“Wilderness, Wildlife and Wonder.” That’s the slogan the feds chose to mark the centennial of Rocky Mountain National Park, which was founded in 1915. Personally, we’d have gone with “Crags, Crowds and Crappy Souvenirs” or “Treks, Tics and Traffic,” but they didn’t ask us. Not for a slogan, at least…
Josiah Hesse’s First Friday travels took him to both Broadway and Santa Fe, where Side Show, the gallery run by Sarah and Larry Polzin and Adam Buehler, was celebrating its first anniversary…
What do you wear to collect the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama? If you’re Bob Dylan, a Rockmount Ranch Wear shirt. Looking at photos of the May 29 ceremony, Rockmount president Steve Weil saw that Dylan, a longtime fan of the snap-button Western shirts, was in a Rockmount…
Chalk art is one of the most ephemeral forms of art — but there’s nothing transitory about the Denver Chalk Art Festival, which celebrated its tenth anniversary this past weekend in Larimer Square. Christopher Morgan was on hand to capture these masterpieces; see the complete slide show here. Follow us…
In Colorado, nothing says “summer” as much as a big mouthful of turkey leg. Photographer Nick Callaio went to the Capitol Hill People’s Fair this weekend and caught dozens of those people dining on big hunks of bird…
On June 1, Cafe Society published our “Restaurant roll call for May”, a compendium of all the openings and closings around town. Among the noteworthy openings: Sassafras, a bright spot that’s moved into a real black hole of a location. (Most recently, 2367 swallowed up Nonna’s, but it can claim…
“I wonder how newspapers like Westword survived without weekly stories promoting gay, marijuana, and goth newslines! Patty, you should be ashamed!” So writes The Wilk in response to our current cover story, “Over the Rainbow,” which details efforts to stop the bullying of gay teenagers…
Denver’s design industry is one of the bright spots on the local arts landscape. And every week, Show and Tell chronicles the amazing developments in the fashion scene — including this past weekend’s Maxandra Short trunk show at Goldyn…
Remember the episode of Dallas that ended with Bobby in the shower, when Pam realized the entire season’s plotline had just been a dream? That’s what this past year’s whole Gaylord hotel/resort/convention center project seems like: just a dream. And now the shmucks have left us high and dry…
While the city contemplates what to do with Triangle Park, the sliver of land at Broadway and Park Avenue West that was officially renamed Eddie Maestas Park and is now a mess known as the Bumuda Triangle, the Stout Street Children’s Park just a few blocks away makes urban planning…
Our Jenn in Chains look at the last remaining Furr’s Cafeteria in the metro area inspired a smorgasbord of questions. Is there still a Shakey’s in town? (No.) A Sizzler? (No). And does anyone know of a great Asian buffet? (Readers?) And then there was another line heaping with memories…..
You’re not supposed to whistle in a graveyard — but no one ever said anything about cycling. The view is wonderful at Cheesman Park, a former cemetary that is “said to still contain over four thousand bodies,” says GBWalker76. And those are just the ones below ground. The space above…
Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, returned to the Su Teatro stage last night, where eighteen months ago he’d discussed immigration with Tom Tancredo. Before that debate, Tancredo and Arellano had met across the street for dinner at El Noa Noa. And no matter how he feels about Mexicans,…
Highland isn’t the only neighborhood going through an identity crisis. While the debate over the changes in Highland continues, the name game has spread south, to the area northwest of Washington Park, where Cafe Byblos Mediterranean Grill will soon open. What, exactly, should this area be called? Says Carolyne: Country…
“Denver has the most gabacho gabachos in the United States,” Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, proclaimed yesterday, name-checking Tim Tebow (briefly), John Elway and Tom Tancredo, with whom he’d debated immigration eighteen months ago on the same Su Teatro stage…
While people debate the changes in Highland, one refugee sings the praises of Barnum, which Jef Otte celebrated in “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood.” This neighborhood may be named after circus promoter P.T. Barnum, but its fans aren’t clowning around…
Gustavo Arellano isn’t just the man behind Ask a Mexican!, his weekly column in Westword. He’s also the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, and in that book he lavishes praise on the Mexican food of Denver: “I have finally learned to love Den-Mex,” he writes. “Your…
Denver is a city filled with great neighborhoods — and ardent fans of those neighborhoods, whatever they may be called. We’ve had debates here over the name of the area northwest of Washington Park, whether Boulder can be considered a neighborhood, where LoDo ends and the Ballpark Neighborhood begins, and…
The list of Colorado celebrities is short. John Elway. Don Cheadle. Jessica Biel. John Elway. Amy Adams. Judy Collins. John Elway. Tim Tebow didn’t last a season as a Broncos starter; John Denver has been dead more than a decade, even if he keeps getting added to local halls of…
Artist Richard Vincent was memorialized at a service Saturday at the Denver Arts Student League. His sculpture that once graced the 16th Street Mall is just a memory, too, as is the legendary landmark it was designed to complement. Both are consigned to the storehouse of history…
Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend, Matt and Rosemary Lopez, who’ve owned Taza de Cafe for the six years, finally opened Charlie’s Ice Cream Social right next door in the hot Berkeley neighborhood. Or is it?…
There was real mayhem at the 2010 Mayhem Festival, with one man facing a long prison term for his role in the fracas. “It was like getting socked in the gut,” Eric Swanson says of learning that he could spend 48 years in prison. Except that he could actually be…
