Some readers were not giving thanks for Jenn Wohletz’s “Get your Thanksgiving dinner from the Dollar Tree,” a seasonal guide to her favorite store. Sniffs dishpr: This comes off as snobby, elitist and in very poor taste. Adds GFTW: Westword, the DollarTree of rags. Oh, wait, they have to GIVE…
Uh-ode! Some readers didn’t appreciate Jef Otte’s “O, Barnum! And ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood,” which was intended as a love letter, but Don saw as hate mail: Hey Pendejo, It’s obvious that you are missing something here. I never had a cockroach in my house ever. If you…
Williams & Graham just opened to the public on Tuesday night — but word of the stylish speakeasy’s free shift meals for industry types got out fast. By the time the group meal was served, fifteen appreciative restaurant/bar workers — from Linger, Lola, Root Down and other Highland joints –…
Eric Uffelmann, the executive chef at Marlowe’s, is no fan of Denver Restaurant Week. As he tells Lori Midson in this week’s Chef and Tell, what he’d like to see less of in Denver is Denver Restaurant Week — at least in its current configuration. “Stop the hand-shackling during Denver…
When you think of Colorado Springs, what do you think of? Pikes Peak? The Garden of the Gods? The Broadmoor? The Air Force Academy? Ted Haggard? Yesterday, while Visit Denver’s annual meeting was learning that National Geographic Traveler will feature Denver next year as soon as the magazine can find…
Patti Cramer passed away just over a year ago, shortly after she left the town where she’d lived forty years, collecting hundreds of fans in the process. But her art lives on. And at Westword, where Cramer worked for several years and then continued as a contributor for decades more,…
The folks who put on the Denver County Fair last July didn’t have a lot of control over the food sold at the event: The concessionaires came with the National Western Stock Show venue. But they’re making up for any complaints about that with their very tasty Denver County Fair…
Update: The Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs conference-call meeting this morning was crowded, despite the fact that there was only one item on the agenda. But since that item was the dismissal of commission executive secretary Carol Harvey, there was plenty of interest in how Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia, who…
The space at the Tabor Center that’s now home to Ambria, chef/owner Jeremy Kittelson’s restaurant that opens today, was a Ling & Louie’s just two weeks ago…but it’s undergone an amazing transformation. Still, it’s hard to focus on the surroundings when the dishes look as good as they did in…
The Bureau of Land Management’s attempts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands has generated outrage across the country, as well as em>Wild Horses & Renegades, a new film by Santa Fe-based filmmaker James Anaquad-Kleinert, which explores the government’s unsuccessful efforts to protect wild horses — and that…
Colorado’s distilleries will get their due in the New York Times travel magazine on Sunday. And the piece, in “Blithe Spirits,” has already been posted on the web. The article celebrates this state’s burgeoning spirits scene, describing distilleries ranging from the Boulder Distillery to Peach Street Distillers to Leopold Brothers,…
Monday, November 14, was 2011 Military Appreciation Monday at hundreds of Golden Corral restaurants across the country, where free “thank you” dinners were served from 5 to 9 p.m to anyone who has ever served in the U.S. military — no ID required. But there was no Military Appreciation Monday…
Which dog in this town has the most “person”ality? For the One Book One Denver “Dogs Are People Too” photo contest, pet-owners got to submit pictures of their dogs that best captured the feel of this year’s book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, in which author Garth Stein…
If Thanksgiving is approaching, it must be time for another controversy at the Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs, which is overseen by the state’s lieutenant governor. Back in 1988, then-lite guv Mike Callihan created a ruckus with his plans for a feast in a Mayflower moving van. And now Carol…
People in sports bars across town were glued to TV sets last week, watching the latest development in the Penn State scandal. The news of the coverup — and the longtime coach’s subsequent firing — inspired the quick creation of a shot to to commemorate this hottest of current events:…
The 1st Bank Center played host to twelve of the best roller derby teams from around the country this past weekend. And although our hometown teams did not triumph in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships, the Denver area definitely came out the winner for having the WFTDA games…
Tree Haus Bistro opened today at the corner of Lafayette and East 17th Avenue, in the restored Victorian that previously held Grindhaus. For now, the place will be limited to lunch service six days a week, starting at 10 a.m. and running Monday through Saturday. But Tree Haus could definitely…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, some of them stumpers, including a still-unidentified plate of pasta smothered in fra diavolo. There was also a loaded pizza at MyPie, a pita bread sandwich at Citron Bistro, as well as this soup at what was once the town’s…
Another clothes call! Arts & Venues Denver will host a fashion forum tonight for local fashion/accessory and jewelry designers, which it describes this way: “This is a forum to LISTEN & HEAR from YOU! We want to know from you as designers what will be the best for this creative…
Inspired by the nakey pictures of Anthony Bourdain that have surfaced on the web, last week we served up the “Five celebrity chefs we’d love to see naked,” starting with Rachel Ray and ending with…Mario Batali? Why not? Batali had already exposed his thinking about the 1 percent that keeps…
To get a feel for the changing face of Denver, drive the twenty blocks of Larimer Street — which is now two-way northeast of Broadway — down to Larimer Square, and take note of all the businesses popping up along the way, all the people on the streets that were…
While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver’s best designers showed off their skills in a Cut ‘n’ Sew competition emceed by Project Runway contestant Fallene Wells, and sponsored by the Denver Art…
