Although cattle have overtaken sheep as America’s favorite ruminants, local chefs are hard at work pushing Colorado lamb. Lamb doesn’t carry the same expectations at beef, nor is it saddled with the same baggage. Lamb can be handled with feather-light minimalism, or used as a canvas for outré experimentation, while…
The bleating of sheep in the barn — cries of every timbre, pitch and volume — sounds like a clamorous outdoor market in the thick of the afternoon. Ewes and lambs alike call incessantly, straining to be heard. One young lamb, not even an hour old, mews softly in the…
“We’re basically coining the term ‘craft casual,'” says Jason Rogers, the executive chef at the newest dining concept from Oskar Blues, CHUBurger, which is slated to open April 5. The term defines CHUBurger’s approach to fast-casual dining — sure, you walk up to the counter and put in your order…
At first, it’s unnerving just how much writer-director Derek Cianfrance sounds like Dan, the character he wrote in Blue Valentine, as played by Ryan Gosling. It’s a sign of the close synergy between director and actor that marks his approach to films like his latest, The Place Beyond the Pines…
Endless runners — if you’ve played Temple Run or Jetpack Joyride, you know the routine: Collect coins, jump over stuff, die, rinse and repeat. Jones on Fire, made by Denver-based developer Glass Bottom Games for iOS and Android, is a little different. Its low-fi graphics and little blocky kittens scream…
To some Coloradans, the name Andrew Romanoff is synonymous with disappointment. After losing to incumbent Senator Micheal Bennet in a primary that attracted an almost unheard-of amount of attention, the ex-speaker of the Colorado House took a lower-profile job with the International Development Enterprises, a non-profit that promotes economic development…
Update: Corner House will offer a special screening of A Place at the Table on Sunday, March 3; the film opens tonight at the Mayan. With appearances by Jeff Bridges and executive producer (and Westword favorite) Tom Colicchio, and music by T Bone Burnett and The Civil Wars, the documentary…
“Hunger is hard to recognize in America,” CBS’s Charles Kuralt intones gravely over images of malnourished children. “We know of it in other places, like Asia or Africa. But these children, all of them, are Americans. And all of them are hungry.” That was the message of the landmark 1968…
This is the seventh in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. As much pride as we Coloradans take in our local producers and their staggering variety of goods, how many of them can say they tangled with the heaviest of heavyweights on…
The space is dark, the phone number is disconnected, and the website is deader than Elvis. All of which means that Boulder’s Tossa, which had been tossing fast-casual pizzas and pasta for over a year now, has officially closed. See also: – Five restaurants that both opened and closed in…
As if South Park, Colorado, doesn’t have enough problems (Canadians, Gingers and the fearsome Jewpacabra among them), Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and the whole South Park gang will soon lay waste to the hapless burg in the upcoming video game South Park: The Stick of Truth. See also: – 10…
Many of the contenders competing in the second annual Kong Off cut their teeth on such quarter-munchers as Pac-Man and, of course, Donkey Kong. But today’s generation of video-game players are more likely to have gotten their start blasting terrorists into bloody chunks in the cheesy light-gun shooter Target: Terror…
Who would have thought that our humble state of Colorado could have hosted so many video games? While for many developers Colorado seems to be synonymous with little more than “snow,” these games will take you everywhere from explosive recreations of ’90s blockbusters to wholesome educational programs. Although few of…
Editor’s note: Election day is near, and if you haven’t voted early, you have decisions ahead of you, not the least of which is whether to vote at all, as Josiah Hesse postulates in “Your vote doesn’t matter: Why there are better things to do on election day.” Hesse’s colleague,…
Taylor Stephan was living in a house with five other guys in Boulder, and they had a problem: how to feed themselves without staring into the uncaring face of the Maruchan kid night after night after night. And so he learned to cook. “Instead of eating out all the time,”…
I haven’t played enough of the first three Forza Motorsport games to tell you if their car-worshipping DNA is well-represented in Forza Horizon, their stepchild. But I can tell you that not only is Horizon a truly stellar game in its own right, it understands why we love Colorado. See…
Fans were shocked and saddened when Terroir, a much-lauded farm-to-table restaurant on Longmont’s Main Street, closed after five fruitful years. “It’s definitely bittersweet,” says Tim Payne, who ran the restaurant with his wife, Melissa Newell, and manned the line as executive chef. See also: – First look: Former Bitter Bar…
Today’s release date for Forza Horizon for Xbox, which takes place entirely in Colorado, got us thinking: In over forty years of video-game history, there had to have been a few other games set in the Centennial State. Little did we know, a veritable mountain of electronic entertainment has depicted…
Though it may seem unlikely as you stew in I-70 gridlock, Colorado is an excellent place to enact your high-speed racing fantasies. Or at least, Playground Games seems to think so. Forza Horizon for the Xbox 360 is an open-world racing game that takes place in our fair state, against…
Some families farm together. Some sell insurance. Some are partners in a law firm. Samm White’s family sells cheese. Lots and lots of cheese. “It took a lot of work from the family to make [Cheese Importers] what it is today, but it’s our passion,” Samm says. “We love it…
“All right, everybody ready to get their hands dirty?” asked Burton Koelliker, executive chef at Osteria Marco, as he and his crew rolled a few dozen balls of dough so that we could attempt to make pizza crusts. After much spilled laughter and flour, the students at Saturday’s “The Art…
This is the sixth in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Is there an ingredient that makes Colorado chefs salivate quite so much as Munson Farms corn? They simmer it into chowders. They bake it into biscuits. They sprinkle kernels, raw, over…
