As if the news hasn’t been depressing enough forever lately, now ramen noodles are back in it, getting a bad rap — what could be worse than that? Apparently America’s favorite college-diet staple is all set to fuck up stomachs, destroy lives and even shove some folks into their cold…
There is plenty that McDonald’s has done — or not done that you can criticize, but every once in a while McDoo’s does something right. And that includes offering free breakfast — an Egg McMuffin or Egg White Delight McMuffin, apple slices and choice of milk or orange juice –…
The lawn in front of the Aurora Municipal Center on East Alameda Parkway was home to the first Aurora GlobalFest on Saturday, where cultural performances, beers from around the world and international tastes from local restaurants — from American barbecue to Nigerian curried goat — showcased Aurora’s reputation as a…
Taco Bell has gone and done it again, and by “it” I mean given me another reason to fuck my common sense into the dirt and hit the drive-through, late at night, like the filthy pintos and cheese addict I am (but try not to be). Bell’s new “Dollar Cravings”…
If you’ve ever wanted to get kinky, this is the weekend to start. Tonight Beyond the Bedroom will host Coming Out Kinky: A Grown Up Comedy at Shine in Boulder; tomorrow it will offer “Welcome to S&M: A Gentle Introduction” at Denver’s Dangerous Theater, with discussion/demonstrations of masochism, bondage, discipline…
Beyond the Bedroom will host Coming Out Kinky — A Grown Up Comedy at Shine tomorrow night. Jean Franzblau’s comedy is about a woman’s path of sexual exploration; she plays twenty characters in the show. Beyond the Bedroom Executive Director Daka Dan describes the actress/playwright as “not a ‘full-time’ kinkster…
The machines are rising again, and the food service industry is making it happen. Technological advances aren’t always a bad thing, and lately there have been some pretty effin’ cool mechanical grub-stuffers out there, like the Burrito Box vending machine in West Hollywood (we need this badly!) and the Frobot…
Social media always seems to be dripping with photos and snippets about strange, exciting, disgusting and occasionally hideous edible creations. Some of these constructions turn out to be Photoshopped fakes and some we all wish were not real. This last week alone has produced everything from a horrific hundred-dollar hot…
The news lately has been full of restaurant fuck-ups that create headaches for customers…and hardships for employees. While the restaurant industry as a whole serves a very useful purpose — it sells prepared meals to people who need and want them, provides a flow of tax money to communities, and…
With its terrible writing, dump truck-sized plot holes, horrible Twilight fan-fic dialogue and a plethora of downright ridiculous misconceptions about BDSM and kinksters, Fifty Shades of Grey, the first book in E.L. James’s trilogy, made me want to faceplant into my Kindle. It’s four hours of my life that I…
A bustling tourist restaurant, Old Fisherman’s Grotto in Monterey, California, really rankled some parents when it recently posted a sign prohibiting strollers, high chairs, booster seats, loud kids and crying babies. Restaurant owner Chris Shake says if customers don’t like the rules, they can go somewhere else to eat, and…
Taco Bell has been making a serious effort lately to get a chunk of Chipotle’s customer demographic and failing at it, but the Bell’s new strategy to beat out Chipotle may be as ineffective as it is cunning. Taco Bell, piggybacking on its healthier Cantina Bell menu, is rolling out…
We all never seem to run out of wacky ideas for off-beat eats and drinks, and the beauty of social media is that every time Oreo brings forth some fresh-hellish cookie flavor, an R & D team creates new waffle-things, or some mad distiller concocts tomato booze, we get the…
TGI Fridays may have ditched its servers’ flair, but it hasn’t completely abandoned a flair for really dumbass promotions. The chain recently announced its “Endless Appetizers” summer promo offering all-you-can-eat appetizers for $10 per person. Diners choose one appetizer and get unlimited refills; Fridays chief marketing officer says that sharing…
Fifty years have come and gone since Del Taco was born in sunny California, the cradle of fast-food civilization, and the company is celebrating its big five-O with some keen retro menu items — including something with a bun that could, maybe, possibly resemble an old-school Taco Bell favorite that…
Nothing is sadder than when celebrities dabble in the food-service industry and fail miserably at it — except when the food fails are so completely predictable that even a dumb-as-a-rock celebrity should have known better. Over the weekend the lady-centric (and arguably un-feminist) steakhouse SHe by Morton’s that Eva Longoria…
For those of you not keeping up on the latest news involving Sriracha, the versatile and beloved chili sauce may be getting scarce, thanks to some residents of Irwindale, California, who are petitioning the city to shut down the Huy Fong Foods factory, citing irritated eyes and throats and headaches…
The holidays tend to bring out the very best — and sometimes the dead worst — in culinary acumen. In this age of gourmet foods and luxury drinks, it almost surpassed belief that there are still stale, tasteless and terrible tidbits adorning X-mas tables and sideboards in the misguided name…
Foodies tend to get the shaft during the holidays, because every year there is an increasing number of useless, gimmicky, and downright bizarre food-related gadgets available for purchase everywhere — and non-food nerd friends and family just lo-o-o-ve to buy them. While it would be nice for non-foodies to cease…
Thanksgiving — or Black Friday Eve, depending on your perspective — is filled with holiday joys, like listening to your uncle’s uncensored feelings about Obamacare, your kiddos smearing Cool-Whip on every surface with their mouths, your unemployed cousin digging through your couches for loose change and everyone talking loudly about…
Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard was born in Boulder in 1987 as Good Times Drive-Thru Burgers. Those were good times, indeed: ’87 was a good year for banana hair clips, jelly shoes and skinny ties. But how on the burger-bombarded earth did Good Times manage to survive with the…
With four Trader Joe’s stores in the works for Colorado — but none slated to open this year — the wait has been soul-crushing for local TJ’s enthusiasts, some of whom have been waiting for decades for a link of the California-based chain. Julie Geller, a local musician and resident…
