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Dining out paleo: Ten dishes to satisfy your inner caveman

The "caveman diet" is getting a real workout across Colorado. The creation of Loren Cordain, a Colorado State University professor who wrote The Paleo Diet and numerous follow-up books, the diet has been picked up by the Crossfit community and many other fans of healthy eating. But while it promises ... More >>

In Top of the Lake, Peggy Olson goes to hell

Fort Collins Brewery plans major expansion, new beers, marketing push

With at least nine craft breweries and more on the way, Fort Collins is one of Colorado's hottest spots for beer. But beyond New Belgium, Odell and now Funkwerks -- which won Small Brewing Company of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012 -- most beer drinkers outside the northern part ... More >>

Five weirdest food deaths of 2012: Killed by bugs, beans and empanada makers

We must eat to live -- but sometimes what we eat and drink also kills us. The oddest things can cook our goose. This past year saw many food-assisted expirations and accidents that were peculiar, creepy -- and very, very unappetizing. Here's our list of the five weirdest food deaths of 2012. See ... More >>

Why are Mexicans better at organizing their paperwork?

Sender Films, Forge Motion Pictures win big at 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival

Colorado-based filmmakers won four of the top prizes at the 2012 Banff Mountain Film Festival in Banff, Canada on Sunday, including three awards to the Boulder-based Sender Films crew - all for films featured in the Reel Rock 7 video compilation and film tour - and one to Carbondale-based director S ... More >>

Five stellar South African wines

Wine drinkers typically skew into two categories: those who love the taste of dirt, and those who are all about big fruit flavors. Put another way, the first group consists of peeps who worship at the altar of everything old world, including wines from across the pond (read: Europe), usually in a st ... More >>

Cyclist needs insulin, filmmaker needs cash for documentary The Thin Line

The Tour Divide is a harrowing bike race. And that's true even if you don't have diabetes. The 2,745 mile race follows the Continental Divide from Banff, Alberta to Antelope Wells, New Mexico and challenges racers to complete the distance unsupported by anyone else and living off the food and water ... More >>

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Riverside Wellness in Denver

I first heard about Riverside Wellness a few weeks ago, after burglars had broken in and stolen $8 in cash. The staff seemed to take it in stride, showing a sense of humor by pointing out that the money was stolen from a "karma jar" -- and karma tends to work both ways.

Joshua Allen's Copper Mountain death adds another fatality to lethal ski season

Update: Sadly, the number of ski deaths in Colorado this season has grown again. On Sunday, 24-year-old Joshua Allen of Tampa, Florida, was found in the trees of the Elk Run underneath the Outback lift at Keystone and airlifted to Summit Medical Center, where he later died.

Row 14 in the Spire provides a class-act menu

Slideshow: Food Porn from Row 14

Round two with Flagstaff House executive chef Mark Monette

​ Mark Monette Flagstaff House 1138 Flagstaff Drive, Boulder 303-442-4640 www.flagstaffhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Mark Monette, executive chef of the Flagstaff House. Part one of that interview, in which Monette talks about cooking with Thomas Keller and his disdain for ... More >>

Colorado Symphony Orchestra's all-Wagner season finale at Boettcher Concert Hall

​As the Colorado Symphony Orchestra continues on without a music director, Austrian Christian Arming is slated to guest-conduct the season finale concerts this weekend. The all-Wagner greatest-hits program includes selections from Lohengrin, Flying Dutchman, Die Meistersinger, and Die Walkure, ... More >>

The rapture didn't happen on Saturday, but a documentary about it got filmed

There was none of this.​Despite the predictions of doomsayer Harold Camping, the Lord apparently did not see fit to visit destruction upon the earth Saturday, which passed somewhat unremarkably except that it was a particularly beautiful day. (Personally, I went to an apocalypse barbecue and a ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Valentine's Day fills the menu

A Flickr photo.​There's one week till Valentine's Day, and you'd better believe the restaurant industry knows it; our calendar is packed to overflowing this week with chocolate, wine and intimate dinners. Here's a taste of what's ahead:

Bryan Dayton and Randy Layman move on to the national 42Below Cocktail World Cup competition

Tyler Nemkov​At a Sunday night event featuring bizarro go-go girl oompa loompa hybrids, an old-timey popcorn machine and an announcer named DumpTruck, Oak at Fourteenth's Bryan Dayton and Steuben's Randy Layman proved to be the biggest attraction. Tyler NemkovOkay, so what would you call the ... More >>

Go Big!

New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

Jeff Osaka's talents in the kitchen add up to a sublime experience at twelve

100 Favorite Dishes: Rack of lamb from Cafe Brazil

Lori Midson ​As a countdown to the Best of Denver 2010, coming April 1, Cafe Society is serving up, in no particular order, a hundred of our favorite dishes in Denver. Send your own nominations to cafe@westword.com.

Bitter Bar's Mark Stoddard jetting to New Zealand to compete for world domination

​I always knew Happy/Bitter Bar's Mark Stoddard was driven, but I didn't realize he wanted to take on the world. In New York City last Sunday, Stoddard, Todd Thrasher (Washington, D.C.) and Sean Hoard (New York) were all named Cocktail World Cup U.S. finalists. And in a week, Stoddard will b ... More >>

Culinary calendar for the week ahead: Tequila dinners and tea festivals

​There are many eating and drinking opportunities this week, including a beer-and-cheese pairing, a tequila dinner and the annual World Tea Festival. Here's a taste of what's ahead: Monday, January 25: Learn how to add the flavor of North Africa to your menu at Cook Street School of Fine Coo ... More >>

This Just In: Vampire Weekend, Owl City, Alkaline Trio shows announced

​Although New York-based indie act Vampire Weekend isn't releasing its highly anticipated sophomore effort, Contra, for another week, NPR is streaming the entire album until it hits the stores on Tuesday, January 12. Touring in support of the album, the band will trek across the UK and Europe in F ... More >>

Wilco pushes forward with a more layered sound - including trumpets, a harpsichord and even a "Beach Boys moment"

It's World Cocktail Week! Drink up with Jared Boller

Jared Boller knows how to mix it up.World Cocktail Week ends today. So let's raise a glass to Jared Boller, the award-winning mixologist who represented Denver in a recent article in USA Today that profiled a handful of alcohol alchemists around the country. Boller will be behind the bar at TAG, Tr ... More >>

Geek in the Galley

Bartender Jared Boller, on the rocks

Sermon on the Mount

Adam Cayton-Holland goes totally ’Rado.

Over the Weekend...Laura Veirs and Liam Finn @ The Walnut Room

RIP John Macdonald, The Master of Criminal Minds

Death on the Zero Horizon

Wild Ones

The Horndribbles will satisfy your animal urges.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Upper Middle Earth

The Return of the King marks a zenith in cinematic potential.

Take a Peak

A Sport for Good Sports

The stately game of cricket is winning young converts.

Force of Hobbit

Frodo lives, amid outlandish spectacle, in The Lord of the Rings.

Rugged Rugby Love

Aspen's Gentlemen ruggers seek to corral another national championship.

Backwash

The city's millennium celebration is no Woodstock.

The Bite

Feeling Sheepish

Not So Hot

Cool River sells Denver diners down the river.

What's Old Is New

Basil freshens up.

Get Your Gold Medals Here

Swimming Upstream

Night & Day

November 12 - 18, 1998

Thrills for the week

Playlist

Tribal Warfare

Family Ties

Tim and Neil Finn prove that they can make music together without killing each other.

A GRILL FROM THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD