Bree Daves discovered how the other 1 percent lives when she went to Beaver Creek for a night, and shared her discoveries in “Five things destitute dames need to know about shacking up in fancy hotels.” Among other things, you do not wear the fluffy robe from your room to…
Dos Casas, a culinary extravaganza that benefits Brent’s Place, a local nonprofit that provides hope and help for kids stricken with cancer, will pack the house with distinguished chefs: Jamey Fader of Big Red F; Goose Sorensen of Solera; Pete Marczyk of both Marczyk Fine Foods stores; Troy Guard of…
Luciano’s Pizza and Wings has reached the end of the line. In addition to the notice posted last month that the property had been seized by the City of Denver for non-payment of taxes, there’s now a sign announcing an April 24 auction of the contents of the eatery at…
Wicked opens today at the Buell Theatre, with a wickedly good deal: Two and a half hours before each performance, you can enter your name in a lottery at the Buell box office; thirty minutes later, names will be drawn for a limited number of orchestra seats at $25 each,…
Where would you put a new restaurant in Denver? Theo Adley has sold the Pinyon in Boulder. “The truth is that I want to be in Denver,” he told Lori Midson. “I want to cook — and get better as a chef — in a bigger city with more people…
Tonight the Mayan is screening Wild at Heart, part of a series of David Lynch films it’s featuring in April. That program inspired Jef Otte’s list of David Lynch’s ten weirdest scenes…
Do you want a shot of attitude with that beer? Laura Shunk’s interview with Adam Hodak, the Green Russell bartender who doesn’t think bartenders should be pretentious, hit a few people in their funny bones, not to mention wallets lightened by the cost of craft cocktails. The comments keep flowing…
It’s been a big year for John Denver, even though he’s been dead since 1997. Last April, the mop-topped troubadour who was born Henry John Deutschendorf was one of the first inductees in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame; the other, Red Rocks, wasn’t available for comment, either. Last month,…
Every week, Noah Van Sciver serves up both art and insight into local bands in 4 Questions, his comic. But occasionally we send him out to paint the entire town, as he did for the recent opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver…
Did you miss First Friday on Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe ? Catch all the action you missed April 6 in our First Friday slide show. Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook!…
To be pretentious or not? About the only than that people could agree on after reading the interview with Adam Hodak of the Green Russell was that a margarita needs real lime…
We’d just driven two hours through the dry, dry landscape when we spotted a fire on the side of the road just south of I-70. A small fire — but then, the Lower North Fork fire was once small. I dialed 911, whose dispatchers are still feeling the heat over…
Some spent Easter morning at a sunrise service at Red Rocks. Some celebrated with a big family feast. Some ignored the holiday altogether. And thousands of the faithful flocked to the University of Denver, where The Thorn 2012, a passion play that’s been compared to “Cirque de Soleil meets The…
Old Colorado City canceled its annual Easter egg hunt this year. The reason? Bad behavior at the 2011 event — not by the pint-sized participants, but by their overprotective parents, who behaved like such greedy shmucks that the town decided the annual eggstravaganza wasn’t worth the trouble…or bad publicity…
When Tyler Nemkov joined Cafe Society as a twenty-year-old intern from Johnson & Wales three years ago, he knew he wanted some kind of career in the culinary world. And now he’s found it — although he’s still a month away from graduation at the University of Colorado, the 23-year-old…
Denver’s most doomed address has claimed another victim. Nanna’s Teas opened last summer in the charming Victorian bungalow that was the original home of La Loma, and over the past four decades has housed restaurants ranging from Filipino to Mexican to Chinese to Mexican to continental to Mexican. After El…
Yes, that’s sausage studding the spicy Hollandaise on top of poached eggs on top of, yes, chicken-fried steak! Guess who’s serving this gut bomb? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts is entered into a pool — and every Monday,…
Long before Buford — the tiny Wyoming town with its own zip code but a population of exactly one — became an international sensation, it was a road-trip must-stop for my family. We’d discovered it one morning when we’d zipped past Cheyenne and realized we might need gas before Laramie…
Andrew Casalini and his wife, Jen Dactano, opened Satchel’s on 6th just over a year ago, but the restaurant at 1710 East Sixth Avenue — a replacement for Satchel’s Market, the Park Hill market-turned-restaurant they closed in the fall of 2010 — is on its third chef. Jared Brant was…
After seeing the last installment of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Sven Ceelen decided to move the action off the screen and into City Park, where his own quidditch team, the Denver Dementors, practice every Sunday. In Harry Potter and the Prizoner of…
Los Carboncitas is a great Mexican restaurant, and one that actually focuses on the foods of Mexico, rather than Tex Mex or Colorado Mex or Den-Mex, as Gustavo Arellano calls the food at this town’s standard Mexican joints. So Laura Shunk was eager to try Paxia, the upscale sibling of…
Colorado tourism got an injection of life with its smart new “Come to Life” campaign. And while it had looked like the Colorado Tourism Office’s budget might be headed for life-support, it just got an injection of of new/old money…
