Urban camping is now banned in Denver. But the city’s controversial new ordinance designed to cut down on the unpleasant problem of the homeless sleeping on sidewalks and along the 16th Street Mall doesn’t solve the puzzle of Triangle Park — better known as the “Bumuda Triangle.” Back in the…
Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins is in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Wiggins, who recently won a Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spot award and also earned Panzano another Best Italian Restaurant award,…
First, he said he “misspoke” when he said that Barack Obama — the President of the United States — was “not an American.” Then he tried to explain away the comment as “boneheaded.” And Congressman Mike Coffman — usually a sensible public servant — continued to act bone-, as well…
The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working hard to increase the mix of menu options on the 16th Street Mall, expanding hours as well as offerings. “One of the things we’ve been striving for for the last couple of years is to increase the quality, predictability and overall appearance and…
Parking at Smart meters can be stupid. After encountering two dumb problems in the space of a few hours downtown, we asked people to submit their most stupid parking story — for the chance of winning a $50 Smart card to the city’s meters. But anyone looking for parking on…
“Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors,” says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie’s rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver’s parks and trails will be filled with people — many of them very hazardous to your health. Who are…
This is National Small Business Week, but local entrepreneurs should think big. “Better cities, better entrepreneurs…and vice versa,” proclaims [i4c], and the venture is putting its money where its mouth is, with a contest that will give three ventures not just investment money, but support that will galvanize the businesses…
The talk continues about T|ACO, the updated taqueria with the awkward name that opened yesterday in Boulder. It’s not the first hip taqueria in the area, of course. Pinche Taqueria gave the Pinche Tacos concept a permanent home last year. And in February Comida Cantina opened a brick-and-mortar version of…
On Tuesday, artist Kyle Banister and a crew of Southwest Airlines employees and students from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design spent four hours creating a masterpiece. And just a few minutes later, it was gone. That very short life span is one of the challenges, as well…
Sarah Slater, founder of the Titwrench music festival, is a 2011 MasterMind award winner — and it looks like smarts run in the family. Because tonight, Sarah and her sister, Julie Slater, will host a special edition of Gorinto to celebrate Julie’s acceptance to college in Berlin, where she plans…
The 500-space, three-month parking pilot project that’s installed sensors under many of the meters downtown may enable Denver to teach its Smart meters new tricks — including zeroing out any time left on a meter when a car pulls out. But those sensors weren’t smart enough to fix two dumb…
T|ACO opens today in Boulder. It’s a new concept from the folks behind H Burger Co. (an outpost of that joint just opened in Boulder, too), and readers agree that the place looks good — the urban taqueria is a 62-seat homage to tacos and spaghetti Westerns — and the…
The Colfax Marathon always includes plenty of entertainment: end-or-race parties, streetside viewing at the Irish Snug, and this year a scooter parade. But when you’re on the run, it’s the very little things that count, as Rebecca Aronauer points out in her “Colfax Marathon Dispatch,” with the top ten things…
Kitchen magician Ian Kleinman is ensconced at James Mazzio’s Studio F for the rest of the week, where he’ll be offering a special pop-up dinner that plays with liquid nitrogen. Lori Midson was there for the debut of Kleinman’s nine-dinner run. So was Stefan:…
With the city facing a $94 million shortfall in its 2013 budget, every penny counts. As part of the pilot project that recently installed sensors in 500 parking places downtown, Denver is now zeroing out its Smart meter the moment a car pulls out. And keeping the change…
Time magazine started the whole thing, with a cover that featured a toddler smirking like a teenager while latched onto his mother’s breast. The cover story, on attachment parenting, inspired a response from both Westword writer Jef Otte, who thinks attachment parenting sucks, and local comic Andrew Orvedahl, who doesn’t…
Panzano Executive Chef Elise Wiggins is in the small town of Panzano, Italy, doing a stagisti with Dario Cecchini, the mad butcher of Panzano and owner of Antica Macelleria Cecchini. Wiggins, who recently won a Colorado Restaurant Association Industry Spot award and also earned Panzano another Best Italian Restaurant award,…
The news served up a smorgasbord of tidbits on buffet last week, including a guy in Wisconsin who picketed a restaurant that cut him off from an all-you-can-eat fish fry, and a Chinese buffet in the U.K. where management instituted a clean-your-plates or pay a $20 tab policy. Waste not,…
Aurora’s tourism efforts got a big boost Friday, when the state’s Economic Development Commission approved $81 million in Regional Tourism Act incentives for the hotel/resort/convention complex planned by Gaylord Entertainment Co. The project could open by 2016 — which means Aurora has a few years to roll out a real…
The movies for the 2012 Film on the Rocks summer lineup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — many of them picked by the people, for the people — were announced Friday night, and don’t blame the Denver FilmCenter if you don’t like The Notebook. “It wasn’t just because this seems to…
He looked shmucky enough at the end of the regularly scheduled session of the Colorado Legislature when he pointed the finger at Democrats for not pushing the civil unions bill earlier, then delivered his own lethal injection when he sent the proposal to a “kill committee.” And then whoops, House…
Six months after District Meats opened in a space that hsd already swallowed up a big-time national restaurant operator (the Chodorows, who’d brought Big Game to Denver as well as an outpost of Il Fornaio), another big-time national restaurateur has stepped in to change up his LoDo spot. “I’m renaming…
