Sure, the taming of the West was filled with bloody shootouts, senseless massacres and tragic mass exoduses. But as illustrated in Western Style: A Convergence of Cultures, an exhibit at the Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, 987½ Lookout Mountain Road in Golden, it also entailed a fascinating intermingling of Indian,…
Once again, you’ve got the post-Valentine’s Day blues. You braved your insecurities, bought those expensive flowers — and then, in the middle of your carefully planned date, your Valentine let loose those four vicious words: “Let’s just be friends.” The Hot IQs feel your pain — and they have the…
The Kill Cupid III Valentine’s Show, taking place tonight at 9:30 p.m. at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, is much like a typical romance: There’s mood music, a bit of eye candy, a helping of T&A, and before it’s all over, somebody’s heart gets mangled. But the heart…
If there’s one thing the Internet’s good for, it’s propagating endless amounts of useless gossip and slang about how wack and off the heezie it is for the paparazzi to be all up in Lindsay Lohan’s grill. To understand what all these gadflies were talking about — and how –…
That roll of pre-made cookie dough in the refrigerated aisle of the supermarket harbors a dirty secret: There’s a good chance it will be eaten before it ever reaches the oven. The numbers don’t lie. Of roughly 400 people who bought refrigerated cookie dough in a recent two-month period and…
Dying to get down to the latest Gnarls Barkley, but too busy changing diapers and cleaning flung Gerber off the ceiling? The only solution is to navigate your jogging stroller to the D Note, 7519 Grandview Avenue in Arvada, today and most Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. for Baby Boogie,…
Black Gold, a documentary about Ethiopia’s coffee industry, promises that after you see it, “coffee will never taste the same.’ In the film, shots of perky Starbucks managers are followed by clips of barefoot Ethiopian coffee pickers; first-world supermarket aisles packed with different coffees are interspersed with third-world therapeutic feeding…
Black Gold, a documentary about Ethiopia’s coffee industry, promises that after you see it, “coffee will never taste the same.” In the film, shots of perky Starbucks managers are followed by clips of barefoot Ethiopian coffee pickers; first-world supermarket aisles packed with different coffees are interspersed with third-world therapeutic feeding…
Joseph Brodsky eyes the freshly pulled double espresso with scorn. “This looks terrible,” he mutters darkly. From its poorly foamed surface, he can tell the coffee has been extracted from the espresso machine in a few measly seconds rather than the ideal 25. “And there’s a fishy smell. Stomaching this…
He became a millionaire by pimping out his Colorado Springs-based McDonald’s restaurants with a centralized drive-thru call center and other quick-serve gadgetry (“Mr. Big,” November 3, 2005). Then he bid the Golden Arches adieu to design a high-tech charity that provides the working poor with an alternative to the rapacious…
From his Air Jordan-clad feet to the blue-dyed braids on his head, Dominique Thomas is a perpetual-motion machine. His legs propel him frantically about as his arms gesture wildly, slapping high-fives, and his mouth emits a constant stream of infectious exuberance: “That’s what’s up” or “That’s real talk.” But standing…
He sensed trouble the minute he stepped onto the tiled floor of the Town Center at Aurora. Everywhere he looked — by the Star Makers photo studio and the TacoMex restaurant, around the fake trees and carts of cheap sunglasses — guys were giving him the evil eye. Except they…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
You probably won’t spot Bob Beauprez’s running mate, Janet Rowland, at the twentieth annual Meeker Classic Sheepdog Championship Trials. After all, ever since Rowland blurted out that blessing gay marriage might lead to “a man marrying a sheep,” it’s been obvious that she’s got a serious case of the sheepy…
“That was a perfect ball!” exclaims Steve Bigari as his bowling ball, customized in orange flames, rockets up his lane and sends all ten of his pins pirouetting through the air with a satisfying crack. “There’s a lot of move to it, man!!” Bigari’s eyes gleam, just like they used…
Gridlock jockeys along I-25 will be treated to a curious sight this afternoon: flying motorcycles. It’s part of Cyclefest, aka the Fay Myers Suzuki Supermoto Classic, a high-speed hybrid of motorcycle off-roading and road racing that’s taking over the parking lot at Invesco Field. “We’ve created a pretty fast track,”…
Evan Hecox looks a little lost standing in the red-and-white-hued world of the Arvada South SuperTarget, amid aisle after aisle of Jimi Hendrix beach towels, seventeen-piece kitchen sets, Lean Cuisine ice cream flavors, cashmere turtlenecks, HD-ready LCD TVs, iPod Nanos and Captain Morgan board shorts. He’s looking for a lamp,…
As it turns out, the rectilinear lines, corrugated frontages, mammoth spaces and ship’s-prow semblance of the new Colorado Convention Center aren’t the most digestible architectural appetizers. After just one year in the shiny new digs, Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation — Denver’s annual glutton-fest charity event — hiked…
The invaders arrive in the cool, early morning. The imposing sandstone edifices and towers, dotted with darkened windows, had been quiet and peaceful, a silent city hidden deep within a rocky tableland rising hundreds of feet above the Colorado desert. But now the canyon echoes with voices and the sounds…
At 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Friday, October 21, Sherri Daye Scott, editor of QSR Magazine, the trade journal for the quick-service-restaurant industry, and a panel of fast-food luminaries start a much-anticipated webcast. Across the country, executives at Dunkin’ Donuts, Dairy Queen, Steak ‘N Shake, Taco Bell and other…
Jack Preiss stands outside his McDonald’s in southern Cheyenne, looking up in the air. “What are you doing?” asks a man driving a pickup through a nearby drive-thru lane. “Waiting for hamburgers to fall out of the sky?” Almost. The burgers won’t really be falling from the sky — more…
“Today we are trying for the Mount Everest of hamburgers,” says Steve Bigari, aiming a confident smile at a TV camera. Bigari is standing in the middle of a drive-thru lane scrubbed so clean the asphalt shines in the morning sunlight. High above, a giant yellow M — the fabled…
