“Is this the start of a new era, or the last year for the Winter Park ski train?” That’s the cryptic question on the home page of www.riograndescenicrailroad.com/skitrain, and the answer could be: both. As it stands, the new era will start at 7:15 a.m. today, when a train pulls…
This week, William Breathes reviews the Ganja Gourmet at 1810 South Broadway, the city’s first — and likely last — restaurant specializing in dishes containing medical marijuana: “The Ganja Gourmet,” he writes, “is not so much a restaurant as a dispensary where you can hang out, smoke pot and eat…
Yesterday I visited Phil’s Place, the great dive at 35th and Larimer — which suddenly boasts a fancy new back bar. From the photo, several readers thought I was at Don’s Mixed Drinks — which has also undergone an unexpected upscaling that did not stop at the bathrooms, as promised…
Visit Denver spent $50,000 creating a city-boosting window for New York City’s Times Square last Christmas season. It was unveiled on Good Morning America by holiday-sweater Mayor John Hickenlooper, who cut the ribbon and subsequently cut up with the GMA team. The display — already a historic relic, since it…
Santa brought a brand-new bar back to spruce up this classic dive. Can you guess where I’m drinking? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts will be entered in a pool — and we’ll pull out…
Think the lines at the airport are long? They’re nothing compared to the lines at the Denver Treasurer’s office, where would-be dispensary operators are lining up to get their sales-tax licenses before any city ordinance might put limits on dispensaries. But the dispensaries will definitely keep coming. Although on Friday…
Take a break from shopping tonight at Bill Ward’s miniBar, the well-named watering hole at 222 Columbine Street, which will be hosting a “Mini” holiday party from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. tonight with free samples of food, wine and champagne. And if you need to escape the mall before…
What’s growing faster than the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Colorado? The number of proposals to regulate them. But while it now looks like competing concepts will collide at the Colorado Statehouse when it convenes the second week in January, Denver’s keeping its steady pace toward regulation, with the…
From 5 p.m. to close on Monday nights, Lola, at 1575 Boulder Street, hosts Barrio Night, with special deals in addition to the usual happy hour that runs from 4 to 6 p.m. — $12 buckets of Tecate (six per bucket), for example. Tonight, it should be warm enough to…
Anyone who buys a DINR deck is a winner: For $50, you get 52 cards, each offering a $10 discount at a local, independent restaurant. You can buy the decks at any Tattered Cover location or at www.eatdenver.com — but you can also win one right here.Every Friday for the…
How do you know it’s December? Not just by the holiday lights popping up all over town. No, you know the end of the year is near because as you exit your favorite Mexican restaurant — El Tejado, Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe, Mexico City Lounge — you get a calendar,…
Give North High School extra credit for its graduation rate, which increased 12.1 percent in 2009 — compared to the overall Denver Public Schools increase of 3.2 percent, up to a sad 52.7 percent of high school students graduating on time this past year. I came down hard on Ed…
Chile today, hot tomorrow: They say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and if you order this, it’s certain the most incendiary. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Every Friday, anyone who gave the first correct answer to any of the week’s Where…
Twenty-seven businesses entered the first annual LoDo Aglow: Scenes of the Season window-decorating contest, lighting up for the holidays (and through the Stock Show, like the Denver City and County Building). And the winners, announced this week by the LoDo District, provide a very delicious reason for a trip to…
Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown has spent the last three months thinking about medical marijuana — perhaps this city’s only real growth industry — and it showed yesterday, when council’s safety committee approved his proposal for regulating dispensaries in Denver. The proposed ordinance will go to the full council on…
At this past weekend’s auction for the former Dick’s Hickory Dock in Kittredge, Hamid Motarjemi made the winning bid of $247,500. This will be his fourth project in the area. He started in 2000 with 2101 Champa, which he renovated and turned into Club Boca. Then in 2003 he bought…
Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown is back before council’s safety committee this morning, presenting his proposed ordinance to regulate the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. We’re live-blogging the hearing. You’ll find Brown’s proposal at the bottom of this post, with our most recent reports at the top. 11:20 a.m.: The last…
“People unfamiliar with the Asian culture are often unable to comprehend how much the joy of the Asian peoples revolves around the preparation, sharing and discussion of food.” That’s from the website of India House, the upscale Indian restaurant that replaced Delhi Darbar at 1514 Blake Street. And this week,…
Cowboy-hatted Charlie Brown looked right at home in Teddy’s, the bar in the north Denver Holiday Inn, where the decor is Western (complete with a Willie Matthews print) and the Broncos game was playing on Sunday. But he marched resolutely past the TV and into the Cannabis Holiday Health Fair…
Alamos Verdes doesn’t have bad Mexican food, but the venerable Arvada restaurant has the “Worst Boss of 2009,” according to eBossWatch.com, which just ranked the 25 worst bosses. Coming out on top: Paul Martinez, co-owner and manager of the restaurant at 5304 Vance Street that his parents, Emma and John…
The former Dick’s Hickory Dock, a river-side restaurant on Highway 74 between Morrison and Evergreen, was sold at auction by Sheldon Good & Company on December 12. Dick’s, which opened back in the ’70s and snagged a Westword readers’ choice award for Best Barbecued Ribs in the Best of Denver…
“I was thinking I’ve got five minutes to go and no one has asked me about medical marijuana… that’s a good thing,” Governor Bill Ritter said. And then, just five minutes before the governor had to leave Monday’s legislative briefing, it came: the inevitable question about medical marijuana. No conversation…
