iker culture and beer are as inseparable as a Harley-riding man and the female passenger wrapped around his back. “Bikers do consume mass quantities of beer at their functions,” notes Roger Unrein. And if he has his way, the beer they’ll be drinking is Hardtail Ale. “Being a biker and…
If the folks at the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council had their way, you’d already know that July is National Hot Dog Month and July 24 is National Hot Dog Day. If Coe D. Meyer had his way, every day would be a hot-dog day. From his office in…
Cyd Szymanski grew up on a chicken farm, but she’s still chicken. “I’m the Egg Lady, and I’m terrified of chickens,” confesses Szymanski. “I am really phobic about them. I think I just got pecked too often when I was little.” Even so, she’s managed to scratch out a living…
It could have been a beautiful score. “The guy in front of me was dancing around, and out of his pocket came a vial of my drug,” recalls Steve. “It was sitting on the floor in front of me. I was looking at it.” For many years, Steve was the…
Action” describes the dough you wager in a bet, and the pot’s overflowing at the all-you-can-eat Kitchens of the World Action Buffet at the Black Hawk Casino — Hyatt’s recent entry in the crowded casino market. While some other casinos are content with prime-rib specials, the Hyatt’s buffet offers seven…
An Cuigear, Friday, June 7, at the Rocky Mountain Center for the Musical Arts (200 East Baseline Road in Lafayette), is an Irish-music five-piece that hails from Boston. But local lovers of Emerald Isle music will be familiar with the group’s founders, Mathew and Shannon Heaton. Before moving east just…
Joe Cleveland is driving his truck through the streets of LoDo, right past the night crawlers who are out imbibing local brews. But thanks to Cleveland, bar hoppers aren’t the only breed enjoying the wonders of hometown beer: Front Range cows do, too. Cleveland runs Micro Grain, a company that…
Time waits for no man, but it sure does wonders for a good bar. The Bull & Bush opened back in 1971 in the heart of Glendale as a cozy-but-campy re-creation of the famed English pub in Hampstead Heath. Thirty years later, the timeworn B&B is one of the metro…
“I want real beer on Sunday,” says Blake Harrison. Newly graduated from the University of Colorado Law School, Harrison is putting his money where his mouth wants to be, by working to end the state’s ban on the Sunday retail sale of full-strength beer and spirits. If he’s successful, Coloradans…
Roz Brown is the ultimate oldies act. “Let’s go back to 1905 for this one,” says Brown, his blue eyes gleaming from beneath a dusky hat. Sitting on a bar stool in an assisted-living center in south Denver, he gently strums an autoharp, filling the room with the sonic sweetness…
Lawrence Golan knows firsthand that classical music can be a tough sell. As a professor of conducting and director of the Orchestral Studies program at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, Golan spends his time teaching the classics to music students and conducting the school’s orchestra. Along the…
It’s game day at Coors Field, where thousands of fans are enjoying America’s alleged favorite pastime. A few blocks to the east, inside the Carioca Cafe, at 2060 Champa Street, a handful of Americans are reveling in a more revered, longer-lived pastime: drinking. The baseball fans who hustled past the…
Chuck E. Weiss, one of the coolest cats ever to escape Denver, is back in town to “take care of some business” and visit his mom. But although he’s got a new record out, Weiss doesn’t want to talk music. No, he wants to jawbone about his other love: diners…
Living in a rapidly improving neighborhood has its pluses and minuses. In the Old San Rafael section of central Denver — my stamping grounds — the upside includes increasing property values, decreasing crime and fewer addicts smoking crack beneath the Neighborhood Watch signs. On the downside, there are heftier property…
Ultimate Music Xperience, Saturday, March 23, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, March 24, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., at the Soiled Dove, is a marathon audition for acts hoping to play the annual People’s Fair, which funds the mighty civic efforts of Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods…
The Starlight Drifters, Wednesday, March 27, at the Buffalo Rose in Golden and Thursday, March 28, at the Skylark Lounge, separate themselves from the pompadoured pack with one singular force: guitarist Chris Casello, one of the finest pickers in rockabilly/country circles. His immense arsenal of styles brims with snippets of…
Ask any craft brewer today how he or she got started, and the answer will probably point to Charlie Papazian and his book, Joy of Homebrewing. Twenty-some years ago, Papazian founded the Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association and helped launch the craft-beer industry in the U.S. Boulder’s David Myers is a…
Madame Andrews possesses a heavenly voice that’s mightier than Goliath yet as supple as Halle Berry’s skin. Known as the “Gospel Queen of Denver” — a title that she says was bestowed upon her by the Lord through a divine communiqué — she has spent a couple of decades as…
I got my first taste of French kisses and Jolly Rancher candy at about the same time. In seventh grade, the adventurous girls counted on Jolly Ranchers for both fuel and breath-freshening. I smell a Jolly Rancher today, and I’m back stealing kisses in the bleachers with Leslie Henry, the…
In spite of a half-minded president, a slew of bad haircuts and a Me-centric mindset, a few memorable and artistic things managed to slip through the conservative cracks of the Reagan era. Confoundingly, much of the substantive musical activity of the ’80s came out of Minnesota, a frigid and often…
The American Dairy Council is all wrong: If your fridge isn’t holding bottles of Karl’s Farm Dairy milk, friend, you haven’t got milk. Not the flavor-packed, country-wholesome heaven-in-a-glass stuff from Karl’s, the tastiest milk to grace an upper lip. “It’s the best milk I’ve ever had,” says Bernice Magill, a…
After two years of dreaming, I can finally say it: I am an Egg man. My newly achieved status hinges not on some acid-inspired, Lennon-ish trip, but on a real-world thrill. I now own a Big Green Egg, the Pamela Anderson of smokers, the Martin guitar of grills. Never heard…
