As Gretchen Kurtz notes in her review of The Kitchen Denver, much of the menu is devoted to starters and small plates. Why? To find out, she went straight to the source, Hugo Matheson, chef/co-founder of the Kitchen empire that now includes four restaurants. “Being able to eat without having…
.Last night, I was sitting at a picnic bench in the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, looking past the crowds at Westword’s Dish event to Sports Authority Field at Mile High, the site of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination on the last…
The comments keep coming about the disgruntled fellow who moved to Denver in July and doesn’t like it: “It is very Yuppified and tries to be all in the now, when it is really stuck somewhere in the 90’s and is about as fake as a city as a city…
For her first Westword review, Gretchen Kurtz visited The Kitchen Denver, the fourth restaurant in the Kitchen empire that got its start in Boulder eight years ago, and finally reached LoDo in March. Her review? Mixed. And, not surprisingly, so are the comments on Kurtz’s review itself. See also: -…
When accepting the presidential nomination at the 2012 DNC in Charlotte tonight, Barack Obama will speak at the Time Warner Convention Center, a quick switch from the Bank of America stadium. The official reason for the move is weather, although conspiracy theorists have their own ideas, including too many empty…
A reader who moved to Denver in July is ready to leave — and none too soon, judging from both his comment and the dozens that have been posted in response. Among greylopht’s complaints? There’s “no culture.” Denver is… Extremely consumer oriented. Strip mall on every corner with the same…
Like this city’s restaurant scene, Westword’s Dish is always evolving — and improving. Our eighteenth incarnation, set for 7:30 to 11 p.m. on Thursday, September 6, not only features a stunning setting — the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex — but an impressive array of restaurants. “The…
It’s green chile season. In her advice for new Cafe critic Gretchen Kurtz, former restaurant reviewer Laura Shunk said that it was important to have a favorite green chile…and then served up her own: Chubby’s. And while one commenter dissed the mean green, far more readers are fans of Colorado’s…
Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, was laid to rest yesterday, with a memory-filled ceremony. “He always said he couldn’t wait to see who was going to be at his funeral,” Shannon Schrum told Michael Roberts. “And one of the requests he had is that everybody wear a red clown…
As the Democratic National Convention gets under way in Charlotte today, it’s impossible not to recall Denver’s time in the spotlight as the host of the 2008 DNC — and contemplate its role as a key swing state in this campaign. Dick Wadhams was the chair of the Colorado Republican…
Last week, Josiah Hesse and Amber Taufen faced off in a point/counterpoint on tipping, and readers have continued the debate…
The Book of Mormon has left town, but as Josiah Hesse shows in his pop history of religious satire, the world’s religions have long served as inspiration — whether the mockery involves Mormons or Scientology…
We asked several of Westword’s previous restaurant reviewers to offer advice for Gretchen Kurtz, our new Cafe critic, whose first review will be published next week. Laura Shunk, who left the job for a move to New York in June, came up with ten tips, including this one: 9. If…
Bree Davies does not think she’s the best bass player in the world. But nor did she think she deserved this sidewalk comment from someone who had just heard her play at last Friday’s Too Much Funstival: “You know, I can play bass way, way better than you can.” Really,…
The Book of Mormon was the brainchild of two Coloradans, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who first burst on the national scene with South Park. But other locals also got lucky with the musical. Longtime Denver lobbyist Leo Boyle actually invested in it. “It’s one of the few things I’ve…
In celebrity-shy Colorado, a president’s son definitely qualifies. While the first President George Bush was in the White House, George Walker’s little brother Neil lived in Denver, where he got embroiled in an S&L scandal known as Silverado. But Neil’s fame — and infamy — here is nothing compared to…
How quickly we forget! Laura Shunk took a beating when she debuted as our restaurant reviewer two years ago, and some of those comments featured prominently in the advice that Shunk offered the next Westword critic, Gretchen Kurtz, in a piece posted yesterday. A piece that’s winning raves…
The sad news came down this week: Blinky is gone. Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, spent more than three decades on Denver TV, where he hosted Blinky’s Fun Club, a Channel 2 kiddie program, for 33 years — until the plug was pulled in 1998. Blinky died Monday at…
There were many great moments for Denver during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, which four years ago filled this city with hope and lots of spare change. But for many of us, none was as deeply satisfying as finally plopping our collective asses into the plastic seats of what was…
Denver’s football stadium doesn’t just have a new name and signage. Sometime soon after next week’s regular season home opener, it will also have its own Tavern: The Tavern Hospitality Group is in the process of creating Tavern Mile High at Sports Authority Field. “We met with the Broncos earlier…
Exactly four years after Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in Denver, he returned to Colorado, telling a crowd of students and other fans at Colorado State University that this state’s vote is key in his re-election — and that whoever wins Colorado will win the presidency…
Sean Kenyon knows how to get attention — whether he’s pouring a perfectly composed cocktail at Williams & Graham or the Squeaky Bean, serving up his opinions on this blog, or sending out a fast tweet, as he did recently when he told bartenders to quit wearing tank tops behind…
