Our River North artist friend, Grand Old RiNo Tracy Weil, reports that last weekend’s RiNo Birthday Celebration and Open House was a great success, despite inhospitable temperatures. Gallery-goer Deborah Elam won the 100-bottle “Wall of Wine” raffle, and a ggod time was had by all. Weil even sent some fabulous…
I went to see the Denver Center Theatre Company’s 1001 last weekend; it was my belated birthday, and I was ready for a night on the town. I love the theater, but a production has to be really good to catch my cast-iron mistrust by surprise. So I’m a picker…
Nice to see the Denver Broncos kicking down some cash in the memory of Darrent Williams, in hopes of steering kids away from the gangster path that his killers apparently chose. This week, the team committed $50,000 to Reverend Leon Kelly’s Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, with a matching $50,000…
Over the weekend, I finally reached Tom Moxcey, Elway’s manager and expert floorman, to see how the second Elway’s going into the new Ritz-Carlton Denver on Curtis Street will affect the original Cherry Creek location. “So you sound like you’re having a good day,” I told him. “It’s a good…
With temperatures dropping again, people are warming to the thought of hot, hot food. BBQ, in short. Witness this recent plea from Jeff: Growing up in the Midwest, I have developed a predilection (or as my wife would call it, an obsession) for BBQ. I enjoy different regional sauces but…
With temperatures dropping again, people are warming to the thought of hot, hot food. BBQ, in short. Witness this recent plea from Jeff: Growing up in the Midwest, I have developed a predilection (or as my wife would call it, an obsession) for BBQ. I enjoy different regional sauces but…
As of nine this morning, the Denver Election Commission had received 40,039 ballots — and those are ballots filled out by voters, not returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable (another 30,000 or so), after the DEC had already given itself an A+ on its performance with this single-ballot…
A cheerful sight on Sunday inspired this haiku: Winter is over! Pop the convertible’s top, It’s forty degrees! — Joel Warner…
In this Miami Herald column, Dave Barry takes off after Colorado representative and perhaps presidential candidate Tom Tancredo. Among other things, Barry calls Tancredo (the subject of a recent blog) an “ignorant yokel blowhard” and a “xenophobic dimwit.” And I am not making this up! “Back in November,” Barry writes,…
There’s big news coming out of Cherry Creek, with the announcement that Elway’s is expanding to a second location inside the new Ritz-Carlton, Denver, which is currently under construction at 1881 Curtis Street. And I predicted this almost a year ago, in the April 20, 2006 Bite Me column where…
There’s big news coming out of Cherry Creek, with the announcement that Elway’s is expanding to a second location inside the new Ritz-Carlton, Denver, which is currently under construction at 1881 Curtis Street. And I predicted this almost a year ago, in the April 20, 2006 Bite Me column where…
Offense Report No: 07-5001573 Date: 1-15-2007 Location of Offense: South Denver Type of Premises: House Weapon/Tool used: Chemical Homeowner writes: “My garage door has been tagged by a ‘gay tagger.’ My white garage door has some moronic red spray painted ‘tag’ as these ‘artists’ like to think of themselves. I…
Local pundits are a-twitter over the arcane mechanics of the country’s Electoral College as the Colorado legislature considers revising how the state awards its nine electoral votes in a presidential election. Some say the current proposal, which would award the state’s votes to whoever gets the most popular votes nationwide…
For the record, I liked much of the food (if not the service) at John Holley’s Asian Bistro, which makes the fact that they tossed the Westword rack after my review came out a little puzzling. No question, though, that the place has lots of fans, because letters like the…
For the record, I liked much of the food (if not the service) at John Holley’s Asian Bistro, which makes the fact that they tossed the Westword rack after my review came out a little puzzling. No question, though, that the place has lots of fans, because letters like the…
These 50-degree days aren’t just melting snowbanks. They’re going to make a new traffic jam disappear, too. The city has yet to decide on the final design of the new Justice Center, but work has already begun on that project, necessitating the closure of 14th Avenue east of Speer so…
Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Plotke of Campo de Fiore (300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek) announced that local business tycoon and big-time philanthropist Josh Hanfling had come on board as a partner at the restaurant, which opened back in 2001. Hanfling is allegedly the man who knows everyone, and I’m…
Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Plotke of Campo de Fiore (300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek) announced that local business tycoon and big-time philanthropist Josh Hanfling had come on board as a partner at the restaurant, which opened back in 2001. Hanfling is allegedly the man who knows everyone, and I’m…
Okay, I admit it, I didn’t shovel my walk. I did the first time, and the second time, and the third, fourth and fifth times, but somewhere after that there was a weekend morning when I didn’t shovel the two inches of fresh snow off of my walk. Fuck it,…
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds… If this Herodotus quote was posted over the main Denver post office rather than the one in New York City, we’d have to delete “swift.” Because over the last…
In his State of the Union address, President Bush said that he wants to resolve the nation’s immigration woes without animosity and without amnesty. But for the millions of undocumented people in this country hoping for amnesty, there’s bound to be plenty of animosity if they don’t get their wish…
“Government is doing less, so the companies can do more — more cooking of the books.” That’s Bobby Maxwell, a former auditor for the federal Minerals Management Service, explaining how major oil and gas companies have been able to rip off the taxpayers for millions in underpaid royalties on energy…
