Opinion & Commentary

The hot food story of the summer is the success of the gourmet food trucks and carts, which we predicted in our June 3 cover story. So far, we’ve seen trucks from Steuben’s, Deluxe, Paris on the Platte, WaterCourse Foods and the Denver Biscuit Company, in addition to such gourmet…

It’s been quiet on the Colorado bar front since Steve Horner, our anti-ladies night crusader, moved on — but ladies nights became a hot topic again yesterday when the Fox and Friends morning show featured a debate over the Minnesota Department of Human Rights recently deciding to ban ladies nights,…

Jon Caldara’s Channel 12 show is now called Devil’s Advocate, and plenty of politicians are dancing with the devil. Not only did Caldara get his job as head of the Independence Institute after Tom Tancredo moved on to Congress, but Tancredo was at the Institute’s annual ATF party ten days…

While Ted Haggard has moved on to his second act as the founding minister of St. James, his new church in Colorado Springs, Mike Jones, the male escort who outed the meth- and male-seeking New Life preacher in the fall of 2006, is still working off the same script. Jones…

Every week, Colorado Inside Out takes on the big events of the day in Denver. But once a year, it creates a special history show dedicated to the big events of an earlier year. Last year, it was 1959, and that show just won a regional Emmy in the interview/discussion…

When I met Ken Buck at the Independence Institute’s ATF event Saturday, I asked what he thought about Jane Norton injecting gender into the race with a new commercial asking whether he was “man enough” to be a senator. Buck responded by telling me that Norton had recently said the…

Ballots should start hitting mailboxes today in the 46 (out of 64) counties that are conducting the August 10 primary solely by mail-in ballot. The only mailboxes that will get ballots belong to voters who are already registered to one of the major political parties that have contested races –…

Scott McInnis may be “in it to win it,” but Tom Tancredo is in it to spin it. If the former congressman can figure out a way to get into the gubernatorial race alongside “Musings on Water” McInnis and Dan Maes, the dark-horse candidate who was at his most popular…

When Tony’s Market decided to open a downtown store, it added an amenity you won’t find at any of the suburban Tony’s outlets: a bistro where you can not only sit and enjoy a meal, but order an alcoholic beverage to take with you as you shop, since the liquor…

“There’s nothing more enjoyable than pissing off liberals,” said Jon Caldara, head of the Independence institute, at the think tank’s annual ATF — Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — event on Saturday, a free-for-all of free-market talk, drinking alcohol, smoking cigars and shooting guns. But it wasn’t as easy as it…

John Hickenlooper’s campaign is pushing some new gear: bumperstickers, pint glasses and T-shirts. But what it really should be selling is a version of the invisible lucky asbestos underpants Hickenlooper must be wearing — because even as his staffers gear up for the inevitable mud-slinging, all the dirt is sticking…

After this week, you can safely assume Scott McInnis won’t be subscribing to the Denver Post anytime soon. Because not only is the beleaguered Republican gubernatorial candidate an alleged plagiarist, he’s also a penny pincher…

It’s hard to imagine Denver without Lauri Lynnxe Murphy. But it’s time to start trying, because six weeks from now, the artist/entrepreneur will pack her bags and her big ideas and head off to Ohio State, where she’s got “the best fellowship ever.” Before that, though, Murphy’s overseeing the biggest…

In the days after the Denver Department of Public Works turned down a request by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to place a 250-pound statue of a bloodied and bandaged chicken — “McCruelty,” PETA dubbed it — on the 16th Street Mall, saying that it would violate the…

While checking out the Biennial of the Americas website today, I spotted a new feature: host restaurants in the “what’s hot” corner. Click the link, and you find 25 local restaurants — ranging from 8 Rivers to Black Pearl to Vesta Dipping Grill — that are either hyping the Biennial-appropriate…

Money can’t buy you everything — although it can certainly smooth the way for a while. The Hasan family fortune provided the base for the Hasam Family Foundation, which paid $300,000 to Scott McInnis for his “Musings on Water.” And it also helped fuel the political ambitions of son Ali…

“Not a peep,” said spokeswoman Ann Williams when I asked last week if the Denver Department of Public Works had heard anything from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals after the city declared that displaying PETA’s “McCruelty,” a 250-pound statue of a bloodied and bandaged chicken, would violate…

The White Nose Syndrome sounds like a relic of the Studio 54 era. But the fungus, which has been killing bats in caves in the eastern United States, has spread far enough west that as early as today, the U.S. Forest Service Region 2 office in Golden will announce that…

“It’s a great day to be in Lone Tree!,” promises that small suburb’s web site. But yesterday wasn’t such a great day for Lone Tree officials, who discovered in this Denver Post story that John Andrews had named the guiding manifesto for this weekend’s Western Conservative summit the “Lone Tree…

Denver International Airport has thirty pieces of art in its permanent collection, not including “Mountain Mirage,” which will soon disappear entirely, and Anubis, the Tut-touting statue at DIA until late this month. Too bad it won’t be around longer: I like having the God of the Underworld greeting visitors at…