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Reader: When will we stop destroying important parts of the West?

Reader: I love me some Smashburger, but not those fries

Smashburger has been a smash hit since the homegrown chain was introduced in 2006. Since then, it's built a dozen stores in the metro area -- and expanded not just throughout the United States, but across the ocean. And in the next year, the company plans to open another sixty to seventy stores. But ... More >>

Teens Rock in the New Year

Dan Boeckner of Divine Fits on being inspired by the sprawl of L.A. but put off by $5 cupcakes

Diving Fits formed when Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner formerly of Wolf Parade got together with their friend Sam Brown of New Bomb Turks. The music that came out of that union was a kind of power pop infused with a strong electronic undercurrent, like something that could have happened in t ... More >>

Photos: Mici Handcrafted Italian now open in Stapleton

The Miceli family opened their third Mici Handcrafted Italian restaurant yesterday, this one in Stapleton, in the former home of An's Lemongrass -- and right across from a Montessori school...which initially presented a problem. "We're a family-owned Italian restaurant," says Kim Miceli-Vela, one of ... More >>

Reader: Lower Highland is too established to attract the hipster, PBR crowd

A hipster neighborhood may have hip restaurants, but hip restaurants do not a hipster neighborhood make. And when Forbes recently included Lower Highland in its list of "America's Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods," the party as already over, one reader suggests:

Photos: Ten great Best of Denver places to get your recreation on

It's the time of year when even the couch potatoes among us realize we should get off our asses and do something. But what? And where? In the tradition of our recent posts featuring the ten best Colorado hikes and the ten best places to stay cool during a heat wave, we've dug into our Best of Denve ... More >>

Woody Creek Bakery raising funds for wildfire victims

Woody Creek Bakery & Cafe will donate ten percent of sales from all eight of its locations to the Red Cross wildfire relief fund today.

Red Robin's Burger Works delivers signature dishes in a smaller space

Slide show: Red Robin's "fast-cazh" foray

Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl will go from mobile to stationary in Stapleton

In 2001, Matt Robinette sat with his wife, Roberta, brother Jonathan and sister-in-law Cristina in a Tahoe cafe, where they pondered selling Roberta's Pueblo-style green chile in California, an area of the country that wasn't familiar with the stuff. It took nearly a decade -- as well as a move back ... More >>

Famous Dave's reopens its bar with one-buck "Street-Sweeper" shots

The bar at Famous Dave's is back in business.​Back in April, a street sweeper almost wiped out the Famous Dave's in Stapleton when it crashed into the front of the building. Although the dining room reopened the next day, the bar area had suffered more damage, and has been shuttered since Apri ... More >>

Hessini Roots International combines Southern soul with West African and Mexican dishes

Parks and Rec membership fees (and revenues) could increase under tiered structure proposal

​Denver Parks and Recreation membership fees could increase if the city council approves a task force's recommendation to create a tiered fee structure for the city's 27 rec centers. The centers would be divided into three categories: neighborhood (small), local (medium-sized) and regional (fu ... More >>

Author Greg Lindsay on the future of cities, globalization and DIA

​When most people envision the future, they probably think about the awesome products we'll have to make our lives easier, but author Greg Lindsay is more concerned about how those products get to us. It's no secret most manufacturing has moved overseas, and with that move, a global economy ha ... More >>

Golden Spoon opens this weekend in Stapleton

​There are several frozen-yogurt shops opening soon in Denver, but possibly none so ambitious as Golden Spoon, which will open its first Mile High City outpost -- and fifth Colorado location -- this weekend in Stapleton at 7505 East 35th Avenue. And Mike and Julie Haslar, the franchisees behin ... More >>

A street sweeper almost wipes out Famous Dave's in Stapleton

Hunter StevensFamous Dave's, before a street-sweeper crashed into the bar.​April is the cruelest month, not the least because street-sweepers take to the roads in Denver, leaving lots of tickets in their wake. And, in the case of the Famous Dave's at Stapleton, a fair amount of havoc: A privat ... More >>

Stapleton Moms is like Highlands Mommies for northeast Denver

http://stapletonians.blogspot.com/​ The Highlands Mommies are not the only game in town. There are several other parents groups in and around Denver, some more formal than others. One of the most organized is the Stapleton Moms, a Yahoo group of 2,421 people started by Amanda Reed, a former Hi ... More >>

Master baker Keegan Gerhard looks to add more concepts to Denver -- and beyond

​"I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver." Those were some of the first words out of Keegan Gerhard's mouth when I spoke to him this morning about potential new concepts from the award-winning pastry chef, Food Network host and owner, along with his wife, Lisa Bailey, of D Bar Dessert ... 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 >>

Get ready for meals on wheels

Find your way to Matt LaBarge's Lost Lake Lounge

Medical marijuana protest against Denver City Council: "Closing half of the businesses in a particular sector is a sweeping action without any justification," activist says

Photo by Robert FisherThere are fewer of these displays accessible in Denver today...​The deadline has passed for medical marijuana dispensaries to apply for their official licenses in Denver -- and only 235 out of more than 500 did so. Update, 3:22 p.m.: The Colorado Coalition for Patients a ... More >>

Dialed In: This week's local music radio playlists

​Here what the area's local-centric specialty radio shows were spinning this week. We're currently tracking the playlists a number of different shows, including Radio 1190's Local Shakedown, KTCL's Locals Only, 99.5 the Mountain's Homegrown Show*, the Colorado Sound, which originates at KRFC and i ... More >>

Go Fly a Kite!

Q&A with Kevin Devine

Photo by Denny DoesKevin Devine. Singer-songwriter Kevin Devine, the subject of a profile in this week's Westword advancing his Sunday, May 24 gig at the Marquis Theatre with Miniature Tigers, The Rouge and Brian Bonz, is the rarest of interview subjects: a guy who listeners carefully to every ques ... More >>

After Midnight

Into the Woods

Get a jump on the shopping crowds at Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World.

Pork lovers will go hog wild for the Berkshire

Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria is hot!

Talking Shop Alert

The Small Things

Everybody Together

Eat, drink and scoot at the Colorado Chaos Scooter Rally.

Herd Mentality

This cowtown finally opens its streets to the CowParade.

Udi’s Bread Bistro

Man does not live by bread alone.

What It Means to Miss New Orleans

God, what have you done?

Silver Lining

Left to his own devices, Vic Chesnutt cheers up on a new record.

A Bad Case of Gas

Montclair residents want Lowry to clean up a mess before it becomes a household problem.

Off Limits

One Tow Over the Line

Floyd Samuel says there auto be a law against what the city is doing to him.

Twenty Years of Denver

Frida Ole

Off Limits

That Fits the Bill

Need some special-interest legislation? Here's how this year's session measures up

Raisin' in the South

A SOARING PAYROLL

AT DIA, PASSENGERS ARE DOWN, BUT STAFFING IS UP.

FARE WARS

PLAYLIST

BY THE SEAT OF THEIR PANTS

A DESPERATE CITY WOOS A DESPERATE AIRLINE.

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Adams Family Values