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Ten places to ride your bike this summer

The wheels are always turning in Denver, which just won the REI Cycling Town Showdown as the country's bike-friendliest city. Denver not only has great places to ride your bike, it also has great places to ride your bike to. Here are ten of our favorites for this summer. See also: - Videos: Best b ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 in Denver this weekend (7 free!), December 7-9

Money troubles? Forget your cares while enjoying some of the bargain entertainment in Denver this weekend. Friday thrugh Sunday are full of interesting events -- everything from watching classic Saturday morning cartoons and local comedy to gazing at dinosaur bones -- and we've found seven great eve ... More >>

Blue state v. red state: Which Colorado do you live in?

Colorado is a key swing state in the upcoming presidential election. In polls, Colorado looks like a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with leads shifting back and forth by the day -- and which way the vote ultimately goes could decide the national outcome. By the numbers, though, this s ... More >>

A love letter to the town (I mean city) of Brighton, Colorado

For much of my childhood, I led a double life. Okay, that's a super-dramatic way of saying that from age seven to age seventeen, I went between two households: one in Brighton and one in Denver. This wasn't because my parents were divorced (not yet), but because my best friend, who'd lived next door ... More >>

Reader: I do not agree with the NRA's lenient view of gun ownership

Coloradans are partial to Santiago's mean green

Also read: Santiago's founder Carmen Morales talks to Cafe Society

Santiago's pulling out of Black Hawk

For almost a year, Santiago's has spiced up the dining scene in Black Hawk, a spot better known for its casino buffets than green chile. The day after Christmas 2011, the ever-growing institution opened two locations inside Bullwhackers: a full-service, 64-seat restaurant on the top floor, and an e ... More >>

Santiago's Mexican Restaurant -- green light on the chile sauce

Santiago's Mexican Restaurants, a homegrown chain, got its start in 1990 at a single store in Brighton, with a very special ingredient -- owner Carmen Morales used her mother Rachel's recipe for Santiago's now-famous "Authentic Green Chile Sauce with Pork." From one store grew many, and today ther ... More >>

Guess who's coming to dinner tonight? Gustavo Arellano!

Gustavo Arellano isn't just the man behind Ask a Mexican!, his weekly column in Westword. He's also the author of Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America, and in that book he lavishes praise on the Mexican food of Denver: "I have finally learned to love Den-Mex," he writes. "Your epic Mexican ... More >>

The Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield goes after gluten-free diets and admits he doesn't give a rat's ass about reviews

This is part one of my interview with Trinity Grille's Patrick Canfield. Check back here tomorrow to read part two. Patrick Canfield Trinity Grille 1801 Broadway 303-293-2288 www.trinitygrille.com Most of us have scrubbed a few pots and scraped a few plates, but if you eat dinner every night at ... More >>

Reel Social Club brings fashion and film together over mimosas this Oscar weekend

​Red carpet appearances by designer gown-donning stars are just as much a part of the Academy Awards spectacle as the Oscars themselves. In advance of this coming weekend's 84th annual ceremony, Denver FilmCenter's Reel Social Club is celebrating this marriage of fashion and film with it's Seam To ... More >>

Armadillo closes its Littleton restaurant -- and stiffs employees?

Colorado has produced several successful Mexican chains -- the Rio Grande group, for example, and Santiago's, which seems to add another outlet every week. But one longtime chain is suffering from shrinking pains -- and its employees are suffering, too. Last week, the Armadillo closed its restauran ... More >>

Santiago's bets that green chile can heat up Bullwhackers Casino in Blackhawk

Santiago's, the homegrown burrito chain that makes what might be the best green chile in Colorado, is trying its luck at Bullwhackers Casino in Blackhawk. The ever-growing institution opened two locations inside the casino on the day after Christmas: a full-service, 64-seat restaurant on the top fl ... More >>

Green chile discussion -- over sources, over spelling -- heats up in the new year

As an end-of-the-year public service to those who were going to need hot, hot green chile to cure their hangovers on January 1, Lori Midson offered her list of "Denver's ten best green chiles." Any discussion of green chile always stirs the pot. Fans of those that didn't make the list complain -- ... More >>

Santiago's on 84th closes up shop

Santiago's is a Denver institution, selling one of this city's most iconic versions of green chile as well as rightly famous breakfast burritos. But one of the city's nearly two dozen locations has just been locked up for good.

Guess where I'm eating?

If there were a Santiago's outpost closer to my house, I'd probably find myself succumbing to their breakfast burritos more often, but instead, I get my fix here, at this house of breakfast burritos, every day burritos, tacos, and Indian fry bread. Can you guess where I'm eating? Special bonus: ... More >>

Santiago Calatrava's exit from DIA: Westword's Kenny Be and Michael Paglia weigh in

​After receiving $13 million to design Denver International Airport's new south terminal hotel and commuter rail station, world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava abruptly quit the project because it lacked sufficient funding. Rumors about his exit had been flying around for weeks, bu ... More >>

Santiago Calatrava bails on DIA expansion: Paging Curt Fentress!

Curt Fentress.​Let's hope Mayor Michael Hancock has Curt Fentress's number on speed dial. The Denver architect was brought in to fix Denver International Airport before it ever got off the ground decades ago, and the expansion plans he crafted back then could be looking very good now that star ... More >>

Santiago Calatrava's adios to DIA: It's about the money, honey

The nixed bridge.​That sucking sound you hear out at Denver International Airport isn't the arrival of the long-awaited, ever-elusive direct route to Tokyo. No, it's the sound of tens of millions of dollars in "concepting" and design fees vanishing into the wild blue yonder, as architect Sant ... More >>

Gordo Loco is now serving 98 cent breakfast burritos and a $15 El Diablo challenge

Some like it hot! Gordo Loco is now serving. Right now.​The area around 26th Avenue and Federal Bouldevard is already the town's best neighborhood for breakfast burritos: Jack-n-Grill is serving its $2 special; across the street, you can get a legendary to-go burrito through the Santiago's dri ... More >>

Undertow is more than just a coming-out tale

David Balmer's temper and five other topics hot enough to thaw out frozen Colorado

Vicki Ferrari.​State Representative David Balmer apologized yesterday for losing "his cool" in a heated conversation last week with Senator Gail Schwartz; his agitated gesturing got him banned from the Senate floor for the rest of the 2011 congressional session. But Balmer's temper isn't the ... More >>

100 Favorite Dishes: Breakfast burrito from the Taco Wagon in Lafayette

Lori Midson​ No. 92: Breakfast burrito from the Taco Wagon in Lafayette Months ago, back in April, I was summoned to Lafayette on unofficial business, when, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a taco wagon pimping all the foods that add bulk to my rear.

Ron Rocha, Regis coach, part of 20-kilos-a-week cocaine-ring bust: See mug shots & drug photos

Large photos below.​Last month, Ron Rocha, a volunteer baseball coach for Regis University, was on the losing end of an intra-squad matchup dubbed the Fall World Series. But he suffered an even greater defeat yesterday, when he was among 35 people named by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the bus ... More >>

Gordo Loco is bringing 98 cent burritos to northwest Denver

​Looks like the old bungalow at 2637 West 26th Street that was the first home of La Loma, then went on to house ventures ranging from Cafe International to Bali Island to La Fabula to the Shooting Star coffeehouse, finally has a new tenant. Coming soon to this spot: Gordo Loco, which boasts ... More >>

Five great breakfasts that are worth the early morning rise

Eggs Benedict at Devil's Food Bakery​If we're to believe our mothers who constantly shoved toast into our hands on our way out the door before school, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast is more than just sustenance, though: It's another meal to indulge your gastronomic ... More >>

This neighborhood corners the market for breakfast burritos

Foiled again: Jack-n-Grill (from left), Santiago's and Araujo breakfast burritos.​The breakfast burritos started going out the doors a few minutes ago, when the three spots in the Best Breakfast Burrito Neighborhood all opened their doors for the day and the customers began coming in, looking ... More >>

Breakfast burritos from Santiago's: One of the things I'm gonna miss...

​I'm going to miss breakfast burritos. I'm going to miss all breakfast burritos -- the good ones, the bad ones, the great ones and every one in between. But most of all, I'm going to miss the breakfast burritos from the Santiago's location on Leetsdale Avenue, which I consider to be my home ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

What you might have missed this week while chowing on some Nut Poppers...Green chile mania!  Jason ranked the top ten green chile joints in Denver, and even got some input on the best vegetarian versions.  We pitted El Taco de Mexico's chile against Santiago's and found a surprise victor.W ... More >>

Guess where I'm eating?

Lori Midson​It's only Tuesday, and already we've seen a green chile smackdown between El Taco de Mexico and Santiago's and a shout-out to all you vegheads for meatless verde recommendations that won't make the PETA terrorists people pissed. And now, strictly by coincidence, comes the above photo o ... More >>

The List: Denver's top ten green chile spots

​One of my first columns was about the way green chile changes on the way from southern New Mexico to Denver -- from the pure verde kick in Hatch to the thin, soupy sauce of Albuquerque, and the steady thickening as you travel north along the green chile trail until you reach the gelatinous go ... More >>

Ask the Critic: Green power

​Last week's review?  All about a particularly good green and organic restaurant in Denver.  The column?  More about the green movement.  I wrote blogs about green eateries, made lists of them, and basically spent a week obsessing over the buzzword-heavy culture that has invade ... More >>

Taqueria Mi Pueblo goes for a liquor license

The burrito wars are heating up on North Federal Boulevard, with a new Santiago's and Jack-n-Grill duking it out in the 2500 block, and Taqueria Mi Pueblo offering $1.99 breakfast burritos, as well as other authentic Mexican fare, just two blocks away at 2300 Federal. And Mi Pueblo could soon have ... More >>

What the Mexican ate while he was in Denver

A Stink and a Smile

Life Skills Offers Last-Chance High

Justin Martinez was raised in the school of hard knocks, but Life Skills is his last hope for a diploma.

Santiago's

The forecast calls for chile.

Delegating Denver #14 of 56: Guam

The Mouth That Roared

Nando Mondragon is going to put Denver on the hip-hop fashion map. But first, he has to get out of jail.

Santiago’s

A chain of chile.

Play Time

When recess comes, get ready for a game with the gang babies.

Unamerican Dream

Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy.

Bite Me

Wait Watcher

Best Cheap Breakfast

Santiago's

Bite Me

The Beast of Denver

Bite Me

There Goes the Neighborhood

Love Kan'Nal

Mystical roots music enthralls

The World Within

When DJ Vadim traveled to the ends of the earth, he found hip-hop in every corner.

Best breakfast burrito

Amigos Cafe

Flak Jackets

Undressing the Coors Field "staff" might surprise you.