Whittier

Tattoo Nation documents California's romance with ink

See also: Tattoo Nation director Eric Schwartz on the oral history of the Chicano black-and-grey art form

Travel by Train

Little Pub Company will open its newest spot in the former M&D's Cafe

The Little Pub Company -- owners of The Spot, the Irish Hound, Wymans and seventeen other neighborhood watering holes -- will open its newest location in the former M&D's Café, at 2800 28th Avenue, which closed a year ago. Mark Berzins, who runs Little Pub, says he's not normally an urban pioneer, ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen will be temporarily closed next week

Frank's Kitchen will close temporarily, from September 2-9, so that owners Dina and Frank Berta can take a short "stay-cation." The restaurant will re-open Monday, September 10.

Go out on the town for National Night Out

Tonight is National Night Out -- a program started by the National Association of Town Watch that raises awareness for crime prevention in communities across the country. And several local restaurants and organizations are getting involved by hosting cool events for the cause, all offering good reas ... More >>

Gang violence by the numbers: Murders up, aggravated assaults down

This week's cover story, "Flash Point," details Denver's response to what many perceive as a recent rise in gang violence. According to the most up-to-date statistics from the Denver Police Department, six murders were linked to gang activity between January and May of this year. That's up from five ... More >>

Gang-related deaths are on the rise in Denver

Also read: Denver's plan to cool down gang violence

Denver's 80205 makes national list of areas rapidly getting whiter

Today, we have for you a piece of news that you probably already knew just by looking around you: Parts of Denver are rapidly getting whiter! So much so that Denver's 80205 zip code managed to make it onto a list of the fastest-gentrifying neighborhoods in the country. Hooray!

Cardiac arrest: Residents of 5 Denver neighborhoods most likely to suffer

The statistics are heartbreaking. In five Denver neighborhoods -- Baker, Westwood, Whittier, Villa Park and Valverde -- residents are several times more likely to experience cardiac arrests than anywhere else in the city. Worse, locals who had heart attacks in three of the five communities during t ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen adds a dollar taco night, a deck and extended Sunday hours

It's been a year since Frank and Dina Berta, who once wrote for Nation's Restaurant News, opened Frank's Kitchen in the Whittier neighborhood, and they've spent the past twelve months building a joint that, with its homey interior and eclectic menu filled with comfort food, feels like it could have ... More >>

Like a good neighbor, Frank's Kitchen is there

Photos: Frank's Kitchen

Mark MangerDina and Frank Berta are making Frank's Kitchen part of the Whittier neighborhood.​For this week's Cafe review, I head up to 2600 High Street, where husband-and-wife team Frank and Dina Berta run Frank's Kitchen, a restaurant that feels so integral to the neighborhood that it seems ... More >>

Denver's five best offbeat neighborhood restaurants

Oblio's​Some of the most interesting restaurants in the area aren't the hot spots that just opened or the fine-dining mainstays. Rather, they're the quirky eateries nestled into neighborhoods where crowds of regulars gather for good food and better entertainment, places that engage not just th ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen makes itself at home in the Whittier neighborhood

Mark Manger​Frank and Dina Berta didn't set out to open a restaurant. Instead, they were exploring the idea of a food truck, and searching out locations for a commercial kitchen that would serve as their commissary. But then they found the storefront in the Whittier neighborhood where the Far ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen hooks another Friday fish fry

​Frank's Kitchen just celebrated its three-month birthday yesterday, but diners get the present today. The tiny cafe in the Whittier neighborhood -- seating for ten, sixteen if it's not too hot to sit outside -- offered a fish fry last Friday that was so popular that Frank's was out of fish ... More >>

Fish fry at Frank's Kitchen

A Flickr photo.​The Friday fish fry is a time-honored tradition in Catholicism -- and though many religious rules have gone by the wayside, fried fish tastes so heavenly that we're sticking by this one. And tonight, inspired by a recent shipment of Alaskan cod and flounder, Frank's Kitchen, th ... More >>

Restaurant roll call for May

Black Crown Lounge is looking good on South Broadway.​The dining scene saw lots of action last month, including the opening of two new spots in the 500 block of East Colfax -- and the surprise closings of two Mark Tarbell restaurants in the Streets at SouthGlenn, including the one that served ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen now serving fresh comfort food in Whittier

Frank's Kitchen is now open just west of City Park.​Frank and Dina Berta want their new restaurant, Frank's Kitchen, to be the go-to spot for the Whittier neighborhood. "We've gotten a very positive response," says Dina of Frank's, a breakfast and lunch joint that opened May 19. "I think the ... More >>

The Kitchen [Next Door] will take sustainability seriously

The Kitchen [Next Door] will have a local focus.​Last Friday we got a first look at the The Kitchen [Next Door], the third in the growing family of restaurants that started six years ago when The Kitchen sprang to life on the west end of Pearl Street in Boulder. Partners Kimbal Musk and Hugo M ... More >>

Reader: A downtown grocery store would help this food desert bloom

​The revelation that downtown might get a grocery store had urban residents clipping coupons and packing up their cloth bags. here's how Carly greeted the news: If Denver was set up to have a city block (or has one currently) where you could get meat, cheese, produce, sundries, etc on one b ... More >>

Frank's Kitchen will bring diner food -- and more -- to Whittier

​Frank Berta was given a diary when he was ten, and his very first entry read: "today we had chicken and it was delicious." That youthful love of food spawned a lifetime interest in cooking. And after years of owning his own contracting business, he's giving up remodeling to take that intere ... More >>

Why do Mexican immigrants stay stuck on the bottom rungs of the success ladder?

Crips burned down the Holly in Bloods territory, but can peace emerge from the ashes in northeast Park Hill?

A cunning American boy becomes a Mexican cartel soldier and East L.A. executioner

City Lax brings lacrosse to inner-city Denver

Jezebel's serves up spirits — alcoholic and otherwise

Spitters are quitters at Swallows

A busy weekend for KJ's Coffee Bar

​Kenny and Kristin Johnson, the owners of KJ's Coffee Bar, have a date with the Denver Department of Excise and License at 1:30 p.m. today, a hearing where they'll ask that their liquor license be changed to a cabaret license, so that they can present live music on a regular basis and "don't h ... More >>

KJ's Coffee Bar adds music to the mix

​KJ's Coffee Bar, the Whittier neighborhood watering hole at 1710 East 25th Avenue that Kenny and Kristin Johnson opened last year, adds music to the mix tonight, when DJ LHD and friends start spinning at 7 p.m. But don't come to KJ's empty-handed: It's running a food bank to benefit Food Bank ... More >>

Inspired by Dave Eggers' 826, a local nonprofit helps kids get their write on

Courtesy of MDPLAttendees of the recent MDPL writing camp work on their projects.​ We don't have an outpost of author Dave Egger's 826 program in Denver, where kids can learn to dream like a writer and write like a writer and even get published like a writer. What we do have, however, is a gro ... More >>

KJ's Coffee Bar expands hours....and offerings

KJ's has become a neighborhood playgroundKJ's Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that's become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today -- until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that's just the start of the changes, ... More >>

KJ's Coffee Bar going for its bar exam

KJ's Coffee Bar opened last summer at 1710 East 25th Avenue, but it finally held its grand opening celebration on May 23. And KJ's could soon have more reason to celebrate. This community gathering place for the Whittier neighborhood is going for a beer/wine liquor license, with a hearing slated f ... More >>

Dana Perino talks for the president; her dad talks for the neighborhood

Delegating Denver #13 of 56: Georgia

The Matrix

Can a white woman with ties to Dune, Keanu Reeves and Burning Man effectively represent Denver’s historically black city council district?

You're Toast!

Franchise owners thought they'd make a fortune serving the toasted sandwiches created by Quiznos. Instead, they got burned.

The Transformers

They created Denver's gang life. A generation later, can they break free?

A Cure for the Common Code

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Down to Earth Music

Mars Hill Cafe gives sanctuary to diversity

Just Can't Get Enough

Collectors' Extravaganza goes from the sophomoric to the sublime

Between Rock and a Hard Place

Half of the 2700 block of Downing falls into one police district, the other half into another -- leaving residents caught in the crack.

Park Place

An ambitious plan to expand Denver's parks may take root if the political climate is fertile.

Consumed

Tasteful Profiling

Centers of Attention

Denver is selling its community centers, leaving the people who work there wondering why.

One More Time Around

Tired of traveling in circles, Boulder residents head straight for the voters.

Forward to the Past

What will happen when Denver's model of integration, Manual High, returns to the old days of segregation?