Nanny state or manny state? It looks like Elevation Beer Company in Poncha Springs might be able to go with its first-choice name for the smoked dopplebock it’s making this fall for Pints for Prostates, a non-profit organization that raises money to help fight prostate cancer, after all. The name?…
How will Denver’s ban of all outdoor advertising for medical marijuana businesses — approved last night in a quick, unanimous vote by Denver City council members — be enforced? A note sent to councilmembers last week by Tom Downey, head of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, gives some…
Metro started classes yesterday, with a big new name — Metropolitan State University of Denver — as well as new buildings (including a hotel filled with art by Metro students, faculty and alumnae) and new programs. But the recent death of musician/composer Marvin Hamlisch brought a blast from the past…
Denver City Council had an action-packed agenda last night, giving final approval on a ban for any outdoor advertising for medical marijuana dispensaries, voting any police-brutality pay-out, and giving the go-ahead to put a measure to de-Bruce Denver on this November’s ballot — exactly twenty years after Colorado voters passed…
Le Grand Bistro & Oyster Bar was just a few months old last September, but owner Robert Thompson somehow found the time and energy to be a part of Dish 2011 — our first outside dining event (after seventeen years inside!), and also the first one for which Cafe Society…
Mayor Michael Hancock held his second “Cabinet in the Community” town-hall meeting Saturday morning at the transformed Rude Recreation Center in west Denver — a physical manifestation of his campaign promise to “reconnect people to their government.” Even if there were more government representatives than there were community people at…
Are Denver diners — including Jenn Wohletz — hicks to eat cream-cheese and crab wontons? That’s what VonBlancoLA suggested when he agreed with Denver Doughboy. And at this point, the discussion has gone far beyond wontons….Here’s VonBlancoLA’s take: I’m a Californian Refugee and I must admit, after four years here…
Cruiser bikes have been all over Denver this summer, and so have critics of Josiah Hesse’s “Cruiser bikes suck: They attract Philistines and ruin cycling for the rest of us.” But as it turns out, those commenters were just getting rolling. Even as the USA Pro Challenge starts today, showing…
What’s your favorite homegrown fruit? Those tart cherries that inspired the Tree Line, Marnie Ward’s winning Colorado cocktail? The juicy peaches that will be celebrated at the Palisade Peach Festival this weekend? Or the beleaguered Rocky Ford cantaloupe, wrongly fingered last year as the cause of a listeria outbreak that…
Rocky Ford farmers and growers have spent much of the last year doing damage control, after their melons were wrongly fingered as the cause of a listeria outbreak that actually originated a hundred miles away, at Jensen Farms, and ultimately killed over thirty people. But while doing damage control, they…
Summer’s searing temperatures have finally been turned down, but this weekend will still be perfect patio weather. And there’s nowhere better to enjoy it than at a ringside seat on the 16th Street Mall, which offers the city’s best people-watching. This week, we served up our “Ten best patios on…
Blockbuster has joined forces with Dish, and with that move Colorado gains a new corporate headquarters: This week Governor John Hickenlooper cut the blue ribbon to Blockbuster’s shining new offices in Douglas County. In her piece reporting on the Blockbuster ceremony, Natalie Gonzales linked to an earlier post by Jef…
I’ve seen a lot of Western history auctioned off over the last year. I watched as billionaire William Koch bid $2 million to buy an original photo of Billy the Kid, and traveled up to Buford, population one, to see that tiny Wyoming town get sold — for $900,000 –…
New spots are popping up all over town, including Little Dragon, a Chinese take-out and delivery spot in Mayfair. Jenn Wohletz dropped by and picked up an order of hot-and-sour soup and allegedly healthy, baked crab and cheese wontons. Is it wrong to crave these wontons?…
Open for Design , a new exhibit at the Denver Art Museum, has given power to the people. A community challenge asked citizens to create visual models showing how they would improve their neighborhoods, and the result was an abundance of design ideas — some serious, many whimsical and all…
A river of possibility runs through this city, and we have Joe Shoemaker to thank for that. Decades ago, he looked at the polluted mess that was then the South Platte River and he saw the potential to create an incredible amenity for Denver. From that vision came the Greenway…
In the latest installment of a long-running saga, yesterday Governor John Hickenlooper reappointed five of the ten public trustees who resigned last month — at his request. And he appointed three new trustees in three counties, including one who really puts the “public” in public trustee: sometime bartender Paul Weissmann…
Wow, the furry’s still flying over our post on the “Twenty most expressionless furry costumes at Rocky Mountain Fur Con.” And clearly, while it might be difficult to change the expression of those furry costumes, the people wearing them have no problem expressing themselves…
Get a piece of the rock — the original Hard Rock Cafe, that is. The town of Empire, which owns the century-old building in which the restaurant is located (and whose offices are right upstairs) is looking for a new party to run the place. The Hard Rock’s last proprietor…
“Many dance company directors, especially the most venerable, keep to the wings, letting their dancers and the works speak for themselves. Cleo Parker Robinson is not one of those.” That’s the start of yesterday’s New York Times piece that’s basically a rave review for Cleo Parker Robinson. Oh, and the…
At one point, it seemed that Lance Tyler Hering had found a happy ending to his incredible story. Rather than return to Iraq as a Marine, Hering cooked up an elaborate scheme in which he would disappear in an Eldorado Canyon climbing accident. An expensive search did not locate his…
The Hooters at 1390 South Colorado Boulevard — not just the first Hooters in Denver, but the first Hooters this side of the Mississippi — is closing on Friday. The breastaurant moved into this former White Spot (not Village Inn — sorry, Steveville) space in 1989, and now the landlord…
