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A mezcal dinner at Adelitas, a beer dinner at Lucky Pie and more on this week's calendar

Adelitas Cocina y Cantina, 1294 South Broadway Street, is hosting a Del Maguey mezcal dinner this evening, with guest chefs Sean and Cy Yontz, Brandon Beiderman of Steuben's and Ace and Chris Douglas of Squeaky Bean. Barman Sean Kenyon from Williams and Graham will also be on hand providing libation ... More >>

Swallow Hill expansion at Lowry on hold due to lease not being approved. No explanation why

Update, 3 p.m. 4/5/13: We've received a statement from Swallow Hill CEO Tom Scharf and also spoke with Hilarie Portell, Public Relations & Marketing Director for Lowry Redevelopment Authority, who both gave us more insight into the situation regarding Swallow Hill's planned expansion into Lowry. Bet ... More >>

Warren Watson sexually assaulted Claudia Miller before killing her, indictment says (64)

Update: Earlier this month, we told you that Warren Watson had been captured in Idaho after being named a person of interest in the slaying of Lakewood family attorney Claudia Miller; see our previous coverage in its entirety below. Now, a grand jury has named Watson in eighteen charges, including ... More >>

A Century of Ski Town USA

Photos: Mongolia wins the 2013 International Snow Sculpture Championship

Fifteen teams competed in the 2013 International Snow Sculpture Championship in Breckenridge last week. From January 22-26, groups from across the globe hand-carved 20-ton blocks of snow into frozen art over a 65-hour period. Yesterday, team Mongolia took home top honors for its impressive snow stat ... More >>

Fiona Apple at the Paramount Theatre on 7/20

Fiona Apple's coming to the Paramount Theatre on Friday, July 20: With a newly revitalized career thanks to a stint wowing audiences at this year's SXSW and fresh off releasing a brand new album with a notably pithy title (in comparison to When the Pawn..., her 1999 album -- The Idler Wheel is wiser ... More >>

Team Canada-Quebec wins International Snow Sculpture Championships in Breckenridge

"Team Canada-Quebec created a sculpture that demonstrates all virtues of carving snow: clean execution, anatomically correct figures and animals, texture, balance and more," said Jenn Cram, judge coordinator for the 22nd annual International Snow Sculpture Championships and Arts District administrat ... More >>

Red-light cameras are about revenue, not safety, says senator pushing ban

36th & Quebec.​Red light photo tickets are a hot topic in Denver, with councilwomen Jeanne Faatz and Mary Beth Susman both questioning the program, especially as it applies to citations for crossing the white stop line -- an infraction whose fine was halved this week, but not eliminated. Now, ... More >>

Red light photo tickets likely to survive despite stop line issue, critic says

Red-light cameras at Denver intersections are widely reviled and provide dubious safety benefits according to a report from Denver Auditor Dennis Gallagher. Yet in a first vote last night, Denver City Council voted 10-2 to retain the program throughout 2012. Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz isn't pleased b ... More >>

Gene Ween on Ween's history, working with Dean Ween and playing in Colorado

​Aaron Freeman incorporates a lot of personal history when he takes on the musical alter-ego role of Gene Ween. For nearly thirty years, Freeman and Mickey Melchionda (aka Dean Ween) have been the tongue-in-cheek duo behind Ween, a band that's evolved from the abstract musical experiments of 1 ... More >>

Red-light cameras at intersections set to nab people trying to turn right on red?

36th & Quebec.​Cameras at intersections have plenty of detractors, many of whom claim their usage is more about revenue enhancement than safety. Now, a Complete Colorado report offers some numbers to back up this theory. On one day, 94 percent of tickets issued at a major metro intersection ta ... More >>

Now open: Peacock Restaurant and Bar brings more Ethiopian food to East Colfax

​East Colfax is home to several Ethiopian restaurants, and another joint just opened near the corner of Colfax and Quebec: Peacock Restaurant and Bar, which, says owner Eden Habte, is unaffiliated with the other Ethiopian spots in the area. There, in a dark dining room painted gold and infuse ... More >>

Adventures in weird business combos: Coin op laundry and payday loan

​Every so often, usually in more (ahem) modestly incomed neighborhoods, you see them: businesses who offer weird and somewhat dubious combinations of services (my personal favorite of yore: The Quik Stop & Bail Bonds that used to be on South Federal). In an effort to highlight the brave practi ... More >>

Now open: Tenoch Mexican Coffee House

Backpack FoodieTenoch Mexican Coffee House pours lecheros in this traditional way.​"It's a Mexican coffee house. Like a bakery and cafe, but Mexican style," says Adriana Cendejas of Tenoch Mexican Coffee House, the spot she opened with her brother near just two weeks ago. The pair comes from ... More >>

Readers: More wings that really fly

​The discussion of our Denver's five best wings list has really taken off, with readers pushing everything from Highland Tap and Burger to Moe's Original Bar-B-Que to Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria. From Toddicus: I've eaten wings at most of the places listed and still have yet to find wings a ... More >>

Walkability: Top 3 best (and worst!) Denver neighborhoods for walking to the coffee shop

Flickr​ Walkability -- that is, how close a property is located to grocery stores, banks, restaurants, bus routes and bike trails -- is becoming increasingly important to home-buyers and apartment-dwellers, says local realtor John Skrabec. "People see the benefits of a walkable lifestyle and ... More >>

Barney's Version never finds a rhythm

Larimer Associates buys Montclair Plaza, home of the Thunderbird, Kassai Sushi and Moongate

​Larimer Associates, the real estate investment company that manages the upscale Larimer Square restaurant district, has purchased Montclair Plaza, a small strip mall at the corner of Quebec and Severn streets, near the Lowry development. The somewhat run-down row of buildings, which total 9, ... More >>

Shops at Northfield: Stimulus Act stimulates the Central Park Boulevard Interchange

Shops at Northfield.​On a Labor Day detour from DIA, I spent a few hours wandering around the Shops at Northfield. It was a much more successful mission than my first attempt to reach this area, when I exited I-70 on what I thought was the right access road -- and wound up stuck in a hideous t ... More >>

Shops -- and restaurants -- at Northfield finally get a break

La Sandia's Mexican Cobb salad​On a Labor Day detour from DIA, we spent a few hours wandering around the Shops at Northfield -- with time out for the Mexican Cobb salad at La Sandia, Richard Sandoval's restaurant there, one of several eateries in the development that could use more traffic. ... More >>

Walking the Sustainable Talk

Très Bien

Matthew Orloff marvels at how we've progressed enough to have a black president but that pot is still illegal

​ Every Friday we spotlight the hottest cats (and kittens) behind the decks in the MHC, grilling them to gain some insight on what it takes, exactly, to get the party rocking, to find out about their most treasured crate digging experiences and what they really think when we stumble up to the ... More >>

Checking in with our neighbors to the north

A replacement for the Bugling Bull?

​ There was a time when I swore that the best barbecue to be had in the state of Colorado was at the Bugling Bull Trading Post, a kind of general store/truck stop/campground supplier down on 1668 North Highway 67 in Sedalia. Pit man Mike Frislie used to run a kind of outlaw smoking operation ... More >>

New Einstein Bros. Bagels opens in Lowry

This Flickr user likes to eat at Einstein Bros. Bagels According to a quick count of the locations on the official Einstein Bros. Bagels website, Denver just got its twelfth Einstein Bros. Bagels shop, in Lowry's Town Center at Second Avenue and Quebec. Although this is a national chain -- with more ... More >>

Veggie Girl: Moongate Asian Grill

When I have a craving for sesame tofu, I head to the one restaurant that I know gets it absolutely right: Moongate Asian Grill, at 745 Quebec Street. Moongate cooks up a variety of Japanese, Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese dishes, with an extensive vegetarian selection -- but I end up ordering the ... More >>

Breathe Carolina premiers new video, tours until the end of time

Breathe Carolina, a band that tours so often these days that it almost doesn't seem like a Denver band anymore (seriously, with the exception of April and May, the act is going to be on the road from now until at least the end of August; check out the list of tour dates on the next page), recently p ... More >>

Smashburger is a smash in Wichita

Today, Wichita. Tomorrow, the world. Smashburger -- with its secret process that creates what Jason Sheehan called "meat candy" -- has been a smash since the Colorado-based concept opened its first restaurant at 1120 South Colorado Boulevard two years ago.Since then, the owners have opened s ... More >>

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