Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from a still unidentified dish to a breakfast burrito at Twisters to this plate of sushi, the most discussed Guess where? entry ever. For correctly identifying it as coming from Land of Sushi, Woody wins an EatDenver deck…
Dan Baum’s new book, Guns Gone Wild, won’t be published until 2013, but critics are already taking aim at the author, after he published a related essay as a Kindle Single. The irony? Baum lives in ultra-liberal Boulder, but is also a card-carrying gun owner…
Hold your horses! Cowboys only have to stay on a buckin’ bronc for eight seconds, but the debate over the proposed National Western Stock Show relocation continues to bump along. Five weeks ago, Mayor Michael Hancock gave NWSS officials until October 1 to come up with an explanation of why…
At 10 a.m. today, the Colorado Restaurant Association and other organizations that oppose Initiative 300, the Paid Sick and Safe Leave proposal on Denver’s upcoming ballot, will host a “300 against 300” rally in Skyline Park, just off the 16th Street Mall at Arapahoe. The organizers are trying to bring…
Two very public downtown places will introduce new art exhibits today, and both are inviting the public to join in the party. The Alfred A. Arraj Courthouse at 901 19th Street is hosting the work of three contemporary Colorado artists — Gifford Ewing, John Boak and Rick Dula — in…
Denver restaurants are throwing everything they’ve got against the Yes on 300 campaign, which just put out a mailer linking the listeria hysteria to the Paid Sick and Safe Leave ballot proposal. And at 10 a.m. on Monday, October 3, local restaurateurs and their employees and supporters will be coming…
Neal Stephenson will be at the Tattered Cover LoDo tonight to talk about video games, farming gold and his new book, Reamde. But first, he talked with Thorin Klosowski for an extensive Q&A, which prompted this response from Rick: I concur in re: Cheating… Oddly, I spent years only letting…
At tonight’s inaugural Pen and Sword open house at the Denver Press Club, a turn-of-the-century treasure at 1330 Glenarm Place, thirteen club member-authors will offer “the stories behind the books” from 6 to 9 p.m. But the stories, and the night, won’t end there. Stories rarely end that neatly…
Lori Midson just served up round two of what Denver chefs consider their favorite tools in the kitchen, a list full of tips about knives, pasta machines, souvlaki machines, band saws… And then there was this lovely response from Jamey Fader, the man behind Lola: Favorite kitchen tool? My wife,…
It was fun while it lasted, but the last Civic Center Eats of the season gets rolling in Civic Center Park at 11 a.m. today. The gathering of gourmet food trucks and carts has been a movable feast all summer, but after today the event will go into hibernation until…
The listeria outbreak that’s killed at least thirteen people has been traced to cantaloupe from Jensen Farms in Holly. While the FDA has been looking for the cause of the contamination there, the feds have never suggested that the problem was sick workers. But that hasn’t stopped the Yes on…
Love your knife? Your mixing bowl? When Lori Midson interviewed many of the town’s top chefs for Dish, our annual restaurant guide, she also asked them about their favorite kitchen tools. Their answers prompted this one from Dan: My favorite kitchen gadget? My grandmother. Watch for the second installment on…
When the leaky “Mountain Mirage” water feature was removed from the middle of the terminal floor at Denver International Airport, it left a big gap — a gap that was filled by a new piece by Juane Quick-to-See Smith and Ken Iwamasa, who had a commission to design the original…
If these walls could talk. Barack Obama left town yesterday without going anywhere near Denver International Airport. After barely three hours on the ground in Denver, which was part of a three-state Western swing, the President headed back to Washington, D.C., without even a drive-by tour of the secret bunkers…
Has a culinary trend fad ever rolled into town — rolled over a town — as quickly as food trucks did in Denver? Steuben’s Food Service launched the first gourmet truck in June 2010; two months later, more than a dozen had taken to the streets. And it was just…
Virtually unknown after Prohibition, vodka long ago passed gin as the country’s most popular clear spirit, and then moved up to become the country’s most popular spirit, period — partly because of its neutral flavor, partly because of the smart marketing campaigns that have pushed it, campaigns that feature slick…
In the fall of 2009, local officials looked around and suddenly discovered that the medical marijuana business was booming in Denver. In fact, it might have been the city’s only growth industry at the time. The national media discovered the story, too — and when Westword advertised for a medical…
Visit Denver has just released the dates for the next Denver Restaurant Week. And despite all the discussion of possibly splitting the event, it will once again run for fourteen consecutive days next winter, from February 25 to March 9, 2012. When Visit Denver worked with local restaurants to start…
Cafe Society was swimming in sushi yesterday, as Lori Midson’s latest “Guess where I’m eating” rubbed readers’ nerves raw as they tried to identify this pretty plate of sushi. And then Kyle Garratt showed more raw courage, as he attempted to conquer the Nuclear Roll at Osaka Sushi…
Last week, Anderson Cooper interviewed Willow the Cat. On Monday, he featured two more Coloradans on his new show, Anderson — but the story of Kristen and Will Stillman, which first appeared on the cover of Westword a year ago, isn’t nearly as warm and fuzzy…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where? contests last week, including one focusing on a salad-studded breakfast at Snooze to another breakfast that was really something to crow about. For correctly identifying the above plate as coming from Red Rooster, Juliannemichelle77 wins an EatDenver deck…
Just one more day until President Barack Obama comes to town, and the conspiracy theories are really taking off. Denver International Airport managed to survive Operation Mountain Guardian (OMG!), the Homeland Security exercise that included DIA as one of its locations on Friday. But will it survive the onslaught of…
