Terrorism hit close to home in September 2009, when Aurora resident Najibullah Zazi, an airport shuttle driver, was indicted for being part of a conspiracy to bomb the subways of New York — with homemade bombs concocted from ingredients he’d purchased at local beauty supply stores. In February 2010, he…
Andy Kelso flew back to Colorado last week for a starring role in Wicked — and “it’s incredible” to be back home, says the Aurora native. “I already have heard from old high school and childhood friends who are coming to see the show and have reached out to say…
Sure, it was tacky — but folks around town were talking about our Colorado Rockies fans without underwear series, wondering how, exactly, these baseball fans might have lost their undergarments at Coors Field. Not to mention their lunch after they left the ballpark…
Denver may be landlocked, but our ship occasionally comes in — loaded with fresh fish. Yesterday we served up Denver’s five best seafood restaurants. Says UncleDave8: I can totally back this list. Refreshing change from most Denver diners’ choices like The Fresh Fish Company, Pappadeaux, Oceanaire and Ocean Prime. Still,…
Sure, there are Martians living under Denver International Airport, and the New World Order has concentration camps there. Still, all the conspiracy theories about DIA don’t hold a candelabra to the flotilla of rumors floating around the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic tragedy. And we’re not just talking about the…
Leonardo DaVinci has come to the Denver Pavilions. Discover the DaVinci In You, featuring replicas of sixty machines and other inventions created by DaVinci, has moved into the former Virgin Records space — and it’s quite a change from the other things on display in the Pavilions…
Overnight, the unnamed woman who stripped at Denver International Airport has become Colorado’s biggest celebrity, responsible for the most-viewed item on TMZ. The would-be traveler, who was taken to Denver Health for evalution, allegedly stripped down in protest after being told to put out a cigarette as she waited to…
Years before he won an Academy Award, filmmaker Daniel Junge was a barback at the Wynkoop Brewing Company — and yesterday his former bosshosted a reception to celebrate not just Junge’s recent Oscar win for best short documentary, Saving Face, but also Ryan Tedder’s Grammy — a real double whammy…
After several delays, Pho Ta finally opened in Alameda Square last week — and it looks like it was worth waiting for. “We think we have a better, cleaner, prettier and bigger interior and dining area than the other Vietnamese restaurants in and around Denver,” says Vicky Shih, a partner…
Bree Daves discovered how the other 1 percent lives when she went to Beaver Creek for a night, and shared her discoveries in “Five things destitute dames need to know about shacking up in fancy hotels.” Among other things, you do not wear the fluffy robe from your room to…
Dos Casas, a culinary extravaganza that benefits Brent’s Place, a local nonprofit that provides hope and help for kids stricken with cancer, will pack the house with distinguished chefs: Jamey Fader of Big Red F; Goose Sorensen of Solera; Pete Marczyk of both Marczyk Fine Foods stores; Troy Guard of…
Luciano’s Pizza and Wings has reached the end of the line. In addition to the notice posted last month that the property had been seized by the City of Denver for non-payment of taxes, there’s now a sign announcing an April 24 auction of the contents of the eatery at…
Wicked opens today at the Buell Theatre, with a wickedly good deal: Two and a half hours before each performance, you can enter your name in a lottery at the Buell box office; thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each,…
Where would you put a new restaurant in Denver? Theo Adley has sold the Pinyon in Boulder. “The truth is that I want to be in Denver,” he told Lori Midson. “I want to cook — and get better as a chef — in a bigger city with more people…
Tonight the Mayan is screening Wild at Heart, part of a series of David Lynch films it’s featuring in April. That program inspired Jef Otte’s list of David Lynch’s ten weirdest scenes…
Do you want a shot of attitude with that beer? Laura Shunk’s interview with Adam Hodak, the Green Russell bartender who doesn’t think bartenders should be pretentious, hit a few people in their funny bones, not to mention wallets lightened by the cost of craft cocktails. The comments keep flowing…
It’s been a big year for John Denver, even though he’s been dead since 1997. Last April, the mop-topped troubadour who was born Henry John Deutschendorf was one of the first inductees in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame; the other, Red Rocks, wasn’t available for comment, either. Last month,…
Every week, Noah Van Sciver serves up both art and insight into local bands in 4 Questions, his comic. But occasionally we send him out to paint the entire town, as he did for the recent opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver…
Did you miss First Friday on Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe ? Catch all the action you missed April 6 in our First Friday slide show. Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook!…
To be pretentious or not? About the only than that people could agree on after reading the interview with Adam Hodak of the Green Russell was that a margarita needs real lime…
We’d just driven two hours through the dry, dry landscape when we spotted a fire on the side of the road just south of I-70. A small fire — but then, the Lower North Fork fire was once small. I dialed 911, whose dispatchers are still feeling the heat over…
Some spent Easter morning at a sunrise service at Red Rocks. Some celebrated with a big family feast. Some ignored the holiday altogether. And thousands of the faithful flocked to the University of Denver, where The Thorn 2012, a passion play that’s been compared to “Cirque de Soleil meets The…
