Denver became the envy of the country — nay, the world! — when it unveiled B-Cycle in April. The city also supports a host of bicycle-friendly groups and events, including the Denver Cruisers, Critical Mass (on occasion) and Bike to Work Day, on June 23. But when it comes to…
I’ve never understood all the ranting and raving about PBR and hipsters, the media claims and blogger hate that fixies and Williamsburg wannabes drink it ironically. Maybe it’s true that a few self-image-humping a-holes who don’t like the taste and could afford a pricier brew drink it anyway because it’s…
Phil’s Place, 3463 Larimer Street, is a family enterprise. Phil Garcia bought the former home of Our Place in 2002; in 2004, he turned the game room into a kitchen for his mother, Junie, who had nearly 25 years of cooking expertise under her flower-print apron at the Bamboo Hut…
As a homeowner in a demographically diverse Denver neighborhood, I don’t have to dream up hypothetical scenarios to justify attending today’s Annual Neighborhood Conference, “The Denver Difference — Block by Block.” I need more District 2 patrols in my alley to discourage graffiti, but don’t know how to get them…
I have a standard response when people ask whether I’m any good at golf. I tell them, “I’m good enough to not embarrass myself, but not good enough to keep score.” I’m happy with this reality. Sure, I could hand down the hand-me-down clubs I’ve had for a decade, splurge…
When thirty-year-old Mike “Monkey Nuts” Borcherding left his girlfriend in 2007, he didn’t have a friends-and-acquaintances prenup, which meant he didn’t have a pot to shit in when it came time to party. Poor guy. So he tried to join some kickball teams, but they were all full. “Well, fuck…
Back in February, trudging drunkenly down the middle of High Street in near-whiteout blizzard conditions, Darren and I decided that if the just-opened Jezebel’s could hold on through the winter in its outskirts-of-town location, we’d have found our summer spot, our walking-distance watering hole — the Holy Grail for Cole…
Though Ira Glass scored an internship with NPR more than thirty years ago without ever having heard an on-air segment, he’s spent the last fifteen as host and producer of This American Life, more or less redefining audio storytelling. “I make a radio show first and foremost to amuse myself,”…
The receipt at the right is from the British Bulldog, and it provides handy tip generator advice at the bottom. The total is $35.68, and the tip advice seems to be skewed in the employees’ favor. Consider: 15% Their math: $7.46 Real math: $4.95 20% Their math: $9.95 Real math:…
I’m having trouble figuring out the best way to lift my 32-ounce schooner of Rolling Rock, the beer so big it comes with a (plastic) boat floating on top, the beer that goes for only a dollar — a dollar! — from 4 to 8 p.m. on Fridays and all…
Sister Helen Prejean’s name might ring a bell because of Susan Sarandon’s performance in Dead Man Walking — Tim Robbins’s 1995 film about a Roman Catholic nun and her relationship with a death-row inmate, based on Prejean’s 1993 memoir of the same name — but it’s about to ring an…
Some artistic processes are easier to understand than others. With painting and drawing, for example, you can figure out how the final products are created. But consider printmaking, with its wood blocks, photo etchings and monotypes. How do these work? Seriously, how? “When you talk to people about prints,” says…
Dan Nikolich, an engineer by trade, meant to buy only one pinball machine. He just wanted to fix it up, see if he could make it work. The process was so rewarding that he bought another. “I’m just going to buy one more,” he thought at the time, “and that…
It hasn’t been a good day for aim. For the past four hours — outside of three different bars in three different neighborhoods — we’ve been trying to peg street signs with snowballs at distances of less than ten yards. The results, well, they’ve been sad. Emasculating. Indicative not just…
I first heard about iX MiXer through Nick, the Squire bartender, who reached out to me via e-mail after reading about my tequila-mixing woes in the Drunk of the Week column about Root Down. “You mentioned that you are a self-proclaimed tequila connoisseur,” he wrote, “but have had some difficulty…
Four days a week, 52 weeks a year, Satchel’s Market is a small, quiet, relatively “upscale-casual” restaurant tucked into the Park Hill neighborhood. Now and again, however, owner Andrew Casalini likes to “push the envelope of what people expect” from him, he says, and unleash “Satchel’s alter ego.” That ego…
Imagine a world without hangovers. Go on, imagine: ten-day benders without alcohol poisoning; all-night binges with 8 a.m. board meetings the next day; the end of brain-numbing, stomach-souring, entire-day-losing debilitation at the groping, productivity-pilfering hands of booze. It’s glorious, this make-believe world where adults can drink whatever they like, as…
Since it reopened in 2003, Boulder’s West End Tavern has embraced bourbon as the truest of American spirits. Today the restaurant and bar offers the largest bourbon list in all of Colorado, with nearly 75 varieties of the whiskey God gave the United States. And as far as general manager,…
Bacon, cheese and chives: Delicious, but not exactly uncharted territory when it comes to smothered fries. Make those fries garlic-Parmesan flavored and drizzle a smidge of ranch on top, though, and this $7 app starts feeling more like a meal. Need a hint? At this joint, the fries are just…
The premise of Earth Hour, now in its third year, is simple: For an hour — in this case, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time tonight — individuals and organizations are encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights and electronics in the interest of global climate change, not…
Drink minimums make me think of strip clubs. Strip clubs make me feel dirty. By the transitive power of logical inference, then, drink minimums should make me feel dirty. Which they do, sort of — just not in the I-hate-to-see-you-subjugating-yourself-like-this kind of way. More in a defiant, dumbfounded, I-just-got-taken-advantage-of kind…
Like a backwoods Virginia mash-up of Fried Green Tomatoes and a female-fronted Tuesdays with Morrie, Grace & Glorie tells the story of two seemingly dissimilar women thrown together by circumstance, who then stick together by choice and discover they have a whole lot in common. Grace, played by Billie McBride,…
