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Last Night: Hip-Hop Live Featuring Brother Ali, Ghostface Killah and Rakim @ The Ogden Theater

Delegating Denver #24 of 56: Maryland

Previous MasterMind: Brandi Shigley

The Dogfather Speaks

Chuck Green howls into the night.

Mumbo Gumbo

While Petra's is a party, Pappadeaux gets a blackened mark.

Life Before Frisee

A meal at Bang! takes you back to simpler times -- and tastes.

Still Wingin' It...but smaller

Wingin' It, a local wing joint boasting 26 different wing sauces made from scratch, recently closed two of its four locations: 6860 South Lincoln Court in Greenwood Village and 7541 South University Boulevard in Centennial. But you can still get Wingin' It's deep-fried Twinkies, candy bars and Ore ... More >>

Milking It: Honey Graham Oh!s

Honey Graham Oh!s Quaker Rating: three spoons out of four Cereal description: Supersized, light-tan ovals made mainly of corn, rice, wheat and oat flour, with assorted chunks, flakes and nuggets occupying the center gap. Looks sort of like a mutant bird's nest -- but in a good way.

Tim Tams Make Their American Debut

  When a good friend returned from her semester abroad in Australia our junior year of college, she brought with her something that would forever change our lives: Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits.  They seemed simple enough in concept--a chocolate sandwich cookie, filled w ... More >>

Best Comfort-Food Restaurant

Tom's Home Cookin'

Drink of the Week

Pineapple Sake-Infused Martini

The List: Breakfast kings and queens

Since I discovered DJ's Berkeley Cafe (right), I've had breakfast on my mind. Here's a list of the best places in town to get your morning fix.Breakfast King, 300 West Mississippi Avenue. Still the king, always the king. And it's just been tagged by Esquire magazine as one of the best places to eat ... More >>

Candy Girls: Reese's Milk Chocolate Layered Cookies

Photo by Aubrey ShoeWe have pretty much given up on Reese's products that aren't Reese's cups. The story is getting old: Reese's cups = delicious, Reese's cup variants = eh. But as fate would have it, a colleague recently took a tour of the Hershey factory, where he purchased and brought back ... More >>

Colt & Gray, a new gastropub, slated for May

Where the hell is it?I asked myself that question a half dozen times while aimlessly driving down Platte Street searching for Colt & Gray, a new gastropub opening in late May at 1553 Platte Street in the Platte River Valley. Lori MidsonIt wasn't that I couldn't find the address: The numbers were ... More >>

IACP Conference Report: Food writers are good in bed

For those of you not yet hipped to the big foodie news in Denver this week, the International Association of Culinary Professionals is in town -- a kind of traveling circus show of food writers, food editors, food pimps, chefs, authors, wine gurus and associated tradesmen. And, of course, Jason ... More >>

Bare Necessities

Sometimes a girl -- even an almost-naked girl -- just needs a mom.

Toast

You’ll flip for these flapjacks.

To Market, To Market

Head for Whole Foods.

Spaced Out

Combining everything from hardcore to free jazz, New Ancient Astronauts have all the right stuff.

Going to Extremes

Forget those lazy days of summer. Coloradans like to push themselves -- right to the top.

Going Nowhere

No tropical hot spot, Rhumba leaves you cold.

Fighting the Good Food Fight

Season's eatings from a year's worth of meals.

Pulling Up Steaks

Grazing with the herd at Trail Dust Steak House.

You've Got to Be Kidding

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

Mouthing Off

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

The Wrong Box

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

Mouthing Off

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

Feedback

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

Ursa Minor

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

MOUTHING OFF

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

CHAIN REACTION

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

MOUTHING OFF

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

MOUTHING OFF

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

LET US GIVE THANKS

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

From the week of May 14, 2009

Ed Debevic's and Mimi's proves that a little eater-tainment goes a long way.

The Meat of the Matter

Get saucy at Frisco’s Colorado BBQ Challenge.

Why Coloradans need to get fatter

A new survey finds that Colorado has the lowest percentage of overweight adults in these United States, and the tenth lowest percentage of obese children. But is that a good thing? Not according to student Shane Neely, who in late 2007 presented a speech in a Boulder classroom entitled, "Why Obesi ... More >>

Are you Westword's new pot critic?

Some lucky writer is waiting to inhale in the really Mile High City

Candy tax proposal: "If they really want to tighten up America, make them cut out the Big Macs"

These babies could cost you more before long.​Governor Bill Ritter's proposal to place a sales tax on candy and soda is far from sweet according to Rick Enstrom, an owner of Grand Junction-based Enstrom's, one of the state's most venerable candy companies. Enstrom is scheduled to testify abou ... More >>

William Breathes on what you didn't see in The Daily Show's Denver weed story

Another look at William Breathes (that's actually editor Patty Calhoun's desk).​For the last few weeks I've been curious as to how The Daily Show would use the three-plus hours of footage they got with me last month. I was paraded around the Westword office in a gas mask bong, got to burn a b ... More >>

Top five products we'd put in Boulder's vending machines

​Lazy Pennsylvanians can now grab a bottle of their favorite vino out of a vending machine, right after scoring some Rolos and Gardettos. With the recent introduction of wine to some vending machines in that state, the alcoholic beverage joins the elite ranks of Funyuns, Nibs, temporary tattoo ... More >>

In search of Denver's best cupakes: A photo diary of one man's journey

By Ryan DeWitt The inspiration for this venture stemmed from getting burnt out on the city's ice cream/froyo/gelato scene -- specifically from eating far too much of it all. Essentially, I needed something else to appease my sugar and sweets addiction. Enter cupcakes. My thinking was this: Cupcake ... More >>

Sweet Action: I scream, you scream, is there beer in your ice cream?

​ Sweet Action Ice Cream, 52 Broadway, which is scooping up acclaim left and right, is hosting its second annual Colorado Beer Ice Cream Fest with six flavors of the creamy stuff made with local beers. Last year, Sweet Action used brews from Great Divide, Breckenridge, Fort Collins Brewing, S ... More >>

In honor of National Pancake Day, a half-dozen joints to flip for flapjacks

​ If you've been living in a box of Bisquick, then you probably already know that this Sunday is National Pancake Day. If, on the other hand, you just live for breakfast, then National Pancake Day gives you one more reason to flip your jack. Herewith, six of our favorite joints to get griddle ... More >>

Part two: Z Cuisine's Charles MacDonald destroys Oreos

Lori Midson​ Charles MacDonald Z Cuisine 2239 West 30th Avenue 303-477-1111 www.zcuisine.com Don't miss part one of Lori Midson's interview with Charles MacDonald, the chef de cuisine of Z Cuisine. Rules of conduct in your kitchen: Less grammar, more hammer. I say that a lot in the kitchen, ... More >>

Denver Zoo welcomes Rinny the tapir, the first new inhabitant of the Asian Tropics exhibit

Dave Parsons/Denver Zoo​ Rinny, the Denver Zoo's new tapir, looks like what happens when an elephant knocks boots with a pig, and then they have a baby and it's Halloween and they dress the baby like an Oreo. But despite the fact that Rinny looks like a sandwich cookie, the zoo thinks she's ... More >>

Man loses 27 pounds on the Twinkie diet

Get skinny-- eat Twinkies​Popular diets speak to our society's insatiable desire to pin blame for the saddlebags and love handles on some evil type of food. But if you think stuffing yourself with meat and cheese (since you're cutting carbs) is a surefire way to get thin, you're probably not g ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, April 22-24, 2011

​We've finally started getting some of those April showers the old tales speak of, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be venturing out in to the great big world this weekend. While the ground might be a little damp, you'll still have plenty of indoor and outdoor activities to choose from, inc ... More >>

Other athletes would dwarf Chad's roommate demands

What's that, Chad? You want our attention? What a shock...​NFL fans know Chad Ochocinco as a loudmouth. Even back when he had a real last name, 85 constantly chattered with officials, made signs asking not to be fined, tweeted constantly and sought out the spotlight in 1,001 ways. Call him a ... More >>

Eric Rivera, exec chef of Cafe|Bar, on pretty legs, butt cracks and the exploding salmon eyeball

Lori Midson​ Eric Rivera Cafe|Bar 295 South Pennsylvania Street 303-362-0227 www.cafebarcolorado.com It's been just three weeks since Cafe|Bar opened its doors, but executive chef Eric Rivera already feels very much at home. The 26-year-old, who was born in Ohio and raised in Colorado, had ... More >>