I thought the Freestyle Coke machines and touch-screen, meal-ordering systems that keep popping up in restaurants were going to be all the unmanned, automated, de-humanizing product-offering and/or dispensing machines out there for a while. Nope. After finding a “Freeosk” that dispensed Rice Krispies treats at the local Sam’s Club, I…
I woke up yesterday and immediately thought to myself that what Taco Bell needs most right now are Cool Ranch Doritos Locos tacos, as well as new store designs that include glowing, purple LED lighting on the outside paneling. The much-anticipated taco upgrade is still in the works, but that…
What do you get when you mix sexually adventurous adults, hot music, cocktails and the swanky atmosphere of the Jet Hotel & Lounge? A really fucking brilliant night of glittery, sweaty, naked and par-naked fun for which the memories are almost as titillating as the event itself. I felt very…
At Wednesday’s debate, Mitt Romney casually said that if he’s elected president, he’ll cut funding to PBS — and he specifically mentioned Big Bird seconds later. Fowl play! That was a serious harsh to the eight-foot tall, loveable yellow bird that has spent his entire career on Sesame Street, educating…
Happy Taco Day! If you have a small amount of cash, are super-starving and in need of a seriously hefty caloric intake, Taco John’s is one of the best fast-food options out there. The menu emphasizes substantial meat and potatoes, as well as sugary, fatty desserts — and the portion…
I hit the 13th Floor over the weekend, and I can sum up the experience with this: I came, I saw, I almost whizzed my drawers. I’ve trotted through miles of haunted houses over the years, but this one is by far the scariest, trippy-est, most off-the-chain that I’ve ever…
Public school students are being awfully whiny about their school lunches right now. The reason is because the United States Department of Agriculture just restructured standards for school lunches for the first time in over a decade, and now students have to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and…
The Downtown Aquarium’s Nautilus ballroom was filled with all sorts of foodie-fun — perfect, medium-rare steak; disgustingly good chocolate mousse layer cakes with edible pearl accents; mermaids and a guy in a giant shrimp suit — last night for a Landry’s showcase of the dining and entertainment venues it owns…
Zombies have never not been cool as f*ck, but thanks to the insane popularity of The Walking Dead, anything and everything zombie is what all the cool kids are into this Halloween season, and two of Denver’s premier haunted houses are feeding some bwains into the trend with the “Undead”…
Denver just got another Red Robin’s Burger Works, with another Freestyle Coke machine, so that more folks can be controlled by Skynet treated to Burger Works’ signature craft-your-own-burgers — with drinks designed to match. This location — the fourth in Colorado — opened Monday in the new Hotel and Hospitality…
Thirteen bucks is more than twice the amount you’d pay for a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs at the grocery store, so how good would ice cream have to be to convince your average foodie to spoon over that kind of cash? The answer? As good as Jeni’s…
It’s pretty effin’ rare that I eat at a restaurant and can’t find anything to complain about. I’ve dined at countless restaurants in my 35 years on this shiny blue orb, and I’ve seen plenty of good, bad and ugly. I’ve had meals that were overcooked, undercooked, cocked-up so badly…
All good things must come to an end — but Lollypop Gift, the Hello Kitty store in the Denver Pavilions, seems to have come to a very abrupt end. And the reported reason for the store’s closing is something many vendors can relate to: rotten mall parents using stores as…
After an afternoon of shopping for cheap to moderately-priced unassembled end tables and bathroom shelves at Ikea — a trip that usually lasts into the early evening if you start on the top floor — there is one last spot you really can’t miss: the Swedish food market. This section…
Can you ever have too many lists of the best kinky, BDSM — or BDSM-ish — movies out there? I don’t think so. There is just too much steamy, sensual, strange, sadistic, masochistic and prurient cinema to ignore — and these films aren’t even meant to be porn. Naked, sweaty…
Mitt Romney’s “The 47 Percent Feels Entitled to Eat Free Cake” vid clip had me thinking about a lot of things, but my brain kept inexplicably drifting back to Mittens’ fifty-thousand-dollars-a-plate fundraiser, and wondering what sort of meal you get when you dump that kind of green. I’m of the…
Happy fortieth birthday, Egg McMuffin! McDonald’s signature breakfast sandwich hasn’t changed a bit over the past four decades — unless you listen to fast-food conspiracy theorists who gas on about how the portion sizes have been systematically decreased by a pinch every so often. The 40-year-old McMuffin is still America’s…
I hadn’t been to Joe’s Crab Shack in well over a decade — not since that time in Missouri when I may have gotten sauced and horked in the men’s room urinal (as it turns out, those clever little porcelain wall sconces are just the right height for spontaneous beverage-expulsion…
Ever since E.L. James’ first rectal-extraction, the book Fifty Shades of Grey, hit the market like a drunken Rip Torn ramming his car into a tractor-trailer, the merchandise spin-off has been explosive — or catastrophic, depending on your point of view. Stockings, garters, underwear, pajamas, robes, kitchen and bath décor:…
Food news is as varied as the food you’re served at restaurants. Some weeks our plate is filled with educational articles about science and technology, stories of new and exciting eats and drinks, and industry exposes that give us all something to gossip about by the office water coolers. Other…
Have you ever stepped into a restaurant and seen immediately that it’s meant for families rather than single people? Walking into Sweet Tomatoes, I felt like I was entering a large daycare center with a baked potato bar. Now I know how people with children in tow feel at a…
With fall in the air and Thanksgiving lurking around the corner, Arby’s, our favorite purveyor of probably-roast-beef sandwiches, is introducing three new “hot turkey roasters” sandwiches, and will be offering freebies today — no coupons or Facebook-liking needed…
