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Vesta Dipping Grill gets a closeup on the Travel Channel tonight

Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, will be featured on the Travel Channel's Food Paradise series tonight as part of the program's exploration of the best steak dishes around the country. See also: - Trends without end, round five: Pickling, pop-ups and moving beyond buzzwords - Photos: Happy ... More >>

Tonight: Monthly wine dinner at Parallel Seventeen

Fresh off its appearance on the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods last night, Parallel Seventeen is hosting a four-course wine dinner from 5 to 10 p.m. tonight. See also: - Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, featuring burritos, bugs and bulls' balls from local restaurants, will air Monday - Trends withou ... More >>

Artopia, benefits, wine dinners and more on the calendar this week

Artopia, Westword's eighteenth annual celebration of Denver's arts and culture scene, takes place this Saturday in the Golden Triangle. The event features live music and DJs, fine artists, poets, culinary artists and cocktail creatives at City Hall, the Living Room, Salty Dog and Bar Standard. Visi ... More >>

Andrew Zimmern's Bizarre Foods, featuring burritos, bugs and bulls' balls from local restaurants, will air Monday

Last fall, in early September, Andrew Zimmern, host of the Travel Channel's Bizarre Foods, jetted to Denver, his film crew on his heels, to film footage of an upcoming episode of his wildly popular television show, in which Zimmern stuffs his gullet with foodstuffs that some people would find peculi ... More >>

Reader: If people like to see drunk cyclists, Cruisers are made for TV

The Denver Cruisers were out in force last night, for a "retro ski wear" ride that could be featured on an It's Five O'Clock Somewhere, the pilot for a Travel Channel show hosted by Bert Kreischer. But is the Cruiser Ride ready for prime time? See also: - Denver Cruisers to be featured in Travel ... More >>

Join the Denver Cruiser Ride tonight for its fifteen minutes of fame

A Denver Cruiser Ride in the heart of December has to have a reason -- or at least a reason more urgent than the usual "because." And in fact, tonight's DCR Retro Ride is getting in gear for a great reason: It's destined to be part of a locally produced Travel Channel pilot with Bert Kreischer of th ... More >>

Denver Cruisers to be featured in Travel Channel pilot with off-season ride

People across the country may have their eyes on the Mile High City because legalized marijuana is officially a thing. But Denver's also going to get some national attention for another celebrated activity: its night-time bike parties. The Denver Cruisers are hosting an off-season ride tonight that ... More >>

Paranormal investigator LeeAnna Jonas on her first apparition and evil spirits at the Gilpin County Jail

When LeeAnna Jonas saw her first apparition during a fifth-grade basement seance, she was immediately hooked on the paranormal. Jonas has come a long way since then: She founded her own all-female ghost-hunting team, the Spirit Realm Investigative Project, which has been featured on the Travel Chann ... More >>

Reader: My Brother's Bar serves the one-and-only jalapeno cheeseburger

A crew from Food Paradise stopped in Denver earlier this year to film at My Brother's Bar, whose JCB rated a segment on the "Hamburger Paradise 2" episode that aired last night on the Travel Channel. The Denver shots included interviews with longtime bartender Jimmy Hayde (who had a big day yesterd ... More >>

My Brother's Bar featured tonight on Travel Channel's Food Paradise

Earlier this year, the crew of Food Paradise traveled the country in search of "the belly-busting best places to get your burger on -- from a heart-stopping monster burger in Las Vegas, to cheese-stuffed burgers in Minnesota and wild game gut-bombs in Texas." To the JCB at My Brother's Bar in Den ... More >>

Five tips for visiting a haunted house

I hit the 13th Floor over the weekend, and I can sum up the experience with this: I came, I saw, I almost whizzed my drawers. I've trotted through miles of haunted houses over the years, but this one is by far the scariest, trippy-est, most off-the-chain that I've ever been to. I don't want to spoi ... More >>

Zombies! The Asylum and 13th Floor dare you to nut up or shut up

Zombies have never not been cool as f*ck, but thanks to the insane popularity of The Walking Dead, anything and everything zombie is what all the cool kids are into this Halloween season, and two of Denver's premier haunted houses are feeding some bwains into the trend with the "Undead" trapped-in-b ... More >>

Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern eats his way through Denver - and Parallel Seventeen chef Mary Nguyen's fantastical menu

I learned several things at last night's Denver Adventurous Eaters Club dinner at Parallel Seventeen: 1) Pig uterus is absolutely lovely and should appear on menus everywhere. 2) Parallel Seventeen chef/owner Mary Nguyen is one badass chef, who has the ability to cook just about anything, "bizarre ... More >>

Bizarre Foods host Andrew Zimmern arrives in Denver this weekend for an adventurous romp of eating

Back in July, I got a phone call from a woman involved with Tremendous! Entertainment for the Travel Channel, the cable network that hosts, among other shows, Bizarre Foods, the fast-paced, food-centric program that showcases Andrew Zimmern, the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef, clamping his ... More >>

Review: Feel the Energy 03/09-10/12

There are assumptions to be made prior to attending something billed as a "Paranormal House Party." One makes assumptions about the crowd, about what could be passed off as "evidence" supporting the existence of ghosts, and what might be found lurking in the dark recesses of the Stanley Hotel's earl ... More >>

Behold Feel the Energy, a paranormal party at the Stanley that's sure to be out of this world

Next weekend, a highly unique paranormal party is slated to take over the infamously spooky Stanley Hotel, which, of course, provided the inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining. Part paranormal investigation and part dance extravaganza, Feel the Energy, as its been dubbed is a party that exists ... More >>

Five must-see movies at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival this week

​The 2011 Adventure Film Festival gets under way in Boulder this week with a free Adventure Film Community Night at the Patagonia store at 1212 Pearl Street on Thursday at 7 p.m. and a Photographer Seminar at REI Boulder, 1789 28th Street, on Friday at noon, before the first screenings at the ... More >>

Ed Edmunds on electric chairs, haunted houses and the Travel Channel's Making Monsters

​Chances are you've seen -- and screamed at -- some of Ed Edmunds' work, whether you realize it or not. The artist is responsible for creating the creepy animatronics in haunted houses all over Colorado, as well as for making custom projects like set pieces for Alice Cooper. Edmunds' Greeley c ... More >>

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Bert the Conqueror takes on Twister II and Clear Creek rafting on Travel Channel (VIDEOS)

Videos below.​On July 13, the indefatigable Travel Channel star Bert the Conqueror seeks thrills in Colorado -- and we've got a preview. First up, he and Good Morning America forecaster Sam Champion, who'll host Bert on GMA on the 13th, ride Twister II at Elitch Gardens. Then, Bert heads to Gl ... More >>

Diego's serves up the taste of Pueblo -- and a Slopper!

Diego's serves a whopper of a Slopper.​Four months after it opened in an unlikely below-ground spot just off the 16th Street Mall, Diego's Mexican Food and Cantina won the People's Choice award for green chile at Denver's Cinco de Mayo celebration. And with good reason, we discovered when we d ... More >>

Bert the Conqueror takes on Colorado

Bert is icey like Ceddy Bu.​How's this for a job: You ride a bunch roller coasters, and then you make a television show about you riding a bunch of roller coasters. That's pretty much the job of the Travel Channel's Bert Kreischer, better known as Bert the Conqueror, whose show features him tr ... More >>

Biker Jim's elk sausage is Susan Feniger's "Best Thing" she ever ate

Lori MidsonAccording to celeb chef Susan Feniger, Biker Jim's elk dog is one of those things that you must eat before you die.​Four years ago, Susan Feniger, Food Network personality, star chef, restaurateur, a leading authority on Latin cuisine and proponent of street food, was in Denver bum ... More >>

Today in Stoke: Sender Films releases Reel Rock Film Tour 2010 DVD

​Boulder-based adventure film company Sender Films just put out a new DVD compiling all six climbing films from the 5th annual Reel Rock Film Tour (DVD trailer after the jump): The Swiss Machine documents Ueli Steck's alpine speed record on The Eiger Nordwand; First Round, First Minute follows ... More >>

Gray's Coors Tavern serves up a post-Thanksgiving Christmas slopper

A Christmas slopper at Gray's Coors Tavern -- smothered in red and green​The traffic jam on northbound I-25 started south of Pueblo. There was only one logical course of action: to brake for a slopper at Gray's Coors Tavern, at 515 West Fourth in Pueblo. This bar has had only two owners since ... More >>

Food Wars gets sloppers in Pueblo tonight

​Gray's Coors Tavern and the Sunset Inn go head to head -- make that slopper to slopper -- tonight on Food Wars on the Travel Channel. A slopper is a messy delicacy unique to Pueblo: an open-face cheeseburger served in a soup bowl, and covered with red or green chile. The Food Wars crew, inc ... More >>

The week in Cafe Society bloggery: pork slogans, lactating camels, sex toys, bratwurst, blood sausage and spoo

​Maybe it's the ridiculous, intolerable heat that made this week so weird and wacky, and the Cafe Society trolls -- specifically "Recession" and "Poutiner" and all your other bogus aliases (we've got your IP address, schmuck) -- so moronic and volatile. Whatever the cause, the last five days o ... More >>

Biker Jim gets love from Tony Bourdain on tonight's episode of No Reservations

Lori Midson ​Back in November, acerbic mouthpiece Tony Bourdain spent a few days in Denver, where he took down Sandra Lee and Rachael Ray (among others) from the stage at the Buell and stomached nearly a half dozen hot dogs from Biker Jim's wiener cart at 16th and Arapahoe, an apparent epiph ... More >>

Tonight: Find out how Man v. Food's Adam Richman fared at the West End Tavern

​Adam Richman is the host of the Travel Channel's Man v. Food, a show that takes him across the country, trying his pluck at some of the craziest eating challenges America has to offer. Tonight is the season premiere, and Boulder's own West End Tavern will be featured when Richman takes on its ... More >>

Did Adam Richman conquer the West End's challenge? The first Wing King bawks

Mike Lawinski, wing king​In March, Adam Richman traveled to Boulder -- 926 Pearl Street, to be precise -- to tackle the Wing King Challenge at the West End Tavern: fifty chicken wings in thirty minutes. Since the West End introduced the contest a year ago, only fifteen people have managed to f ... More >>

Avenue Grill's Andrew Lubatty on the White House, offal, his way or the highway and the customer who lost his tooth

Lori Midson Avenue Grill executive chef Andrew Lubatty​Andrew Lubatty The Avenue Grill 630 East 17th Avenue 303-861-2820 www.avenuegrill.com Andrew Lubatty can't contain his excitement. The Avenue Grill executive chef is just hours away from boarding a plane and jetting off to Washington, D.C ... More >>

West End Tavern's Wing King Challenge on Man V. Food season opener

​The last time stunt-eater Adam Richman, star of Man V. Food, was seen chowing down in Denver, he was taking on the seven-pound burrito at Jack-n-Grill. And after many hours of prepping and filming and chatting and chewing, the burrito won. But that didn't discourage Richman from making a sec ... More >>

Ted Haggard: Is reality TV in his future?

Is Ted Haggard ready for his closeup?​Update, 11:25 a.m.: Ted Haggard has made his announcement. It involves a launch party for his new church and a possible documentary. Details below the original item, published at 8:36 a.m. Today at 10:30 a.m., embattled Colorado Springs evangelist Ted Hag ... More >>

Travel Channel's Food Wars takes on Pueblo sloppers

A Flickr photo​What's up with Pueblo getting so much attention for its food scene? Not only did the city earn the tenth slot on Livability's recent list of "Surprising Food Cities", but last week the Travel Channel came through town to pit two variations of the city's culinary crown jewel agai ... More >>

Virgilio's new challenge: one pizza, eleven pounds, two hours, no bathroom breaks

The 28-inch pie at Virgilio's ​Virgilio Urbano, the pie man behind Virgilio's Pizzeria, 7986 West Alameda Avenue, has just issued a challenge: Stuff your piehole with a 28-inch pizza -- all 11 pounds of it -- topped with sausage, pepperoni, black olives, mushrooms, green peppers and onions wit ... More >>

Tony Bourdain in Denver: Another convert of Biker Jim and his dogs

Lori MidsonTony Bourdain meets his true love: Biker Jim's sausages​ "Look, when I was here in 2002, I walked for what, eight hours, all over downtown and you know what I found? I found chicken wings -- chicken wings and fried fucking mozzarella sticks. I didn't see anything that looked like it was ... More >>

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Food mouthpiece Tony Bourdain lectures in Denver on November 18

​Tony Bourdain, culinary superhero, book author, brazen, beer drinking badass, global wanderer, Food Network bully and host of the Travel Channel's No Reservations, is lecturing his way across America, regaling sold-out audiences with stories of how he once ate the rectum of a warthog. Presumably ... More >>

Jack-n-Grill brings his burrito bomb to German TV

​Just got a call from Jack Martinez, the patriarch at Jack-n-Grill, 2525 Federal Boulevard (and soon, at 2630 West Belleview Avenue), whose seven-pound burrito nearly gutted Adam Richman, host of the Travel Channel show, Man v. Food, when the TV host stopped by earlier this year to to battle t ... More >>

Jack-n-Grill's Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine

Award-winning Juarez burger from Jack-n-GrillJust got off the phone with a gobsmacked Jack Martinez, the patriarch behind Jack-n-Grill, the family-owned New Mexican joint at 2524 Federal Boulevard whose gut-busting seven-pound burrito, recently featured on the Travel Channel's Man v. Food, was appar ... More >>

From the longest main street to the biggest burrito

Celebrate the world's longest main street at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, when Satellite Bar, 308 East Colfax Avenue, hosts the monthly Happy on the Hill social. Satellite will offer drink specials, and CityGrille, located right across the street at 321 East Colfax, will supply the snacks.(Is i ... More >>

Denver's best burgers go big time

The Cherry Cricket makes one of the town's great hamburgers (here's Jason Sheehan's List of the town's Best Burgers), which is why the Travel Channel will be stopping by Denver's Best Burger Bar at 2641 East Second Avenue today, to film a segment of Man v. Food with host Adam Richman. You can catch ... More >>

Jack-n-Grill gets its fifteen minutes -- and seven pounds -- of fame

Jack-n-Grill, the Martinez family's great New Mexican restaurant at 2524 Federal Boulevard, will get its fifteen minutes of fame this week -- and then some. The focus of all the national attention is Jack-n-Grill's big burrito deal: Take down the house's seven-pound burrito in one sitting (no fair v ... More >>

Hot Dog! Biker Jim’s Excellent Adventure

No Reservations

No Reservations is sweet and savory fare. Without the foam.

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Chuck Humphrey has based his career on gambling. Now he’s calling the bet on online fantasy-sports competitions.

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A misdirected e-mail is a revelation.

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