Three things to enjoy on a hot summer night at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizza on Larimer Street: The excellent, thin-crust pizza, the very powerful air-conditioning, and a good view of the incredible changes on this 2100 block of what was once Denver’s skid row. Sure, there are still pawn shops, but…
Four weeks from today, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for president — in the heart of Denver. As we continue the countdown, we’re offering daily highlights of life in the Mile High City, can’t-miss sights and sounds: the very Best of Denver. Day 1: Confluence Park. Denver got…
The first act of The Hot L Baltimore ends in a chaotic and hilarious babble, with almost all of the characters talking at once and Suzy, the hooker, dropping a towel to reveal that she’s naked. The young boy, Jamie, is so startled by this that he drops the box…
Looking out my back window, I can see the Pepsi Center, where all the Dippin’ Dots carts and pretzel stands and private suites have been banished while the facility is transformed into the site of next month’s Democratic National Convention — or at least the three days leading up to…
The DNC rumors keep flying. Protesters are going to fling feces at the cops (for more on that, see page 13). Some delegations will be staying as far away as Wyoming. And in the city that wants to host the greenest convention ever, you can’t even recycle a Gatorade bottle…
The Great Clown’s Inn, which Jon Solomon visited a few days before it closed, isn’t the only Alameda alcohol institution to shut down. The Valverde Yacht Club, which never had any yachts but was within spitting distance of the South Platte from its perch at 1101 West Alameda, is boarded…
Earlier this week, a jalapeno pepper in southwest Colorado tested positive for salmonella. That finding gave particular weight to the testimony that Representative Diana DeGette, vice-chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, gave today before the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture at a hearing to discuss…
The town of Olathe’s population will swell 1400 percent on Saturday, August 2, when it hosts the annual Olathe Sweet Corn Festival. But you don”t have to head to Olathe to enjoy sweet corn — Colorado annually produces more than 130 million pounds of it, and it’s now in local…
In our Best of Denver 2008 award that named Facethestate.com the city’s Best Political Blog, we called its founder, Brad Jones, a “snot-nosed kid.” Well, the snot-nosed kid knows his way around a story, and on July 27 he blew mainstream media outlets away with his revelation that a wind…
The first time I saw Keegan Gerhard in person was at the James Beard Awards in early June. He was cooking the final course for the awards dinner — a dessert, natch, of smoked cherries and chocolate that involved super-call scotch as a main ingredient — and because my table…
There’s sad news on Market Street — and it’s not the closing of Buca de Beppo. No, six blocks away at 2019 Market, the space occupied by Mori Japanese Restaurant is flying a rain-soaked, “temporarily closed for renovation” sign. More telling, though is the sign on the other side of…
Just heard from Leigh Jones regarding Jonesy’s EatBar, which took over the space that once held her Dish Bistro at 400 East 20th Avenue. While Dish was definitely a bistro — a small, informal restaurant serving wine — Jones says the new joint is absolutely a gastropub: a neighborhood bar…
Yes, Jen Jasinski’s segment on The Early Show was on awfully early — 6:30 a.m. last Saturday, July 26, when the Rioja/Bistro Vendome chef/owner was cooking live in the New York studio of the CBS show. But better late than never — because you can still catch Chef Jen in…
The City of Denver just loves to stare at itself in the mirror and marvel at how green it has become. “Mirror, mirror on the wall: Who’s the greenest of them all?” it asks, while turning around to see how its ass looks in these new post-consumer-material jeans. No matter…
Steve’s Snapping Dogs, hot dog
The good folks of the Wynkoop Brewing Company, as well as its six related saloons, have launched an extensive fundraising effort to assist Africa’s endangered mountain gorillas. From now through October, when the annual Gorilla Run goes ape in downtown Denver, the Wynkoop and its allied establishments — Gaetano’s, the…
Jennifer Jasinski will be cooking at your house tomorrow morning — but you may need to eat breakfast out afterwards. That’s because Jasinski, chef/owner of Rioja and Bistro Vendome, has accepted the “Chef on a Shoestring” challenge issued by CBS’s The Early Show, and will be preparing a $30, three-course…
Greg Carelli, the owner of Carelli’s Ristorante Italiano, is an architectural artist as well as a restaurateur, and every few years he adds a new “wing” to his place in Boulder. And the most recent, dubbed the Osteria and unveiled this month, is a doozy: a bigger and better bar…
Jason Sheehan is no fan of Hell’s Kitchen, but he watches it. And now he’s playing it, as he describes here. Now on to week four: Playing Hell’s Kitchen drunk was embarassing but fun, which was why I let my buzz roll me right through into week four. Another table,…
While Bill Owens was co-hosting a radio show with Craig Silverman on the afternoon of July 24, Frances Owens, the former First Lady (pictured), was doing her own buddy act with current First Lady Jeannie Ritter, announcing the launch of the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund, part of the centennial celebration…
Sweet Leaf Tea and the Spicy Pickle have a sweet deal going with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado. As part of BBBS’s 90th anniversary celebration, BBBS kids will be running lemonade and iced tea stands at the Spicy Pickle at 2300 Parker Road, Unit C, in Aurora, starting at…
Whether or not the Rockies are in town, the patio at Lodo’s Bar and Grill is always a hit. And unlike the Rockies, the Lodo’s patio is better than ever this summer. Over the winter, the restaurant expanded into the Mattie’s House of Mirrors space next door, and that almost…
