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Troy

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    James Lee back at the Bitter Bar full time

    A year and a half ago, award-winning bartender James Lee gave up his post as bar manager of the Bitter Bar and beverage director of the Big Red F restaurants to embark on a journey that took him first to Salida and then Denver, where he's worked with Troy Guard, Leigh Sullivan, Robert Thompson and H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Photos and an update: Lowry Beer Garden tapped to open the third week of May

    By this time next month, the Lowry Beer Garden -- the first bona fide beer garden in Denver -- will be pouring suds, most of them local, from the confines of a new kitchen and bar that's part of a larger 8,000 square-foot project in the new Hangar 2 project in Lowry.

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2012

    Joe Freemond, exec chef of the Cellar Wine Bar, on fresh blood and Denver in a nutshell

    Joe Freemond Cellar Wine Bar 2556 15th Street 303-455-9463 www.cwbon15th.com This is part one of my interview with Joe Freemond, exec chef of the Cellar Wine Bar. Part two of our interview will run in this space tomorrow. Raw fish. That's what Joe Freemond gravitated toward when he was a kid. Not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Bill Kelliher of Mastodon: "We started the band, got in the van and started driving"

    Mastodon (due tonight at the Fillmore Auditorium) formed in 2000 after meeting at a High on Fire show -- at least that's the myth, and it suits this band that has made a name for itself as purveyors of the kind of metal that is less about speed and more about a groove and weightiness. In the dozen y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Denver Center Theatre Company announces 2012-13 schedule

    Denver Center Theatre Company Artistic Director Kent Thompson has chosen his 2012-13 lineup. It contains some safe choices, some doubtless designed to appeal to high schoolers, the requisite Christmas show (not A Christmas Carol this time, but White Christmas), two scripts selected from this year's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Larimer Associates will open the Lowry Beer Garden in the new Hangar project

    Joe Vostrejs and his Larimer Associates partners traversed across the country to check out America's beer gardens before they came back to Denver to build their own -- and what they found, admits Vostrejs, was surprising.

  • Culture

    December 8, 2011

    Playwright Laura Eason does a terrific job with Tom Sawyer at the Denver Center

    Joe Vostrejs and his Larimer Associates partners traversed across the country to check out America's beer gardens before they came back to Denver to build their own -- and what they found, admits Vostrejs, was surprising.

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Former Madison Street exec chef Rob Michels lands at Japoix

    Rob MichelsFormer Madison Street chef Rob Michels lands at Japoix.​When former TAG team (and married couple) Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan added Madison Street to their restaurant empire, they tapped a member of the TAG kitchen, Rob Michels, to serve as executive chef, where he worked alongsid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2011

    TAG's former chef de cuisine, Jensen Cummings, is the new executive chef at Row 14

    Marc Piscotty​Two weeks ago, when we broke the news that more than a dozen staffers from TAG, Troy Guard's restaurant in Larimer Square, had walked out the door or submitted their two-week notice as a result of personal issues between Troy and his wife (soon to be ex-wife) Leigh Sullivan, peop ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Five Colorado Rockies promos that might bring out fans -- even if the team doesn't

    Rockies Coca-Cola hat.​With the Colorado Rockies mired in a weeks-long slump, there are fewer and fewer reasons to go the ballpark in the heat of the summer. But just because the product on the field is suffering doesn't mean the product at the gates is doing the same. We're talking about prom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Round two with Hideaway Steakhouse chef Chris Cina

    Lori Midson​ Chris Cina Hideaway Steakhouse 2345 West 112th Avenue, Westminster 303-404-9939 www.hideawaysteakhouse.com This is part two of my interview with Chris Cina, executive chef of Hideaway Steakhouse. Part one of that interview ran in this space yesterday. Favorite restaurant in Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Madison Street's Rob Michaels dishes on dumbing down menus, the pitfalls of parsley and pork heaven

    Lori Midson​ Rob Michaels Madison Street 1222 Madison Street 303-736-2260 www.madisonstreetdenver.com Filipinos are renowned for their unwavering hospitality, for unleashing food feasts that swell the belly, for ensuring that no host allows her guests to leave hungry. "We're known for provi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    TAG lands top bar talents James Lee and Bryan Dayton

    James LeeJames Lee behind the stick at the Bitter Bar, his former home​It's been a busy spring for Troy Guard and Leigh Sullivan-Guard, who opened TAG | RAW BAR in a below-ground spot in Larimer Square just before they became operating partners at Madison Street, the Larimer Associates project ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    First look: Food porn from TAG|RAW BAR

    Lori MidsonThe team behind TAG RAW BAR, which opened today in Larimer Square​At exactly 11 a.m. today, the doors of TAG|RAW BAR, located in the newly remodeled Larimer Square walkway, swung open, and by 11:30, the orange sherbet seats at the pint-size raw bar were jammed with chefs, including ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    New Year's resolutions from Max MacKissock, Matt Selby, Mark DeNittis, Michael Long and twenty-one more Denver/Boulder chefs

    Lori MidsonBrad Rowell, chef at Colt & Gray, resolves to eat twenty percent less pork fat per day and replace that with twenty percent more Schlitz​ Haven't made your New Year's resolutions yet? That makes two of us. But instead of focusing on ourselves, we prodded more than two dozen Denver/ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2010

    Public Enemy, Drive-By Truckers, Sepultura shows announced

    ​After hitting South Africa and Australia in December and January, legendary hip-hop act Public Enemy makes its way to the Ogden Theatre for a co-headlining bill with Karl Denson's Tiny Universe on Saturday, February 19. Jurrasic 5's Chali 2na opens the show. Tickets ($25) for the 16 and over ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2010

    Part two: Big Game's Leo Harvey dishes on trashy cheese dip, his biggest embarrassment and Gordon Ramsay

    Lori Midson ​This is part two of my interview with Leo Harvey, executive chef of Big Game Restaurant & Lounge. To read part one of that interview, click here. Favorite dish to cook at home: Braised chicken thighs and Yukon Gold mashed potatoes. It's a very comforting dish that's hearty, easy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Changing of the Guard as mixologist Mike Henderson leaves TAG

    ​For the past year, under sexy lighting in TAG's chic modern dining room, Troy Guard has put out his particular brand of East meets West fusion,while Mike Henderson and his staff of mixologists craft equally flashy spirits concoctions to pair. There's a changing of the guard under way, thoug ... More >>

  • Dining

    September 10, 2009

    A trio of restaurant openings

    ​For the past year, under sexy lighting in TAG's chic modern dining room, Troy Guard has put out his particular brand of East meets West fusion,while Mike Henderson and his staff of mixologists craft equally flashy spirits concoctions to pair. There's a changing of the guard under way, thoug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Chef and Tell: Jamey Fader of Lola and Big Red F

    Jamey Fader​I've kept company at the bar with Jamey Fader more times than I can count, laughing as he tells me stories about the hippies camped out in their caravans just outside Lola during the DNC, simultaneously shaking and nodding my head while he divulges his latest - and usually crazy - ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2009

    Skinny Pupply, Lyle Lovett & John Hiatt, Urge Overkill shows announced

    ​Skinny Puppy stops at the Ogden Theatre Saturday, November 7 as part of the industrial band's In Solvent See tour, which kicks off October 30. Tickets are $30 in advance and go on sale Friday, August 15. Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt team for an acoustic evening Wednesday, October 7 at the Pikes Pea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2008

    New Year's Eve in Denver: 10 things that won't be a total letdown (we hope)

    New Year's Eve is almost upon us, which means it's time for you and all your friends to argue endlessly about what to do, building the night up so much that it can only turn into a major letdown. But! It doesn't have to be that way. Here, 10 events that may not totally suck and make you regret goin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2008

    Save Jason Sheehan's booth at Nine75

    New Year's Eve is almost upon us, which means it's time for you and all your friends to argue endlessly about what to do, building the night up so much that it can only turn into a major letdown. But! It doesn't have to be that way. Here, 10 events that may not totally suck and make you regret goin ... More >>

  • Culture

    May 1, 2008

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    March 27, 2008

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    March 20, 2008

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    February 28, 2008

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    February 14, 2008

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  • Dining

    February 14, 2008

    Sparrow Flies the Coop

    While Sparrow looks for a new home, Denver chefs head to New York City.

  • Culture

    December 27, 2007

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    December 13, 2007

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    December 6, 2007

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    November 29, 2007

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  • Dining

    June 14, 2007

    Group of One

    Employees bail out of Nine75 and Ocean.

  • Dining

    September 14, 2006

    Family Affair

    Steaking a claim on Jim Sullivan's next project: Oscar's.

  • Film

    May 5, 2005

    Peace or Death

    Kingdom of Heaven is bloody good holy Hollywood fare.

  • Dining

    February 24, 2005

    Bite Me

    Quagmire

  • Music

    December 2, 2004

    Master of Porpoise

    Mastodon's monstrous metal is just breaking the surface.

  • Dining

    September 9, 2004

    The Simple Life

    Soup -- and everything else -- is on at Cafe Jordano.

  • Film

    July 29, 2004

    Thunder Rolls

    A '60s British TV series gets an extreme makeover.

  • Summer Guide

    May 27, 2004

    Patio Daddy-O

    Thirteen perfect patios on which to waste the boozy days of summer.

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Bare Necessities

    Sometimes a girl -- even an almost-naked girl -- just needs a mom.

  • Dining

    November 14, 2002

    Bite Me

    It's All Relative

  • News

    August 9, 2001

    Scenes from a Sprawl

    The citizens of Berthoud thought they could control how fast their town grew. The developers had other ideas.

  • Culture

    March 22, 2001

    Iph... Only

    The Tir Ná nÓg Theatre Company shines in an updated version of an old play.

  • Culture

    October 26, 2000

    In the Name of the Gods

    The epic Tantalus secures its place in theatrical lore.

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