A year ago, no one was betting that Michael Hancock would win the crowded race to become Denver’s next mayor. But the gamble paid off, and today, when Mayor Hancock celebrates Dress Western Day — the one day that Denver doesn’t apologize for being a cowtown — he’ll be wearing…
ABC pulled a swap with the first segment of Celebrity Wife Swap, moving up the episode that had been scheduled for next week to this past Tuesday. And what swap led off the new season? Pastor Ted Haggard traded wives with Gary Busey, sending his mate — who already deserved…
When M&D’s Cafe shut its doors after 34 years in business this weekend, it didn’t just leave behind a legion of fans. It also left a big debt — including a million dollars that it owes on a loan issued by the Denver Office of Economic Development when owners Daisy…
The National Western Stock Show is rolling into town, which means there will be almost as much beef on the hoof as on the plate in this cowtown, although steakhouses definitely anticipate fattening up. And this year, in addition to the usual funnel cakes and turkey legs and pork chops…
Several New Year’s Eve restaurant closings surprised the city — including that of Se7en and M&D’s Cafe — but the three-way closings on South Pearl Street were a real triple whammy. As anticipated, the 29-year-old Pearl Street Grill closed…but India’s Pearl shut its doors just hours later, and OTOTO closed…
While Colorado skiers keep watching the skies and the weather reports, hoping to see some of the white stuff, other states aren’t sitting idly by on their snowboards. Montana’s Big Sky, for example is trying to rustle Colorado skiers…by honoring the Epic Pass issued by Vail Resorts…
Vivianne Le Courtois, a Westword MasterMind, uses unusual items to make art: artichokes, gym shoes, junk mail, junk food, potato peels…and now, with any luck, your old T-shirts. For an installation that will debut at Le Courtois’s solo show at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art on February 23, the…
John Hickenlooper still isn’t sure why he was the only elected official invited to sit in the President’s Box with Barack Obama and this year’s Kennedy Center Honors recipients: Yo-Yo Ma, Sonny Rollins, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Barbara Cook. But Colorado’s governor knows it was the thrill of a…
Close to 300 new restaurants opened in the metro area in 2011 — by our count, at least, which you can see when our Restaurant roll call for 2011 is posted here later today. When Laura Shunk narrowed that big list down to the ten best new restaurants of last…
Still need to make a resolution for 2012? How about this: Don’t try to park in LoDo. Now that RTD has chosen the Union Station Alliance to revamp the facility, the project to turn the area around the station into a multi-modal mainstay by 2014 is moving full speed ahead…
Happy New Year! Show and Tell scribes are taking the day off — we’re out celebrating the good news that the world is not going to end in 2012, as revealed in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, a film made by the folks at PeaceJam. And if the world isn’t…
Latest Word scribes — and the Westword office — are taking today off, celebrating the fact that the world is not going to end in 2012, since local heroes at PeaceJam have revealed that people are misreading the Mayan calendar when they predict doom heading our way on December 21,…
During Tuesday night’s broadcast of the 34th annual Kennedy Center Honors, the cameras frequently swept over the President’s box occupied by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as honorees Sonny Rollins, Barbara Cook, Neil Diamond, Meryl Streep and Yo-Yo Ma — and there, just to the president’s right…Colorado governor John…
While a few new restaurants and bars are still scrambling to open before 2012 — and get some business on New Year’s Eve — other longtimers are calling it a night. The last Marie Callender’s restaurant in Colorado closed its doors last weekend, after 21 years at 51 West Dry…
What constitutes an “encumbrance” in this town? The signs at Civic Center Park? Or the piles of snow on streets all over town? Several readers pointed out that while the city seems obsessed with doing a clean sweep of the Occupy Denver camp, it’s ignoring the still-icy streets…
For our Year in Review issue, we rounded up all the answers that Chef and Tell subjects had given when asked what they’d like to see less of in Denver/Boulder from a culinary standpoint:? The recap inspired this from Dave: I wish for less chefs to come off as total…
Despite the efforts of Governor John Hickenlooper and Don Hunt, the head of the Colorado Department of Transportation, the negotiations with Golden, Jefferson County and the group that would build the Jefferson Parkway wound up going nowhere…fast. In mid-December, Golden outlined a $57 million transportation deal that town would get…
For almost three decades, the modest Kloewer house at 4990 South Elati Street has featured an outsized holiday light show — a favorite annual sight, as Susan Froyd describes here. But after this year’s display, the family is pulling the plug for good on January 5…
Westword staffer Kelsey Whipple had been on the job just a few days when she started covering Occupy Denver — and the beat has had its hazards, including getting shot in the ass, as she revealed in this three-month Occupy Denver retrospective…
We’ve discussed many weighty subjects on Show and Tell over the past year, but the all-time comment-getter remains Jeff Otte’s “White people with dreads.” Just yesterday, Bongzilla weighed in with this: I’m sorry, but every comment I’ve read on here has been EXTREMELY racist.. All you’re doing is finger pointing…
A river of alcohol was running through Cafe Society yesterday, with Laura Shunk offering her list of neighborhood liquor stores, Swirl Girl suggesting five bottles of bubbly for New Year’s Eve, and Colorado Beer Man Jonathan Shikes serving up his “ten best Colorado beers of 2011.”…
The word of the year? Our money (and yours) is on “fracking,” the shortened term for “hydraulic fracturing,” a practice that shook neighborhoods (in some cases literally) around the country this year, and has fueled the oil and gas boom in northeastern Colorado. But if energy execs really want to…
