Denver Arts and Venues and Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts organization that’s considering opening a spot in Denver, just announced a partnership that calls for Arts and Venues to contribute $20,000 to a fund that will be used to help Denver’s DIY and alternative spaces..
The original Chubby Burger Drive-Inn is no more. But Stella Cordova’s green chile lives on.
The Mixed Taste got its start at the Lab at Belmar; when director Adam Lerner moved over to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, he brought Mixed Taste with him. And now it’s about to move on again: to Off-Center at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Over a hundred people gathered at the Broomfield Community Center on February 22 for the third in a series of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service meetings on plans for what’s now the 5,000-acre Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
After close to ninety years, the art deco building that held Smiley’s Laundromat is being hung out to dry.
Jesse Morreale knew that the Thunderbird Imperial Lounge, the new place he opened in December at 3759 Lipan Street, had very old roots. When Larimer Associates purchased the property in 2012, it had been home to Longo’s Subway Tavern for more than fifty years. But the building dates back much further than that, and a birthday dinner this past weekend brought the place full circle.
Denver has been losing its red-sauce joints…and their owners. Ron Cito passed away on February 11 at the age of 81; he and his wife, Kim DeLancey, had sold Patsy’s Inn, at 3651 Navajo Street, in August. Cito was born and raised in north Denver’s little Italy, went to Cathedral…
Cities across the country are preparing for A Day Without Immigrants, a grassroots action set for Thursday, February 16, which calls for members of immigrant communities – primarily Latino, but definitely not limited to that – to walk out of work to protest the anti-immigration policies of the Trump administration. The Colorado Restaurant Association just sent a letter to its members alerting them to possible walkouts.
Ed Bryant, an award-winning science-fiction and horror writer who’d lived in Denver since 1972, died in his sleep February 10 after a long illness. He was 71. Although fans knew him for his stories, he was a beloved mentor and legendary teacher, too. He was also my neighbor, one of…
The National Western Stock Show has corralled the Denver County Fair.
The Denver Boot makes a guest appearance on Jeopardy.
Just a year ago, Denver was still basking in the glow of winning the Super Bowl when the Mile High City was named the “Best Place to Live in the USA” by U.S. News & World Report. Every year, the publication analyzes 100 metro areas in the United States to…
Casa Bonita is a true Colorado classic, a forty-plus-year-old eatertainment complex that bills itself as “the world’s most exciting restaurant” and has been immortalized on South Park as the “Disneyland of Mexican restaurants.” Despite its international notoriety, though, some Coloradans have never been to the place – a shocking lapse that we were determined to remedy.
The Brown Palace’s Ship Tavern is one of Denver’s most iconic bars. But a “soft” renovation that installed diner-style furniture could torpedo that reputation.
Michael Huttner got his start as a trouble-maker as an intern for Westword. Now he’s CEO of the Fenton Group, a social-change agency, making trouble for the Trump Administration.
Steven Burge has had many challenging roles, including serving as Westword’s receptionist. But now he really gets to play God: as the lead in An Act of God, which runs through April 8 at the Garner Galleria.
Readers are applauding the deal that will keep My Brother’s Bar open, rather than have it wiped off the face of Denver by another big development.
The building at 2376 15th Street has held a saloon since 1873. For the last 47 years, it’s been My Brother’s Bar. And although ownership is changing, this Denver icon will remain a landmark. And a great bar.
Meow Wolf could roar in Denver one day. A crew from the Santa Fe arts sensation was in the Mile High City this week, scouting locations and exploring the local arts scene, a mission that included sitting in on the Amplify Arts Denver town hall on January 10. .
On January 12, Warm Cookies of the Revolution will devote a program to the power of letter-writing.
The Best House Margarita became even better when Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, a three-time champ,switched the house tequila from Cimarron. But that’s not the only innovation at Adelitas: Founder Brian Rossi also came up with a winning formula for his back room, which is now Palenque Mezcaleria. After Adelitas hosted Guillermo Erickson Sauza at a special dinner last week, we checked in with Rossi for more tequila talk.
Visitors landing at Denver International Airport didn’t get much of a Western welcome this past weekend. Although a new train announcement — recorded by a fast-talking auctioneer — touted the National Western Stock Show and a related exhibit on the bridge leading to concourse A, after the sign at the entrance to the bridge, the exhibit cases were empty.
