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The 50 best rap lyrics of all time: Complete list

Last week, we took a look at the fifty worst rap lyrics of all time. Going through all the dreck and drivel to get to the crème de la crème of crappiness was tedious and rather exhausting. This week, we even things out by taking a look at the other end of the spectrum and examining rap lyrics to f ... More >>

The 50 best rap lyrics of all time: 50-26

Last week, we took a look at the fifty worst rap lyrics of all time. Culling through all the dreck and drivel to get to the crème de la crème of crappiness was tedious and rather exhausting. This week we even things out by taking a look at the other end of the spectrum and examining the fifty best ... More >>

Drew Archer, chef of TAG Burger Bar, on pointing fingers, Ruffles and bacon

Drew Archer TAG Burger Bar 1222 Madison Street 303-736-2260 www.madisonstreetdenver.com This is part one of my chef interview with Drew Archer, from TAG Burger Bar. Tune in tomorrow for part two of my interview with Archer. The first thing that emerges from the kitchen is a heap of french fries: ... More >>

Round two with Shaun Motoda, chef de cuisine at TAG|RAW BAR

Shaun Motoda TAG|RAW BAR 1423 Larimer Street 303-996-2685 tagrawbar.com This is part two of my interview with Shaun Motoda, chef de cuisine of TAG|RAW BAR; part one of our conversation ran yesterday. Favorite Denver/Boulder restaurant(s) other than your own: I love the Cherry Cricket because their ... More >>

Chefs Beau Simmons, Troy Guard and Matthew Franklin host a garden party tonight

Beau Simmons, the executive chef of Jonesy's EatBar, has spent a large part of the long, hot summer tending to his garden in Highland, a verdant plot that takes up the majority of the back yard of the home that belongs to Leigh Jones, the owner of Jonesy's. And Simmons, who's growing nearly sixty ... More >>

Matt Collier, former sous chef at The Kitchen, tapped as the executive chef of T|ACO in Boulder

You'd think a chef with the pedigree of Matt Collier would balk at the thought of slinging tacos, but Collier, who was a sous chef at The Kitchen in Boulder for nearly four years, and whose culinary lineage also includes stints at Blackbird, the Drawing Room, Boka (a Michelin-starred restaurant), Pu ... More >>

Jensen Cummings, exec chef of Row 14, on the one ingredient that tastes like "burnt toenails marinated in Kroger brand vegetable oil" and "nooders."

Lori Midson​ Jensen Cummings Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar 891 14th Street 303-825-0100 www.row14denver.com This is part one of my interview with Jensen Cummings, exec chef of Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar. Part two of that interview will run in this space tomorrow. A broom and a dustpan -- these are ... More >>

Denver's most notable restaurant couple, Leigh Sullivan and Troy Guard, split -- and a mass exodus from TAG ensues

It's splitsville for Denver restaurant couple Leigh Sullivan and Troy Guard.​It was a Las Vegas, tunnel-of-love, drive-thru wedding. Leigh Sullivan and Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TAG and TAG| RAW BAR, met just three months before they took off for Las Vegas and tied the knot in 2004 in the ... More >>

TAG | RAW BAR brings fresh meat and bright lights to a basement space

Troy Guard becomes an operating partner of Madison Street

Lori Midson​Last week, Joe Vostrejs, the COO of Larimer Associates, was heading home from Madison Street, the Congress Park neighborhood restaurant he opened in October of last year, when he started to think about dots -- specifically, connecting those dots to Troy Guard, the chef/owner of TA ... More >>

Cavalia-crazed yard artists parade their one-trick ponies: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Figure 81a. West Highland: You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it wash.​ Denver residents don't need to pay the $134-$240 Cavalia ticket price to see a "multimedia extravaganza of unprecedented magic and emotion" when innovative equestrian artistry can be viewed in nearly every n ... More >>

The Denver FIVE host their last bash of the year tonight at the James Beard House

​Tonight, while the rest of us will be grubbing and imbibing at Dish, Westword's annual bash dedicated to Denver's dining culture, the chefs who comprise the Denver FIVE -- Jamey Fader, Troy Guard, Brian Laird, Matt Selby and Tyler Wiard -- will be bringing down the storied James Beard House i ... More >>

This week in Cafe Society food bloggery: To drink or not to drink vodka, Justin Brunson, cupcakes, TAG | RAW BAR and turkey legs

Lori MidsonJustin Brunson, owner and chef of Masterpiece Delicatessen​ Behold the best highlights from this week's Cafe Society blog: 1. Sean Kenyon, the no-holds-barred bar baron at Steuben's, takes on vodka -- specifically whether or not it's run its course -- in this week's Ask the Barten ... More >>

Troy Guard to open TAG RAW BAR early next year on Larimer Square

​"We're in the very beginning stages of developing the menu concept, but there's no hood and there's no grease trap, so everything that we serve will be raw," says Leigh Sullivan-Guard. That's the idea behind TAG | RAW BAR, a new restaurant from Leigh and her husband, Troy Guard, the chef/o ... More >>

Food and Shelter

Oak Tavern's Jeremy Roosa plays with sharp knives, ballyhoos the virtues of acidity, boohoos iceberg lettuce and sings the praises of the spatula

Lori Midson Jeremy Roosa, exec chef of the Oak Tavern ​Jeremy Roosa Oak Tavern 1414 Market Street 303-888-0655 www.oaktaverndenver.com "I dress like a clown, I play with food, fire and sharp knives, and they pay me. Does it get any more fun than that?" asks Jeremy Roosa. The executive chef o ... More >>

How Colorado cooled the controversy between the Humane Society and big agriculture

Tonight: The Denver Five converge at Elway's for a "partio"

The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​The Denver Five -- Tyler Wiard, Keegan Gerhard (D Bar Desserts), Troy Guard (TAG), Matt Selby (Vesta Dipping Grill and Steuben's) and Jamey Fader (Lola and Big Red F Restaurant Group) will convene tonight at E ... More >>

Snaps from the Denver Food & Wine Classic

Lori MidsonTyler Wiard, Jamey Fader, Troy Guard and Matt Selby​The three-day Denver Food & Wine Classic wrapped up on Saturday, September 12 with a Grand Tasting on the wet and sloppy grounds (thanks, rain) of Metro State College. To see a slideshow of all the fun, including some action snaps ... More >>

Tonight: Denver Five dinner at TAG with local winemaker Ben Parsons

The Denver Five: Keegan Gerhard, Troy Guard, Matt Selby, Jamey Fader and Tyler Wiard​ To celebrate the fact that the Taste of Colorado won't be back for another year, the Denver Five, a cartel of homegrown chefs that get together every so often in each other's restaurant kitchens, are cooking ... More >>

Modmarket is Boulder's newest green restaurant

Lori Midson​Modmarket opens tomorrow at 1600 28th Street in the struggling 29th Street retail district in Boulder. But since Boulderites have a thing for green, and Modmarket's "menu is created from ingredients like you find along the perimeter of your local grocer ... you know, fresh produce, the ... More >>

Crested Butte Land and Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today

The first day of the four-day Crested Butte Land Trust Food and Wine Festival uncorks today. And unlike some local food and wine festivals where our homegrown chefs are snubbed, the Crested Butte powwow, which includes wine seminars, wine walks, chef dinners, grand tastings and gourmet picnics, par ... More >>

Taste of the Nation is hottest ticket in town

Photo by Lori MidsonSean Yontz and Matt Selby One of Denver's best annual culinary celebrations comes down on Sunday, July 19, at Mile High Station (2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue), this site of this year's Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation, a fantastic food-centric event that raises funds to ... More >>

Partake in tonight's Plates for the Peak at Vesta Dipping Grill

One of the best food events of the year, Plates for the Peak, a small plates fundraiser and silent auction to benefit Urban Peak, a non-profit that saves kids from the jaws of homelessness, returns for a sixth year to Vesta Dipping Grill, 1822 Blake Street, tonight from 6 to 10 p.m. The star-st ... More >>

TAG, you're it...but not quite yet

Just checked in with Leigh Sullivan to find out the status of TAG Restaurant, the long-anticipated spot that she and her husband, Troy Guard (TAG, get it?), are creating at 1441 Larimer Street. Back in August, Leigh and Troy were looking at a February 1 opening for the restaurant, which is taking ... More >>

Milking It: High School Musical cereal

Up, Up and Away

Don’t miss the final season of Starship Troy.

Two Views of High School Musical

Now Playing

Capsule reviews of current shows.

Growing Pains

The Troy Chavez Memorial Peace Garden blooms.

Troy Chavez Memorial Peace Garden

Pure Thought

History does the talking in All That I Have Lost.

Head Games

At least one out of every five Colorado prisoners is mentally ill -- some violent, some undetected or untreated. How did the Big House become the Bug House?

Dancing With the Stars

Dancing With the Stars

Cowboy Troy

Tuesday, July 4, Greeley Stampede, Greeley, 1-866-464-2626.

The NeverEnding Story

Saturday Midnights at the Esquire

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy.

Guy Walks Into a Bar...

The Lion's Lair celebrates one year of comedy -- sort of

Get Up, Stand Up

I set out to write a story on open-mike nights. But the joke was on me.

Pitt and the Pabulum

Brad's ripped and The Iliad's shredded in the scintillating spectacle Troy.

The Batman of Evergreen

The quest for the perfect swing begins with a dad in his suburban driveway.

Swing Away

August Wilson's Fences scores a home run at the Acoma Center.

Original Sin

Matthew Mirabal was convicted of killing his wife. But his church still wants to save him.

The Daily Grind

Troy Lowrie’s dad got the bodies to build a strip-club empire. Troy got the brains. Now he wants respect beyond Glendale.

Dog Days

Letters

Older but Bitter

Sixty-eight-year-old Wanda Crawford hasn't killed anyone yet. But authorities say it's not for lack of trying.

Hallelujah Chorus

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