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Best Seafood Restaurant

Stoic & GenuineThe best seafood restaurants are often shacks on the beach, with sea breezes blowing in and tables oriented to catch the rosy hues of the setting sun. But we’re in Denver, remember? Owners Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasinski used this fact to their advantage, taking our distance from the coasts as a point of liberation […]
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Best Abstract Show — Group

Layered PerspectivesThe art of New Mexico and Colorado has been intimately intertwined for a century — an affair that continued with Layered Perspectives at Michael Warren Contemporary. The show focused on three abstract artists: Angela Berkson of New Mexico and Teresa Booth Brown and Stanley Bell, both from Colorado. Curator Mike McClung presented each artist in […]
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The Mayday Experiment: Who’ll Stop the Rain?

Ahhhhh, this rain. Ordinarily, I would never complain about the rain. I love the staccato on the roof, the velvety moisture in Colorado’s dry air, the rolling complaint of the heavy sky. Even when I was in Ohio, so similar to Colorado this month in spring temperament, I embraced the mud...
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In Gay Rodeo, Women Can Compete With the Big Boys — and Big Bulls

When the chute opens, all 1,700 pounds of brindle bull burst out. The animal spins, rears and kicks violently, as though his hindquarters are spring-loaded: He can’t dump his passenger fast enough. And within three seconds, the rider is flying to the ground, helmet-clad head hitting hard against the dirt,...
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Best Reuse of a Historic Building

Union StationThe railroads were essential to Denver’s development, and there has been a train station at 17th and Wynkoop since the 1880s. Union Station, in its present form, was built in 1914 by the renowned firm of Gove and Walsh. In the intervening years, time and the decline of passenger rail service led the building to […]
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Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Bryan Leister

#20: Bryan Leister Artist Bryan Leister, a painter who’s graduated to new media and rethinks visual outcomes using code, installation, video-game technology and animation, can’t be pinned down — it’s a new, digital world out there, and Leister wants to be a part of it, by hook or crook. This...
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Mountain and City Views Around Denver: Five of Our Favorites

Denver blog posts have an eye for beauty. At our Arts blog, Antonio Valenzuela shows off five great views around Denver, including both city and mountain settings. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein notes that Nuggets fans can't have it both ways, even though wins like last night's victory versus New Orleans could...
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The Eleven Best Miniature-Golf Courses in the Denver Area

I have a confession to make. I am a miniature-golf, um, connoisseur. The lure of the Lilliputian links is strong. Like croquet and badminton, it’s a pursuit that is both genteel and ridiculous. I have played everywhere — atop a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean and up and...
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Best Potato Chips

Jackson's Honest ChipsA decade ago, a mom whose two-year-old son suffered from a rare autoimmune disorder started dipping local potatoes in coconut oil and kettle-cooking them in her Crested Butte kitchen to create a healthy snack. The result was spectacular, and in 2012 Megan Reamer and her husband sold their first bags of Jackson’s Honest Chips in […]
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Best Fried Chicken

The Post Brewing CompanyWe knew the beer at the Post Brewing Company would be good, since it’s crafted by nationally recognized brewmaster Bryan Selders. But who would’ve guessed the chicken would be as much of a draw? Jamey Fader, culinary director of Big Red F, admits to getting “geeky on chicken,” traveling around the country and coming home […]
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Best Show About Glass

ChihulyTrees, shrubs, bushes, flowers and cacti have always been the true stars of the Denver Botanic Gardens, but the institution added sculpture shows a few years ago — and the idea has allowed for one triumph after another. This past year it was Chihuly, featuring monumental art-glass installations by Dale Chihuly, the internationally famous glass […]
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Shake It Like a Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1

The Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1.Vintage cocktails like the Manhattan and Old Fashioned get a lot of attention these days. They allow barroom patrons to enjoy an archetype from the early days of America’s cocktail culture  — along with modern adaptations by creative bartenders. But when Union Lodge...
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Christopher Booker Busted in Officer John Adsit Crash for Seizure Lies

Last December, we reported about the critical injury suffered by Denver Police Officer John Adsmit while working crowd-control duty at an East High School student walkout over events in Ferguson, Missouri. Christopher Booker, the man behind the wheel of the vehicle that struck Adsit, said the accident took place as a...