Year: 2007

Steve Crecelius Panzano, at your service Word is out on the third annual Denver Restaurant Week, February 24-March 7. The culinary celebration has boomed from 83 restaurants the first year to 125 last year to 150 this year. All are offering multi-course dinners for $52.80 for two ($26.40 for one),…

Before a solid turnout at the Bug Theater this past Sunday evening, the Denver filmmakers behind the indie documentary Do It For Johnny showed their flick to cast and crew and enjoyed a reception far warmer than the plummeting temperatures outside. Local filmmaker Haylar Garcia, the director, editor and face…

Here’s a story that’s unlikely to turn up in the Denver dailies or the Boulder Daily Camera. “Times-Call the Target of Subscription Sales Ploy,” an offering published last week in Longmont’s Daily Times-Call, begins by denying that the venerable publication has been sold. That’s followed by an odd explanation about…

Like California’s frozen citrus fields, the immigration issue has gone cold to many people. But it’s still hot to Helen Krieble, profiled in this story, as well as people in this country illegally who might benefit from her ideas if they’re ever adopted on a wide scale. People like Ismael,…

Like most big-city dailies, the Denver Post puts out what’s known as a “bulldog” — a version of its signature Sunday paper that’s made available a day early in order to pump up point-of-purchase sales at newsstands, grocery stores and the like. Typically, the main page-one headline doesn’t change from…

“A Sledder’s Paradise,” an article in the Denver Post’s Style section on January 21, highlighted several of the metro area’s most popular sledding hills, portraying them as consistently packed since our recent (and seemingly ceaseless) round of snowstorms began just prior to Christmas. However, the story left out some telling…

In my year-end roundup, I shared my shock that Windows Cafe — the all-veggie, pan-Asian eatery that had opened in the embattled 12200 East Cornell space in Aurora that had already swallowed the likes of Maruti Narayan’s, Denver Woodlands and Boudreaux’s Bayou Buffet — was still open. As it turns…

The last time I’d driven by the Blue Corn Lounge, on the corner of 38th and Perry in northwest Denver, it was around 1 a.m. on a Saturday. In the parking lot, a massive dude stood between two maniacally gesturing females. It looked like he was trying to mediate a…

A digital tree grows in Denver. As Alan Prendergast wrote in his profile of Denver-based MapQuest, the realm of internet mapping services is all about location, location, location. These days, however, the name of the game is not just digitally locating a specific location, it’s rendering that location in eye-popping,…

Outside of being able to stalk thirteen-year-old girls, the Artist on Artist interviews may just be the best thing about MySpace. It’s basically what it sounds like: two artists sitting down together and amiably shooting the breeze. Tenacious D and Dave Grohl have done it, Jeff Tweedy and Fred Armisen,…

Lately snowboarders have been prowling Denver, looking for the perfect snow-bound urban terrain. Sports-mag photographers and filmmakers are trailing the best of them — such as Salt Lake City bro Justin Bennee, whose escapades in the parking lot across from Westword on Thursday, shown here, were eagerly recorded by a…

Former Senator Hank Brown, who announced yesterday that he plans to resign as University of Colorado president just over a year from now (find CU’s press release here), was the right man for the right job at the right time. Prior to Brown’s decision to accept the position in 2005,…

There’s been a bit of bandying lately at RTD over whether or not the region’s mass-transit machine needs to apologize to its constituents, many of whom were left high and anything but dry during the recent succession of blizzards and their aftermath. Should we say “sorry,” they ask? Wasn’t it…

Coin collecting is known as the “Hobby of Kings,” while individuals who take the pastime to scientific levels are called “numismatists.” They study not only currency but also the intricacies of payment and debt throughout time. Judging by a recent police report, it’s unclear into which category the suspect it…

The documentary Black Gold, which is touring the country and was shown in Denver and Boulder last month, fashions itself the Fast Food Nation of the coffee industry, contrasting the excesses of the western caffeine craze with the plight of Ethiopian coffee farmers to illustrate the inequities stirred into all…

The latest Message column focuses on Try-Works, a blog whose mission includes bashing the bashers of firebrand CU professor Ward Churchill. In the beginning, the overseer of the page used the pseudonym “John Moredock” — but thanks to the efforts of anti-Churchill gadfly Grant Crowell (pictured), Moredock was recently revealed…