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Trinidad DA Frank Ruybalid Wants Public to Pay for His Ethics Blunders

In January, Frank Ruybalid, the embattled top prosecutor for Colorado's Third Judicial District, resolved a long-running state ethics investigation by pleading guilty to thirteen violations of professional conduct rules for attorneys, essentially admitting that he'd mishandled the prosecution of several criminal cases that ended up being dismissed. Ruybalid was put...
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Pisco Sour Mixes Up Peruvian Cocktails and Cuisine

Pisco Sour Peruvian restaurant on East Colfax was a cross between a dive bar, a sports bar for soccer fans, a nightclub and an eatery featuring some of Denver's more unusual cuisine. While it was run-down and lost in time, the shabby remains of a once-swanky establishment held a kind...
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Chef Joseph Arena Puts His Modernist Spin on the Menu at 1515

Gene Tang hired Joseph Arena as 1515 Restaurant’s new executive chef in February, a move that reflected his penchant for bringing in young talent that appreciates the restaurant’s combination of classical fine-dining technique with modern culinary sleight of hand. Back in 1997, when Tang opened 1515 in the century-old storefront...
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Bar Rescue Returns to Check In on Zanzibar

Denver blogs always welcome a helping hand. Two and a half years ago, Spike's Bar Rescue visited Zanzibar, briefly transforming it into Solids & Stripes. Host Jon Taffer came back to see how Zanzibar was holding up, reports Mark Antonation in our restaurant section. You can see the result for...
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Inside Bill to Expunge Some Federal Marijuana Crimes

Oregon House Representative Earl Blumenauer plans to introduce a bill to Congress today that would clear and expunge particular federal marijuana offenses that are no longer illegal in a number of states across the country — but some marijuana activists are skeptical of how many people it would actually help...
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Cannibalistic Rats Found, Seized from Pot Grow House

To our knowledge, Westword has never before published a post about cannibalistic rats. But that's appropriate, because we're guessing the officers who discovered hundreds of rats, both dead and alive, in the garage attached to a marijuana grow house hadn't seen anything quite like what they discovered Wednesday, either. About 10...
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Miguel on Defying Genres, the Importance of L.A., and Writing About Sex

Miguel, the L.A,-based singer/songwriter, R&B crooner and hip-hop dabbler, has three albums, all of which have received critical acclaim. With his latest effort, Wildheart, it appears the singer is focused on himself as a human, a lover and an artist. It's about your basest desires, your insecurities, your swagger and...
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100 Favorite Dishes: The Papa Bear at Cub’s Q Barbeque

No. 27: The Papa Bear at Cub's Q Barbeque The Cub's barbecue truck has made a semi-permanent home for itself in a parking lot at the corner of South Broadway and Dakota Avenue, where mornings bring the sweet smell of wood smoke to the neighborhood and lunchtime brings piles of...
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Dear Stoner: Can I Smoke Weed Before My Workout?

Dear Stoner: My friend says he likes to get high before working out. I always assumed that would be bad for my lungs and coordination. Jay Blazer Dear Jay: Marijuana as a performance-enhancing drug sounds crazy, doesn’t it? While no one is suggesting that NFL quarterbacks light up before a...
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A.J. Snowhite Mixes a Peak Experience at the Crimson Room

Peak 9 at the Crimson Room Many bartenders, upon dialing in a new cocktail recipe, name their drinks after things they love, with music and movies being the most common inspirations. Like many Colorado bartenders, A.J. Snowhite makes cocktails on busy weekend nights while slipping away to the mountains for mid-week...
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Silas Henton Will Make Your Heart Beet at the MCA Cafe

The Heart Beet at the MCA Cafe Visitors to MCA Denver are greeted by a striking work of art, even before entering the building. An enormous, sparkling heart, stuck through with a silver sword,  rotates atop a pole jutting up from the sidewalk in front of the building’s main entrance. The heart,...
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RIP: Castor, the Denver Zoo’s Oldest Komodo Dragon

Castor, the oldest Komodo dragon at the Denver Zoo, has died. Castor was a 21-year-old male dragon whose father, Naga, once belonged to President George H.W. Bush. He was born in 1994 at the Cincinnati Zoo and came to Denver that same year. In his 21 years, Castor fathered seven baby...
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GEO Lawsuit Alleging Forced Labor of Immigrant Detainees Moves Forward

In a move that could have resounding consequences for corrections practices and the for-profit prison industry in particular, a Denver federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by nine federal immigrant detainees, who allege that a private prison contractor forced them to perform maintenance and cleaning jobs for...
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Sarto’s Rolls Out New Brunch, Complete With Champagne Sabering

If you’ve ever seen someone on TV or on the silver screen open a bottle of Champagne with a sword and thought, “damn that’s a cool party trick,” Sarto’s is here to help you impress your friends and live out your swashbuckling, sword-wielding fantasies. Sarto's new brunch is one of...