The Minturn Saloon has been named “best Colorado ski bar” by Outside magazine in the July issue — and the venerable watering hole, which is just starting its 35th year and occupies a building in Minturn that dates back to 1901, deserves the honor. “On any winter day,” Outside writes,…
Channel 12, once an upstart public television station, has turned a respectable thirty, with a respectable new brand, Colorado Public Television, replacing the old KBDI. But tonight’s installment of Colorado Inside Out, the weekly current events show, will feature a completely disresputable look back at 1935. On my part, at…
RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENING IN JUNE:* Bar Car, 819 Colorado Boulevard Beauty Bar, 608 East 13th Avenue BenchWarmers Tavern & Grill, 6631 South Peoria Street, Centennial Cellar Wine Bar, 2556 15th Street Chances, 1135 Bannock Street Comfort Cafe, 3945 Tennyson Street East Asia Garden, 1156 South Broadway Eco-Burger, 2817 East Third Avenue…
There are a lot of weird religious stories coming out of Colorado Springs — the city that two decades ago set out to recruit religious-organization headquarters as an economic development move. But this could be the weirdest. Looks like it’s time to change that sign on the stretch of I-25…
A man must have a battle to fight, a great mission to his life that involves and yet transcends even home and family. He must have a cause to which he is devoted even unto death, for this is written into the fabric of his being. Listen carefully now: you…
While the Biennial of the America’s biggest names will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House this morning, there’s a world — or at least a Western Hemisphere — of new ideas spilling out at Civic Center Park. “The McNichols Building is really all about emerging art, emerging thought,” says…
After an unexpected stay in the hospital — he fell and cracked his head the weekend that the first big press on his latest restaurant, El Diablo, came out in the Denver Post four weeks ago — Jesse Morreale is back on the phone. And on the job. And when…
Colorado gets an A in “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future,” a new report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. According to “F as in Fat,” 38 states have adult obesity rates above 25 percent — when in 1991, no state…
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, with the 19th Annual Colorado Book Awards announcement in Aspen last Friday just offering more proof. For starters, the main speaker was John Hickenlooper, the former geologist turned brewpub-owner turned Denver mayor who’s now running for governor. No author could concoct that character!…
Morton’s Steakhouse isn’t part of tonight’s LoDo Bites, the eating orgy featuring twenty restaurants and watering holes in lower downtown, but it’s still offering something special tonight for diners who duck out of the heat and into the cool confines of the Morton’s at 1710 Wynkoop Street: Two new items…
We remember when LoDo’s restaurant scene was a vast wasteland beyond the Wazee Supper Club — and the area wasn’t even known as LoDo. But those days are long behind us, as evidenced by LoDo Bites, the second annual “sip, sample, stroll” event, which will send diners out into the…
Jane Norton isn’t the only one gunning for Ken Buck. Colorado’s rogue Republican candidate for Michael Bennet’s U.S. Senate seat became the subject of some national target practice yesterday, in a Politico piece headlined “Primary Words Haunt Ken Buck.” Words like “Social Security,” which Buck once called a “horrible policy.”…
SmartCo Foods — the new grocery store concept started by California-based Smart & Final, and being tested out in Colorado — is holding a job fair Tuesday to staff a hundred positions at locations opening soon in Centennial and Littleton. (The first SmartCo, at 1442 South Parker Road in Aurora,…
Cafe Society served up four Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything heat-beating cocktails at La Rumbato this still-unidentified breakfast to a molten cheese dip at La Sandia. For correctly guessing that one, Ben wins a DINR deck. Ben, send your contact info to cafe@westword.com, and we’ll send…
Jane Norton has taken the kid gloves off, and delivers a major smack to Ken Buck, the Weld County District Attorney who’s challenging her for the Republican Senate nomination, in a new radio commercial that’s airing on KHOW this morning. There’s even an ominous link to the Clinton administration. Whack!…
Early on April 26, the Denver Police Department got a report of a fight at CityPub, the watering hole at 3575 South Yosemite Street that’s a sibling to CityGrille. In the bar, the officers found 41-year-old Steven Minturn unconcious. He was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where he was declared…
Chances, a new sports bar/grill at 1135 Bannock Street, the former home of Wolfie’s and Bambino’s, opened soft — very soft — last week. But now it’s pulling out the stops for a grand opening celebration that includes food and drink specials all weekend. And expect those specials to be…
It’s been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year — including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office — are nothing compared to what 2012…
Olivea is one of the seventeen 17th Avenue businesses joining together for the Seventeen on 17th benefit tonight, when they’ll all donate 10 percent of their sales to the National Wildlife Federation Gulf Oil Spill Restoration Fund. That alone is a good reason to visit Olivea. But here’s another one:…
The new issue of Rolling Stone has yet to hit the stands, but already the focus of Michael Hastings’s story, General Stanley McChrystal, has resigned after yesterday’s meeting with the head wimp among the “wimps in the White House” who were the general’s real enemy. As this saga unfolds, three…
If you can’t stand the heat, get out of la cocina. Back in 1995, Saul Sierra was a nineteen-year-old high-school drop-out and dishwasher when he opened Mi Cocina Grille at 4935 West 29th Avenue with the help of his mother. Three years later, he sold that location (it’s now LaCocinata)…
5280 is out with its annual Top of the Town issue, and Michael Roberts — the powerhouse behind the Latest Word — has been named the town’s Top Blogger. He deserves the honor…and then some. He’s made this blog the talk of the town…
