Does the prospect of shopping at the Whole Foods in Cherry Creek frighten you? In “The sh*t-show that’s the parking lot at Whole Foods,”Lori Midson labels the expanse of pavement outside the store “the worst parking lot in the city, especially during the holidays.” On a visit there this week,…
In a repeat of a trip he made with then-governor Bill Owens back in 2003, Governor John Hickenlooper is now winging his way to California. He and new Denver mayor Michael Hancock are officially trying to encourage businesses there to expand to Colorado — and, unofficially, to maybe ditch the…
Just in time for the holidays, Jenny An served up the “Seven tastiest feast scenes in movies,” ranging from Eat Drink Man Woman to the Americanized version of that flick,Tortilla Soup, to The Nutty Professor and, of course, Big Night. Our plate looked pretty full, but then Anonymous responded with…
Brian Gansmann has been in the food-marketing business for more than two decades, a career that includes a stint on the creative team that came up with the porkerific slogan “The Other White Meat.” So he knew what to do when he was first diagnosed with celiac disease: He went…
The Wall Street Journal has a rave review of the Clyfford Still Museum today — its second piece on Denver’s new facility in as many weeks. The first, Daniel Grant’s “It’s Not Easy Being Single,” published on November 17, talked about the difficulties of dedicating a facility entirely to the…
With temperatures predicted to plummet to just above zero later this week, Occupy Denver is looking increasingly like Occupy Iceberg. But protesters in a small Colorado city a few hours to the south — Occupy Trinidad — have figured out how to keep themselves occupied in the cold winter months…
Will Wild Catch reopen this week, as remaining owner Daniel Kuhlman has promised? Does Lou’s Food Bar need a kick in the pants? And what qualifies as a chain restaurant in Boulder, anyway? SALT? Any of Dave Query’s spots? These are all hotly debated issues on Cafe Society…
Comedian Lori Callahan is not getting rave reviews for her video mocking the current “I’m a Mormon” campaign, the appropriately titled “I’m NOT a Mormon.” “To me, it feels like a cult,” Callahan says of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explaining that the sketch was designed not…
The Good Food Awards has announced the finalists in its second annual national celebration of products that are “tasty, authentic, responsible.” And the list includes not just several local brewers and spirit makers, but Dagstani & Sons, “A Very Fine Fruit Company” that makes small-batch fine fruit preserves, marmalades and…
Governor John Hickenlooper announced yesterday that he’d created the Colorado Innovation Network, “a roadmap for making Colorado the best state for innovation,” he explains, “and where every road must lead to new jobs.” And when those jobs arrive, there will be plenty of young workers to take them, because despite…
For obvious reasons, the Denver Broncos are unexpectedly fun to watch this year — but unfortunately, the beers available at Sports Authority Field are decidedly less so to drink. We may live in the Napa Valley of beer, but the Mile High Stadium crew definitely fumbled the brews available there…
The Muppet Movie is doing boffo box office; the puppets alone are enough to draw the crowds. But during their lengthy career, the Muppets have also cozied up to many celebrities — including the quintet profiled in our “Five most memorable Muppet movie cameos” post. DustyD One of them was…
You don’t need a lot of words to say a lot. For proof, check out these finalists for the short-short fiction contest sponsored by the Aspen Writers Foundation and Esquire. Entries were limited to 78 words, in honor of Esquire’s seventy-eighth birthday; they’re called “Aspens,” in honor of the other…
Cafe Society served up four Guess where contests last week, ranging from a dogcentric beer at Denver Beer Co. to a plate of gruisidos at Los Dos Potrillos to this rabbit cassoulet. For correctly identifying it as coming from Cheeky Monk, Ashley H wins an EatDenver deck…
The news that Wanda James and Scott Durrah, the owners of the just-shuttered 8 Rivers, will be opening Jezebel’s, a new Southern restaurant, in the former home of the Squeaky Bean at 3301 Tejon Street, next to Rosa Linda’s Mexican Restaurant, did not inspire the roll-out of the welcome wagon…
Local bar owners breathed a sigh of relief when Steve Horner left town taking the discrimination charges he’d filed against them for offering ladies’ night deals with him. Denver’s gain is Las Vegas’s loss: Sin City is the current focus of Horner’s campaign. But rather than earning him a pair…
Shop ’til you’re dropped! The all-consuming holiday chaos at malls — including one in nearby Falcon — captured in “Black Friday 2001: A soul-crushing compilation of humanity at its worst,” prompted this from Coco: Protests in Tahrir Square, tramplings in Walmart. No wonder the rest of the world hates America!…
Nothing says the holidays are here more than a Mexican breakfast, Christmas-style — smothered in both red and green — served up alongside some excellent early decorations. Can you guess where I’m eating? Special bonus: Anyone who gives the first correct answer to the week’s Where am I drinking/eating posts…
The photographs in Colorado Uncovered — a new book by photographer Darrell Pierson and his wife, Sherry Whitney, which places naked models before both manmade and natural landmarks in this state — can inspire lengthy study. But despite the inspired staging, the photos themselves were taken very quickly. After all,…
When the Squeaky Bean abruptly left its spot at 3301 Tejon Street in June, it left a hole in fans’ hearts — and also in the hot, hot restaurant neighborhood of Highland. But now the corner space next to Rosa Linda’s Mexican Cafe has a new tenant: Jezebel’s, the next…
Newt Gingrich is taking heat for the comment he made during this week’s Republican debate on a possible path to citizenship for some illegal aliens. And that path starts at a foundation based at a horse ranch in Parker and run by Helen Krieble, profiled in our 2006 cover story,…
Let us give thanks not just for the bargains at Dollar Tree — as Jenn Wohletz did in “Get your Thanksgiving dinner from the Dollar Tree” — but also the samples at Whole Foods, as described in “Whole Foods woos shoppers.” The double whammy of dishes inspired this from GFTW:…
