Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night’s Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by “Mustang,” Luis Jimenez’s blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared as…
Casselman’s Bar & Venue opened this past weekend at 2620 Walnut Street, in the space where Shakespeare’s Pub, once an institution in the Platte Valley, lasted less than a year. Maybe that’s why owner Matt Casselman wants to refer to the neighborhood as “NoDo.” But he could soon rake in…
Mizuna, Frank Bonanno’s restaurant at 225 East Seventh Avenue, will host its monthly wine dinner tonight. The five-course meal is $100; for reservations, call 303-832-4778. But save some space — and cash — because this Thursday, April 30, is the annual Dining Out for Life, and over 300 area restaurants…
While Charlie Master is now ensconced at Sketch, his former restaurant, Brix, is slowly settling into history. Although the original Brix space at 3000 East Fillmore Street is again empty (Barron’s died within weeks), the second Brix location, downtown at 2200 Market Street, should reopen on Friday, May 1, as…
Bad times make for good deals, as restaurants and bars try to woo customers with great happy-hour deals. For example, at Emilio’s Super Chef, 338 East Colfax Avenue, you can get a “Fiesta Bucket” with five full-size Mexican beers for just $10 bucks from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday through…
Before we were panicked about swine flu and twisted by torture-memo leaks, we were terrified by the Devil Horse, Luis Jimenez’s killer sculpture that stands guard outside Denver International Airport, its red eyes shooting deadly lasers at unsuspecting passersby. Or are those glowing orbs actually illuminating this town’s deep well…
Club Roxy, housed in the building at 2549 Welton Street that was once the down’s first black movie theater, turned into Pure late last year. Now it’s definitely having some impure thoughts, judging from a recent ad on Craigslist for “GOGO Dancers/ Coaktail Staff,” which announces: “We are currently looking…
Mel Master, the man who brought us Mel’s (in all its incarnations) as well as numerous other notable local restaurants, returns to Denver for the first monthly wine-tasting at Sketch, 101 Broadway, where his son, Charlie, runs the bar. Mel, who’s also a winemaker, will be pouring his Tortoise Creek…
Kelley Coffman-Lee, the vegan Centennial mom who made national headlines this month when she announced that the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles had rejected her attempts to buy a vanity license plate announcing ILVTOFU, is already a punchline. On April 18, the “Not My Job” segment of National Public Radio’s…
I’m looking out my back window over the Platte Valley, across the highway and the river and the railyards to Union Station, and thinking that I’ll never see the Ski Train pull up again. After close to seventy years, the last twenty of them under owner Phil Anschutz, the train…
Food for thought about the upcoming weekend: Lucile’s, at 275 South Logan Street, will be celebrating the start of crawfish starting at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25 with mud bugs, beer and live music; for details, call 303-282-6258. At 6 p.m. on April 25, Maggiano’s Little Italy in the Denver…
Back from Tucson, the land of cheese crisps but no green chile, I ran to Benny’s yesterday to get a late-lunch fix. Benny’s is a Denver institution that serves Colorado-style Mex to softball teams, book clubs, hatboys, party girls and anyone else who can escape their office on a Wednesday…
One of Denver’s greatest draws is its strong network of neighborhoods, dozens of neighborhoods, each filled with advocates rooted to their particular patch of turf, but also to the city at large. And even in these depressing times, there’s good news coming from them. The EZE Mop Shopping District, a…
Katie Mullen’s, the Irish restaurant and bar at 1550 Court Place, opened two months ago, but it’s hosting a grand-opening party from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 23 that’s a benefit for Friends of the Denver Fire Department. Tickets are $25, and include cocktails and appetizers; for more…
Denver art takes off As devil horse inspires us to write Mile Haiku The first time Rachel Hultin saw “Mustang,” Luis Jiménez’s gigantic blue horse sculpture outside Denver International Airport, she nearly drove off the road. “I was shocked, jarred,” says Hultin, a real-estate broker and developer. And when the…
While Jason Sheehan is taking readers’ questions, I have one for readers: Is there a place in Colorado that serves cheese crisps? These thin, grilled quesadillas covered with melted cheese are staples at Mexican restaurants in Arizona. (I just had one at El Charro, a Tucson institution since 1922, and…
My first look at Colorado was from a train. When I was a kid, my family was part of a group that would pile onto the Denver Zephyr in Chicago late on a winter afternoon. While the parents sat up all night in a coach car, our cadre of kids…
Help the Colorado State Parks system today, April 22, by shopping at a local Sprouts Farmers Market.This is the final day of Sprouts’s “Stand Up for State Parks!” program, during which the Colorado markets will match $1, $2 or $5 donations made to Colorado State Parks. For information, go to…
Happy anniversary to the Kitchen, at 1039 Pearl Street in Boulder. The restaurant will celebrate its fifth birthday on Tuesday, April 21, by introducing a “Community Hour,” a daily gathering each afternoon from 3 to 6 p.m. with reduced price food and drink. There are more changes in store, too;…
Back in 1967, Stella Cordova was working as a cook at Chubby Burger Drive-In at 1231 West 38th Avenue when its owner, Bill Gray, asked if she wanted to buy the place. Even though she had a big family and little money, she took him up on his offer, paying…
If you eat at Piatti, the Italian restaurant at 190 St. Paul Street, today and mention that you’re dining to support SAME Cafe, Piatti will donate 20 percent of your bill to SAME, the pay-what-you-can restaurant profiled on the cover of Westword in February. For reservations at Piatti, call 303-321-1919…
The Wrist Deep Crew — Adam Cayton-Holland, Greg Baumhauer, Ben Roy and Jim Hickox — were supposed to be at Rockbar tonight for “Slumming It: A Night of Live Comedy at Rockbar.”But the game’s been called on account of rain. “Slumming It” has been rescheduled for May 2; for more…
