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The Bar Car

When Leigh Jones – of Horseshoe Lounge fame – bought the Recovery Room a decade ago, she overhauled it completely. The resulting Bar Car looks a little nondescript, but the rustic interior, with its old-timey railroad theme, is a pleasant surprise. Also pleasantly surprising, given Colorado Boulevard’s penchant for chains, is that the Bar Car […]
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The Eight Strangest Colorado Stories of 2014

Colorado rang in 2014 with a bit of a mellow buzz -- a certain relaxed attitude -- and it was a feeling that lasted throughout the year. Sure, that mellow was harshed by continuing problems with police and sheriff's deputies, as well as a very contested (and expensive) election season...
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Nebraska and Oklahoma to Coloradans Who Voted for Amendment 64: Go to Hell

Update: A number of Republican officials from Oklahoma have publicly questioned the state attorney general's decision to file a lawsuit over Colorado's legalization of pot. In a letter to AG Scott Pruitt co-signed by six other Republican lawmakers, Representative Mike Ritze called preservation of states' rights a core conservative value...
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Candela Latin Kitchen

Central Bistro & Bar owner Isiah Salazar and chef Jesse Vega converted their breezy bistro into a pan-Latin lounge in the summer of 2017, compiling a roster of tacos from Salazar’s upbringing and Puerto Rican specialties from Vega’s family, along with a few other dishes from Central and South America. The result is a restaurant […]
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Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill

This homegrown chain is the brainchild of Alon Mor, a native of the Mediterranean region who opened the first Garbanzo in Denver in 2007. The chain has grown quickly since then, attracting fans of high-quality Mediterranean food served at reasonable prices in a fast-casual environment. You pick your style of entree — pita (white or […]
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Now Playing: This Week’s Theater Options

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. "At the center, it's a really sweet love story — and the funniest show of the year. I actually think that's true. People who think women can't be funny? Well, they should come and take a look at this." That's director Edith Weiss's description of...
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Five Political Martyrs You Should Know But Probably Don’t

Every cause has its martyrs. Christians had Jesus. The civil rights movement had Martin Luther King Jr. The American right had those who died at Waco and Ruby Ridge. And every year, Denver Anarchist Black Cross hosts The Martyr's Ball, a fundraiser for the organization that celebrates those who have...
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Hana Matsuri Sushi

Japanese food is as much about the presentation as it is about the flavors presented. And while the strip mall that’s home to Hana Matsuri Sushi doesn’t look like much, inside the elegant restaurant looks almost like a furniture showroom, with a sushi bar that’s an actual bar. Steve and Jessie Liu, who opened the […]
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Colterra Food & Wine

There are times when Colterra seems to be less a restaurant with its own gardens attached than a garden center that happens to have its own excellent restaurant. Chef Bradford Heap opened Colterra with the understanding that it would be a place where at least some of the promises of the burgeoning green movement might […]
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Seidel’s Suckhole Death Not Fault of Rafting Company, Judge Rules

No one denies that the vividly named Seidel's Suckhole offers challenges aplenty to rafters navigating the Arkansas River, as witnessed by the tragic death of Sue Ann Apolinar, who'd booked a journey with a company called Arkansas Valley Adventures. Jesus Espinoza, Jr., Apolinar's son, subsequently sued AVA, maintaining that the...
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Bugging Out

Romance and mad science make for strange bedfellows, but what else would you expect from David Cronenberg? When he remade a schlocky, '50s B-movie The Fly into a modern masterpiece, he put his own spin on both the terrors of science and the relationship at the movie’s center, with gruesome...
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Denver Restaurant Week Won’t Be Two Weeks in 2015

Denver Restaurant Week started more than ten years ago to showcase the metro area's dining scene in February -- the time of year when restaurant traffic is generally at its slowest. A half-dozen years ago, to boost business at the beginning of the Great Recession, a second week was added...
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Marijuana Advocate Rejects Reports of Backlash Against Legalization

In recent weeks, anti-marijuana advocates have been pushing polls they say show a majority of people in Colorado and beyond are cooling on cannabis legalization. But Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project and a primary proponent for Amendment 64, which legalized limited pot sales in Colorado, doesn't see...
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Raine Giorgio’s NerdNest Gives Fangirls a Safe Place to Go Wild

Twenty-one-year-old Raine Giorgio is slumped into the soft leather folds of the old couch in her apartment near the University of Denver, wavy brown hair pulled loosely back, small frame hidden beneath a blanket while she does her Netflix-ing, blogging, fan-fiction writing and texting beside posters of The Fifth Element...