Obama! Snow! A flurry of announcements started coming in yesterday, all indicating that Denver is on a collision course with a made-for-TV disaster. President Barack Obama is coming to town for two fundraisers tonight, as well as one public appearance tomorrow, inspiring a number of official and unofficial political activities…
Are zombies done? Yes, we know it’s not that easy to get rid of the undead…but the commercialization of the undead? That’s something else entirely. Yesterday, thinking longingly of the days when slutty nurse costumes ruled, Jef Otte declared enough with the zombies already — and offered up “The ten…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from some still unidentified tacos (“Why so much Mexican food lately?” asks Cook1. “Is it because of the myriad of choices to make it hard for us?”), to a hot dog drowning in ketchup at Rock-N-Dogs to the breakfast…
James Lorca Garcia Velazquez doesn’t think the Denver art market is interested in his work. In fact, as he said in an interview with Tiffany Fitzgerald, he doesn’t think Denver is interested in art at all. And so he’s moving to New York. And not a moment too soon, according…
In December 2007, Molly Midyette was convicted of child abuse that led to the death of her ten-week-old son, Jason, and sentenced to sixteen years in prison — even though she was at work and her husband, Alex, was watching the baby at the time. This week, she’ll be out…
Frank and Jacqueline Bonanno opened Russell’s Smokehouse on Friday in a subterranean space in Larimer Square; the barbecue joint shares an entry (Wednesday’s Pie) with Green Russell, as well the speakeasy’s emphasis on contemporary cocktails. But the meaty menu — including lamb’s neck and trout wrapped in bacon — is…
Denver’s Food Day activities are rooted at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, which has partnered with several community groups for an eleven-hour extravaganza that’s part of a nationwide campaign to promote affordable food in a sustainable way. The activities, which will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m…
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition moves to Fridays tonight, and makes a stop in Colorado. No, this isn’t where the crew builds a house for a family enduring hardship — that happens in Pennsylvania. Instead, while the crew is building their home, the family waits in Colorado…
We don’t yet know where Lori Midson was eating yesterday, but it involved a hot dog with a lot of ketchup. Which inspired Mantonat to serve up a classic quote from Clint Eastwood in Sudden Impact:…
This is it. Today is the end of the world, according to Harold Camping, the biblical prognosticator who was born in Boulder more than ninety years ago. But with age does not necessarily come wisdom: He did miss with his prediction of the Rapture — which he’d said would hit…
When Brad and Libby Birky started SAME Cafe five years ago, people thought they were nuts. So did the Birkys, really. Even before they opened the doors to the restaurant — the name stands for So All May Eat, and they’d adopted a pay-what-you-can model that had been tried in…
Opening chef Chris Cina is out at Hideaway Steakhouse, and the new chef will introduce a new menu on Monday. But that may not be enough to save this spot, suggests Egotastic: The sad part is that without Chef Cina that place would have never even made it this far…
President Barack Obama was in town last month, and will be back next week. But today, it’s George W. Bush’s turn to visit Denver, where he’ll be meeting this morning with Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver school superintendent Tom Boasberg to talk about Get Smart Schools, a charter school initiative…
What if Princess Diana wasn’t killed by that car wreck in Paris? What if she survived, and re-invented herself as a commoner in Egypt, where she attempted to solve the mystery of what happened to Ankhesenamun, King Tutankhamun’s wife? What if? That’s the unlikely premise behind The Lost Queen of…
“There are cranes all over this town,” marveled one recent visitor to Denver, who wasn’t talking about birds, but an even rarer sight during the economic doldrums: building cranes. Suddenly, you can spot them all over downtown. With any luck — and a lot of planning — they’re helping to…
Jennifer Yu learned to bake for stress relief, first when she was in graduate school for geology at Cornell University, and then at Cal Tech. “I took cookies into work all the time,” she remembers. “People would ask, ‘How do you make your cookies?’ I’d tell them, ‘You use real…
When he founded the fast-casual Kokoro more than two decades ago, Mareo Torito had visions of growing the concept into a national chain. But from its original location at 2390 South Colorado Boulevard, it never spread beyond metro Denver — and now one of the three locations, at 555 Broadway,…
What’s a professional eater to do? After a year on the job, Cafe critic Laura Shunk found that she’d gained twenty pounds, and “I now had more rolls on my body than a pastry truck, more cottage cheese on my thighs than a breakfast buffet, more jelly in my belly…
The world will end on Friday, according to Harold Camping, the biblical clock-watcher who was born in the apocalyptic town of Boulder more than nine decades ago. Of course, Camping has been wrong before: He’d predicted that the Rapture would hit on May 21, 2011 — and if it did,…
If the Rapture came this past May 21 — as Harold Camping had predicted — no one noticed. But not to worry: Camping, who was born in Boulder more than nine decades ago and went on to found a biblical empire, now says that the real date to focus on…
Travel + Leisure recently released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits to bars and restaurants. And there’s some good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry…
Cafe Society carefully tracks openings and closings on the local dining scene, and late last week we got some back news about Micky Manor closing…or was that bad news? As Jeff notes: The last place in town still doling out Rockybilt burgers. Kind of sad I guess, though there are…
