Boone’s opened today in the former home of Smugs (and Fagan’s long before that), at 1135 East Evans Avenue. The neighborhood joint is named after Denver Boone, the University of Denver’s official mascot from 1968 to 1998, and is touting a “state-triotic” concept, according to owner Rob Lamphier. “All our…
Residents of Barnum love their neighborhood, and several added their own reasons why to Jef Otte’s “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood.” Otte loves the activity, the weird stores around Federal Boulevard, even the fact that although the area’s named for P.T. Barnum, the legendary showman never…
Readers are raving about Lori Midson’s Chef and Tell interview with Patrick Horvat, the exec chef at Venue. Among those commenting? Former Venue exec chef James Rugile: Great interview Patrick, I’m overdue to come up and see you. Let’s grab a beer sometime soon. Cheers, buddy! And that inspired this…
Brauns closed its doors at 1055 Auraria Parkway this spring after nine years; the Pepsi Center, which owns the building, did not renew the lease. Now the space is getting ready to pour again: Aramark, which has the concessions contract at the Pepsi Center, is in charge of the kitchen…
When the Colorado Gaming Commission heads to Central City for its monthly meeting next week, it will be greeted by a new casino. Or at least, a casino with a new name: Fortune Valley, which got its start as Harvey’s Wagon Wheel Casino, then became Harrah’s, will next be Reserve…
On November 17, metro Denver will finally get its own Steak ‘n Shake, a link in a chain that started in Normal, Illinois, back in 1934, and proclaims that it’s “Famous for Steakburgers.” Aimee can’t wait:…
Occupy Denver is the first of the Occupy Wall Street camps across the country to elect a leader: Shelby, a Border Collie mix seen here, who was anointed after a long meeting Sunday night, and has already requested a meeting with Governor John Hickenlooper. Beyond that, Shelby doesn’t have much…
It’s not quite a wrap, but when the Bureau of Land Management announced that it had approved Christo’s “Over the River,” the art installation proposed for a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in southern Colorado cleared yet another hurdle…
PeaceJam, the homegrown nonprofit that brings kids around the world together with Nobel Peace Prize winners, is turning fifteen — but it isn’t slowing down. “We’re more on fire, and more excited about the work we’re doing right now, than ever before,” says Dawn Engle, who founded the organization with…
H&M opens at noon tomorrow in the Denver Pavilions, and eager shoppers who’ve already been waiting years to see this store are getting ready to get in line. While Occupy Denver has discovered that you cannot camp overnight in the city, tonight you can camp near the store. Occupy Denver…
Jim Pittenger, aka Biker Jim, already had an eponymous brick-and-mortar restaurant on Larimer Street, along with gourmet hot dog carts on the 16th Street Mall and at the Auraria campus. Now he’s added a food truck to his sausage empire, and it won’t be long before he rolls the business…
David Sedaris played the Paramount on November 7, and the essayist/commentator was a big hit, discussing everything from the house he wanted to buy in England to where white men shit to, well, shitting in your hand, as Kelsey Whipple noted in her “10 best David Sedaris quotes” post. A…
Denizens of lower downtown thought their ship had come in that day in 1986 when McCormick’s Fish House & Bar opened in the Oxford Hotel, bringing fresh seafood and an incredible happy hour — known to all as “cheap time” — to an area that was pretty high and dry…
While other joints on Tennyson, such as the Hole, have closed, Hops & Pie is expanding. Drew and Leah Watson’s neighborhood hangout is taking over a space next door, and will more than double in size — as well as offer more food options, including “more appetizers, a few more…
The passing of Republican powerhouse Freda Poundstone has us thinking about how this city might look if she’d never had her considerable career as a legislator/lobbyist. For starters, Denver might sprawl the way that Phoenix and other Western cities do — but instead, the Poundstone Amendment, passed by Colorado voters…
Like the hairstyles it documents, “White People With Dreads: A field guide” just goes on, and on, and on, without benefit of much sanitizing. And that bothers Alisha, who just found the year-old post and offers this: Maybe half of you people out there should stop being racist and stop…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from a multi-cultural stumper to a meal Lori Midson could eat every day at Crimson Canary to this plate of doughnut holes. For correctly identifying them as coming from Jelly, Skggy wins an EatDenver deck…
David Sedaris will be talking pretty at the Paramount tonight, and many of his fans did the same when they entered our contest to win two tickets to the David Sedaris appearance. The rules? To enter, you simply had to tell us what you would do “when engulfed in flames…”…
After reviewing Edge, the restaurant in the fancy-pants new Four Seasons, Laura Shunk served up “Denver’s five best hotel restaurants.” Edge didn’t make the list. Nor did Palace Arms in the Brown Palace, a second snub for the venerable hotel that has hosted every president since Teddy Roosevelt slept there…
Sadly, it’s too late to block the border. By now the professional picketers from Westboro Baptist Church, Fred Phelps’s “god-hates-fags” group, have likely made their way from Kansas to Colorado, where they’ve announced plans to picket two Jewish General Assembly meetings downtown today. They’re also threatening to show up at…
The price of peanut butter is going sky-high, and this week Cafe Society served up “Ten ways to enjoy newly decadent peanut butter,” including the Fool’s Gold that was an Elvis favorite at the long-defunct Colorado Mine Company, and the Peanut Butter Crunch at the one-year-old Edge, which Laura Shunk…
Steve Horner, the anti-ladies night crusader, gave Denver bars fits a few years ago, then took his campaign back on the road — most recently to Las Vegas. The slew of complaints he’s filed in Sin City against resort/casinos over special deals for bikini-clad babes are about to be featured…
