La Loma Postpones Its Move Downtown Until End of June

If you haven’t headed to Jefferson Park for your last supper at La Loma, you have another reprieve. Since 1981, the massive Mexican restaurant has been perched at 2527 West 26th Avenue — just down the hill from the little bungalow where Savina Mendoza opened her original spot in 1973…

State of Downtown Denver in 2016: Great, and Getting Greater

“If we build it, they will come,” said Downtown Denver Partnership CEO Tami Door at the 2016 State of Downtown briefing at the Hyatt Regency on May 10. “And they are coming.” And coming, and coming, turning Denver’s downtown into one of the most successful in the country – and…

Colorado-Based Craftsy Cooks Up a James Beard Award

The James Beard Foundation will announce the winners in its 2016 Restaurant and Chef categories tonight. Only two Denver area contenders remain in the running for awards: Alex Seidel of Fruition and Mercantile for Best Chef: Southwest, and Frasca Food and Wine for Outstanding Restaurant. But Denver-based Craftsy already came up…

Get on Board: The Ski Season’s Not Over Yet!

Get in your car…now! All that snow in the mountains means that some resorts are extending their seasons still further. Wolf Creek has gotten 432 inches this year, and is anticipating more this weekend — so the mountain will reopen through Sunday, May 1.  Lift tickets will be at the…

Denver Foot Soldiers for Bernie Sanders Create Bernie Sandals

Matt Batrowny and his brother, Brian, were early supporters of Bernie Sanders. One day last summer, shortly after the senator from Vermont announced that he was running for president, recalls Matt, “We were walking down the street with a couple of buddies, and we had Bernie T-shirts on. A lot…

Ghost Sign Comes Back to Life in Five Points

Bob Berlute came to Denver last week to see the billboard that his father had painted decades ago on the side of 2801 Welton Street, a ghost sign that was uncovered in the process of developer Star Mesa Property’s restoration work on the building. The sign, too, has been restored,…

La Loma Postpones Move Until May

In February,  La Loma announced that in two months, it would be leaving the spot at 2527 West 26th Avenue in Jefferson Park where it’s been perched for the past thirty years, and moving to the space vacated by the Trinity Grille, at 1801 Broadway, while it continues to plan…

Colorado Wants You to Get Your Head Out of Your Apps

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month — and that’s no joke. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, there were more than 15,300 distracted driving crashes in the state last year — a number that has grown by 16 percent in the last four years. And 69 people were killed…

The Best of Denver 2016 Is Here!

We were sitting in the down-home bar that serves 2016’s Best Breakfast Burrito — Smothered, looking across the intersection at the upscale Chinese spot that’s the Best New Restaurant in Denver. This intersection at the corner of 35th and Larimer streets is one of the many spots in the city…

Colorado Humanities Announces 2016 Colorado Book Award Finalists

Colorado Humanities just announced the finalists for the 2016 Colorado Book Awards; they include Fig, the book by Sarah Elizabeth Schantz that we profiled last April. The winners will be revealed on May 21 in a ceremony at the Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion. And the finalists are: Anthology Going Down…