When money and ethics collide, the crash is usually fun to watch. But when you throw public school meals into that mix, you get an ugly food fight with few winners and lots of losers — and those losers are kids who are just trying to eat their lunches and…
Hot dog! Pizza Hut is now offering pizzas with crusts stuffed with hot dogs and garnished “with a mustard drizzle.” Sadly, it is only offering these pizzas in the United Kingdom. What the hell, Hut?! Don’t Americans deserve a mustard drizzle, too?…
When you are a thief, like Burger King, you have two possible paths to success: 1) be a really good thief and don’t get caught, or 2) steal something big and pricey so you can retire early and faff around with the piss-ant stuff. I couldn’t help but think of…
As I’m driving to the new Jack in the Box , which opened yesterday at 2020 South Federal Boulevard, the second new Jack in metro Denver in a month, I’m seriously wondering why anyone would stop to eat at Jack’s when both sides of the street, for miles, are dotted…
Chick-Fil-A, known for its iconic cow billboards and fried chicken patties iconically nestled between biscuits, is sweetening up its dessert menu by offering a new cookie, an updated brownie and several sundaes; it’s also bringing back its seasonally available Banana Pudding Milkshake starting today…
Jack in the Box, home of good curly fries and notoriously bad tacos, is opening a new store today at 2020 South Federal Boulevard. Doors open at 9 a.m. with an inaugural fiesta including giveaways. This is the second in a series of new, improved Jacks to pop up in…
Fazoli’s, America’s favorite Italian fast-food chain, is on a sizzling growth streak right now, and instead of resting on its fettuccine, the company has decided to capitalize on its popularity by making some massive — and possibly ill-advised — changes, which turn the chain from fast-food to casual dining. Fazoli’s…
Ashlee Coln had a dream: that ladies could own aprons both functional and sexy. Necessity being the mother of invention, Coln decided to start Cheeky Aprons, creating sultry kitchen wear that combines the front of an apron with the flirt of lace and garter belts on the back end…
Burger King adds ten new items to its menu and fast-foodies don’t give a tinker’s cuss — but when McDonald’s places a new pie in its pantheon, people froth at the mouths, demanding as many as they can get their soon-to-be-greasy mitts on, blogging about them and not minding the…
The RMS Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, and for the hundredth anniversary of that event Cullen’s Upscale American Grille in Houston is offering a replication of the first-class passengers’ last dinner. For a thousand bucks a plate, ten lucky diners can enjoy a ten-course meal that includes such dishes…
Colorado legislators work hard, and apparently deserve a break today — with a catered lunch from McDonald’s, complete with the Ronald McDonald mascot. Representatives from America’s favorite Quarter Pounder-pimps will be visiting the State Capitol at 11:30 this morning to “highlight its economic impact on Colorado,” according to the announcement,…
Burger King issued a battle cry yesterday. In order to help boost its sluggish sales — the chain has slipped to third, behind McDonald’s and Wendy’s — the company rolled out the heavy artillery: ten new menu items, including specialty salads, chicken snack wraps, smoothies, flavored frozen coffee drinks, some…
Local author Kasi Alexander’s first book, Becoming sage, is an emotive and realistic peek into both the BDSM and polyamorous lifestyles. It takes readers by the hand–gently places a leather cuff on the hand–and leads them through a raw, sensual world of power exchange and many loves that mainstream readers…
Starbucks’ outspoken support of same-sex marriage prompted the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to create an international campaign to “Dump Starbucks,” an attempt to persuade people to stop buying coffee from Starbucks because, according to itsDump Starbucks website, “it has taken a corporate-wide position that the definition of marriage between…
Becoming sage, by Kasi Alexander, has everything a reader could want: sex, violence, mastering, slaving. And the emotional autobiographical novel also two things that can’t be safe-worded out of — cops and family drama. In it, Alexander, a local author, tells the story of a woman who leaves the vanilla…
Confessions aren’t just for Catholics anymore. As proof, Denver’s Dangerous Theatre is presenting Steven Fales’s ninety-minute solo play Confessions of a Mormon Boy. It starts off with Fales as a Mormon boy in Utah and follows him as he becomes a high-priced call boy in New York City. This adventure…
Marilyn Hagerty , the 85-year-old woman who’s the “Eat Beat” columnist at the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota, has been getting an abundance of press since her review of the Olive Garden went viral. Marilyn-mania began with her original review of the popular Italian chain, which had some readers…
A group of local theater owners, actors and the newly-minted president of the Colorado Theatre Guild met at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre Sunday night to share ideas on how to work together to share resources and information. This wasn’t an official Colorado Theatre Guild meeting, but rather a gathering inspired by…
Ever wondered how to crystallize Parmesan cheese or deconstruct a sweet potato? Epicurean artistry via documentary film is what the Denver Film Society is serving up with El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, the Gereon Wetzel film showcasing a year in the life of three-star chef Ferran Adria — the godfather…
Everyone’s favorite eccentric Renaissance man, William Shatner, is in Denver for his one-man performance of Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It this evening at the Buell Theatre. For Shat-nerds, seeing this show will be a lot like making it with an alien hottie. And for everyone else who needs…
Sugarlicious, a sweet shop in Cherry Creek, celebrated its three-month anniversary last night with colorful cocktails, a giant gummy bear ice sculpture, tasties from the pink Comida food truck and, of course, plenty of candy…
Beef is back in the news as the bogeyman who puts you one forkful away from death. To some of us who survived the 1980s, this may sound eerily familiar. It’s gotten to the point where there should just be a codified — and interchangeable — list of foods that…
