Travel + Leisure just released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits. There’s good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry in over our pathetic showing in…
We thought the insults would be flying over Jenny An’s Sarah Palin vs. Lady Gaga: Battle of the attention-grabbing sideshows, which pits Lady Gaga against Sarah Palin — or, as Mediatrends calls her, “Lady Blah Blah.” So far, though, that competition has been a lovefest compared to the snit over…
For almost eighty years, the Micky Manor — and that’s Micky, without an “e” — has been a landmark on Federal Boulevard, its trademark-respecting neon Mickey and Minnie signs a constant. But now the mouse has left the house…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from a still-unidentified tofu dish to a worthy shepherd’s pie at Royal Hilltop to a foie gras pizza. For correctly identifying that pie as coming from Rackhouse Pub, Mama Monroe wins an EatDenver deck…
The five-part “Women, War & Peace” spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ultimately winning peace for their country…
Amid the regrouping of Occupy Denver, which was booted out of Lincoln Park but is still growing as a movement, the state’s official Democratic political power brokers are in Las Vegas, at “Project New West Summit: A Roadmap for the West in 2012,” which today includes an appearance by Governor…
Denver has no shortage of coffee shops, but Emily’s Coffee is something special. A project of the Emily Griffith Technical College (formerly known as the Emily Griffith Opportunity School) that’s located at the adult-education facility at 1261 Glenarm Street, the new spot is now serving coffee and espresso drinks made…
One of the goals of art is to get people talking, and Not for Sale: Denver” target=”_blank”>Matt Scobey’s Not for Sale: Denver project has certainly accomplished that goal. Scobey has been putting art in unexpected places around town, offering clues to the locations on the web. Those who find the…
Charlie Palmer will be opening two restaurants in the spot at 1631 Wazee Street that most recently had been home to Big Game (and Il Fornaio before that). District Meats will be taking over about two-thirds of the space, including that big dining area; Wazee Wood-Fired Pizza will be in…
There have been some tense times between Aurora and Denver officials since word came down this summer that Gaylord Entertainment would like to build a hotel/resort complex in Aurora — and move the National Western Stock Show there, too…
There are dozens of great restaurant bars in the metro area, and yesterday Laura Shunk attempted to narrow that list down to Denver’s five best bars in restaurants. Barflies are questioning one particular inclusion: Cherry Creek Grill…
Too late, but lovely. Our Fast Forward contest is over, but we couldn’t resist sharing this entry from Sneshek: Her lips smell of lemonade, flavored by her Blistex chapstick and the memory of our first summer night on our first screen porch, and their taste is sweet and smooth upon…
Talk about a sign of the times: El Chile Rojo has closed at 801 Santa Fe Drive, with a sign in the window announcing “Japanese sushi restaurant coming soon.” Back in December 2008, when United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine devoted its “Three Perfect Days” feature to Denver, most of the restaurant/bar…
Any way you slice it, LoDo is soon going to be rolling in pizza dough. Charlie Palmer, the New York-based chef and restaurateur whose portfolio of restaurants across the country includes such big names as Aureole, Charlie Palmer Steak, briscola, Astra and Dry Creek Kitchen, is now coming to Denver,…
Gardeners along the Front Range are harvesting the fruits of their labors — and those gardeners include many local restaurateurs, who are supplying much of the produce for their own kitchens. Laura Shunk is currently profiling these chef/farmers, and her post on the Black Cat’s Eric Skokan yesterday prompted this…
Even as the last chapter of the three-year-old protests during the Democratic National Convention was closed in federal court, Mayor Michael Hancock and Governor John Hickenlooper were grappling with the challenge of dealing with the the Occupy Denver protesters they can see out their office windows. And yesterday, they issued…
Please be seated! The Manitou Chair Project lined the streets of that mountain town with 700 chairs last Sunday, and treating early risers (literally) to a wonderful sight. Here’s Joy’s review: Chairs of beauty. Peeps coming together, energy for art — YEA! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook!…
While Cherry Creek is not the restaurant hot-spot it once was, there’s still plenty of action in the area. In a quick turn-around, La Merise is slated to open today in the former home of Argyll, at 2700 East Third Avenue. And Cafe Bisque — now known simply as Bisque…
Yesterday, Show and Tell asked readers to weigh in on the nine questions on the table for three creative artists/entrepreneurs — Lonnie Hanzon, Jimmy Sellars, and Marie Gibbons — on the panel for last night’s EatART panel at Fresh City Life. I was the moderator, and the conversation turned out…
Twin Peaks is coming to Colorado, the Texas-based chain proudly announced yesterday, bringing baseball, beer and boobs, as Laura Shunk reported here. That post prompted this from bizzygeek: Thanks for the heads up CS Editors! While you’re at it, are there any new McDonald’s locations springing up around town that…
County clerks began mailing ballots out yesterday. And in Denver, Pueblo, Boulder and a half-dozen other counties, that also meant mailing ballots to voters labeled “inactive” — some because they’d simply skipped one election cycle. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler had sued Denver County to prevent that, but a…
For years, Que Bueno — by gate 52 on Concourse B — was the best reason to get through security early at Denver International Airport. And when this locally owned joint closed last fall for a rehab and expansion — from 1,118 square feet to 1,490 square feet, with a…
