Driving down Arapahoe Street Wednesday, I almost crashed my car when I saw that the restaurant at the corner of 15th had changed its name. Again.For years, this space was the home of the execrable Gallagher’s, where I once had a very long night with then-Westword restaurant critic Kyle Wagner…
You would have thought that getting voters to approve a bond measure to build a new jail — smack in the heart of the artsy Golden Triangle, at the edge of the revived Civic Center — would have been the challenging task. But that was a breeze compared to coming…
Several of the area’s liquid assets are on display today. From 3-8 p.m., the Twisted Pine Brewery, at 3201 Walnut Street in Boulder, hosts a release party in its tap room for Pearl Street Porter, created to commemorate Boulder’s 150th anniversary; find details at www.twistedpinebrewing.com. From 5-7 p.m., Zen Ultra…
Across the metro area, artists and arts enthusiasts are working hard — often unappreciated and uncompensated — to change the cultural landscape. Catherine O’Neill’s Art From Ashes uses poetry to elevate people, particularly children, above unfortunate surrounding. The organization’s efforts are so exemplary that it was a clear choice for…
The Colorado chapter of the Public Relations Society of America held a meet-the-press style session yesterday, as PRSA members and students played a game of musical chairs, sitting down at literal round tables for fast, fifteen-minute sessions with actual representatives of the media. Or what passes for the media these…
If you get Cafe Bites, our weekly newsletter, you know the routine: Ignore the following, because you learned all this yesterday morning. For everyone else:At 6:30 p.m. today, Lola, at 1575 Boulder Street, hosts the next in its “Pull Up a Seat” dinner series; special guest chef Tyler Wiard of…
By the time we chose our third class of MasterMinds, we were beginning to feel like Ed McMahon. People were catching on to our sneaky fact-checking phone calls in February, wondering if they were about to get a knock on the door and a big check. But somehow, we still…
If you subscribe to Cafe Bites, our weekly restaurant newsletter, you already know the news that follows. If you don’t, keep reading (and then e-mail cafe@westword.com to subscribe). Head to the Avery Tap Room, 5763 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder, at 5 p.m. today to get a taste of Brabant, first…
Colorado gets its 24th Panera Bread outlet today: in the new Cornerstone shopping center at 6770 South Cornerstart Way in Aurora. And to celebrate, this store — and this store only — is rolling out the dough.On Friday, the first 250 customers who make a purchase will get free baguettes…
Fresh from shmoozing with Barack Obama, John Hickenlooper will be at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight, presenting the 2008 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts to Charles Burrell, the Denver Young Artists, Su Teatro and the Bloomsbury Review, as well as a Mayor’s Cultural Legacy Award to Noel…
And we’re not talking Jon Caldara.FoxNews contributor Michelle Malkin is now an unlikely resident of Colorado Springs — not exactly the state’s hot spot for barbecue. So where did she get the whole roasted pig (and rolls) that she brought to the State Capitol yesterday for Caldara and company’s “no…
In 2005, Westword introduced its first class of MasterMinds, five aesthetic adventurers working in a variety of mediums, but all changing the cultural landscape of Denver. Those first awards came as quite a surprise — both to the recipients and to us here at Westword. Why? We found that most…
Sure, there may be big, fatty streaks of pork running through the $787 billion stimulus-package bill that President Barack Obama will be signing into law today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (www.stimuluswatch.org has gone hog-wild finding them). But if Colorado can bring home the bacon for just…
One of the first big restaurant deals of the new year was the purchase of Aix — by a new partnership comprised of of Keith Arnold and Stephanie Bonin (owners of Duo), and John Broening and Yasmin Lozada-Hissom (chef and pastry chef of Duo, respectively). When the quartet took on…
Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going — and growing — five years ago, Westword created the MasterMind Awards, a program that honors five cultural visionaries who are working to change the cultural landscape of Denver, and rewards their efforts with cold, hard…
Denver Restaurant Week doesn’t start until February 21, but it already looks like a hit, with more than 224 restaurants signed up to participate and over a hundred chefs slated to attend the scheduled February 17 press conference to hype the event.But once Barack Obama’s noon visit to Denver that…
The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the…
Yesterday’s picture in the Denver Post real estate section of the new Curt Fentress architecture firm headquarters/Watermark sales office, in the historic Chittenden Mansion on West Fourth Avenue just off Broadway, brought back memories of a much earlier attempt to label the Baker neighborhood as one of Denver’s hippest.Close to…
The James Beard Foundation has just released the semifinalists list for its 2009 restaurant and chef awards. And Frank Bonanno — of Mizuna, Luca D’Italia and Osteria Marco (and now Bones, which opened at the very end of December) fame — is one of twenty people up for Outstanding Restaurateur.No…
There’s a sign in the window of the Common Grounds at 1601 17th Street, and it’s not good news. The landlord has put this prime piece of real estate up for lease, and that means LoDo could lose a great local coffeehouse (and a barista who was once on Survivor)…
Wolf Creek Ski Area is one of the last vestiges of old Colorado, a family-run, rustic, relaxed ski area with tons of powder and no pretense. Not surprisingly, a Texas developer took one look at the stunning spot and decided to build a massive resort village nearby — one that…
When Bar Luxe opened three years ago, it was a sleek Cherry Creek bar, soon to be joined by Euro, a hip Cherry Creek restaurant helmed by Olav Peterson, formerly of Restaurant 1515. But Euro was gone by the end of 2007 (Peterson is now at Bistro One), and Bar…
