Mike Dunafon, former mayor of Glendale and husband of Debbie Matthews, owner of Shotgun Willie’s, is running for governor as a third-party candidate — and it might as well be the Party party. Because as a major booster of Glendale’s riverwalk project, he and other officials pushed for a 2011…
On Wednesday, September 24, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission will head northeast from Eads along Chief White Antelope Way to the banks of Sand Creek, where 150 members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes were killed by volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington on November 29, 1864…
At 10 a.m. today, Bruhns Auction Gallery began selling off the contents of the Wonder View Tower, the amazing roadside attraction that C.W. Gregory built on the plains a hundred miles from Denver back in 1926, and that subsequent owner Jerry Chubbock turned into an amazing museum stuffed with…stuff. Chubbuck…
Olive Garden has had a tough month. Its new, “Never Ending Pasta Pass” promo was mocked by everyone from Jimmy Kimmel to Red Eye; more ominously, Starboard Value, an investor that’s trying to gain control of Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden’s owner, at the annual meeting October 10, slapped the chain…
The news that Johnson’s Corner, the iconic truck stop just north of the Berthoud exit on I-25, will soon be sold to TravelCenters of America drew many cries of “noooo” and “Welcome to corporate America.” Members of the founding family — Joe Johnson opened Johnson’s Corner back in 1950 –…
Sunnyside Burger Bar opened yesterday on the corner once occupied by Longo’s Subway Tavern in LoHi, or Sunnyside, or Highland, or the Northside, depending on what map and history book you’re consulting. The burger joint is another venture by Larimer Associates, whose COO, Joe Vostrejs, has deep roots in Denver…
Joseph Hutchison didn’t set out to write a poem about Silas Soule. But he’d been thinking for a while about the Sand Creek Massacre — a dark chapter in Colorado’s past that he’d never learned about when he was a student at Skinner Junior High, writing his first poem. He’d…
Here’s how former Cafe critic Jason Sheehan remembered his first view of Colorado’s iconic truck stop: “Johnson’s Corner sat right off the frontage road, a dusty sprawl of parking lots and big rigs, mirrored windows reflecting the endless, flat nothing all around it. Johnson’s had everything: a restaurant, general store,…
Yesterday our Latest Word blog reported that the Denver Police Department says calls have already started coming from parents concerned that their kids will be slipped pot edibles while trick-or-treating on Halloween. In a DPD podcast, the officers advise parents to talk to their children about not eating anything until…
Margaret Tobin Brown was not the perky, Debbie Reynolds-like character from The Unsinkable Molly Brown. In fact, she was not even known as Molly when she lived in Denver. The “Indomitable Mrs. James J. Brown” might have been a better nickname, since despite being snubbed by this city’s society mavens…
After a month of eating barbecue, last week we served up our list of the ten best barbecue joints in Denver — and the comments line has been smoking. “Wayne’s is the best!” “Jabo’s got robbed!” “Georgia Boys is yum.” See also: The Ten Best Barbecue Joints in Denver…
With the Great American Beer Festival just a few weeks away, the gang’s all beer — and just about every spot in town is getting into the act. That includes Denver International Airport, which next week will introduce Beer Flights, a temporary beer garden in the main terminal where ten…
There are certain things people from Denver say all the time — like, for instance, “This is the best city in the country, but please stop telling everyone!” So earlier this week, our Latest Word blog published the top ten things you never hear someone from Denver say. Number 5?…
Lower downtown has changed a lot over the past three decades — and photographer Kim Allen, a Denver native, has been there to document it all. He was shooting photographs of Denver’s decrepit viaducts and gritty warehouses before the area was nicknamed LoDo, before it became an official historic district…
Katie Reinisch kept her cool through four years as a communications director at the Colorado Legislature, so it wasn’t surprising to learn she was having a blast running the frozen-yogurt spot, Red Mango, that she and her husband opened in the Lowenstein Complex in the summer of 2012. “We’d always…
Sunnyside Burger Bar will open next week, in the completely rebuilt home of Longo’s Subway Tavern, which closed two years ago. The news inspired the usual geographic nitpicking (Sunnyside actually starts on the north side of West 38th Avenue), the usual Northsider dissing of hipsters — and one unusual observation…
If only “Mountain Mirage,” the public art piece that once graced the center of the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport, were still in business, we might have beer shooting through DIA in a mountain silhouette. But instead, we’ll have to content ourselves with a beer garden where the now-decommissioned…
A hundred miles east of Denver is a rise that, at around 5,900 feet, is the highest point between Denver and Kansas City — or between Denver and Chicago, or between Denver and New York, depending on who’s doing the measuring and who’s doing the bragging. This rise marks what…
The dog days of summer are over, but dogs still rule at pooch-friendly patios around town. As of July 1, Denver has allowed dogs on restaurant patios — and some spots, such as Racines , were happy to comply with the new rules. But diners are still divided about pets…
Eighteen months ago, when renowned restaurateur/chef Frank Bonanno revealed that he was opening Bonanno Brothers Pizzeria in Park Meadows Shopping Center, Cafe Society readers had high hopes the venture would inject some local flavor in an area whose main dining options are outposts of national chains: Brio Tuscan Grille, California…
Need an eye-opener this morning? You might if you’d joined the throngs at DISH, Westword’s twentieth anniversary of the Denver dining scene, which yesterday filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex with booths featuring signature dishes from forty of our favorite local eateries — with Bloody Marys from…
As Michael Roberts reports on the Latest Word this morning, yesterday’s protest outside the McDonald’s at 505 East Colfax Avenue — part of a nationwide campaign demanding higher wages and union rights — resulted in three arrests and plenty of attention for the issue. And the comments keep coming in…
