Denver Restaurant Week doesn't start until February 21, but it already looks like a hit, with more than 224 restaurants signed up to participate and over a hundred chefs slated to attend the scheduled February 17 press conference to hype the event.But once Barack Obama's noon visit to Denver that same day was announced, DRW week sponsors recognized that there would be some significant no-shows at the press conference: mainly, the press, which will be out in force at the Denver Museum of Nature &
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 City," the article was about how several large federal agencies, like the U.S. Departments of Justice and Agriculture, are avoiding cities with party reputations when they book conventions and meeting
Denver is playing host to the Olympics of beer games this month -- and it could be a historic one if the city's fortieth annual Oktoberfest also turns out to be its last.
Larimer Associates, the real estate company that owns Oktoberfest as well as Larimer Square and numerous other properties (LoHi Steakbar, for example), revealed Monday that it plans to shut it down or sell it Oktoberfest. "It is financially viable, but it doesn't relate to our core business," says Larimer Associates mar