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Arts Meets Beast returns to Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

The inaugural Art Meets Beast at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver was a surprise hit in 2010, featuring local chefs and arts enthusiasts in a mashup of mammoth proportions. And now the beast is coming back, with a two-day exploration of art that will culminate in a bison feast prepared by six ... More >>

Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy's, to Matt Selby: "Chef, you need a dishwasher?"

Beau Simmons Jonesy's EatBar 400 East 20th Avenue 303-863-7473 www.jeatbar.com Part one of my interview with Beau Simmons, exec chef of Jonesy's EatBar, ran yesterday; below is part two of our chat. Favorite restaurant in America: Longman & Eagle in Chicago, whose motto is "Eat, Sleep, Whiskey." T ... More >>

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 >>

Hot Chick a Latte: Hott help-wanted ad of the week

Sugar House is gone, as is Perky Cups. But if you're interested in wearing a hot outfit while pouring hot coffee, Hot Chick a Latte has a job for you. A sibling of the Seattle chain opened at 4736 East Colfax Avenue two years ago, and just posted a help-wanted ad on Craigslist:

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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.

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

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 >>

Justin Brunson amasses a team of high-profile chefs to run the kitchen at Wild Catch (and starts his own bacon company)

​When Justin Brunson, the captain behind the magnificent Masterpiece Deli, opens Wild Catch, a sustainable seafood restaurant in Uptown, he'll steer his kitchen along with a tag team of several other high-profile chefs -- none of whom, by the way, are from TAG, Troy Guard's Asian restaurant i ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

The Denver Five are passing the torch to five new chefs

From left to right: Matt Selby, Tyler Wiard, Troy Guard, Jamey Fader and Brian Laird​In 2003, Leigh Sullivan was questioning what a lot of us in Denver ponder when discussing the Denver dining climate. Why, she wondered, is everyone focusing on the restaurants and chefs in San Francisco, Chica ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

A trio of restaurant openings

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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Mongol paints a historically hazy but kick-ass picture of everyone's fave emperor, Genghis Khan.

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

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Group of One

Employees bail out of Nine75 and Ocean.

Peace or Death

Kingdom of Heaven is bloody good holy Hollywood fare.

Bite Me

Quagmire

The Simple Life

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

Thunder Rolls

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

Patio Daddy-O

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

Bare Necessities

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

Bite Me

It's All Relative

Scenes from a Sprawl

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

Iph... Only

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

In the Name of the Gods

The epic Tantalus secures its place in theatrical lore.

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

THE GOVERNMENT HAS A LESSON FOR GRADE-SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHERS AND THEIR STUDENTS: THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR FROM ROCKY FLATS.