At its most elemental, a great shrimp scampi consists of shrimp, garlic, lemon and white wine. It is shrimp in an Italian beurre blanc—the garlic (and shallots) used to start a sauté pan, seasoned with good olive oil, deglazed with white wine, spritzed with lemon juice and mounted, at the…
At the rise of a gently rolling hill in the Alleghenies on the road from Washington, D.C. to West Virginia, someone is building an arc. The skeletal wooden outline of a massive ship catches the sun as it dips below the horizon and reminds all passersby that the flood is…
With our Wild West tradition, it’s not surprising that horses play such a big role in the public art around here, an interest that underscores our worldwide image long ago established by old Hollywood Westerns. But surprisingly, this local taste for art about horses is not limited to historic pieces…
Dwayne Edward Wright, we have your wallet — the wallet you lost back in the mid-70s, when you were a student at a community college in Texas. So how did that wallet wind up under a pine tree in Conifer, Colorado?…
After two decades, Sandy Tessier is closing the doors of Seams Like Olde Times, her costume shop at 1501 South Pearl Street. Today, May 10, is her last day of business; she’s selling off as much inventory as she can and will be back in the store next week just…
Hamburger Mary’s (700 East 17th Avenue) has won the race to open the first new patio of the season. Its spacious back deck, with both a bar area (including heaters!) and seating for diners, made its debut on Tuesday, May 6. That beat Encore (2250 East Colfax Avenue), by three…
Yes, it’s commendable that the current issue of Draft magazine includes Denver International Airport in its “Beer Drinker’s Layover” guide to fourteen airports with good selections of microbrews. Commendable, even if mysterious, since Draft calls DIA “one of the West Coast’s craft beer meccas.” But there’s a bigger problem with…
Tyler Wiard, chef at Elway’s at 3000 East First Avenue, is bringing home the bacon after taking down all comers at the Taste of Elegance — a national pig cookin’ competition organized by the National Pork Board out in California. Wiard bested twenty other chefs from around the country, and…
Funny thing about the way this job goes sometimes: I often don’t know exactly what I’m going to be writing about a restaurant until the minute I sit down and actually start writing about the restaurant. For example, this week’s review of Spice China? I hadn’t originally intended on talking…
Let the dialogue continue! Christine Marie Davis has already posted a response to Michael Paglia’s “Ridiculous Dialog: City” blog. But she expanded on that response in a letter that we’re posting here — in the spirit of a true and open Dialog dialogue:…
For the past two years, on the morning of the Colfax Marathon, I’ve gotten up at dawn, prepared myself for the grueling day ahead, then steered my car east along Colfax Avenue. But unlike the stalwart runners, I did not continue all the way to the edge of Aurora, where…
Last month, the Colorado Tourism Office offered a taste of this state to New Yorkers in the form of “Colorado High Altitude Concrete,” made by the distinctly un-Coloradan Danny Meyer (“Balls!,” April 24). Anyone hungry for more was referred to a website that touts our fine cuisine of rattler cakes…
Curious Theatre Company is aptly named: It keeps exploring new ways to tell stories. And the production that opens tonight in previews could be the most curious yet: Bronx playwrights Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz, who contributed a short play to Curious’s “The War Anthology” two seasons back, were commissioned…
When the golden day is done, Through the closing portal, Child and garden, flower and sun, Vanish all things mortal. — From Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses A dozen paintings by street artists have already sprouted as part of the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Urban Nature exhibit, and…
Before Margaret Cho arrived in town for the May 3 performance of her one-woman show, Beautiful, her manager contacted once-and-future masseuse Mike Jones, who’s back in Denver after putting his one-man play, Naked B4 God: Exposing the Hypocrisy of Ted Haggard, on hiatus. Cho wanted to meet Jones, the manager…
Photo by Stephanie Berger from laurieanderson.com Before Laurie Anderson came to perform at the Boulder Theatre last month, she chatted at length with Michael Roberts about her new project, Homeland. But as it turns out, she was about to make a change in her own homeland’s status, by marrying long-time…
Is the winner from Tuesday’s pair of primaries Barack Obama, with his narrow defeat in Indiana and powerful showing in North Carolina? Or are the real winners the Denver waiters, valets, taxi drivers, doormen and hotel maids who look forward to seeing two entrenched delegations come to town, fighting for…
This missive about Balls! recently arrived from a Denver native and frequent bold name: I read your column about Denver. Granted the tourism office’s efforts are an easy target, but boy, you are starting to sound like Gene Amole! Although a hipper, more in-tune Gene Amole, but just as cranky…
Last month, the Colorado Tourism Office offered a taste of this state to New Yorkers in the form of “Colorado High Altitude Concrete,” made by the distinctly un-Coloradan Danny Meyer. Anyone hungry for more was referred to a website that touts our fine cuisine of rattler cakes and Rocky Mountain…
SAME Café at 2023 East Colfax Avenue is closed through May 9 for spring-cleaning – and the installation of some new kitchen equipment. When SAME reopens on May 10, co-owner (with wife Libby) Brad Birky will be devoting all his time to the restaurant, which allows diners to pay what…
Here is how you make a proper Peking duck. First, invent a time machine, go back to the mid-nineteenth century, grab yourself a plot of land in one of the booming cities of mainland China and enlist the help of a bricklayer to build you an oven. Then practice. For…
While researching Georgetown weirdness, I learned that one of the places I wrote about in my April 24 Bite Me column — the Silver Queen bar and restaurant—once had none other than Roseanne Barr on staff in the kitchen, either as a prep cook or a sous chef. To quote…
