Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
Richard Sandoval may have trademarked the term “modern Mexican cuisine,” but he’s celebrating the past with a week’s worth of specials to commemorate the 2010 Mexican Bicentennial — the 200th anniversary of the independence movement, which overlaps with El Grito on September 16. Both outposts of La Sandia Mexican Kitchen…
Tom Tancredo wasn’t allowed to speak at the Club 20 debate Saturday night and he won’t be part of the University of Denver gubernatorial candidate forum tomorrow because of a scheduling conflict. But he’ll have a forum today — in court, where he’s righting a suit to have his name…
Last week, Cafe Society served up three Guess where contests (not including our seasonal green chile category), featuring everything from a dose of dosa at India’s to an amazing plate of Panzano pasta to this incredible risotto. For correctly identifying it as coming from Beatrice & Woodsley, Evan wins an…
Want to watch today’s Broncos game in style? Elway’s Cherry Creek, the steakhouse/watering hole at 2500 East First Avenue that features memorabilia from John Elway’s career (and sometimes even the former quarterback himself), should score big with a new play that celebrates #7 on Sundays…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
There’s no brewery at Brewery Bar II — although there’s plenty of beer, often served in a giant, frosted mug known as the Tiny. Still, there’s a brewery in this joint’s distant past: the Tivoli Brewery, the venerable building at the edge of downtown where the Brewery Bar got its…
As a third-party candidate, Tom Tancredo wasn’t invited to be part of the Club 20 gubernatorial debate in Grand Junction this weekend. Not unless he wanted to sit in the audience, that is. But nobody puts Tommy in a corner!…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
What happened to eight-year-old Kristen Stillman and her twin brother after their mother left them in northwest Denver was unspeakable. And after a few frustrating attempts to tell adults of the abuse, Kristen quit trying. A prisoner, she stayed silent through four pregnancies, all the result of rape, for twelve…
Momentarily at rest, Kristen Stillman sits with her hands clasped, displaying the tattoos on her forearms: “family” on one, “first” on the other. She keeps her hands clasped as she slowly starts her story, a story of the most dysfunctional family imaginable, a story filled with unspeakable horrors. It starts…
Smother love: It’s easy being green in Denver in September, when the smell of roasting chiles overrides the odor of exhaust along Federal Boulevard, and the green chile at your favorite Mexican joint carries the heat of the new harvest. For the next several weeks, Cafe Society will feature some…
The last time we shared a reader’s query on this blog, our correspondent was looking for the smallest bar and restaurant in town — and readers were generous with their suggestions. We’ll let you know the result of that quest — the basis for an anniversary celebration — soon. In…
The 16th Street Mall used to be a panhandlers’ paradise. But one recent Friday, when I walked the mall from one end to the other on a challenge from a booster who thought it’d gone downhill, I saw nothing but busy, happy people — and Denver Voice vendors, so polite…
The Front Porch Cafe has closed almost as quickly as it opened at 1115 Grant Street, where it didn’t last any longer than Carmen’s Cafe, the previous occupant of the space. No word on what’s coming next for the spot — or whether the Front Porch Cafe wore out its…
Cafe Society served up six Guess where contests last week, featuring everything from an overloaded burger at Jack-n-Grill to this off-the-menu dish at a still-unidentified Thai restaurant to an Ethiopian feast. For correctly tying it to Queen of Sheba’s kitchen, Jay wins an EatDenver deck. Jay, send your contact info…
“Change. Not Charity.” That’s the mantra at Chinook Fund, the nonprofit devoted to social justice that John Hickenlooper — then an unemployed geologist thinking about opening a brewpub — co-founded over two decades ago. Because of its ties to Hickenlooper, the charity is in the news, including a recent Denver…
Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria just turned two, and is throwing a birthday party for itself from 4 to 7 p.m. today. Come for a wine tasting with light apps and cupcakes (and if you’re smart, stick around and book yourself a table for dinner and stick around). The party…
Here in Colorado, ladies’ nights have survived Steve Horner’s repeated attempts to shut them down, and a New York appeals court has just ruled that ladies’ nights are all right with them, too. The Manhattan-based Second Court of Appeals rejected Manhattan attorney and feminist-foe Roy Den Hollander’s claims that ladies’…
You know the annual University of Colorado/Colorado State University drunkfest, er, football match at Invesco Field is upon us if downtown restaurants are expanding their hours — Dixons, at 1610 16th Street, will be opening at 7 a.m. tomorrow, rather than its usual 8 a.m. — to accommodate the crowds,…
The Taste of Colorado, which opens at 11:30 a.m. today in Civic Center Park, serves up much more than turkey legs, snowcones, kettle corn and roasted nuts — although those classic snacks are available, too. But there are also restaurants, gourmet carts and other culinary companies with booths scattered amidst…
How much wiggle-room is there in today’s deadline for the state’s ballot certification? After repeated questions on Thursday — prompted by Republican hopes that Dan Maes would drop out of the gubernatorial race — Secretary of State Bernie Buescher finally issued a statement to clarify things…
