Last weekend, zombies filled downtown. This weekend, it was gorillas — 1,200 of them, all participating in the eighth annual 5K Gorilla Run, which benefits the Denver-based Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund. That’s more runners than there are mountain gorillas left in the wild. See the slide show here…
“I was really hoping you’d go on the Jason Sheehan diet: whiskey, cigarettes, and Lucky Charms,” writes Mantonat in response to the second installment of Bar Belle, Laura Shunk’s new series about how a food critic can indeed get fit. In last Monday’s installment, Shunk kicked gluten to the curb,…
Mayor Michael Hancock’s choice for Denver’s new police chief, Robert White, was introduced at a hastily convened press conference at City Hall on Saturday. The announcement of Hancock’s pick for this most-watched post had been moved up several days because the news of White’s appointment had already leaked out in…
From 6 p.m. six until closing tonight, all locations of Chipotle — the homegrown big-burrito chain that Steve Ells started in Denver almost twenty years ago — will be offering a real treat to anyone in a costume inspired by the family farm. Dress like Old McDonald or a Niman…
October was supposed to be the month of Celebrating Women at Colorado Mills, but a few women felt distinctly dissed after the mall decided not to name a winner in the “Week of a Woman” photo contest. After covering the kick-off Wellness Expo at Colorado Mills, Bree Davies had entered…
No sooner had husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane opened Marczyk Fine Foods at 770 East 17th Avenue than people started asking when they would open a second store — usually begging them to open one in their neighborhood. Nine years later, the couple (now joined by Pete’s brother,…
Inspired by the parillada at Caminito Tango, last week Laura Shunk served up Denver’s five best weekend-only restaurant specials…
“Mustang,” Luis Jimenez’s killer horse at Denver International Airport, just placed third in a recent survey of the country’s most bizarre public art. But it definitely ranks first in the hearts and minds of Denver residents, who either really love or really, really hate the sculpture…
It’s not all that easy scaring people, insists Mythica von Griffyn, who’s very busy these days acting at a haunted house. In fact, as he told Thorin Klosowski in yesterday’s “How to Get My Job,” the gig is a lot of hard work, what with make-up, costuming and the constant…
At the end of service on Saturday, October 29, 8 Rivers Modern Caribbean Restaurant will close the doors for good at 1550 Blake Street, its third location — but not its last. After opening their first restaurant, the Jamaican Cafe, in Santa Monica, California, chef Scott Durrah and his wife,…
The seventh round of the Mayor’s Design Awards was presented last night, to a whopping seventeen projects around the city — some old, some new, all interesting. The program was started in 2005, when John Hickenlooper was mayor; Mayor Michael Hancock did the honors last night, awarding prizes in seven…
“What is that thing at the end of your block?” For the last year, that’s been a regular query from people heading to Highland — from I-25, from Speer Boulevard, from 15th Street — who inevitably catch sight of the imposing structure that now stands at the edge of the…
For the last few weeks, Laura Shunk has been writing about local restaurant gardens and what the chefs are doing with the fruit of their labors. And while the snow may have put those plots — and the series itself — in the deep freeze, the story on Justin Cucci,…
Filmmaker Michael Bay’s entire career has been about punishing the audience for their awful taste — namely, their taste for his work, Tim Davids suggests. And with the recent Transformers 3, Davids adds, Bay assaults us where we feel it most — our souls. But Sutava isn’t about to take…
Good thing the city didn’t schedule tonight’s Mayor’s Design Awards on the rooftop deck of one of its award winners: Ale House at Amato’s, where the view of downtown offers a stunning look of where the city is going…and how its growing. Instead, tonight’s ceremony announcing a record-breaking seventeen winners…
Kyle Garratt recently headed to the West End Tavern in Boulder, where he took on the Wing King Challenge: fifty wings in thirty minutes. Man V. Food host Adam Richman gave it a try last year, and repeats of that show keep sending a lot of delusional eaters to the…
Michael Hancock has good timing. He was in the right place, right time when Denver voters were looking for someone, anyone but Chris Romer to be mayor, and managed to edge out James Mejia, the other leading someone. And even as Snobama was descending on the city, Mayor Hancock managed…
“This conversation rules!” That’s the word from Hilarious, and the latest comment posted in the ongoing discussion of artist James Lorca Garcia Velazquez , who thinks Denver’s art market is too “commercialized” and so is moving to New York. His parting words in his Show and Tell interview with Tiffany…
Here’s your chance to make some history. History Colorado — or the Colorado Historical Society, as it was known back when it started in 1879 — will begin a new chapter next spring, when the Colorado History Center opens on Broadway. And in the meantime, it’s collecting photos of Coloradans…
Mayor Michael Hancock celebrates his first hundred days in office today. Compared to the controversy that marked the last few days before the June mayoral runoff — when the web and talk shows were full of never-proven rumors that Hancock had been a client of Denver Players, a prostitution business…
The Lion King is about to roar into the Denver Performing Arts Complex, followed by a revival of West Side Story. Such shows are not just popular with audiences, but with bogus ticket sellers, too. “We just want to make people aware that we’re really the only authorized ticket sellers,”…
Hot sauces? Steak knives? Wallpaper? Yesterday, Lori Midson dished the dirt on “Dining thieves: Weird and crazy stuff people steal”. And while Cafe Society’s readers aren’t quite the scofflaws described on seattle.eater, her post still collected a few interesting admissions…as well as this from GFTW: This is all small beans…
