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Colorado wine sure is fine

The Colorado Wine Industry Development Board has just announced its fourth restaurant recognition program, to single out restaurants that promote Colorado wine. Last year's winners were Juicy Lucy's (the original, not the second spot in Cherry Creek), the Mercury Cafe and Restauran ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 31

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 21.

Bite Me

To market, to market

Luca D'Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with Wayne Conwell

Luca D'Italia, 711 Grant Street, marks its six-year anniversary throughout the month with a march of visiting Denver chefs, including Wayne Conwell, exec at Sushi Sasa, 2401 15th Street, who will team up with Luca (and Mizuna, Osteria Marco and Bones) chef-owner Frank Bonanno tonight, June 3, for a ... More >>

Ticket to Ride

Drop and give me ten.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of June 9, 2005

Beard House Blues: One Colorado finalist

It was a rough year for Colorado chefs (and writers) in this year's James Beard awards.  The finalists were announced this morning -- and our white jackets just got spanked. A handful of Coloradans had made the semi-finalists list. Frank Bonanno (above) got tapped for Best Restaurateur. Yasmin ... More >>

The Man Show at Walker Fine Art

It was a rough year for Colorado chefs (and writers) in this year's James Beard awards.  The finalists were announced this morning -- and our white jackets just got spanked. A handful of Coloradans had made the semi-finalists list. Frank Bonanno (above) got tapped for Best Restaurateur. Yasmin ... More >>

Small Packages

Short is sweet at the Aspen ShortsFest.

Skate Nation

Colorado's becoming a mecca for skateboarders. But for the best parks, you'd better head for the hills.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Colorado's becoming a mecca for skateboarders. But for the best parks, you'd better head for the hills.

Beauty, Strength and Weirdness

Lyrical paintings, bold sculptures and bad behavior are all on display.

All Hands Down

The Arvada Center offers an uneven salute to some of the state's best craft wizards.

Punk Minus the Pop

The Clusterfux get dangerous.

Feedback

The Clusterfux get dangerous.

Class Warfare

As they battle for bigger budgets, Colorado educators get a crash course in fundraising.

Birthday beat: Luca D'Italia and Jonesy's EatBar both have reasons to jubilate

Six89 and Phat Thai executive chef Mark Fischer Luca D'Italia, Frank Bonanno's Italian restaurant at 711 Grant Street, celebrates six years in the Capitol Hill 'hood this month with a parade of visiting Colorado chefs, including Mark Fischer, exec at Carbondale's Six89 and Phat Thai, who joins Bonan ... More >>

Colorado is suddenly earthquake central

The blue square on the map represents the location of an earthquake earlier today (click to enlarge).​Earlier today, an earthquake struck near Craig; the U.S. Geological Survey rates it a 3.7 magnitude temblor. That follows a 3.9 magnitude quake near Eads yesterday. So where will nature's ven ... More >>

Medical marijuana in Colorado: A directory

Herbal Connections dispensary (photo by Aaron Thackeray)​ Colorado's medical marijuana business is booming -- or, if you prefer, blooming. You can read about the growth in Joel Warner's feature story or The Latest Word's marijuana category, which includes reviews of dispensaries. But if you ju ... More >>

Frank Bonanno, Alex Seidel, Jennifer Jasinski, Steve Ells and James Rugile among James Beard semifinalists

Lori Midson Venue chef James Rugile ​Restaurant and chef semifinalists for the 2010 James Beard Foundation Awards were released this morning, which gives all the nominees exactly 32 days to chew on their success before the five finalists in each category are announced on Monday, March 22. The ... More >>

Kid swipes dad's medical marijuana, sells it at middle school

A Flickr photoThese kids might be making more sales if they switched merchandise -- like a teen from Carbondale did.​American kids are born capitalists -- capable of understanding that they can make some folding green from another kind of green just lying around the house. Example? A teen in ... More >>

A Q&A with young Colorado rapper Catch Lungs

A Flickr photoThese kids might be making more sales if they switched merchandise -- like a teen from Carbondale did.​American kids are born capitalists -- capable of understanding that they can make some folding green from another kind of green just lying around the house. Example? A teen in ... More >>

Vail Sandbar shooter kills one, injures three

​Among Colorado ski towns, Vail gets ragged on for being totally, painfully fake. Unfortunately, the town can now boast of hosting an Old-West tradition that rivals Aspen and Telluride would probably rather do without: the drunken-bar shootout.At 7:30 on Saturday, 63-year-old Richard "Rossi" Morea ... More >>

Medical marijuana: Jessica Corry on Carbondale telling centers adding infused products is illegal

​Colorado's Department of Revenue will introduce the final draft of medical marijuana regulations on Monday. But interpretations of HB 1284, the state's main MMJ law, continue to be made on the local level, with Carbondale telling centers that adding infused products to its menu before July is ... More >>

James Beard Foundation announces 2011 semi-finalists: Frank Bonanno, Yasmin Lozada-Hissom, Frasca and ChoLon among them

James Beard Foundation​Last November, the James Beard Foundation summoned the public to nominate its favorite chefs, restaurants and industry professionals for the 2011 awards. And after all the self-pimping and ballot-stuffing, the poll is closed. This morning, the foundation announced its ... More >>

Today In Stoke: Banff Mountain Film Festival at the Boulder Theater, Night 2

​The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour wraps its two-night stint at the Boulder Theater tonight before heading to Denver's Paramount Theater on Thursday and Friday. Tonight's seven featured films (peep the trailers after the jump) include The Fall Line, from Carbondale-based photographe ... More >>

Catch Lungs is a breath of fresh air for Denver

​The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour wraps its two-night stint at the Boulder Theater tonight before heading to Denver's Paramount Theater on Thursday and Friday. Tonight's seven featured films (peep the trailers after the jump) include The Fall Line, from Carbondale-based photographe ... More >>

This Weekend In Stoke: Top six ways to put life, limb and ladies on the line

​Lights! Camera! Action! Start your weekend in stoke off properly tonight at the Paramount Theater, where they're screening films from the 35th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, including Life Cycles, Still Motion, Miracle In The Storm, Into Darkness, Wildwater and The Fall Line: ... More >>

Warhol in Colorado reminds us there are still "cute boys and nutty girls" in Denver

​Lights! Camera! Action! Start your weekend in stoke off properly tonight at the Paramount Theater, where they're screening films from the 35th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, including Life Cycles, Still Motion, Miracle In The Storm, Into Darkness, Wildwater and The Fall Line: ... More >>

Who Likes Short Shorts?

​Lights! Camera! Action! Start your weekend in stoke off properly tonight at the Paramount Theater, where they're screening films from the 35th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, including Life Cycles, Still Motion, Miracle In The Storm, Into Darkness, Wildwater and The Fall Line: ... More >>

Carbondale kitchen magician Mark Fischer is opening a second Phat Thai in Cherry Creek

Lori Midson​Years ago, when I was reviewing restaurants for another publication, I called Carbondale, a hamlet that's down valley from Aspen, a "lowdown trucker town," a comment that set the mountain town into a tailspin. At the time, however, Carbondale's restaurant landscape was completely ... More >>

Wrap Dawgs will bite on Cherry Creek North

Lori Midson​It's not all doom and gloom in Cherry Creek North if you're a restaurant. Despite the fact that Argyll and Toast have both called it quits -- Argyll closed on Sunday and will reopen next year in the Baker neighborhood and Toast shuttered three weeks ago -- it's clear that not ever ... More >>

Feed Them with Music puts on a show to relieve hunger at the Walnut Room Thursday

​Carbondale-based non-profit Feed Them with Music has a business model that they hope will bring small musical acts more exposure and bigger audiences, while simultaneously feeding the Third World. It works like this: Paul Frantzich and Ashley Mosher, the duo who run the organization, manage a ... More >>

Q&A: Director Anson Fogel brings Cold to the Reel Rock Film Tour

​"What the fuck am I doing here?" asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It's a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959' and freezing his a ... More >>

Alvaro Agon, Carbondale cop, criticized for dual role as school police officer, former ICE liaison

​ In June, we told you about two men who were questioned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at a carnival connected with Glenwood Springs' Strawberry Days festival. One of those men, Julio Alvarez-Cortez, has now filed a lawsuit against the officers involved, including Carbondale cop Alvar ... More >>

Infinite Monkey Theorem Moon Shine release party tonight at Ghost Plate & Tap

​Leave it to British winemaker Ben Parsons, founder of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, the gritty winery in the Golden Triangle, to release a tap wine fittingly called Monkey Shine. Parsons, who rolled out a sparkling wine in a can during a blowout bash at the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, is now ... More >>

From La Merise to Phat Thai to Bisque, Cherry Creek is getting new spots

Lori Midson​While Cherry Creek is not the restaurant hot-spot it once was, there's still plenty of action in the area. In a quick turn-around, La Merise is slated to open today in the former home of Argyll, at 2700 East Third Avenue. And Cafe Bisque -- now known simply as Bisque -- is leaving ... More >>

ACLU urges schools to adopt policy banning school police officers from working with ICE

​ The American Civil Liberties Union has jumped in on the debate simmering in Carbondale and Glenwood Springs over whether school resource officers should be allowed to collaborate with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Plastic bag bans: Mountain towns vow to "help change lifestyles"

​In the classic 1967 drama The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman's character is offered one word, just one word of advice from an avuncular businessman: plastics. "There's a great future in plastics," the man whispers. But that future is pretty much past in the Roaring Fork Valley -- which, town by tow ... More >>

Five must-see movies at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival this week

​The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Seminar at REI Boulder, 1789 28th Street, on Friday at noon, before the first screenings at the ... More >>

Chasing Water, Truck Farm, Cold win big at 2011 Adventure Film Festival

​Colorado-based photographer Pete McBride's film Chasing Water, the companion to his book The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, won the Adventure Through Activism Award over the weekend at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, one of two $500 cash prizes awarded this year (see t ... More >>

Anson Fogel, Colorado filmmakers top 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards

​Colorado filmmakers dominated the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival awards over the weekend at the annual competition in Alberta, Canada's Banff National Park, with Carbondale-based director Anson Fogel (Forge Motion Pictures), Basalt-based director Pete McBride (Pete McBride Photography), Gr ... More >>

Climber Cory Richards, skier Nick Waggoner finalists for National Geographic Adventurers of the Year

Self-portrait by Cory Richards, via adventure.nationalgeographic.com​National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, and ... More >>

Watch the film Cold online and learn what chilly temps are really about

Photo by Cory RichardsDennis Urubko, Simone Moro, and Cory Richards at the summit of Gasherbrum II in February​If you've been bitching about the freezing temperatures this week here in Denver, get a dose of perspective tonight at 7 p.m., when Outside Magazine will be presenting the online prem ... More >>

Sawadee! Phat Thai is opening in Cherry Creek

​It's been a long time coming, but we hear that Phat Thai -- the Denver offshoot of Mark Fischer's famed Carbondale restaurant -- is opening at 11 a.m. today at 2900 East Second Avenue.

Photos: Phat Thai -- a first look at the Cherry Creek version of a Carbondale hot spot

Lori Midson​ Phat Thai will definitely start serving at 11 a.m. today in Cherry Creek -- the place was already bustling earlier this morning as this Denver offshoot of Mark Fischer's Carbondale Phat Thai prepared to open the doors. Here's a first look:

Weekend's best dance bets: Ana Sia, Matt Darey, Hipp-E and more

​Weekend's here! Feel like cutting a rug? As always, we've got you covered. This weekend's Dance Card is brimming: Ana Sia, the glitch-hop/dubby darling of the West Coast, headline Casselman's on Friday night, and there are a ton of other options, including Icicle, Matt Darey, the return of Hi ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Goat curry from Phat Thai

Lori Midson​ No. 41: Goat curry from Phat Thai