Governor John Hickenlooper met with newspaper reps in town for the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention at the Governor’s Mansion yesterday. There, he talked about Iowa, Christo, the coolness of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia…and how Westword was a very good neighbor during the Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s early years — since…
The Top Chef crew came to Denver this week, auditioning chefs for the tenth season of the Bravo show. “We’ve had auditions before in Denver, but never a proper casting call, and it was time to see what the city’s chefs really had to offer,” Hunter Braun, Top Chef’s senior…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
Lisa Bailey and Keegan Gerhard have looked at several locations around town where they could put a second location of D Bar Desserts, the spot they opened on East 17th Avenue back in 2008. And now they’ve decided where to put it: not in Denver but in San Diego, where…
Are we stuck with the Denver boot? Yesterday, in advance of Mayor Michael Hancock flipping a Denver omelet to promote Denver Restaurant Week, we wondered what better items were named for this city, which seems to be officially memorialized by nothing more than the Denver boot, a clamp devised to…
LoHi remains the city’s hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, with would-be restaurateurs still looking for open spaces in the area. The most recent project announced is Central Bistro and Bar, going in right on the edge of Highland, where Lance Barto will be serving new American food. But what about…
Saturday night’s Artopia was an entertainment mashup of music, performance art, visual arts, fashion, food and other almost undefinable activities, fueled by alcohol and general high spirits. You can get a feel for the annual event in this slide show — which inspired Found Artist to cry foul:…
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet — as Michael Hancock is quickly learning as mayor of Denver. (You may have to knock a few heads, too.) And today, Hancock put those egg-breaking talents to good use as he flipped a Denver omelet in the ultimate…
Mayor Michael Hancock will learn to flip a Denver omelet today at a photo opp pushing Denver Restaurant Week. A Denver omelet? That may be the dish that’s been labeled with this city’s name, but it’s hardly the best example of this city’s cuisine. Former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan was…
When the first Spicy Pickle opened at 988 Lincoln Street in 1999, it quickly drew faithful fans with its hearty sandwiches — always accompanied by a homemade pickle. That early rush fueled lots of dreams, dreams of the kind of success that other homegrown chains, most notably Chipotle, which started…
When we didn’t find many Shit People in Denver Say videos, we created our own. But then Erin Streets, a 25-year-old Denver designer, weighed in with her own Shit Girls in Denver Say , which Nick Lucchesi says is very funny. Not so Shannen:…
A group of local residents have just sent a letter to officials in Arvada, Broomfield, Westminster, Golden and Superior, urging them to request that the Environmental Protection Agencies and the state’s health department test airborne dust in the area of Rocky Flats that could become part of the Jefferson Parkway…
Happy thirtieth birthday to Marlowe’s, which opened in February 1982 on 16th Street — before there was even a 16th Street Mall. We’d gotten to know Phil “Zoom” Roberts as the owner/operator of Govnr’s Park, a ’70s fern-bar hangout that remains a sports bar hangout today, and when he and…
Is lying about being a decorated combat vet particularly heinous? Or is 2005’s Stolen Valor Act, which made it a misdemeanor offense to make false claims about receiving service medals and awards, unconstitutional because it violates the wannabe warrior’s First Amendment rights?…
Michelle Obama’s ski trip to Aspen over Presidents’ Day weekend created a flurry of interest in our post from this time last year, when she and the First Daughters skied in Vail and ate at Restaurant Kelly Liken. Who knew that Rush Limbaugh was a restaurant critic? “The problem is,…
We sent Noah van Sciver, author of our weekly Four Questions comic, to Artopia on Saturday night and asked him to come up with a graphic (literally) impression of that orgy of arts, music, performance, fashion…and drinking. And as it turns out, he paid particular attention to Danielle Ate the…
Back in 2007, Luke Turf wrote a cover story on Life Skills, the last-chance high school in the Golden Triangle. The piece started out with why nineteen-year-old Justin Martinez had missed school again: He had to go to Pueblo to see his father. In the morgue. Justin went on to…
On Saturday night, Westword introduced the eighth class of MasterMinds — artistic entrepreneurs who are changing the cultural landscape. Since we started the program, we have given more than $130,000 in grants to artists and arts organizations. The latest winners (click on the link for profiles): Minor Disturbance; Andrew Orvedahl;…
The edge of Highland — now dubbed LoHi — is the hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, and it’s about to get hotter, with the addition of Central Bistro and Bar, which will open in late spring with Lance Barto in the kitchen. Don’t confuse it with Le Central, the “affordable…
If it’s Presidents Day, the First Lady must be in Colorado, skiing. Last year, Michelle Obama took the two First Daughters to Vail over the same weekend — and our first clue that she had returned to the slopes was a flurry of hits on that piece. This time, Michelle…
Beverly Lewis could be Colorado’s most successful author. Her specialty? Bonnet-busters, as Amish romance novels are called — even though she’s not Amish. Since 1965, Lewis has lived in Colorado Springs, producing novel after novel set in the Pennsylvania’s Amish country…
It’s Presidents Day weekend, one of the busiest times on Colorado slopes — snow or no snow — and so also one of the busiest times on I-70, where anticipated traffic put the brakes on the Colorado Department of Transportation’s pace car concept. The jam inspired this addition to our…
