Westword welcomes its seventh class of MasterMinds

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…

Reader: Dump dill

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…

Colorado’s GOP hopes to strike while the irony is hot

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…

Reader: After trying the job, I do not envy servers

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…

Colorado Cocktail Contest kickoff: Join the party!

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…

Readers: Tiny buns, greasy burgers, and repeating lists

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…