Seven years ago, Westword added a very special component to Artopia: the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike — working to change…
Last week Cafe Society served up five Guess Where contests last week, featuring everything from a big buffalo burger at Walk-In Burgers, to the refashioned green chile from Squeaky Bean that one reader compared to a Willy Wonka birthday party plate, to a delicious piece of pie. For correctly identifying…
The old Gates Rubber plant was supposed to be a new urbanism showplace — but development has been stalled by the economy. Still, the abandoned buildings have been doing a booming business in urban exploring, and last night, another band of adventurers made it into the old factory at 900…
While restaurants across town are touting last-second Valentine’s Day specials, some readers made their plans long ago: to stay home. Mmmmgood explains why in this response to Kyle Garratt’s most recent In the Weeds rant: I love me some restaurants and get out to as many as I can as…
Defenders of dill rose up yesterday to defend the noble herb (not to mention the blue cheese dressing at Steuben’s), which Laura Shunk had listed as one of the five things she’d like to see more often on menus. But we’ll give the last word — for now — to…
After flying into DIA last night and hopping on the train, I was greeted by former mayor John Hickenlooper delivering a hearty “Welcome to Denver.” But soon, current mayor Bill Vidal will have his say. But after the wild will-he/won’t-he events of the past week, you can’t help wondering who…
Weed it and weap. Laura Shunk championed dill on her recent list of five things we should see on menus more often, prompting this from Angry Taste, Bud: You lost me at number 1. Dill? Really? A weed that tastes so much like ass it takes pickling brine to take…
Want to get a piece of the rock? The town of Empire is now accepting proposals from restaurateurs who’d like to run the Hard Rock Cafe. No, not the music-centric chain that has outposts around the globe, including a location on the 16th Street Mall. This is the original restaurant,…
Denver was ready for its close-up on Monday night, when Steuben’s was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. Although our town was only in the limelight for a few minutes — and none of the other places Guy Fieri and company filmed last fall made the cut — it was…
The Colorado Republican Party didn’t just lose the governor’s race in November — it also lost over a hundred bonus members of the State Central Committee, which will vote for the new party chair next month. Incumbent chair Dick Wadhams was going for that slot again — until his Monday…
Benny Armas got his start more than three decades ago, cooking in other people’s kitchens. But from the moment he opened Benny’s, his own place in central Denver, it’s been a Denver institution, growing bigger (moving from its original spot at 225 East Seventh Avenue that’s now home to Mizuna…
Yesterday morning, I was talking to Dick Wadhams, the chair of the Colorado Republican Party, about the upcoming State Central Committee meeting, where he would be going for a third term. Yesterday evening, I was talking with Wadhams about his sudden announcement that he would not run again…
By eking out 11 percent of the vote, Dan Maes managed to save the Colorado Republican Party from the ultimate ignominy of losing its major-party status. But the state’s top GOPs lost plenty of other things in the debacle of the November gubernatorial election: the governor’s office, which had looked…
Dick Wadhams, who’s served two term as chair of the Colorado Republican Party, has decided not to run for a third term next month. His departure from the race leaves state senator Ted Harvey; John Wagner, who ran the Senate campaign of Clive Tidwell, in 2010; and Bart Barton, who…
For years, Coloradans have longed for Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives to focus on some of our state’s worthy spots. We’ve served up list after list of suggested diners, drive-ins and dives to D3, but somehow, Guy Fieri and company managed to pass us by…
Last week Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests, featuring everything from fries at Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers to this still-unidentified hangar steak to rare sighting of clam strips that inspired this comment from one reader: “Holy shit where?” For correctly identifying that “where” as Jax (the LoDo…
Well, at least when Roseanne sang “The National Anthem” and then grabbed her crotch, she got the words right — unlike Christina Aguilera at the Super Bowl yesterday. Still, Roseanne’s misguided homage to baseball-playing behavior back in 1990 earned her a spot on Time’s list of the Top Ten Worst…
Readers may not agree with Kyle Garratt’s In the Weeds (even last week’s positive round), but just about everyone agrees that a server’s job is one of the toughest in town.Catlover101st, for example, just weighed in with this response to his bad tipper column: I worked a second job as…
Although plans for the Colorado Cocktail Contest, which will culminate in a two-day event in June at Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art, are fairly fluid right now, one event is solid: On Monday evening, the contest will kick off with a private party at the MCA, where bartenders will mix…
While comments about the ubiquitous butternut squash soup keep appearing, like the dish itself, at the end of Laura Shunk’s Groundhog Day list of The Five Most Overdone Menu Items , a few notes about the equally ubiquitous sliders were particularly tasty: For example, Max says: I want to open…
Governor John Hickenlooper is revving up his eco-devo engine. Last month, he toured Colorado for four days, holding confabs in eight towns; Denver gets its turn today, at a Bottom-Up Economic Development Meeting at the Cable Center at the University of Denver. And have we got some ideas for him!…
Yesterday, a reader wondered if the restaurant-packed Berkeley neighborhood in northwest Denver was suffering from too much of a good thing. But the revelation that Brian Laird was heading south to Russo’s Kitchen + Tavern, one of several restaurants slated for the Vallagio project in Englewood or Centennial (depending on…
