If you were the person you'd always wanted to be, would you look like this?
Suddenly, Lowell Boulevard is becoming a very hot restaurant street. First, of course, there was the much ballyhooed transformation of the old Billy's Inn at 4403 Lowell into the very cool, very hip Billy's Inn.
In contrast, Shazz Cafe and Bar opened its doors at 4262 Lowell with relatively little fanfare on Saturday. But its ambitious menu should start making some big noise soon.
The concept behind Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery sounds like a concept whose time has come. It's designed to be almost a Native American Chipotle, with an emphasis on healthy, local fare.
But while Tocabe sounds like a concept whose time has come, it's also taking its time. The owners have been working on their space -- in a building at 3536 West 44th Avenue across from Billy's Inn, on a suddenly hot stretch of Lowell -- for a while, and just applied for a liquor license late last month. No
My buddy Chris has a song called "Everyone's a DJ," and bygod if that doesn't seem like gospel truth these days, doesn't it? DJ MU$A evidently subscribes to this sentiment -- or at least he's willing to give folks a shot to prove that notion otherwise. Last Thursday, he kicked off a new weekly at the Coral Room in the highlands on 32nd and Lowell and has subsequently extended an invitation to all DJs (and would-be DJs) to spin tunes with him from 9 to 10:30 p.m. So what do you say? Ready to mix
A regular at the old Billy's InnLong after my review of Tocabe was safely in the can, I was still dreaming about fry bread. I was also eating fry bread -- having made at least three post-review visits to Tocabe's home at 44th and Lowell just to "check my facts."
One that almost slipped by me? That one of the fellas responsible for putting Tocabe on the map is Joe Vostrejs -- a man generally associated with the goings-on around Larimer Square, but also a developer of other addresses around
Christopher Donte Williams.It's a good indication that a temper tantrum has gotten out of control if a S.W.A.T. team is called to respond.
That's what happened Saturday near 68th and Lowell to Christopher Donte Williams, age nineteen, who, for reasons not spelled out in a release from the Westminster Police Department, decided to do a Keith Moon impression on an apartment -- and also threatened a maintenance man with a knife. After Williams barricaded himself in the domicile, the account
