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  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Reader: X marks the spat for Denver restaurant coverage

    While controversy continues to rage over the packed parking situation in LoHi, let's return to a bigger picture: the geographic area Westword covers, and why we continue to refer to the entire metro area as simply Denver. Have we gone too far? Why not refer to the area as New California instead? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Five Kentucky Derby parties that will have you off to the races

    You don't have to go to Kentucky to find a reason to wear a fancy hat on Saturday: Places all over town are hooking parties to the Kentucky Derby. And even if you're not into horse-racing, there will plenty of other things to appreciate: the fashion, the boozy mint juleps, the old-timey slang...and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Prostitution in Denver: Women busted more than men, punished more harshly

    Women in Denver are arrested for prostitution-related crimes more often than men and are punished more harshly, according to "Who Pays?," a new study by the Denver-based Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. The question of why is still a bit of a mystery, but researchers think it may be tied to p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    I-70 viaduct built below ground could bury a north Denver feud

    Don Hunt may be the hardest-working man at the State Capitol -- and that's saying a lot as the legislature heads into its final week. The head of the Department of Transportation helped pull the plug on a Beltway Authority proposal -- and now he could bury a feud that divided north Denver fifty year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Guess where I'm biking near this country club and win a Denver B-Cycle season pass

    The Denver bicycle trail system connects a lot of landmarks with safe and accessible means for cyclists to travel. Slightly off the path, this week's installment has a nice view of the links, but I wasn't able to schedule a tee time. Pull out the nine iron folks... You just might need it if you ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Reader: Urban camping ban to make Denver look less friendly to homeless, and that's good

    As Kelsey Whipple reported, the Denver City Council gave preliminary approval to an urban camping ban earlier this week. The issue divided the overflow crowd attending the public hearing on the issue, and it's dividing our readers, too. Here's a comment from someone in favor of the ban.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Big Easy Creole Kitchen is coming to Cherry Creek North

    Creole is suddenly on a roll in Denver: Zydeco's opened last fall on Wynkoop Street, a new Gumbo's is going into the space that had been Roam on East 17th Avenue, and the 1812 Restaurant & Bar is currently amassing funds to build a restaurant in Five Points. Now you can add another spot to the list: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Photos: May Day general strike marked at Civic Center Park

    Update, 3 p.m. May 1: Today, hundreds of protesters took the day off from work and school to spend it with Occupy Denver in Civic Center Park. For the local movement and its community partners -- the Mercury Cafe included -- May Day began at noon with a march and rally and will continue until dusk, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Reader: What would you call the greater metro area -- which is full of great restaurants?

    After reviewing Hana Japanese Bistro, Laura Shunk served up her list of "Denver's five best Japanese restaurants," places that serve not just sushi, but excellent, authentic dishes from Japan's much broader culinary canon. The list inspired the usual quibbles -- why is this on it? why not that? -- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2012

    Photos: Musicians In Action confront homelessness with first annual outdoor festival

    In case you haven't noticed, Denver's proposed urban camping ban is shining a pretty heavy spotlight on the city's homeless community right now. Westword has covered the issue and the debate at great length -- we even spent a night on the 16th Street Mall -- and last weekend, we tracked the communit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Seen at 5 Green Boxes: How much is that owl in the window?

    The South Pearl Street boutique 5 Green Boxes, the recipient of Westword Best of Denver kudos for its wonderful window displays, has long carried the socially conscious brand Toms Shoes, the comfy cloth footwear that comes in a rainbow of colors and designs. And there's an inner beauty to Toms, too: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Denver's five best Japanese restaurants

    While Denver is swimming in great options for sushi, we're woefully short on Japanese joints that feature good versions of the broader culinary canon -- and, in fact, we'd be stoked if a few more spots of this sort opened up, whether they're restaurants serving up Japanese noodles like ramen or soba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2012

    Campaign-ad season kicks off with one that's blatantly false? Shocking!

    Denver blog posts hate to hate, unless you're a hater. Colorado Pols describes the new Americans For Prosperity ad as "full of crap." Does that mean it's good for your lawn? Denver Urbanism's Ken Schroppel reaches the 1930s in his tour of Denver single-family homes. At People's Press Collective, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Photos: Urban camping is no picnic for Denver's homeless who sleep outside

    "Urban camping" is an odd phrase that encompasses homeless people sleeping on city streets -- and the subject of this week's feature, "Unhappy Campers." A proposed urban camping ban that's working its way through Denver's city council would ban homeless people from sleeping on 16th Street Mall or an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Restaurants partner with AIA Colorado architects for Delicious Designs

    April is Colorado Architecture Month, but the celebration isn't limited to concrete and steel structures. The American Institute of Architecture's Colorado branch has partnered with five local restaurants on Delicious Designs, to show how architecture affects "where we live, work, play... and even e ... More >>

  • News

    April 26, 2012

    Councilman Albus Brooks discusses the proposed ban on urban camping

    Also read: For the homeless, "urban camping" is no picnic

  • Music

    April 26, 2012

    Be the Ant

    Singles
    Self-released

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Denver Concert Calendar: New and improved

    We've just rolled out a new and improved calendar of Denver concerts. Our online music listings are now sortable by artist, venue and price. We've also got a raw, unadulterated, alphabetical list of upcoming shows in the drop-down menus on the right hand side of that page. And now you can even buy c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Former Primasonic frontman starts new Post 303 channel, Clampdown Radio, and a new band

    See Also: • Q&A with Sin and Kurt of Primasonic • Former Indie 101.5 music director and Lipgloss co-founder looking to break into Internet radio Sindo Lamas, the former frontman of Primasonic has been involved in radio off and on since the '80s. He recently launched Clampdown Radio, which grew ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Ten shows the History Colorado Center should have opened with

    The brand new History Colorado Center opens on Saturday. Last week, in my column about the wonderfully-designed museum, I pointed out how poor the two debut shows, Colorado Stories and Destination Colorado, are. Rather than trying to elevate the discussion, the museum and History Colorado chief oper ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Video: Dropping off a keg of beer at the Wazee Supper Club

    When I moved to Colorado seven years ago, I got an entry-level job at Great Divide Brewing Co.. One of my duties was driving around in a piece-of-shit van with a busted transmission, delivering kegs to accounts whose supplies had run out. After a few months on the job, I was dispatched to the Wazee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2012

    Greater Than Collective signs distribution deal with Sony RED and adds Epilogues to the roster

    See Also: • (Profile) The Epilogues story has a happy ending • (Profile) Cobraconda goes on Spring Break • Snake Rattle Rattle Snake partners with Greater Than Collective • Illegal Pete's and Greater Than Collective's Second Annual Starving Artist Showcase Since launching Greater Than -- t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 26, 2012

    Putting Down Roots

    See Also: • (Profile) The Epilogues story has a happy ending • (Profile) Cobraconda goes on Spring Break • Snake Rattle Rattle Snake partners with Greater Than Collective • Illegal Pete's and Greater Than Collective's Second Annual Starving Artist Showcase Since launching Greater Than -- t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Urban camping: A timeline of how the ban began -- and where it's headed

    Although there have been rumblings about it for months, Denver's proposed urban camping ordinance has only been circulated in draft form for the past few weeks. In this week's feature, "For the homeless, 'urban camping' is no picnic," Jef Otte took a look at its direct implications by spending a nig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Reader: Thanks for covering slam community, Colorado's poem on the range

    The lineups are now complete for Denver's big slam poetry teams: Mercury Cafe, Slam Nuba and Minor Disturbance. These contemporary poets are very at home on the range -- and a real asset to Denver.

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Guess where I'm eating a Reuben?

    I spoke to a chef yesterday who lamented the dearth of good delis in Denver (he's not the first). And while the anemic Reuben in the above snap doesn't come from a deli, it gives us one more reason to hunger for better sandwiches in this city -- sandwiches that stack up to Masterpiece Deli and Vert ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Urban camping ban: Denver City Council delays vote -- for a week

    Today, after the Commission on Homelessness called for an additional four weeks to consider an urban camping ordinance, Denver City Council moved its final consideration date to May 14, one week later than previously scheduled. The decision came with a final vote of four to three. If approved, the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Reader: Encore deserves an encore

    The big news on the Denver dining scene last week was the sudden shuttering of Encore, the restaurant that's been part of the Lowenstein complex -- the restaurant occupies the original lobby of the theater -- since that project debuted on Colfax Avenue. But the landlord did not renew the lease, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Denver City Council redistricting hearing: Paint the town by numbers

    Location, location, location. For the past twenty years, I've lived in Denver City Council's District 9. But if the proposed redistricting is approved by council, my house at the edge of Highland will become part of District 1, and District 9 will move east. Time -- and partisan politics -- marches ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Mental health care without drugs: "Expanding Our Vision" summit coming to Denver

    The first thing Amy Smith has to explain to skeptics is that she isn't a Scientologist. You don't have to belong to an oddball religion to question American medicine's heavy reliance on psychoactive drugs to treat everything from mild depression to schizophrenia. In fact, members of a growing consu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Latinos are Republicans, but they don't know it yet?

    Denver blog posts are celebrating 4/23. Big Media's Jason Salzman on efforts by Colorado Hispanic Republicans members like Pauline Olvera to add to their ranks. Denver Infill's Ryan Dravitz presents a Community College of Denver construction update -- with photos. Bronco Talk's Monty collects tri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Wild Eggs featuring 4/20 Smokin' Hash for $4.20

    Happy 4/20! Wild Eggs, which expanded out of Louisville, Kentucky, to join the Denver dining scene last summer, is marking this august occasion with a smoking deal: Smokin' Hash for just $4.20. Today only, of course. The dish features seasoned corned beef, bell peppers, onions and skillet potatoe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Wilson Chandler: How much will his absence hurt Nuggets playoff chances?

    Denver blog posts are counting the minutes 'til 4:20. Denver Stiffs' Andrew Feinstein on how Wilson Chandler's injury impacts the Nugs. Colorado Pols thinks Barack Obama is eager to pick a fight over student loans -- the subject that's bringing him to CU-Boulder on Tuesday. Denver Egotist salutes ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2012

    Medical marijuana: Arson suspected in Green Door Wellness dispensary fire

    The Denver Fire Department is still investigating a suspicious fire at a Green Door Wellness medical marijuana dispensary at 155 Federal earlier this week. But that's about all the information that we've been able to get out of anyone involved with the case after days of asking for more details.

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    PizzaDoodle: Is that the worst name name ever for a Denver restaurant?

    What's the worst name that's ever been stuck on a Denver restaurant? We have a new contender: PizzaDoodle. That's the name of a family-friendly joint that's "still in the oven" but slated to open next month at 6830 South University Boulevard in Centennial. You don't want to say it fast. It sounds ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Independent Monitor: Meet candidates Eddie Aubrey, Julie Ruhlin and Stephen Connolly

    Last night, Denver's future Independent Monitor and two other candidates spoke at their first community forum before the selection is whittled down. While Eddie Aubrey hails from Washington, Stephen Connolly and Julie Ruhlin live in Califonia, and all three boast experience from the Golden State. Wi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Fracking fluid about as clear as drilling rules in Colorado

    Denver blog posts, assume the position. The Colorado Independent's Troy Hooper doesn't think Governor John Hickenlooper's fracking task force has done much to clear up confusion over rules for local governments. Denver Frank: In the market for a bulletproof iPhone case? Big Media's Jason Salzman ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2012

    Denver's ten best Italian restaurants

    Denver has a strong Italian history -- but until the last decade or so, this town's Italian restaurants were mostly run-of-the-mill red-sauce joints that you went to more for the convenience than the food. That's changed, though, and today's dining scene is rich with inventive and stylish fare from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Reader: Patrons are all good-looking at closing time

    Denver gained many liquid assets in 2011, and although Williams & Graham ran away with our Best New Bar award in the Best of Denver 2012, the city gained many more worthy watering holes last year, as shown by our list of Denver's ten best new bars. Even if regulars at some of those bars aren't part ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    Photos: Oregon man follows Denver woman's lead, strips naked in airport

    In the news business, three similar incidents are considered a trend -- and if that's true, stripping at airports is on the cusp of becoming a thing. Mere days after a woman took off her clothes at Denver International Airport, a man in Oregon has done the same. But while the woman still hasn't bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Squire Lounge Comedy Night: It lives! It lives!

    Denver's comedy community despaired when heckler-ready Squire Lounge comedy night open-mike host Greg Baumhauer decided to call it quits. The comedy night was mean, it was ugly, it was the toughest crowd in town -- if you could even get them to listen to you in the first place. But for many fledgl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Reader: Uneducated diners perpetuate uneducated service

    Is restaurant service a lost art in Denver? That's what Laura Shunk asked in a post recounting some of the service problems she'd encountered at Charcoal, the restaurant she recently reviewed. Dozens of readers provided their own answer to that question.

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Denver's Minor Disturbance youth poets compete tonight at Su Teatro

    Denver's earned its rep as a slam-poet factory: The city not only supports two competitive adult teams, each of which has taken a national title in the last decade, but it also has a strong youth wing, Minor Disturbance, one of this year's Westword MasterMind Award-winners. And tonight is when they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Photo: Denver Police love Angry Birds, too?

    As shown in this photo recently taken on the 16th Street Mall by one of our readers, police work isn't all car chases and kicking down doors. We don't know if the officers seen here are filing reports, learning about crimes in progress, texting each other dirty jokes or playing online games. But one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    Marijuana: Colorado Democratic Party convention supports Amendment 64

    Update below: Last month, a majority of attendees at the Denver Republican Assembly backed Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. And enthusiasm is even more widespread among Democrats. Saturday's Dem state convention and assembly in Pueblo formally supported Amendment 64 -- an actio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Reader: No chowder? Clam up about the best seafood restaurants!

    Denver may be landlocked, but our ship occasionally comes in -- loaded with fresh fish. Yesterday we served up Denver's five best seafood restaurants. Says UncleDave8: I can totally back this list. Refreshing change from most Denver diners' choices like The Fresh Fish Company, Pappadeaux, Oceanair ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    10 things to do for $10 this weekend, April 13-15, 2012

    This weekend rules. Just saying. There's tons of stuff to do that won't leave you eating cereal for dinner for a week, and whether you want to see a feminist spoken word night, go to a huge comedy show, or dance at an art opening, it's all here -- and all for under $10. So now you've got no excuse t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Restaurant service is a lost art in Denver

    Charcoal, I noted in my review this week, has a service problem. The front-of-house team is generally a good-natured bunch of people. They're friendly; they're eager; and they seem to want their guests to have a good time. But they missed the boat when they ignored the small details, which not only ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Breadhead alert: Buffalo Doughboy Bakery relocating to much larger quarters on South Broadway

    Those of you who live in Platte Park or Washington Park can spend your weekend thanking the god of breadheads: Buffalo Doughboy Bakery, one of the most amazing bakeries in Denver, is shuttering it current location at 33 East Dakota Avenue after service on Sunday and relocating to the former Spicy Pi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    Bartenders Amy Kempster and Adam Dunbar depart Denver for San Diego

    "We've been in Denver almost five years to the day," says Amy Kempster of her and her husband, Adam Dunbar. And in that time, the pair has made a major impression in the Denver dining scene: Kempster has worked behind the bars at Jonesy's EatBar, City O' City and Colt & Gray; Dunbar worked his way u ... More >>

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