Celebrate the world’s longest main street at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11, when Satellite Bar, 308 East Colfax Avenue, hosts the monthly Happy on the Hill social. Satellite will offer drink specials, and CityGrille, located right across the street at 321 East Colfax, will supply the snacks.(Is it too…
Steve Horner has left Colorado — for now. My first clue was the sudden silence: no voice-mail messages left for Westword writers, linking their stories on the plight of the homeless or the educationally challenged to the very existence of ladies’ nights. My second clue: a sudden influx of messages…
Venue, the new restaurant at 3609 West 32nd Avenue that earned a recent rave from Jason Sheehan, is teaming with Marczyk Fine Foods to host a ladies-only (don’t tell Steve Horner!) wine education tasting from 5:30-7 p.m. today, Tuesday, March 10. The line-up features Venue apps and the “best American…
The Winter Park ski area is actually owned by the city of Denver — and now two familiar Denver eateries have joined the new Village project at the base of the ski hill.Lime finally opened a fourth outpost in Winter Park — and its margaritas seem particularly potent at 9,000…
The sign in the window of the new spot at 22nd and Larimer street says it all: Hi*Rise, which specializes in hand-crafted bread, will open on March 14. “Seriously.”We don’t know much more, other than the space looks very cool — and we seriously doubt there’s any relation between this…
When Ward Churchill faces off against the University of Colorado in Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves’s courtroom today, it will be the culimination of a controversy that dates back not just years, but decades. It wasn’t until January 2005, when a student publication complained about the then-CU professor’s post-9/11…
Today, Dazzle is introducing a new reason to eat at Denver’s great jazz club: prime rib. Not content with offering one of the town’s best happy hours, owner Donald Rossa reports that his chef will be slow-roasting prime rib throughout the day — which means “serious eating” tonight.Dazzle is located…
Troy Guard was cooking again last night, and it felt good. The former Nine75/Zengo chef had joined Jamey Fader as a guest chef for a special dinner at Lola featuring dishes inspired by the flavors of Cabo and the Yucatan. It wasn’t much of a stretch for Guard, who was…
On the kind of unseasonably warm days we’ve been enjoying this week, it’s impossible not to start thinking about Denver’s best patios. Some, like the patio at Jax, are just slivers of sidewalk with great people-watching; others are vast expanses of deck that create this city’s best approximation of a…
When Cebiche closed its doors at 2257 West 32nd Avenue right after the first of the year, its voicemail message promised that it would have news of a new location within a week.But two months later, Cebiche is still looking for a new home. And in fact, owner Sergio Iraola…
A billion here, a billion there — pretty soon we’re talking real money. To be somewhat precise, $13.5 billion, which is what the federal government has spent in the more than two decades that it’s proposed storing nuclear waste in an area known as Yucca Mountain, a volcanic ridge fewer…
SAME Café, the subject of Westword’s February 26 cover story, is the beneficiary of the first annual SAME Café Ante-Up Charity Poker Tournament, which runs from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, March 6 at Cap City Tavern, 1247 Bannock Street. To sign up, call the café at 720-530-6853 or…
I am listening to Peter Boyles talk about state Senator Chris Romer’s bill, which will go before a legislative committee today. The measure would allow illegal immigrants to get in-state tuition at state schools (if they have attended a Colorado high school for at least three years, and have graduated…
For decades, Vella’s Italian Restaurant served up decent, family-style fare at 3000 South Federal Boulevard, in the heart of a somewhat restaurant-starved neighborhood.But Vella’s recently closed up shop, and a sign on the building indicates the space is available…
At 6:30 p.m. tonight, the Lab at Belmar kicks off the latest round of Taste Test, a series that “investigates the foods that we eat through a combination of history, science, anthropology and culinary arts,” according to the Lab’s Sarah Skeen. First up: “Taste Test: Chocolate,” William Poole, founder of…
I am being held hostage by Steve Horner. And the state helped write the ransom note. I first met Horner two years ago, when he was sending haranguing notes and leaving endless voice-mail messages about how I, and this newspaper, “have been totally insensitive to the needs of this egalitarian…
At a recent appearance in California, Anthony Bourdain revealed that the first article he ever wrote was supposed to appear in an alternative paper, the New York Press. According to the Santa Barbara Independent story: After finishing the op ed that would later inspire Kitchen Confidential, Bourdain remembered aloud how…
There has been plenty written about Jared Polis’s inane, inaccurate, insensitive slam at the Rocky Mountain News– “killed,” he said this weekend, by the new media. And there will be plenty more. Polis apologized yesterday. “I did not mean to offend nor to show anything less than a strong sense…
Good food for a good cause: At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Restaurant 4580, the neighborhood place that Martin and Susan Hammer opened three years ago at 4580 Broadway in Boulder, will host a benefit for the Lost Girls of Sudan. CSAW supports eighteen of these refugees in Boulder, and will collect…
Pablo would be a senior in college now. A senior in a private college, rather than a public university. Because while Pablo was a star student at West High School, he was also an illegal immigrant. His parents had come to the United States when he was just a boy,…
Restaurants and bars all over town opened their patios Sunday — on the first of March! — to take advantage of the unseasonable temperatures. You can enjoy both the unbelievably balmy weather and incredible views from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, March 3, at the Vistas at Park Meadows, where…
My Pizza Peel — and yes, that’s the real name (a pizza peel is the long-handled shovel used to pull a pie out of the oven) — opens today, right on the side of the Magnolia Hotel, at 1645 Stout Street, with a slogan on the sign that promises “A…
