…
I’ve seen a lot of Western history auctioned off over the last year. I watched as billionaire William Koch bid $2 million to buy an original photo of Billy the Kid, and traveled up to Buford, population one, to see that tiny Wyoming town get sold — for $900,000 –…
New spots are popping up all over town, including Little Dragon, a Chinese take-out and delivery spot in Mayfair. Jenn Wohletz dropped by and picked up an order of hot-and-sour soup and allegedly healthy, baked crab and cheese wontons. Is it wrong to crave these wontons?…
Open for Design , a new exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, has given power to the people. A community challenge asked citizens to create visual models showing how they would improve their neighborhoods, and the result was an abundance of design ideas — some serious, many whimsical and all…
A river of possibility runs through this city, and we have Joe Shoemaker to thank for that. Decades ago, he looked at the polluted mess that was then the South Platte River and he saw the potential to create an incredible amenity for Denver. From that vision came the Greenway…
In the latest installment of a long-running saga, yesterday Governor John Hickenlooper reappointed five of the ten public trustees who resigned last month — at his request. And he appointed three new trustees in three counties, including one who really puts the “public” in public trustee: sometime bartender Paul Weissmann…
Wow, the furry’s still flying over our post on the “Twenty most expressionless furry costumes at Rocky Mountain Fur Con.” And clearly, while it might be difficult to change the expression of those furry costumes, the people wearing them have no problem expressing themselves…
Get a piece of the rock — the original Hard Rock Cafe, that is. The town of Empire, which owns the century-old building in which the restaurant is located (and whose offices are right upstairs) is looking for a new party to run the place. The Hard Rock’s last proprietor…
“Many dance company directors, especially the most venerable, keep to the wings, letting their dancers and the works speak for themselves. Cleo Parker Robinson is not one of those.” That’s the start of yesterday’s New York Times piece that’s basically a rave review for Cleo Parker Robinson. Oh, and the…
At one point, it seemed that Lance Tyler Hering had found a happy ending to his incredible story. Rather than return to Iraq as a Marine, Hering cooked up an elaborate scheme in which he would disappear in an Eldorado Canyon climbing accident. An expensive search did not locate his…
The Hooters at 1390 South Colorado Boulevard — not just the first Hooters in Denver, but the first Hooters this side of the Mississippi — is closing on Friday. The breastaurant moved into this former White Spot (not Village Inn — sorry, Steveville) space in 1989, and now the landlord…
The furrys were in town this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, and if looking at their costumes made you want to get a dust-buster, you weren’t alone…
The new selection for One Book, One Denver won’t be revealed officially until September 4. But in the August 2 Off Limits, we reported that Enrique’s Journey definitely had the inside track — and now there are many more clues that this book, which grew out of a Los Angeles…
The Independence Institute’s annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms party is “the most politically incorrect event of the year,” as we tagged it years ago, and the tenth annual ATF event lived up to that billing Saturday even if it didn’t make the news that the 2010 incarnation did — when…
Jenn Wohletz recently served up her list of “Five restaurant leftovers you should not eat the next day.” No one would quibble with her inclusion of sushi — but her name-check of Chinese food left readers hungry for an explanation…
Our “Westword guide to wacky themed events” inspired shout-outs to many favorites — cruiser rides, Red Rocks — as well as this sad note from Barbara: Any place in CO is more fun than where I live!…
We named Pinche Taqueria the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2012, and Bon Appetit agrees; in his list of the country’s fifty best new restaurants, restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton names Pinche, as well as Linger and Pizzeria Locale (even though the latter is not so new)…..
For “Rocky Mountain High,” Westword writers scattered around the state on Colorado Day, August 1, and returned with reports on why, even in this very tough summer, there are plenty of reasons to love Colorado. And Shaw Nielsen gave us one more: his wonderful cover art…
