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…
The furrys were in town this weekend for Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2012: Furry Apocalypse, and if looking at their costumes made you want to get a dust-buster, you weren’t alone…
The new selection for One Book, One Denver won’t be revealed officially until September 4. But in the August 2 Off Limits, we reported that Enrique’s Journey definitely had the inside track — and now there are many more clues that this book, which grew out of a Los Angeles…
The Independence Institute’s annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms party is “the most politically incorrect event of the year,” as we tagged it years ago, and the tenth annual ATF event lived up to that billing Saturday even if it didn’t make the news that the 2010 incarnation did — when…
Jenn Wohletz recently served up her list of “Five restaurant leftovers you should not eat the next day.” No one would quibble with her inclusion of sushi — but her name-check of Chinese food left readers hungry for an explanation…
Our “Westword guide to wacky themed events” inspired shout-outs to many favorites — cruiser rides, Red Rocks — as well as this sad note from Barbara: Any place in CO is more fun than where I live!…
We named Pinche Taqueria the Best New Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2012, and Bon Appetit agrees; in his list of the country’s fifty best new restaurants, restaurant editor Andrew Knowlton names Pinche, as well as Linger and Pizzeria Locale (even though the latter is not so new)…..
For “Rocky Mountain High,” Westword writers scattered around the state on Colorado Day, August 1, and returned with reports on why, even in this very tough summer, there are plenty of reasons to love Colorado. And Shaw Nielsen gave us one more: his wonderful cover art…
It’s been one hot summer — and that includes an incendiary atmosphere surrounding some events, whose tickets have been moving faster than a wildfire. The Great American Beer Festival tickets disappeared in under an hour, and you can expect Bruce Springsteen to go just about as fast on Monday. Meanwhile,…
After eleven years at 1445 Larimer Street, Pam Savage-Sims and Curt Sims closed Lime last month. But their history in the neighborhood stretches much further back than that. It’s been 27 years for Pam, who started out singing five nights a week in clubs in the Square, and 29 for…
Politics aside — if you can set politics aside — Chick-Fil-A has lots of fans of its sandwiches. For those who are boycotting the chain for its anti-gay-marriage stance, yesterday Jonathan Shikes served up five chicken-sandwich options in town. Turns out we missed one: at Cafe Options, a terrific downtown…
Every weekend Denver overflows with great events, many of them with fun themes, most of them with beer. How do you decide which one is for you? Yesterday, we offered a helpful tool to make your decision easier: our “Choose your wacky Denver event” flow chart. But every party has…
Here’s the latest dish on Dish: Westword’s annual eating orgy is set for Thursday evening, September 6, and it will once again be held in the great outdoors — but this time we’re bringing great food, great drink and great entertainment to the Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts…
It’s been a tough summer for Colorado — the toughest in recent memory, I wrote a week ago, on Colorado Day, August 1. By then, the state had weathered drought, wildfires and the horrors of the Aurora shootings. But already, things were looking up: Missy Franklin had just snagged her…
The Denver Five will return to the James Beard House next month, strutting their stuff for food fans in New York City. The featured chefs make undeniably good food…but how will they behave?…
It’s the hottest ticket in town. The Tony award-winning The Book of Mormon opens its national tour at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House next Tuesday — creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are hometown heroes, after all — and all the seats were sold out the first day tickets went…
Another Colorado classic has reached the end of the line: Conway’s Red Top, a family-run chain that’s been slinging giant hamburgers in Colorado Springs since 1944, just closed the last of its three restaurants. The chain was co-founded by the late Norbert Conway and became known for its giant burgers,…
Uncle, chef/owner Tommy Lee’s Asian-inspired restaurant in LoHi, hasn’t even opened yet — although it will sometime this week — and already people are quibbling about how close it is to Bones, which itself was considered a copy of Momofuku when Frank Bonanno opened that restaurant almost four years ago…
People have been paying big for little pieces of Western history. William Koch bid more than $2 million for a tintype of Billy the Kid, and paid about that much for the old town of Buckskin Joe. A Vietnamese national shelled out $900,000 for the town of Buford, Wyoming,, population…
Comic Jeffrey Ross joked about the Aurora shooting during a Comedy Central roast of former Denverite Roseanne Barr — and then hurried to explain his comparison of Seth Green to James Holmes. “That is what the roasts are about,” he said. “That’s what Roseanne is about — unapologetic comedy. If…
On Colorado Day, August 1, we celebrated fifty reasons why Colorado is the greatest state in the country. Today we’re celebrating another one (although many politicians would dispute its benefits): the citizen initiative process, which allows residents to land measures on the statewide ballot, right alongside those put there by…
Zanitas Mexican opened last week in Boulder, offering “chef-inspired” menu that gives a new twist to tacos. Or so its owners hope, since T|ACO opened nearby this spring…
