“You put me out in Denver because I wouldn’t suck your dick.” That’s what Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, a lobbyist hired last year by former D.C. mayor and current councilmember Marion Barry to be his driver and personal assistant, shouted at Barry in June — shortly before he was arrested and jailed…
My nephew Johnny loves meat — despite the fact (or maybe partly because of the fact) that his parents don’t eat red meat. “I don’t exactly get that,” the eleven-year-old says. “It has a lot of flavor and it can come from many different animals for many different tastes.” And…
Denver District Judge Larry Naves’s ruling yesterday that Ward Churchill should not get his job back at the University of Colorado — and, in fact, should not get any more compensation than the dollar a jury awarded him back in March — should be the last word on Ward. It…
Chris Cina’s had some bad luck lately, with his last gig at Twig’s Wine Bar and Pickles Deli in Tipsy’s, a gigantic liquor store in Littleton, drying up fast last fall. And that was after an absolutely disastrous attempt to open T. Kelly’s at 1361 Court Place. Still, Cina’s got…
The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota’s civil…
It’s 1959 all over again tonight on KBDI, the public television station that airs Colorado Inside Out, a roundtable devoted to covering current events every week — except the week of July 4. That’s when the talented crew moves the show to a historic period and then prays the panelists…
Never say die: The space at 250 Steele Street that swallowed French 250 (and numerous restaurants before that) is now moving around the Mediterranean. According to the banner now hanging at that address, Ondo’s, a tapas spot, will attempt to make a go of this spot come fall…
Mark Huebner didn’t get the girl — he was eliminated from The Bachelorette two weeks ago — but he got a pizza joint instead. His Denver Pizza Company, at 309 West 11th Avenue, opens tomorrow at 11 a.m.; it will be selling medium pies for $5 (one topping) and large…
As reported here — a lot — Westword restaurant critic Jason Sheehan had a book-signing at Katie Mullen’s last evening. And that just happened to be the bar where Ward Churchill and attorney David Lane went after their day in court, where they’d told Judge Larry Naves why Churchill deserves…
Back in 1991, the night before “limited-stakes gaming” was officially introduced in three Colorado mining towns – Black Hawk, Cripple Creek and Central City – a group of journalists gathered in Central City to document the start of legal gambling. (Central City’s budget was largely based on illegal games back…
This hunka hunka burning love got his sunburn in the line of duty: Standing in the sun on the 16th Street Mall, hawking the very venue where we are now drinking…and gambling through the night, thanks to the passage of Amendment 50…
If Elvis is here, can Michael Jackson be far behind? All bets are off.Big clue to our location below:…
RESTAURANTS OPENING IN JUNE Giovanni’s Italian Cafe, 3355 South Yarrow, Lakewood Pho-Yo, 2179 South Parker Road, Aurora Simm’s Steakhouse, 11911 West Sixth Avenue, Lakewood Johnie’s Bar-B-Que, 5280 West 25th Avenue, Edgewater Choppers Custom Salad Works, 5302 DTC Boulevard, Greenwood Village Einstein Bros. Bagels, 200 Quebec Street 3 Sons, 14805 West…
Colorado’s longest-running reality show could be drawing to a close. Today, Ward Churchill will get another day in court, when Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves considers whether he should get his job back at the University of Colorado — or be paid to go away. Naves presided over the…
A new bar in town stocks not just quality booze, but a handy library of reference volumes to settle bets.Except this one: Bet you can’t guess which bar this is……
The beleaguered Beauvallon building has swallowed another restaurant. Mr. Coco’s Bar & Grill, possibly the worst-named Mexican joint ever, has shut its doors at 925 Lincoln Street. Before it was Mr. Coco’s, that space had held, very briefly, Marni’s Steakhouse (which left behind its awning) and before that, Moe’s Southwest…
Architect Ed White changed the way the world looks at Denver — not just through his architectural designs, but through his friendship with Jack Kerouac. That friendship is documented in the form of Tim Gray, a White-like character in On The Road, as well as in the structure of the…
Dick Kreck will be reading from his book Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family tonight at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, with Chuck and Gene, the sons of Clyde Smaldone, on hand to answer questions about their infamous relatives. But for a real taste of what the…
It’s 8:30 p.m. on the second Monday night of summer — but you don’t need a calendar to know that. You just need to see the lines outside of Little Man Ice Cream, which opened exactly a year ago at 2620 16th Street.You scream, I scream, we all scream…..
KJ’s Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that’s become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today — until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that’s just the start of the changes, promises manager Kassia Koukari…
Big Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire — and the…
A moment of silence for the passing of a pop-culture icon, gone so young at the age of fifty. Yes, that’s right: Billy Mays, star of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, has died, silencing that big voice that had become ubiquitous on late-night infomercials. Mays got his start on the…
