The Uptown District used to be known simply as North Capitol Hill before all the hip restaurants and new condos started popping up, bringing with them flocks of young, educated singles who love living in areas that are urban, but not, you know, urban-urban. Residents of the Emerson Uptown Lofts…
Name: Peet’s Coffee and Tea Where: 2500 East Second Avenue (Cherry Creek North) Hours: 5:30 a.m. to 8 p.m Monday-Friday, 6 a.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Notes: Chairs for 32, Garuda blend earthy brew, North Cherry Creek, Clayton Lane chic, big windows lit well,…
It’s amazing how things come together sometimes. We’ve written a lot about our favorite wiener cart in the city, Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs. We’ve written about the best street waffle-slangers this side of 16th Street, the Waffle Brothers. We’ve also written about what it’s like to serve food at the…
A rezoning application submitted by local TV and radio personality Tom “The Troubleshooter” Martino was introduced as a proposed ordinance to Denver City Council last night. Martino is a managing member of a group of investors called Welton Street Properties, which owns several large parcels at the intersection of Welton…
Here is a cool timelapse video showing the complete installation of “No Anunciar,” the current show at Andenken Gallery. The 22-feet-by-16-feet wall is a collaboration between Ian Millard, Michael Ortiz and Jon Lamb. Check it out in person until April 24th…
In the life of every wealthy standup comedian, there comes a day when he must rise from his leopard-skin-covered armchair, remove his double-paned monocle and haughtily proclaim to his many docile servants, “I wonder what the poor people are laughing at tonight?” That was the question ringing in the minds…
It’s nice to see that Santa likes to unwind in the Rocky Mountains after a tough holiday season. But I’m thinking that ol’ Kris Kringle has a little too much time on his hands after watching this video of “Santa Colorado” pounding Columbia Crest wine on his back porch and…
While the Chubby’s on Morrison Road is closed, the Original Chubby’s on West 38th Avenue will soon have less competition. I was just at Santiago’s XII at 2925 West 38th Avenue — my favorite place to get the most awesome $2 breakfast burritos on the way to work — and…
Name: Aviano Coffee Where: 955 Lincoln Street (in the Beauvallon) Hours: 6:30 a.m.- 6 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday Notes: Tall iron gate, Breggos in a glass case, marble tables, pastries and bagels, coffee by Intelligensia of Chicago, best blend El Diablo,…
A Westword informant recently reported that Watson’s Liquor and Grocery, the recent Best of Denver winner right around the corner from our office, wraps your booze in a donut bag. “So the bums outside don’t bother you for beer,” the guy behind the counter told him. Makes sense. Unless, of…
Looks like William Spencer’s reality television pilot for MTV hasn’t gotten picked up. But that hasn’t stopped the local stunt genius from working hard at producing some of the wackiest and most insane skateboard trickery ever seen on four wheels. The Denver Shop premiered its video In Color in January,…
Talk about a change in bedside manner. In a presentation to members of City Council Wednesday, hospital administrators from Denver Health publicly acknowledged for the first time that their ambulance response times are not meeting national standards. The admissions, however subtle, came as the task force convened by Katharine Archuletta,…
A member of a West Denver tagging crew will have lots of time to work in his blackbook after being sentenced to life in prison yesterday. A Jefferson County judge slapped twenty-year-old David Miera Jr. with a life sentence plus 32 years for being the triggerman in a 2006 shooting…
Erik Osborn, the developer behind the One Lincoln Park luxury tower downtown, showed up at his status hearing yesterday with a little surprise: He found a lawyer. A grand jury indicted Osborn in late 2007 on charges that he had allegedly stolen tens of thousands of dollars from business partners…
As my brother said on our way to Boulder this weekend, “It’s pretty hard to fuck up a plate lunch.” We were driving to check out 8 Islands, an eatery that specializes in the uniquely Hawaiian culinary phenomenon known as the plate lunch. With our parents living on Oahu along…
Name: Ink! Coffee Where: 1590 Little Raven Street Hours: 6 a.m.-6p.m. Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday-Sunday Notes: biscotti, bagels, breakfast burritos, Ink! brew, park view, seating for twenty, techno playing, yuppies waiting, staff clean-cut, foam benches hurt butt, gourmet sandwiches, power lunch salads, patio tables, wi-fi enabled…
Trials can be really stressful, with all the argumentation and whatnot. Though Ward Churchill’s wrongful-termination lawsuit against the University of Colorado has seemed less bombastic than perhaps the drum-beaters might have preferred, no one would blame the chain-smoking professor for grabbing a few puffs during recess to calm the ol’…
Denver Police arrested a local businessman earlier this month for allegedly using his high-end cigar boutique on East Colfax to sell meth and other drugs. Matthew Rosen, 44, made an appearance in county court Wednesday on fifteen felony charges for drugs seized from his cigar shop What’s Knot to Love…
While pulling junk out of my pockets the other day, I found a flier for a co-op grocery some people are trying to start called the Denver Cooperative Market. It seems like one of those member-owned, earth-lovin’ groceries could fly in Denver now that all the hippies are migrating here…
This week’s cover story, “The Hard Sell,” looks into the curious case of Erik Osborn, the Denver developer who is demanding the city provide him with a free public defender despite the fact that he lives in a multi-million dollar “villa” in the uber-ritzy Polo Club neighborhood. Osborn’s wife, real…
While I was waiting in the parking lot of a strip mall off Alameda and Sheridan — Westside! — this weekend, I spotted the most awesome pizza-shop logo I’ve ever seen, for a place called Pizza Patron.The type font looks like Pizza Hut lettering, but the sign has a Latino…
Art lovers everywhere are raving about the Denver Art Museum’s newest conceptual sculpture, “Giant Scaffolding to Repair Piece of Shit Leaky Roof.” Not long after the $110 million Frederic C. Hamilton Building opened in October 2006, crews began conducting construction dance performances across the silver-skin roof in response to the…
