Want to give someone a quick feel for Denver? Walk the seven blocks of Wazee Street from Cherry Creek — where Denver got its start when gold was discovered 150 years ago — up to Coors Field, where the Rockies will start digging for gold in just a few weeks…
You won’t find Donna Simpson, world’s fattest woman, anywhere near this state. As David McSwane reported here yesterday, a recent Gallup poll crowned Colorado as the winner in the competition for slimmest U.S. metro cities, with its four largest metro areas taking a huge bite out of the top ten…
“What is the ‘medical’ in medical marijuana?” asks MyColfax.org. “There’s been a lot of talk about dispensaries and medical marijuana as of late. And because there are very strong feelings on all sides of this issue, not all of the information has been accurate or helpful.” And a lot of…
Cafe Society served up eight Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, featuring everything from shiny Chinese food to some very scary soups to yes, a drink that did not contain alcohol. For correctly identifying Pablo’s latte, Rachel is now the lucky winner of a DINR deck. Rachel, send your…
So many St. Patrick’s Day parades, so little time. Gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper, decked out in a shamrock-green blazer, had to zoom from Denver’s shamrock celebration to the Pueblo Democratic Party’s St. Patrick Day’s fundraiser. And there, he weighed in on one of Scott McInnis’s pet projects: the proposed expansion…
Yes, we’ve all heard that the Biennial coming to Civic Center Park in July — but did you know that the Denver Piennial will be served up at the same time? Find out all about it at 3 p.m. today at the kickoff event for the Piennial — “a celebration…
For the first time in more than a decade, McCormick’s Fish House & Bar, at 1659 Wazee Street, did not host its annual luncheon to celebrate the Changing of the Sign — the ceremony held outside the bar on the Thursday before St. Patrick’s Day, when Wazee at 17th Street…
Sick of that 3.2 swill at 7-Eleven? Tired of waiting for legislators to give you permission to buy a bottle of vodka at a grocery store? You may get a chance to change the rules yourself, if Initiative 48 makes the November ballot. Although a proposal to allow convenience stores…
When he was still a student at the University of Denver back in 2002, Blake Harrison led a statewide campaign to allow liquor-store sales on Sundays. Six years later, Colorado finally removed the prohibition on Sunday sales. Harrison’s been campaigning to get rid of 3.2 beer — that weak holdover…
Just got news of another Denver Restaurant Week extension. Yes, we know: Even without any extensions, the event has gone way beyond a “week” — and for that matter, it also stretches far beyond Denver. Because the latest extension news comes from Trattoria on Pearl, at 1430 Pearl Street in…
Denver Restaurant Week went so swimmingly at Oceanaire, the seafood restaurant at 1400 Arapahoe Street, that the deal’s been extended through Friday. For $52.80, you can still get a dinner for two that includes your choice of clam chowder, Caesar salad or a crab cake slider; Icelandic Arctic Char fillet,…
The Colorado Restaurant Association wanted to encourage a restaurateur to run for the District 1 seat on Denver City Council that Rick Garcia’s vacating, and so far it has two, sort of, and a third candidate who’s a leader in the urban farming movement. John Haney, a Denver police detective…
Plutonium lasts forever, and so do legal cases involving Rocky Flats. Yesterday, 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges Stephen Anderson, Jerome Holmes and Michael Murphy heard arguments in the appeal of the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant class-action lawsuit — filed by neighbors of the facility back in 1990,…
The Star Bar, at 2137 Larimer Street, still hasn’t reopened after it was busted for serving underage drinkers; after getting popped for its fourth underage violation in as many years, the Border, a University of Denver institution at 2014 South University, shut down altogether last fall. (It reopened under new…
After forty years, the Old Spaghetti Factory at 1215 18th Street has gotten a facelift. “Coming soon in Denver our new look!,” promises the website of the chain that got its start in 1969, and today numbers forty restaurants across this country. “We will be remodeling this location. Please excuse…
Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it — and maybe inhale it, too. Before he became a state representative, rancher Wes McKinley was the foreman of the Rocky Flats grand jury, empaneled in 1989 to consider allegations of environmental crimes at the former nuclear weapons plant. So…
Last month, it was all about hamburgers. This month, it could be hot dogs. Bernie’s Hot Dog Co., at 1601 Mayberry (in the Highlands Ranch Town Center) in Highlands Ranch, introduced its new menu today, a “healthy” revision of the original, “modified based on customer feedback, market trends and a…
The Visit Denver Hall of Fame dinner on March 4 served up a few ironic moments alongside the beef entree. There was John Hickenlooper, praising inductee Pat Bowlen — when the start of Hickenlooper’s political career has been tagged to his campaign against selling the naming rights of the new…
Old Tyme Dogs & Drafts has dried up at 2479 South Broadway, and the business is now listed for sale at $50,000 — or $450,000 if you want the real estate, too. That real estate has a long history. Before it was Old Tyme, it was briefly home to the…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, with that giant platter of Ethiopian food still stumping readers. But Fletch nailed this spuds and chile plate in record time, and for correctly coming up with Bull & Bush, he’s now the lucky winner of a DINR…
Plutonium has a half-life of 20,000 years, and the controversy over the former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant should continue at least that long. With good reason: If we forget that the plant sixteen miles upwind from Denver processed plutonium and other deadly materials, some day the land could turn…
Tomorrow afternoon, the hip Aloft hotel in Broomfield (“Aloha!” chirps whoever answers the phone) will host a bash to welcome the Further Festival to 1stBank Center. Sounds like fun — but also a far cry from Kevin Taylor Steak, which was supposed to open at the hotel last September. Then…
