We've got a brand new plantain-heavy menu on the Watch List this week, plus a whole selection of new items from established eateries. There's the return of brunch to one RiNo restaurant, a Japanese lunch special at another. And sandwiches on fresh-baked bread are worth a lunchtime stop at two...
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The owner of the Stockyards Saloon says his bar has to close. But Fred Orr, who owns the building that houses that bar, says the news reports are all wet: the bar should be able to keep pouring through the next Stock Show.
Monday has arrived yet again, but rather than submitting to workaday doldrums, we humbly suggest reading up on all the diversions awaiting you this week. While a day job may claim your time and attention from morning to afternoon, we hope your evenings are as free as the following five events. With outdoor screenings of goofy '80s cinema classics, record swaps, comedy and Lucha Libre wrestling, Denver has enough free entertainment in store this week that you may even forget you have to work again tomorrow.
For meat lovers, carne al pastor is an object of beauty. A vertical cone of marinated pork — usually shoulder sliced thin and stacked on a skewer — spins slowly in front of a red-hot burner; a pineapple or an onion (or sometimes a chunk of pork fat) skewered at...
The new Denver Renter Confidence Survey from ApartmentList.com reveals that most local renters give the Mile High City excellent marks, placing it among the most highly rated large cities in the country. But there are warning signs in the findings, including great discontent with high rent costs and other daily expenses, as discussed in our recent post "Why It's So Hard to Make a Living in Denver Despite Strong Economy."
As a recognizable face of the new, arts-rich Trinidad, Colorado, Rodney Wood serves as the grand poobah of what could be the southern Colorado town’s most distinguishing features: The annual ArtoCade art-car festival, and as of 2017, its year-round companion, the Bizarre Car Garage, a permanent museum where ArtoCade vehicles winter over.
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Rent in Denver continues to rise at a rapid clip as measured both month-to-month and year-to-year. But rent prices are going up more quickly in at least six metro suburbs than it is in Denver proper.
Karl Fallenius says he was working hundred-hour weeks in the period leading up to the closing of his Owlbear Barbecue stand at Finn's Manor at 2927 Larimer Street. Shutting the place down at the height of its popularity turned out to be the right move, though, as he's now nearly...
The July 10 death of William Anderson, a forty-year-old inmate at Denver's main jail, has led to a war of words between the Denver Sheriff Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Anderson died during a fight with fellow detainee Ricardo Lopez-Vera, nineteen. But while the Denver District Attorney's Office declined to charge Lopez-Vera in the incident, his undocumented status led to detention by ICE, which claims the DSD released him without properly informing the federal agency even though there was an immigration hold on him.
A 2015 survey found that 86 percent of emergency medical services personnel reported critical stress; a job that entails frequent exposure to others’ once-in-a-lifetime tragedies takes a toll. But now programs like Building Warriors are teaching that culture is key to the mental health of these first responders.
The drafters of Denver's social cannabis consumption initiative have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the city's finalized rules and distance requirements for businesses applying to open a consumption area. Now they're taking it a step further, threatening to sue the City of Denver if less restrictive rules aren't put...
States with legal medical marijuana have fewer opiod-related hospitalizations per capita, according to new research published early this month in the Journal of Drug and Alcohol Dependence. At the same time, those states did not see an increase in hospitalizations related to the consumption of cannabis, the study determined. Yuyan...
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A moose head on the wall, a creek out back, a biker out front: Colorado bars aren't all about craft beer and mixology. Metro Denver boasts thousands of watering holes, but sometimes you thirst for a downhome saloon where getting there is half the fun...and the rest is all setting, history and, yes, alcohol. Here are Colorado's ten most iconic bars.
In late June, HR 3003 — the "No Sanctuary for Criminals" bill — was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. In response, fourteen elected officials in metro Denver penned this commentary.
Fireman Capital Partners, the Boston-based private equity firm that owns Longmont's Oskar Blues Brewery, Perrin Brewing in Michigan, Florida's Cigar City and the Squatters and Wasatch breweries in Utah, is changing the name of the holding company that operates these breweries from Oskar Blues Holdings to CANarchy. CANarchy "provides a...
Opening a restaurant isn’t easy; keeping one open is even harder. Think about the places where you dine when you’re out on the town: How many will still be around in ten, twenty, perhaps fifty years? Even if customers keep coming in the door, there are so many other factors...
Thanks to Denver's red-hot housing market, Mile High City home values are currently higher than they were at their pre-recession peak, although perhaps not by as much as some frustrated home buyers might have expected. But while Colorado as a whole has experienced a similar boom, there are plenty of places in the state where homes are worth considerably less than they were a decade and a half ago.
Sweaty locals refuse to allow the heat to defeat them at this point in the summer. Luckily, for adventurous entertainment seekers, delights abound all around town this week.
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Finding that dream house in Denver's red hot real estate market has become so difficult that one couple has sent a letter to approximately 1,200 homeowners in the Park Hill neighborhood whose properties aren't for sale in the hope of convincing someone to let them buy their place anyhow.
Stoic & GenuineChef Gabe Wyman’s tasty take on the ubiquitous roasted Brussels sprouts utilizes the fermented power of delicious homemade kimchi, coconut and sunchokes. The result is a plate that makes the passé vegetables taste fresh and new, as if they were always meant to get an Asian kick. This seasonal starter comes and goes, but the […]
Metropolitan State University has been on a building binge. Metro has recently added a Student Academic Success Center, a Marriott Springhill Suites location with an academic hospitality school, and a massive sports complex for both collegiate teams and student exercise on the Auraria campus. On Thursday, June 22, Metro celebrated the completion and opening of its latest project, the Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building.
Over the years, Colorado colleges in general, and public colleges in particular, have performed weakly in national rankings. Unfortunately, the same scenario has played out in a new study of the best community colleges in the state. Nine Colorado institutions were analyzed among 728 nationwide, with only one school from here landing in the top half of the rankings and the lowest-rated facility finishing only fifteen slots away from dead last. And the latter's location is mighty close to home.