Tom Downey, director of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, just issued his final decision regarding Rockbar’s application to renew its liquor licenses for the hipster hangout on East Colfax. Downey’s decision? No. And if that order stands, Rockbar will be high and dry within the month. See also:…
Joints keep getting snapped up in LoHi, which Forbes has rated as one of the “hippest hipster neighborhoods” in the country. The most recent takeover: the former Arabian Bar, which has been in business since the ’20s at 3360 Navajo Street. It’s now being transformed into Barry’s@Highlands by Barry Zadikoff,…
Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. And today, state offices will be closed to mark what remains a holiday — and was celebrated with a Columbus Day Parade Saturday. But that parade didn’t inspire the protests that have been regular sights over…
Would you pay $500 for a mask of James Holmes? One was offered last week on eBay for $500. And then would you wear it out in public? See also: – James Holmes ultra-realistic Halloween mask listed on eBay for $500 – Five tips for visiting a haunted house -…
A passerby saw the smoke coming from Tequila’s Mexican Restaurant at 17535 South Golden Road early Sunday morning, and called 911 at 1:20 a.m. Sunday morning. By the time firefighters from four metro departments arrived, the blaze had gone to the roof, and it took several hours to put out…
The deadline for comments on the suggested denial of Rockbar’s liquor-license renewal — issued ten days ago by hearing office William Hobbs — was 5 p.m. today. In the meantime, Jesse Morreale, the owner of Rockbar, has been busy, with staff and supporters exercising a “three-tiered outreach campaign to residents…
Chipotle Mexican Grill got its start in Denver, in an old Dolly Madison by the University of Denver, where Steve Ells opened his first store in 1993. Originally, the culinary grad thought that store would be the way he financed a fine-dining restaurant. Instead, Ells says, “I guess I found…
The 16th Street Mall turned thirty yesterday, and it’s looking better than it has in years, with the best yet to come as work continues on the Union Station project. The mall’s official birthday celebration will be Tuesday at Skyline Park — but some critics won’t be coming to the…
I stopped by Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe last night, and the place was packed. Packed full of TV cameras, full of people who’d heard about the controversy that erupted after Cafe Society first reported that the family that owns the restaurant had declined to let Romney supporters use their place…
The 16th Street Mall turned thirty yesterday, and the city will be marking the occasion with a celebration at 11:30 a.m. next Tuesday at Skyline park. In the meantime, we headed downtown to do our own mall crawl, and offer stories along the way. Readers contributed their own insights on…
Adrian Miller has a lot on his plate these days. The lawyer-turned-politico is running Stephen Ludwig’s re-election bid for University of Colorado regent, and he’s also finishing up a book for the University of North Carolina Press called Flavor: Soul Food History by the Plateful. In it, the Denver native…
In the crazed build-up to the presidential debate, I stopped by one of my favorite neighborhood spots for food and fellowship: Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe. Turns out, I missed the news right under my nose. Back at the office, we were reporting that Mitt Romney had lunched at Chipotle –…
An artist who lived in northwest Denver clued me in to the little storefront burrito joint that had just opened in his neighborhood in northwest Denver, a spot decades away from being tagged with the nickname “LoHi” or labeled a “hippest hipster neighborhood” by Forbes. I’ve been eating at Rosa…
Governor John Hickenlooper has declared this first week of October “Colorado Fashion Week,” but judging from the response to one photo in our slide show of Colorado-created fashion, one designer needs to go back to the drawing board…or the kitchen cupboard… See also: – Colorado Fashion Week: Behind the Scenes…
No matter how the presidential candidates do in tonight’s debate — whether Mitt Romney continues to do his imitation of Bert on Sesame Street or Barack Obama trips over his teleprompter — a clear winner has already emerged: The University of Denver…
Campaigning in Colorado yesterday in advance of his appearance at tonight’s debate at the University of Denver, Mitt Romney stopped at the Chipotle in Stapleton — where he ordered extra guac with his burrito. He also got a side of sarcasm from our readers. – See also: Photo: Mitt Romney…
Just in time for Denver’s closeup in the international press, “I See What You Mean,” aka the Big Blue Bear, has gotten a facelift. But by simply sprucing up the sculpture outside of the Colorado Convention Center, Denver missed a bet. So last week, we offered up several more meaningful…
For Now Showing, our fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene — including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards — to take a survey about the state of the arts. We published many of the responses…
The presidential debate won’t be at University of Denver until tomorrow night, but the great debate is already raging in Denver: Does a Walmart belong in the development going in the former University of Colorado property at Ninth and Colorado? And if it does, should it benefit from tax-increment financing?…
President Barack Obama has been drinking beer on the campaign trail, trying to convince undecided voters that he’s a regular guy. In 2008 Obama got branded a wine-slurper, but he’s got a distinct alcoholic advantage in this year’s race against teetotaling Mormon Mitt Romney. But as Jonathan Shikes notes, Obama…
The big presidential debate is tomorrow night, but political fights are breaking out all over town — on street corners, in bars. And tonight, there should be a doozy at the Fillmore Auditorium, where political heavyweights Glenn Beck and Eliot Spitzer will go head-to-head in a battle of ideas. The…
Should Aurora’s Century 16, the complex that includes the theater where thirteen people were shot to death on July 20, reopen? That’s what Cinemark, the owner, has decided to do, and when the City of Aurora posted a survey on Facebook asking what should be done with the complex, the…
