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A new bill would put craft beers in grocery stores

Hot damn! Central Bistro & Bar redefines what a neighborhood restaurant can be

Slide show: A Closer Look at Central Bistro & Bar

Movie violence has never been better...or more reckless

Alice Cooper will bring all of his personalities to town this week

See also: Slide show: Alice Cooper at the Paramount Theatre

Hapa Sushi -- sexy rolls, raw fish and edamame

I made my first foray into sushi at the relatively ripe age of twenty (I don't count the gobs of bad California rolls that I squished down before that), and it was an instant, passionate love affair akin to the greatest romances of all time. Romeo and Juliet, Bogey and Bacall, Robert Pattinson and K ... More >>

Jason Sheehan: Don't take anyone's advice about anything

In advance of Gretchen Kurtz's debut next week as the new Cafe critic, we asked some of our previous restaurant reviewers to weigh in -- and given their jobs, we do mean weigh in -- with advice for our newest critic. Kyle Wagner, now the travel editor at the Denver Post, served up her thoughts first ... More >>

The Book of Mormon really is that good

Top five Colorado-animals-behaving-badly stories

Yes, animals are adorable. But they can also be destructive, as witnessed by the havoc wreaked by a certain squirrel this week -- more on that below. The chaos-loving rodent inspired us to round up five recent stories about critters gone wild, in a manner of speaking. Count down our favorites below ... More >>

Part two: James Van Dyk, exec chef of Lucky's Cafe, weighs in on vegans and the missing fish

James Van Dyk Lucky's Cafe 3980 Broadway, Boulder 303-444-5007 This is part two of my chat with James Van Dyk, exec chef of Lucky's Cafe in Boulder. Part one of our interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in America: Just one: Momofuku Ssäm Bar in New York. David Chang's food ... More >>

Cole Schneider of Handsome Little Devils on scaling down Squirm...and magic!

It's been a busy sixteen months for Handsome Little Devils. In October 2011, the vaudevillian comedy troupe took its Squirm Burpee Circus act -- a blend of acrobatics, juggling and juggling -- to Broadway, enjoying a successful run at the New Victory Theatre and getting positive reviews in such litt ... More >>

The Book of Mormon tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Sunday

The Book of Mormon's Denver premiere should have musical fans dancing.​You could pretty much hear the yelps of joy all the way out here when The Book of Mormon opened in New York last year. The New York Times declared this musical -- by our very own South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Sto ... More >>

Five musicals based on weirdly tragic true stories

You sure about this, guys?​Although the musical -- one of the sillier holdouts from an era when theater was more, you know, theatrical -- is mostly exploited these days for its camp potential (see: The Book of Mormon), it's still not quite dead as a study of human emotion, either. And although ... More >>

Art’s Pros and Cons

Stop lying about Black Swan and score some other new releases this week, March 29, 2011

​Denver is finally starting to show signs of spring, which means one thing: We need a variety of media that simulates real outdoor activities so we don't actually have to leave the house at any point. Thankfully, Tiger Woods is still somehow a spokesman for a golf game, some new books are comi ... More >>

Nicholas Brooks: Ex-CU student charged in Sylvie Cachay murder had no record in Boulder

Nicholas Brooks.​Update: Yesterday afternoon, we noted that local media had not yet reported that Nicholas Brooks, 24, the suspect in the sensational slaying of fashion designer Sylvie Cachay in New York City, had previously attended CU. Now, however, the Boulder Daily Camera has picked up th ... More >>

Cherry Creek High students cleverly use NY Times blogs to wow college admissions directors

​The college searches of six Cherry Creek High School students are getting national exposure thanks to "The Choice," a New York Times blog series starting today -- and it's a win-win situation. Why? Do the math.

Whose Dole Is It, Anyway?

ICE seizes torrent websites in Wack-a-mole-esque operation

Kicking ass and seizing websites​When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn't prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it's prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like ... More >>

Fueled by venture-capital funding and a love for unknown bands, can Boulder's Next Big Sound predict the next rock star?

Four Denver restaurants get major shout-outs from the New York Times

Lori Midson​Time and time again, in our weekly Chef and Tell interviews, we read about local kitchen commanders lamenting the dearth of Denver restaurant exposure on a national level. In fact, Jeff Bolton, exec chef of Second Home Kitchen & Bar, and the subject of this week's Chef and Tell Q&A ... More >>

Michael Bennet: Spokesman praises local press for hammering Andrew Romanoff

Michael Bennet.​Update below: Last week in this space, Andrew Romanoff insisted that his quick rise in the polls didn't come as a result of negative attacks against his primary opponent, Michael Bennet. But during a primary-eve conversation, Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid predicts that Romano ... More >>

Jane Norton will get at least one endorsement during Sarah Palin speech -- from Hugh Hewitt

"Either way, I'm a winner."​Yesterday, we told you about bickering between Republican senatorial hopefuls Ken Buck and Jane Norton over Sarah Palin's Denver appearance on Saturday. Buck said it would be rude of Palin to endorse Norton, which the grapevine says she plans to do, the same day as ... More >>

Stan Kroenke dubbed "Quietest Sports Emperor"

Stan Kroenke's most embarrassing moment?​ What is it about Denver that makes its richest people want to keep their lips zipped? Phil Anschutz, the state's wealthiest person, refuses to grant interviews despite personally owning newspapers and online info properties, not to mention theaters an ... More >>

The Denver Public Library is not the Wild West, despite what the New York Times says

A Flickr photo.Library books don't grow on trees, you know.​ Wouldn't it be great if you could just negotiate-away your overdue library fines? If you could stroll into the Denver Public Library, offer them $1 and have your borrower status upgraded from "terribly horrible" to "awesomely awesome ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: Boulder officials fire up medical-marijuana dispensary regulations

​What's happened to the liberal mecca of Boulder? First, cops put a lid -- and some pants -- on plans to resurrect the Halloween Mall Crawl, as well as the Naked Pumpkin Run. And now the city's looking at strictly regulating medical marijuana dispensaries -- if it doesn't ban them altogether. ... More >>

Last night's behind-the-scenes glimpse at Channel 31

Ron Zappolo.​We love when performers and public figures go off when they don't realize cameras are rolling and microphones are on. Take, for instance, Christian Bale's astonishing on-set rant or then-President George Bush confiding to veep Dick Cheney that the New York Times' Adam Clymer is an ... More >>

Former Buff Keith Miller shows off his pipes. (No, the other pipes).

​If there was only some way to retroactively haze him, Keith Miller's old Colorado teammates would have plenty of fun with the recent story in the New York Times celebrating the old fullback's upcoming solos for the Metropolitan Opera, and revealing his old movie-watching habits: Mr. Miller' ... More >>

Nerdivore: David Sirota's nerd blog now open to the nerdy public

Denver-based "everything for nerds" site Nerdivore is taking the great leap into Web 2.0. From now on, you, the nerds of the world, can contribute to Nerdivore. Until now, Nerdivore had been the more-or-less sole province of political columnist, New York Times bestselling author, Denverite and, a ... More >>

St. Vincent

Tuesday, June 2, Bluebird Theater, 303-830-8497.

Writer's Colony

Wok This Way

Jennifer 8. Lee explores the connection between Jews and Chinese food.

Resurrecting the Colorado Countess

National Press Corps Gets DNC Party Preview

Media members planning to cover the Democratic convention have big questions for Howard Dean and his crew. Like, what about the food?

Liberal Learning

Paul Krugman discusses The Conscience of a Liberal.

Kill the Messenger

The tragic death of one of America's most important investigative journalists

Letter-Box Edition

Wordplay explores the cult of the crossword puzzle.

Evolution's Merry-Go-Round

Modern Muse forcefully revisits the suddenly timely Inherit the Wind.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 23, 2004

The Message

Ike-Witness to History

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 31, 2003

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 29, 2003

The Message

Fact or Fiction?

Follow That Story

In the Eye of the Storm

Game's Up

Another major-league strike, and baseball could be out -- for good.

Best political resurrection

Roy Romer

Time Framed

Photos show the color of Times Square through black-and-white photography.

Savage Love

Mouthing Off

OFF LIMITS

A CASE OF JOURNALISMO