Although they may disagree with his definition of pasties, readers appreciated the Chef and Tell interview with Ryan Leinonen, the chef who opened Trillium, a Scandinavian restaurant, last month. And Leinonen appreciates chefs, particularly Escoffier. “Le Guide Culinaire was the first book I read when I decided to take my…
Last week, if all had gone according to plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have been finalizing the exchange of a 300-foot right-of-way comprising approximately 100 acres on the eastern border of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge for a 617-acre parcel on the southwestern corner of the…
Dear Readers: I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but given the ascendancy of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, one issue must be addressed — namely, that he’s half-Mexican. The lamestream media is treating this as a…
Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that’s march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police…
Cafe Society is off celebrating Martin Luther King Day, and will be back on duty early tomorrow. If you’re hungry for food news in the meantime, try a second helping of some of these entrees from last week: — Denver Restaurant Week is less than six weeks away, and the…
John Hickenlooper might not like wearing a tie, but he has a thing about hats these days. He donned a giant cowboy hat for his speech at the Citizens of the West dinner Monday night (scary photo at right and below); he modeled a Denver Broncos cap during his State…
Denver International Airport has always been sadly lacking a real taste of Colorado cuisine (witness the cup of Nobel Sysco green chile I downed on Concourse A last Friday). And that makes the presentation before Denver City Council’s Business, Workforce and Sustainability Committee yesterday particularly heartening: Seven new vendors have…
The signs started popping up late last fall: No high rises in West Highland. But the residents fighting a massive, three-building complex proposed for the heart of Highland Square didn’t stop at signs. They also pushed city officials, including Susan Shepherd, the new Denver City Council representative for District 1,…
The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago, on January 10, 1952, with a “Salute to Soil.” We didn’t see starlet June Haver, the star of that show, during our afternoon at the National Western Stock Show yesterday, but we did spot at least one down-and-dirty move by the city…
Dear Mexican: How come Mexicans don’t perform in the Winter Olympics? What, no talent? Or are Mexicans afraid of snow? I’m thinking both. Also, Mexicans don’t do too well in the Summer Olympics, either — they even suck in soccer. There is plenty of snow in Mexico, so don’t use…
The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago today, at a celebration dubbed “Salute to Soil.” Today, the onetime showplace has become the poor relative of Denver’s venues. Poor in amenities, perhaps, but rich in history…
Last month it looked like the last roadblocks would be removed to a Rocky Flats land swap that would make 600 acres currently owned by the State Land Board on the southwest corner of the former plutonium-processing plant part of what’s now a federal wildlife refuge — and the U.S…
A year ago, no one was betting that Michael Hancock would win the crowded race to become Denver’s next mayor. But the gamble paid off, and today, when Mayor Hancock celebrates Dress Western Day — the one day that Denver doesn’t apologize for being a cowtown — he’ll be wearing…
While Colorado skiers keep watching the skies and the weather reports, hoping to see some of the white stuff, other states aren’t sitting idly by on their snowboards. Montana’s Big Sky, for example is trying to rustle Colorado skiers…by honoring the Epic Pass issued by Vail Resorts…
Still need to make a resolution for 2012? How about this: Don’t try to park in LoDo. Now that RTD has chosen the Union Station Alliance to revamp the facility, the project to turn the area around the station into a multi-modal mainstay by 2014 is moving full speed ahead…
Dear Mexican: In my home town of Playa Larga (Long Beach, California), natives refer to a major avenida in our villa, Junipero Avenue (named for Father Junípero Serra, accused native genocider, a candidate for sainthood — but I digress), as Juan-a-pear-o. There is no “Juan” in Junipero, but that’s how…
Latest Word scribes — and the Westword office — are taking today off, celebrating the fact that the world is not going to end in 2012, since local heroes at PeaceJam have revealed that people are misreading the Mayan calendar when they predict doom heading our way on December 21,…
Despite the efforts of Governor John Hickenlooper and Don Hunt, the head of the Colorado Department of Transportation, the negotiations with Golden, Jefferson County and the group that would build the Jefferson Parkway wound up going nowhere…fast. In mid-December, Golden outlined a $57 million transportation deal that town would get…
The word of the year? Our money (and yours) is on “fracking,” the shortened term for “hydraulic fracturing,” a practice that shook neighborhoods (in some cases literally) around the country this year, and has fueled the oil and gas boom in northeastern Colorado. But if energy execs really want to…
After months of negotiations put in gear by Governor John Hickenlooper and Don Hunt, his head of the Colorado Department of Transportation, Golden has definitely put the brakes on a deal that would have had that town sign off on plans for the Jefferson Parkway — in exchange for $57…
Golden came out strong against the proposed Jefferson Parkway — including a plan for the toll road to go through a right-of-way on the eastern edge of Rocky Flats. For the past year, though, state and project officials have been meeting with Golden, looking for a possible compromise — and…
Dear Readers: Here’s a look back at some of the best questions of the year. Dear Mexican: Thirteen years old, and I’m jacking off, not knowing I left the bathroom door ajar. Just as I blasted onto the shower curtain, my mom walked in. Aghast, she shouted, “¡Cochino, te vas…
