It’s been one hot summer — and that includes an incendiary atmosphere surrounding some events, whose tickets have been moving faster than a wildfire. The Great American Beer Festival tickets disappeared in under an hour, and you can expect Bruce Springsteen to go just about as fast on Monday. Meanwhile,…
After eleven years at 1445 Larimer Street, Pam Savage-Sims and Curt Sims closed Lime last month. But their history in the neighborhood stretches much further back than that. It’s been 27 years for Pam, who started out singing five nights a week in clubs in the Square, and 29 for…
Politics aside — if you can set politics aside — Chick-Fil-A has lots of fans of its sandwiches. For those who are boycotting the chain for its anti-gay-marriage stance, yesterday Jonathan Shikes served up five chicken-sandwich options in town. Turns out we missed one: at Cafe Options, a terrific downtown…
Every weekend Denver overflows with great events, many of them with fun themes, most of them with beer. How do you decide which one is for you? Yesterday, we offered a helpful tool to make your decision easier: our “Choose your wacky Denver event” flow chart. But every party has…
Here’s the latest dish on Dish: Westword’s annual eating orgy is set for Thursday evening, September 6, and it will once again be held in the great outdoors — but this time we’re bringing great food, great drink and great entertainment to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts…
It’s been a tough summer for Colorado — the toughest in recent memory, I wrote a week ago, on Colorado Day, August 1. By then, the state had weathered drought, wildfires and the horrors of the Aurora shootings. But already, things were looking up: Missy Franklin had just snagged her…
The Denver Five will return to the James Beard House next month, strutting their stuff for food fans in New York City. The featured chefs make undeniably good food…but how will they behave?…
It’s the hottest ticket in town. The Tony award-winning The Book of Mormon opens its national tour at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House next Tuesday — creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are hometown heroes, after all — and all the seats were sold out the first day tickets went…
Another Colorado classic has reached the end of the line: Conway’s Red Top, a family-run chain that’s been slinging giant hamburgers in Colorado Springs since 1944, just closed the last of its three restaurants. The chain was co-founded by the late Norbert Conway and became known for its giant burgers,…
Uncle, chef/owner Tommy Lee’s Asian-inspired restaurant in LoHi, hasn’t even opened yet — although it will sometime this week — and already people are quibbling about how close it is to Bones, which itself was considered a copy of Momofuku when Frank Bonanno opened that restaurant almost four years ago…
People have been paying big for little pieces of Western history. William Koch bid more than $2 million for a tintype of Billy the Kid, and paid about that much for the old town of Buckskin Joe. A Vietnamese national shelled out $900,000 for the town of Buford, Wyoming,, population…
Comic Jeffrey Ross joked about the Aurora shooting during a Comedy Central roast of former Denverite Roseanne Barr — and then hurried to explain his comparison of Seth Green to James Holmes. “That is what the roasts are about,” he said. “That’s what Roseanne is about — unapologetic comedy. If…
On Colorado Day, August 1, we celebrated fifty reasons why Colorado is the greatest state in the country. Today we’re celebrating another one (although many politicians would dispute its benefits): the citizen initiative process, which allows residents to land measures on the statewide ballot, right alongside those put there by…
Zanitas Mexican opened last week in Boulder, offering “chef-inspired” menu that gives a new twist to tacos. Or so its owners hope, since T|ACO opened nearby this spring…
What are the hot tickets in town? The Book of Mormon, of course, which opens next week but was sold out within hours of seats going on sale. And last Thursday, the Great American Beer Festival sold out in less than an hour. But you can still find tickets for…
Tickets to this year’s Great American Beer Festival sold out almost as soon as sales started yesterday. But the ire of would-be GABF-goers is just starting. Some are suggesting that scalpers were at work; others say they’re giving up on the festival and starting their own…
It took 1,600 hours and 10,000 pounds of marble for Colorado artist Francisco Sotomayor to create “American Woman,” a monumental sculpture. Reviews are mixed — both of the piece, and of our recent interview with Sotomayer…
After seeing that a recent Consumer Reports survey ranked Le Peep in the top ten of most popular restaurants in the U.S. — ranked on taste, value, service and mood — Jenn Wohletz decided to give this corporate-chain eatery another try. But she was not impressed by her meal at…
Colorado native Francisco Sotomayor has been touring the country with his monumental “American Woman,” a 10,000-pound sculpture he carved from Colorado marble. And at each showing, he signs three-inch chunks of marble from the original block so that visitors can take home a piece of “American Woman,” which he sees…
It’s been a tough summer for Colorado — the toughest in memory. But on this August 1, Colorado Day, there are still many, many reasons to celebrate life in the Centennial State. And Missy Franklin’s gold medal is just the most recent. The oldest? Just take a look to the…
Three weeks after the city red-tagged the First Avenue Hotel building — causing the immediate closure of both El Diablo and Sketch — both restaurants are back in business. For now. After a three-and-a-half hour hearing Monday, the Board of Appeals — a mayor-appointed committee that considers actions of the…
Bill Maher was in town last Friday, sharing observations and the wealth: He donated proceeds from the show to several charities, including the victims of Aurora. But not everyone appreciated the gesture…
