Colorado breweries released dozens of amazing beers this year, further expanding their range and making once-exotic beers easy to find and enjoy. A few stood out above the rest, though. To make this list, the beers needed to have been new year-round offerings, seasonals that will return, old beers that…
On the Thursday before Christmas, Laura Shunk highlighted five festive cocktails that don’t include hot chocolate with peppermint schnapps, including the Figgy’s Manhattan at Steuben’s, which is made by combining Wild Turkey 81, Carpano Antica vermouth and Navan vanilla liqueur and infusing the whole thing with figs for five days…
Geese seem to have become as common in Denver’s winter months as Suburus with ski racks, a situation that Westword’s Kelsey Whipple decided to look into. What she found is that there is a population of Canada geese here who have never even been to their namesake country. They don’t…
Three Kings Tavern hosted its sixth Annual “F@#K X-Mas Party” on Christmas night with Ooh La La Burlesque and Mark Star Karaoke. The 21-and-up party promised to include “the best of everything 3 Kings all at once,” which meant lots of Pabst Blue Ribbon, music, burlesque and holiday-themed underpants. Want…
Colorado certainly withstood its share of shmucks, scoundrels and scumbags in 2011, from poorly-behaved celebrities to douchebags in parking lots to public servants and politicians who made us cringe. And you can find their stories in our Shmuck of the Week archives. But the lowest of the low are inducted…
In late November, in the midst of his amazing run of fourth-quarter comebacks, Tim Tebow and Sports Authority Field at Mile High graced the cover of Sports Illustrated, in what we figured would be would be a horrendous continuation of the famed SI curse; in fact, we laid out five…
Behaving badly It takes extra effort to get initiated into Westword’s annual Hall of Shame, and not everyone who acts like a shmuck over the course of the year makes the final cut. But some came very, very close. Here’s a list of our Hall of Shame runners-up. (View the…
Patrick J. Sullivan Some men take up golf when they retire. Others collect model trains or travel the world. Patrick J. Sullivan, the well-respected, longtime Arapahoe County sheriff, apparently chose another hobby: buying meth and smoking it with men whom he’d bonded out of jail in return for sex. In…
December means latkes to most of the people in this country who celebrate Hanukah (and even to many happy eaters who don’t), but the simple yet delicious — and infinitely variable — potato pancakes are pretty good the rest of the year as well. At least that’s what the owners…
There are dozens of holiday beers on tap around town, whether it’s at beer bars like the Falling Rock Taphouse and Freshcraft or at local breweries themselves. But there’s one style of beer that absolutely screams Christmas: peppermint porter…
Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop will kickstart a tiny, 250-square -foot version of its bike shop on South Broadway sometime in the next few weeks. It will be located right behind Happy Coffee, which Salvagetti owner Scott Taylor plans to open at 1 South Broadway sometime in February or March inside what…
Scott Taylor will be closing his Happy Coffee kiosk inside Salvagetti Bicycle Workshop this Friday, and then open a full-size coffee shop this spring at Ellsworth and Broadway, in the space now occupied by Fancy Tiger Crafts…
The Denver area seems to have a lot of bank robbers, and the FBI and local law enforcement officials like to tell them apart with funny or clever nicknames. We’ve had the Shaggy Bandit, the Perennial Bandit, the Snowboard Bandits, and the Band-Aid Bandit, just to name a few. But…
Fifty Fifty Brewing out of Truckee, California, is the latest out-of-state brewer planning to see if there is room in Denver’s crowded craft-beer market for another name. But Fifty Fifty will take an interesting tack, initially distributing just one beer here, its most sought-after, most expensive product: Eclipse, an oak-aged…
The somewhat anti-climatic showdown between Tim Tebow and Tom Brady may have been the most hyped story of the week before Sunday, but it was the neck-bearded man who Tebow replaced who made the biggest headlines afterward — by ending the Green Bay Packers’s perfect season in dramatic fashion. It…
A guy rolled through Denver today — and down the bus lane in Broadway — in a massive double-carriage contraption pulled buy six big brown horses. The whole thing looked sort of like a homeless guy with a shopping cart, but on the Oregon Trail. Apparently, he is Lee the…
Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced former Illinois Governor who’s headed to prison for trying to broker a political deal, is now trying to broker another. Blago, who was sentenced to fourteen years in the clink for trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama (among other forms of…
Is Tebowing really a word? That depends on whom you believe and whether or not you’re a Broncos fan. All we know for sure is that the man has inspired a wealth of pop culture, celebrity tie-ins, songs and artwork that will reach critical mass on Sunday when the Broncos…
At the risk of pigeonholing MCA Denver, the city’s bastion of contemporary cool seems to focus a lot on conceptual projects, and its latest, Thinking About Flying, is no exception. To put the, uh, show together, Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin asked to have a pigeon coop installed on the roof…
Great Divide Brewing will add a new dimension to its ever-expanding beer empire next month when it sets up a seven-barrel pilot brewing system that will allow its brewers to experiment with one-off beers, special releases and new recipes. The equipment, which was delivered this week, will complement Great Divide’s…
The Big Red F restaurant group has made a name for itself in the local craft-beer scene over the past two years: Boulder’s West End Tavern is a great place to find rare and delicious craft brews, while Centro in Boulder and Lola in Denver dish out cans of Top…
Joe Mohrfeld, who’s been wrangling hops, malt and yeast for Odell Brewing in Fort Collins for the past three years, is headed to a new gig with Pinthouse Pizza, a brewery in formation in Austin, Texas, where the craft-beer scene is getting ready to explode. It will be a big…
