Agriculture Sector

Boulder Farmers' Market, week five: Bees and rhubarb

Tim Brod of Highland Honey Bees sells creamed honey and herb-infused honey intended to promote health, as well as queen bees and bee packages to would-be apiarists and pollination services for local organic farms. And -- as I learn on my Saturday morning visit to the Boulder Farmers' Market -- he is ... More >>

Photos: a steer slaughter at Callicrate Ranch - and why rebel Mike Callicrate has a beef with just about everyone

Earlier this week, on Monday, I spent the afternoon in Nebraska -- specifically St. Francis, Nebraska, a small, sleepy town just a few miles east of the Nebraska/Colorado border, population a mere 1,200. Cattle far, far outweigh humans in St. Francis -- there are thousands and thousands of them -- ... More >>

Bill Koch could create a real Western heritage for Denver and the Stock Show

How to put profit back in the non-profit National Western Stock Show -- enough to keep it corralled in its current location? That's the question a group of NWSS officials, business types and city representatives are studying, and their mission includes the possibility of establishing a Western herit ... More >>

Photos: Riding, fighting and dancing at the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza

"Extravaganza" is not a word to throw around lightly, but the National Western Stock Show's Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza holds up to that title with flair. The annual event features horse-riding, bull-fighting, trick-roping, traditional dancing and hundreds of cheering fans in the stands. Continue rea ... More >>

Denver Broncos and Stock Show on a cultural collision course: Hold onto your hat!

Today is officially "Dress Western Day," with a parade through downtown Denver marking the kick-off of the 107th National Western Stock Show; tomorrow is "United in Orange Friday," pushing this town's other show ponies, the Denver Broncos. What's a busy mayor to wear?

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, January 7-10

Denver is full of fun -- and free -- events this week. From long-horned cattle on the downtown streets to art from around the world, there's plenty to see -- and you won't have to watch your wallet emptying out in order to enjoy the sights. For a full calendar of happenings, check out our online Wes ... More >>

With Walmart out of the way, what should fill the CU Healthcare District?

Great Divide joins growing list of brewers using fresh Colorado hops

Great Divide Brewing will tap its first-ever beer made with fresh Colorado hops tomorrow at 2 p.m., joining a growing list of brewers who use locally grown hops. Sticky Icky is a pale ale that has been soaked in a firkin with fresh Crystal hops from Misty Mountain Hop Farm in Olathe. But the brewery ... More >>

Gaylord deal signaled dawn of new Aurora...until the deal went dark

It was a year ago today that Denver woke up to discover that upstart Aurora had rustled a major deal in the metro area: a massive, $800 million hotel/spa/convention complex that Gaylord Entertainment would build near Denver International Airport.

Flashbacks

The Rodeo Wagon is no Wok in the Park -- or is it?

Bringing a food truck to the National Western Stock Show is no Wok in the Park. That's because when Aramark, which handles food/beverage concessions at the Denver Coliseum, decided to add food trucks, including Biker Jim's, to its side of the Stock Show, right under the I-70 viaduct, it changed the ... More >>

Too Sexy for the Stock Show burlesque at Bar Standard, 1/11/12

For the third year running, burlesque queen Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is hosting the Too Sexy for the Stock Show burlesque extravaganza to provide a counterbalance to all that good, clean, wholesome fun. Photographer Emily Driskill brought back these photos from the January 11 show at Bar Sta ... More >>

Guess what I'm eating?

There are no Dippin' Dots vendors at the National Western Stock Show -- the company that created the "ice cream of the future" filed for bankruptcy in November -- and Biker Jim's truck, one of several at the Stock Show this year, wasn't manned until 4 p.m.yesterday afternoon. Still, we had no trou ... More >>

Denver Coliseum's sixtieth anniversary tied to National Western Stock Show

The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago today, at a celebration dubbed "Salute to Soil." Today, the onetime showplace has become the poor relative of Denver's venues. Poor in amenities, perhaps, but rich in history.

Michael Hancock celebrates Denver's status as a cowtown: Yeehaw!

A year ago, no one was betting that Michael Hancock would win the crowded race to become Denver's next mayor. But the gamble paid off, and today, when Mayor Hancock celebrates Dress Western Day -- the one day that Denver doesn't apologize for being a cowtown -- he'll be wearing very appropriate foot ... More >>

Cattle Call

Stock Show corrals a herd of food trucks, including Biker Jim's

​The National Western Stock Show is rolling into town, which means there will be almost as much beef on the hoof as on the plate in this cowtown, although steakhouses definitely anticipate fattening up. And this year, in addition to the usual funnel cakes and turkey legs and pork chops on a st ... More >>

Troy Pierce

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National Western complex goes to pot: Welcome to the Mile (really) High City

​If the National Western Stock Show moves to Aurora -- and don't hold your breath for a big financial farewell from Denver voters -- it will leave one big gap in a part of Denver that's already been a dump site for polluting industries and a neighborhood-dividing Interstate. So why not an empt ... More >>

Top 6 names for Gaylord hotel (and National Western Stock Show neighbor?) in Aurora

​Aurora is so eager to have Gaylord Entertainment build its giant convention center/hotel/resort there that it's pushing for a $300 million tax subsidy for the project -- but only if Gaylord doesn't use the word "Denver" in the name of the hotel. Other options?

National Western Stock Show's future at center of Gaylord Entertainment's dog-and-pony show

​Gaylord Entertainment says its huge convention-and-hotel complex plan for Aurora is not contingent on the National Western Stock Show leaving its home for 105 years in north Denver and moving right next door to the new project. And what does the Stock Show say?

National Western Stock Show subject of a range war between Denver and Aurora

​While Denver City Council was approving a proposal to turn the city's back yards into a barnyard, Aurora was attempting to rustle the National Western Stock Show. The city dangled a $300 million incentive to lasso the annual event for a new complex that would be built by Denver International ... More >>

Stock show apologizes for gay jokes, Brokeback Mountain banter at Saturday rodeo

​Update: The spokeswoman for the stock show has responded to our post and acknowledged that mistakes were made. See her comments below our original item. I was sitting in the stands of the rodeo at the National Western Stock Show on Saturday night, watching men wrestle steer to the ground, wh ... More >>

Cowboy Up

Tonight: Too Sexy for the Stock Show is ... well, what the title suggests

T.L. Gallegos ​If you've ever been to a Burlycute show, then you pretty much know what to expect when these burlesque beauties put together a production: Sheer insanity. Also, hot girls taking off their clothes amidst the sheer insanity. And madame/emcee Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) is the ... More >>

Seen and Herd

Beer-jolais Nouveau: Could fresh hops do for beer what Beaujolais Nouveau does for wine?

The Tommyknocker crew.www.sanjuanhopfarms.com​On the third Thursday of every November (today), vintners in France have been releasing a kind of red wine called Beaujolais Nouveau. The wine isn't powerful or rich or even that all that good. Its main quality is light freshness. It's fermented f ... More >>

Green Fairy at CY Steak

Bison: It's on the menu at the National Western Stock Show

​Millions of bison used to thunder across the plains of Colorado. Today, the nation's largest mammals still travel across the state - but they do so by truck. Nearly ninety buffalo are in Denver right now for the National Western Stock Show -- 57 were unloaded Tuesday and another thirty or so ... More >>

Cowboy up for some wild West eating

​The National Western Stock Show has doubled your drinking pleasure this year. Not only has the Cowboy Bar -- the temporary saloon set up in the basement of the Hall of Education, right by the stalls where bulls are groomed -- expanded, adding more than a dozen seats and space for an imprompt ... More >>

Buffalo to go

Eating buffalo is not only good for you, but it's good for the future of the animal, as Jonathan Shikes notes in this Save the Buffalo post. And thanks to Colorado Buffalo Grill, you can get it on the go. From 6 a.m.- 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday (weather permitting), the mobile restaurant i ... More >>

Go West at the Arvada Center

A Night & Day featured event preview: Go West at the Arvada Center galleries

Because the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities has such a great track record for tying all the loose ends together thematically, a trio of West-inspired photography shows open in the galleries today -- just in time for the regional influx of National Western Stock Show ... More >>

Jack Daniel's and Coke

The Cowboy Bar

Donkey Business

Ride 'em, Cowboy!

Red Beer

Cowboy Bar, National Western Stock Show

Kicking Ass

A Bumpy Ride

They promised a hot party. They didn’t say how hot it would get.

Drink of the Week

Crown Royal and Coke

Drink of the Week

Agave Pear Martini

Artbeat

Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

Consumed

Honey, I'm Home

Sporting Chance

How and where to get in the game

Move 'em Out

The Livestock Exchange building may be headed for its last roundup.

Taking Stock of Change

As other cattle shows disappear, Denver's National Western rides tall in the saddle.

Consumed

Udder Bliss

Scene and Herd

Building the future of the Stock Show.

Best place to cuddle an alpaca

Switzer-Land Farm, Estes Park

Growing, Growing, Gone

When the U.S. declared war on drugs, Colorado's carnation industry went up in smoke