Steve Horner

Hey, Laaaaadies!

I'll Drink to That

Steve Horner: Judge a "Pussy-Whipped Fart Head"

Steve Horner, on the Rocks

Shmuck of the Week: Steve Horner

Passing the Shmuck

For ladies only -- a Venue wine-tasting tonight

Venue, the new restaurant at 3609 West 32nd Avenue that earned a recent rave from Jason Sheehan, is teaming with Marczyk Fine Foods to host a ladies-only (don't tell Steve Horner!) wine education tasting from 5:30-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 10. The line-up features Venue apps and the "best Ameri ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Listen up, ladies

Steve Horner has left Colorado -- for now. My first clue was the sudden silence: no voice-mail messages left for Westword writers, linking their stories on the plight of the homeless or the educationally challenged to the very existence of ladies' nights. My second clue: a sudden influx of message ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Whine and cheese

It is a shame that Steve Horner no longer lives in this state, because the anti-ladies'-night crusader would have found a warm welcome -- a very warm welcome -- had he shown up for last night's "ladies-only" wine-tasting at Venue. The event was designed to aid the free flow of conversation (and of ... More >>

The Purple Martini Gives Men’s Night a Chance

Equality on ice.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 7/12/2007

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 8/23/2007

Stinky Cheese Tour starts at Bistro Vendome

Bistro Vendome, the great French restaurant tucked into the side of Larimer Square, will introduce its Stinky Cheese Tour de France tonight. Every week this month, the restaurant is offering a progressive dinner made from regional stinky cheeses of France; if you purchase each course, you're eligibl ... More >>

From the week of March 12, 2009

Bistro Vendome, the great French restaurant tucked into the side of Larimer Square, will introduce its Stinky Cheese Tour de France tonight. Every week this month, the restaurant is offering a progressive dinner made from regional stinky cheeses of France; if you purchase each course, you're eligibl ... More >>

The Colorado Civil Rights Division has a double standard for ladies' nights -- and newspapers

Bistro Vendome, the great French restaurant tucked into the side of Larimer Square, will introduce its Stinky Cheese Tour de France tonight. Every week this month, the restaurant is offering a progressive dinner made from regional stinky cheeses of France; if you purchase each course, you're eligibl ... More >>

Aqua

This Golden Triangle restaurant alters its focus from deep sea to deep house.

Letters to the Editor

Letters from the week of 1/10/2008

Big Deal for Big Head Todd

The Hillary’s suddenly alive with the sound of good music.

The 2007 Hall of Shame

It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.

Steve Horner-Free Corner

If ladies’ night is this city’s biggest sin, we’re doing all right.

Drink Up, Ladies!

Steve Horner's crusade to end ladies' nights falls flat.

Hickenlooper Speaks Up at DIA

Denver's mayor tells us where to get off.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 7/26/2007

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 7/5/2007

This Just In…

The latest nightlife news.

Ladies’ Nights, RIP

And you know who to blame: Steve Horner.

Thirst Fridays

You don’t need liquor to appreciate art — but it helps.

Last Call for Ladies’ Nights?

If Steve Horner gets his way, ladies could be singing the booze.

Hot & Wild Wednesdays

Purple Martini

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 2/22/2007

Ladies' Plight

Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?

Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

Wake-Up Call: Disorder in the court

The fireworks started early for the 4th. Early last week, we got a call from a reporter in Mankato, Minnesota, researching a story about Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader who started his fight in that state (where he wound up in jail for harassing the head of Minnesota's civil rights co ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Civil Rights on the road

​ The Colorado Civil Rights Commission took its show on the road last night, hosting an evening forum at the Blair-Caldwell Library. And if the conversation didn't seem to go exactly where Colorado Civil Rights Division director Steve Chavez wanted it to go -- after an active initial discussio ... More >>

Steve Horner: A name that drives people to drink

On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in the crowd who's had rece ... More >>

Steve Horner fights for his right to be wrong.

On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in the crowd who's had rece ... More >>

From the week of August 13, 2009

On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in the crowd who's had rece ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: A member of the bar

​I am not a lawyer, but lately I've been called upon to play one when visiting local watering holes -- as a member of the bar, so to speak. The owners of these locales all want to know one thing: Can they hold a ladies' night? I've developed an unwanted expertise on the subject, ever since S ... More >>

Drink up, Denver! The Division of Civil Rights has confirmed your right to enjoy ladies' night

​I am not a lawyer, but lately I've been called upon to play one when visiting local watering holes -- as a member of the bar, so to speak. The owners of these locales all want to know one thing: Can they hold a ladies' night? I've developed an unwanted expertise on the subject, ever since S ... More >>

From the week of October 1, 2009

​I am not a lawyer, but lately I've been called upon to play one when visiting local watering holes -- as a member of the bar, so to speak. The owners of these locales all want to know one thing: Can they hold a ladies' night? I've developed an unwanted expertise on the subject, ever since S ... More >>

From the week of October 8, 2009

​I am not a lawyer, but lately I've been called upon to play one when visiting local watering holes -- as a member of the bar, so to speak. The owners of these locales all want to know one thing: Can they hold a ladies' night? I've developed an unwanted expertise on the subject, ever since S ... More >>

Top 10 Colorado feuds of the decade

​Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement -- about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese -- makes for an old-fashioned Western display of rootin'-tootin' feudin' and cussedness. The most memorable Colorado showdowns of the past ten ... More >>

Ladies' night opponent Steve Horner gets slapped down: Drink up, women!

​Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies' night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: "This let ... More >>

Drink up, gals! Steve Horner's anti-ladies' night campaign dries up.

​Steve Horner, go back to your corner. This week, Westword received a packet that contained copies of a dozen letters sent to Horner, the anti-ladies' night crusader, from Steven Chavez, director of the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, all dated March 11 and all starting this way: "This let ... More >>

Ladies night ban: Party pooper Steve Horner does to Minnesota what he tried to do in CO

From Fox News coverage.​It's been quiet on the Colorado bar front since Steve Horner, our anti-ladies night crusader, moved on -- but ladies nights became a hot topic again yesterday when the Fox and Friends morning show featured a debate over the Minnesota Department of Human Rights recently ... More >>

Ladies' night all right with New York judges

Roy Den Hollander,feminist foe​Here in Colorado, ladies' nights have survived Steve Horner's repeated attempts to shut them down, and a New York appeals court has just ruled that ladies' nights are all right with them, too. The Manhattan-based Second Court of Appeals rejected Manhattan attorn ... More >>

Guy Harvey's Perfect Spot Bar & Grill set to open in Northfield Stapleton

Lori Midson​Baited by the lure of the Rocky Mountains, where fly fishing and lodge lounging are popular pastimes, Guy Harvey, the marine biologist, author, conservationist, scientist, world famous marine life artist and prolific restaurateur, chose Denver -- specifically Northfield Stapleton ... More >>

Ladies' night all right in this new book: Steve Horner, start reading!

Steve Horner.​Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader, gave Denver bars fits a few years ago, then took his campaign back on the road -- most recently to Las Vegas. The slew of complaints he's filed in Sin City against resort/casinos over special deals for bikini-clad babes are about to ... More >>

Ladies' night foe Steve Horner takes on Las Vegas... and lives to tell about it

Steve Horner.​Local bar owners breathed a sigh of relief when Steve Horner left town taking the discrimination charges he'd filed against them for offering ladies' night deals with him. Denver's gain is Las Vegas's loss: Sin City is the current focus of Horner's campaign. But rather than earni ... More >>