This just in: The 2012 Westword Music Showcase was a smashing success. Despite the heat, the crowd brought out some of their flyest dance moves (and “dance moves”). Let yourself be hypnotized by these GIFs, and take some notes for next time, folks. 5. The “Hopping And Toppings” Fringe benefit…
Chants of “Si se puede!” and “Justice!” filled the air yesterday as downtown janitors marched on 16th Street for better conditions and voted to authorize a potential strike. The contract for almost 2,300 Denver janitors will expire at the end of June, and after four weeks of negotiation with contractors…
A steady trickle of African immigrants has made the Denver metro area, and Aurora specifically, a haven for quality African cuisine. But closer to downtown, and just down from the white-hot TAXI development in RiNo, is a taste of Somalia at the Safari Cafe…
Last month we asked which Denver restaurant would make the best use of forty pounds of cherries from Washington, and Cafe Society readers served up some juicy suggestions for places that could use the fruit to make cherry pie and cherry beer . Now we know the cherry-picked winner of…
“Denver is an amazing coffee city,” says Chris Dohse, manager of Drip Denver, “and we’re excited to be part of its coffee culture.” Not long ago, the future of dining and retail at the beleaguered Beauvallon building looked bleak. But with Drip, which just opened its doors on Monday in…
José Guadalupe Posada’s engravings adorned everything from National Enquirer-style stories of monsters and grisly crimes to devout religious pamphlets. Today, artist Jerry Vigil creates three-dimensional wood carvings that translate Posada’s style for a modern age, just as the Mexican engraver translated the day’s news into unforgettable illustrations. The two artists…
Bones, named Best Hip Noodle Bar in the Best of Denver 2012, has become even hipper: It’s now serving weekday happy hour items on a newly covered patio…
From Pennsylvania to West Virginia (and Colorado), pictures of bright orange, iron-laced water pouring down streams and out of kitchen faucets have been shared by activists to demonstrate the dangers of coal mining. But one photo scheduled for display before Congress’ energy and mineral resources subcommittee was deemed “inappropriate” by…
A new program that will provide free meals for schoolchildren this summer starts this week, according to Mayor Michael Hancock. Hancock was at the Curtis Park pool yesterday to announce the Summer Food Service Program, and passed out free lunches to children in the area. “This collaborative program will help…
On Saturday, city planner, urban explorer and overseer of the DenverInfill blog Ken Schroeppel took a handful of Denverites on a tour of Union Station to discuss the just-opened Light Rail Plaza and the station’s future. Here’s an inside look at the project…
The latest bar to take advantage of Denver’s rooftop-patio mania is The Irish Rover Pub. Manager Ashley Robertson says the wide-open deck is the product of one-and-a-half years of hard work and jumping through hoops — but the final product is well worth the effort. “People in Denver love rooftop…
PizzaDoodle, a new pizzeria with a kid-friendly concept opened Wednesday in Centennial, right across from The Streets at Southglenn. And young ones are definitely the focus: there’s a colorful playroom and the kids are given dough, toppings and cheese so that they can make their own pizzas…
Miller’s Grille is replacing Tutti along South Public Road in downtown Lafayette. Owner Rich Womack wants it to be a neighborhood spot with reasonably priced steaks and burgers, but also to provide diners with classy choices like pear-caper vinaigrette-drizzled salads and a mean butternut squash risotto. In addition, all of…
It’s the stuff of Saturday-morning cartoons and “The Far Side:” a hapless postal carrier being chased around the neighborhood by the family dog. But the vicious attack on a Denver postal carrier on Monday demonstrated that mail carriers face real danger even on their regular routes. In fact, Denver ranks…
Mark Dym, owner of Marco’s Coal Fired Pizzeria , is taking his pizza on the road with a brand-new mobile pizza oven — and his first stop is quirky nanobrewery Wit’s End Brewing Company. For his mobile version of Marco’s, Dym wanted an authentic Neapolitan pizza oven to continue his…
When Malissa and Scott Spero decided to expand Hooked on Colfax, their coffee shop on Colfax, they didn’t anticipate an expensive, five-month wait to get their permits from the City of Denver…
When the Kokoro outpost at Sixth and Broadway closed last year, the space was quickly snapped up by Five Star Burgers, an outfit out of Taos, New Mexico that already has several metro area spots, including one at the Streets of SouthGlenn. Now this Five Star Burgers is open, slinging…
Before the ‘Pizza as a vegetable’ debacle made national headlines and inspired legislation from District 2’s House Representative Jared Polis, there was the original school lunch controversy: the battle over ketchup…
Representative Jared Polis wants to introduce legislation that promises to reverse Congress’s controversial decision to keep pizza lsbeled a “vegetable” in school lunches. “What Congress has done, believe it or not, is defied logic,” Polis said in front of a crowd of lunchtime students at Louisville Middle School on Monday…
Dark wood, bright red paint and a gargantuan patio define La Revolución Taqueria y Cantina, a brand-new taco joint on Louisville’s bustling Main Street. Owner Rick Betance, who’s brought on star bartender James Lee and Zolo Southwestern Grill chef Brett Smith to consult on cocktails and food, respectively, hopes that…
