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Round two with Shaun Motoda, chef de cuisine at TAG|RAW BAR

Shaun Motoda TAG|RAW BAR 1423 Larimer Street 303-996-2685 tagrawbar.com This is part two of my interview with Shaun Motoda, chef de cuisine of TAG|RAW BAR; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I love the Cherry Cricket because their ... More >>

Mumford and Sons, Brother Ali, Henry Rollins and Melvins Lite lead this week's shows

While things are slowing down a bit somewhat with summer concert announcements, the fall show season is beginning to shape up nicely with new shows from (updated) Mumford & Sons, a trio of dates with Brother Ali in October, as well as the Melvins Lite and Henry Rollins in September and an October da ... More >>

The Melvins counting on Denver to help them earn a spot in the Guinness World Records book

On Wednesday, September 12, you'll have a chance to become part of history and help the Melvins weasel their way into the Guinness World Records book, which they hope to do by playing shows in all fifty states plus one in the District of Columbia in just 51 days. One can only imagine what sparked th ... More >>

Family soap The Descendants revolves entirely around its star

Boulder is America's happiest city, Colorado 5th happiest state, says Gallup Well-Being survey

More pics below.​The Daily Beast recently dubbed Denver America's angriest city -- but there's a lot of happiness nearby. Last year, Boulder was dubbed the happiest U.S. city in a Gallup Well-Being Index survey, and the community has repeated the feat. But that's not all. Look below to see oth ... More >>

Denver ranks No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list

Lori MidsonIt's dishes like Euclid Hall's duck poutine that catapulted Denver to No. 13 on Travel Leisure's America's Best Cities for Foodies list​The best city in America for foodniks? According to the readers of Travel Leisure magazine, which just released its 2011 roster of the best Ame ... More >>

Sarah Vowell on Hawaii, monarchy and Unfamiliar Fishes

​At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sarah Vowell will sign copies of her latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. We caught up with Vowell about her inspiration for the book, what she learned and how this book fits into her previous body of work.

Social networking: Denver ranked 3rd in U.S. by Men's Health (eat our hashtags, Portland!)

​Congratulations, Denver: You have officially been swallowed up whole by the Matrix. Men's Health recently came out with its list of the country's most socially networked cities, and Denver, of all places, came in third. Do we get a prize for this? Like a new FarmVille animal or something?

Michael Huttner, ProgressNow not responding to questions about not-awarded Hawaii trip

Michael Huttner.​As part of the August 2009 launch of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, Michael Huttner, the book's co-author, as well as founder and CEO of ProgressNow.org, promised to give away a trip to Hawaii to the person with the best idea to improve America. Over two years late ... More >>

Time traveler Sarah Vowell pops in for Denver Post Pen & Podium lecture series

​Sarah Vowell is in town tonight for The Denver Post Pen & Podium lecture series at Newman Center for the Performing Arts, following the success of her book The Wordy Shipmates. We caught up with her for a quick interview just after she'd put the finishing touches on her next book, Unfamiliar ... More >>

Would you like a roach or rodent with your meal, sir? FDA finds those and more in airline catering company kitchens

​Jesus. It's not horrible enough cruising at altitude with a full two inches of legroom, a middle seater with flatulence and seat belts slimed with Jell-O. Now FDA inspectors are unearthing everything from fruit flies and ants to live roaches and dead rodents in the country's airline catering ... More >>

Burning down the house: Just in time for Memorial Day, our ten favorite barbecue joints

Memorial Day is all about barbecues: in the backyard, at the park and in the woods, near the pee tree, if you're so inclined. But if you don't feel like throwing wood chips on the grill this year, there are plenty of barbecue barns in and around Denver that can feed your brisket, hot link, ribs and ... More >>

Three years after his murder, memories of Ken Gorman -- Colorado's most vocal pot activist -- have gone up in smoke

John Temple: Honolulu Civil Beat isn't like INDenver Times

John Temple has gone Hawaiian.​After the Rocky Mountain News shut down in February 2009, Rich Boehne, CEO of the tabloid's owner, E.W. Scripps, promised Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple a job. But Temple turned it down to pursue other opportunities -- the largest of which turned o ... More >>

Cybercrime in Denver: We're number eight

"I have a feeling there's something phishy in Denver."​In the not exactly thrilling 1995 cyber-thriller The Net, Sandra Bullock's character, Angela Bennett, reveals that she was raised in La Junta -- a community whose name she pronounces as if she were Hugo Chavez. Little did Bennett know, how ... 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 >>

Denver won't have John Temple to kick around anymore -- because he's moving to Hawaii

That shirt looks kind of Hawaiian, doesn't it?​After the closure of the Rocky Mountain News last February, E.W. Scripps CEO Rich Boehne publicly promised a job to Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple -- but he turned it down to explore other opportunities. Since then, he's consulted a ... More >>

10 cities more stressed out than Denver

A Flickr photoThe thought of figuring out who's more stressed out than we are is stressing us out!​It's been a month to the day since the Daily Beast declared Denver to be the fifth-smartest city in the United States -- and apparently the folks at the American Psychological Association think o ... More >>

Liberal authors offer prize even birthers can love

​Earlier today, Sean Duffy, spokesman for gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, said he didn't want his candidate to be reduced to a caricature by Michael Huttner, the man behind the left-leaning ProgressNow Colorado operation. After making that comment, Duffy noted that Huttner's very effectiv ... More >>

Is Denver Funville or Snoozetown? The government wants to know

The Church looks like fun to us. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But what happens in Denver? It's too boring to tell stories about anyway. That's the impression that a Wednesday story in the Wall Street Journal may have left on readers. Headlined "Government Meeting? Stay Away From Fun ... More >>

Costume Party

Oceanaire Seafood Room

Any day of the week, dinner here is quite a catch.

Fish Story

Get fresh at Oceanaire.

Ling & Louie’s Asian Bar and Grill

Randy Schoch delivers Chinese treats with an American twist.

Dog the Bounty Hunter

He might be a cracked-out racist, but at least he's not a rapist.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Will trolleys return to Colfax?

Invasion!

Poi ahoy

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 7, 2005

Best Dinner Under $5

L&L Hawaiian Barbecue

Bite Me

A Tale of Two Cities

Dream Team

Miracle scores with an emotional retelling of an Olympic triumph.

Off Limits

This place is a zoo!

72-Hour Party People

Meth: It's not just for the white-trash crowd.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 24, 2002

A Different Qwest

Meet a corporate lawyer's alter egos: a DJ and a space-age musician.

Up, Up and Away

Cydney Payton's flying high, if by the seat of her pants, at Denver's MCA.

A Vicious Cycle

In Colorado, insurance offers little protection to badly injured motorcyclists.

The Home of the Rave

Promoters hurry to get their acts together -- before parents, police and the courts decide the party's over.

Abandoning Ship

The News wants to discourage its stars from sailing to the Post.

Ladies' Day

The Valkyries prepare to tackle tradition.

Strange Ways

Unusual mediums are showcased at the Bayeux Gallery and the Foothills Art Center.

Be There. Aloha.

Roy's Cherry Creek brings the ohana spirit to Denver.

A Plague on All Your Houses

Denver readies itself for a bio-bomb — but is the federal program behind this exercise a dud?

Stevie Wonder

A hometown fighter gets a title shot.

Quantum Sonics

Elway's Long Bomb

Damn (Good) Yankees

A Crush on Orange

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