Colorado’s longest-running reality show could be drawing to a close. Today, Ward Churchill will get another day in court, when Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves considers whether he should get his job back at the University of Colorado — or be paid to go away. Naves presided over the…
A new bar in town stocks not just quality booze, but a handy library of reference volumes to settle bets.Except this one: Bet you can’t guess which bar this is……
The beleaguered Beauvallon building has swallowed another restaurant. Mr. Coco’s Bar & Grill, possibly the worst-named Mexican joint ever, has shut its doors at 925 Lincoln Street. Before it was Mr. Coco’s, that space had held, very briefly, Marni’s Steakhouse (which left behind its awning) and before that, Moe’s Southwest…
Architect Ed White changed the way the world looks at Denver — not just through his architectural designs, but through his friendship with Jack Kerouac. That friendship is documented in the form of Tim Gray, a White-like character in On The Road, as well as in the structure of the…
Dick Kreck will be reading from his book Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family tonight at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, with Chuck and Gene, the sons of Clyde Smaldone, on hand to answer questions about their infamous relatives. But for a real taste of what the…
It’s 8:30 p.m. on the second Monday night of summer — but you don’t need a calendar to know that. You just need to see the lines outside of Little Man Ice Cream, which opened exactly a year ago at 2620 16th Street.You scream, I scream, we all scream…..
KJ’s Coffee Bar, the spot at 1710 East 25th Avenue that’s become a regular Whittier neighborhood hangout over the past ten months, will introduce later hours today — until 9 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. on weekends. And that’s just the start of the changes, promises manager Kassia Koukari…
Big Hoss Bar-B-Q , at 3961 Tennyson Street, has been hot since it first opened back in December 2006, and earned raves from Jason Sheehan a year later. But this is ridiculous: After a cook left the smoker open on Saturday, the Big Hoss kitchen caught fire — and the…
A moment of silence for the passing of a pop-culture icon, gone so young at the age of fifty. Yes, that’s right: Billy Mays, star of Pitchmen on the Discovery Channel, has died, silencing that big voice that had become ubiquitous on late-night infomercials. Mays got his start on the…
Read between the lines: The rationale behind the city’s vote for the next One Book, One Denver selection became clear yesterday, when the Department of Cultural Affairs revealed that the city had received a $20,000 Big Read grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. That NEA program is designed…
Dick Kreck is sitting beside the shrine to Frank Sinatra in Gaetano’s, the restaurant at 3760 Tejon Street that the Smaldone family ran for almost sixty years, from 1947 until the Wynkoop Family of Restaurants bought the joint in 2005. The restaurant wasn’t the Smaldones’ only business venture, of course…
Hollie Burr has rolled back into Cherry Creek, this time with two food carts. Yes, she has Colorado Gourmet Hot Dogs, which was a hit last year with its grilled chicken breasts and gourmet dogs: the Italian stallion (sausage with pizza sauce and melted cheese), the Chicago (with all the…
I’m about to head to Denver International Airport, which is suddenly in the shadows. Not because of the storm cloud that dumped a record amount of rain on DIA last evening — but because Republic Airways’ $109 million bid to buy Frontier out of bankruptcy could mean that Denver will…
Phil’s Place, a watering hole at 3463 Larimer Street, was the unlikely setting Sunday for a book-signing event by Dick Kreck, the former Denver Post scribe who’s the author of Smaldone: The Untold Story of an American Crime Family. After all, for close to sixty years the Smaldones ran Gaetano’s,…
Get in line, suckers. Clear, the private program that let pre-registered (and pre-paid, at $199 a year) customers use special fast lanes to get through airport security once their iris scans were on file, has closed down, its parent company “unable to negotiate an agreement with its senior creditor to…
After twelve years, Dixons Downtown Grill, at 1610 16th Street, is finally introducing a happy hour. And it’s really making up for lost time. The happy hour, which starts today, will run from 3 to 6 p.m. seven days a week, and feature cocktail specials ($3 Ketel One John Daly…
For the past five years, the Third Way Center benefited from a major wine-tasting/fundraiser wine-tasting fundraiser in LoDo. But the event, scheduled for tonight, “was cancelled rather abruptly a week ago by the host/venue, leaving Third Way Center high and dry,” according to Tami Lack, Third Way’s director of administration…
Independence Institute chief John Caldara lost the battle of the sexes shoot-off at the organization’s annual ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms — but not in that order) event at the Kiowa Shooting Club on Saturday, but he’s still a master at shooting from the lip. “I always aim for the…
The Denver Zoo hosted its twentieth annual Do at the Zoo last night, and Denver’s party animals were out in force, sampling tidbits from dozens of restaurants and getting wild! See for yourself on our slideshow…
Could be a fight to the finish to see which storefront pizza joint opens first: Denver Pizza Company — whose owner, Mark Huebner, can focus on finishing his Golden Triangle spot now that he’s been booted off The Bachelorette — or Mary Jane’s Pizza. Mary Jane’s is located at 2013…
Show your appreciation for your dad on Father’s Day — without spending a cent. Take him to a LaMar’s Donuts outlet on Sunday, June 21, when any father will be given a free glazed or cake donut…
We’ve spent a lot more time looking at the home of the new Denver Pizza Company — a few blocks away from the Westword office at 309 West 11th Avenue — than we have watching The Bachelorette, even though one of the swains vying for Jillian Harris was from Denver:…
