If your New Year’s Resolution was to find more food for thought in 2010, head to Green Spaces Colorado, 2590 Walnut Street, from 4 to 8 p.m. tonight for a First Friday event featuring green artists and designers from the Denver area. The event includes a Re-Purposed Pop-Up Market with…
Rise and shine! It’s the new year, and if your resolution was to eat more pork in 2010, you’ll be in hog heaven with the special here today. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: At the end of today, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any…
Amendment XXI, a brand-new shop at 2548 15th Street, will donate 5 percent of all sales — fine wines, import beers, eclectic spirits — on New Year’s Eve to the Historic Elitch Theatre Foundation. “Help us return this landmark to its rightful place as a vital cultural venue in Denver,”…
Cafe Society is off doing important research for the new year, stuffing in the snacks and pouring down the drinks, all in an effort to find new tidbits to tantalize you with in 2010. But if you haven’t yet made plans for this last day of 2009, not to worry;…
Michael Sawaya has your number — and it’s the number of any cab company in metro Denver. If you grab a cab on New Year’s Eve rather than getting behind the wheel after having too much to drink, he’ll reimburse you for that cab ride. All you have to do…
Michael Sawaya has your number — and it’s the number of any cab company in metro Denver. If you grab a cab on New Year’s Eve rather than getting behind the wheel after having too much to drink, he’ll reimburse you for that cab ride. All you have to do…
Parisi, the beloved restaurant at 4401 Tennyston Street, is looking at a big night on New Year’s Eve — or Cenone di Capodanno, as they say in Italy. “We can’t serve our New Year’s Eve menu two days in a row due to its special ingredients (can you say cured…
Voulez-vous poulet avec moi? The best things in life may be frites, but the chicken comes close at this bistro. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: On Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the past two week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts will…
Jared Polis is both a politician and a poet — and he sent two self-penned poems with his holiday greetings. The first, which you can read here, is a retrospective look at 2009. The second comes with this message from the congressman: “May 2010 bring Comprehensive Immigration Reform to our…
Are there no limits to the talents of Jared Polis? During his first year in Congress, the Boulder Democrat starred in a wonky reality show, demonstrated a beer bong on Comedy Central, and came out swinging on several controversial proposals. But as 2009 draws to a close, it’s time to…
It’s inevitable: On January 1, some restaurant suddenly closes its doors, leaving customers wondering what happened and employees wondering where they’re going to collect their paychecks. But Kazmos Lounge is not skulking off into the night. Instead, it’s throwing a helluva goodbye party this weekend. “It was a heartache,” owner…
This week, Gustavo Arellano reveals his list of must-visit Mexican restaurants across the country. And n Denver? “Go to the Original Chubbys,” he advises. “What makes it so bueno? It’s a real paisa with buen diente the one who is making the suggestion and not a pinche bolillo who thinks…
It’s now safe to wear ties in the southern ‘burbs, because Denver’s last Trail Dust Steak House has bitten the dust. A call to the restaurant at 7101 South Clinton Street in Centennial nets you just this: “The South Denver Trail Dust has closed for business.” The north Denver Trail…
I got my first view of Denver from a train, my first view of a Colorado ski resort from another train. But now it looks like the revived Ski Train to Winter Park will never leave the station: Yesterday, Iowa Pacific called a halt to the season…
Today is the last day for Chez Jose, and the seventeen-year-old restaurant at 3027 East Second Avenue is going out with a bang — a final fiesta that Lori Midson describes here. Meanwhile, the Egg Shell kept to its schedule, closing up the space at 300 Josephine Street that it…
My first view of Denver was from a train — the Denver Zephyr, which a group of families had boarded in Chicago one afternoon in the mid-’60s. The kids had commandeered the dome car, where we slept on the floor under the seats, and as the sun rose, we got…
See? The rich are different….but don’t count on Seeme Hasan to stay out of politics, since her son, Ali, is now looking at a run for Colorado treasurer…
In this corner, Gary Hart, the former senator who turned out to be very prescient on terrorism, stumping for Michael Bennet: “My twelve years serving Colorado in the U.S. Senate provides a unique perspective in defining an effective senator. Like most Coloradans, I take very seriously who represents us in…
This just in from Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson: On December 27, 2009, at approximately 1:54 P.M., Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office Deputies responded to the Subway restaurant located at 18525 East Smoky Hill Road, Unit L, on the report of an armed robbery. Witnesses stated that the male suspect left…
The January issue of Cooking Light features Denver, “once left off the culinary map for its admittedly tired take on cowboy cuisine,” the magazine advises, but “catching up to food trends fast.” For proof, it name-checks chef Alex Seidel of Fruition, who recently purchased a farm to supply the kind…
On the Latest Word, we’ve been counting down some of Denver’s best moments over the past decade. But this city did not start 2000 with a bang. In fact, while the rest of the world threw a huge party to welcome the millennium, Denver officials — with visions of Y2K…
The theater at Elitch Gardens once boasted the oldest summer-stock company in the country, with stars ranging from Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to Robert Redford. But the company disbanded in 1963, and then the amusement park left northwest Denver altogether, leaving behind the circa-1891 theater. Although the exterior of the historic…
