These days, we’ll take good news where we can get it. And this morning, we got it from the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center, which just released the results of a poll conducted this fall, asking American adults for their favorite big city, the place they’d like to call home…
Yesterday, a few friends marked what would have been Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 253rd birthday at the Mozart Lounge, 1417 Krameria Street. The bar was quiet — not unlike Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545, for example.But behind the scenes at the Mozart, there’s plenty going on…
When I check my e-mail every morning, just as I was once greeted by long-lost Nigerian cousins in need of cash, I now find countless would-be friends. But none of these entreaties has been as appealing as the invitation Monday to join “DIA’s Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go,”…
Earlier this month, the Spice Boys of the Rockies announced they’d be closing their five-year-old spice shop at 301 West 11th Avenue and moving their business all online, at www.spiceboysrock.com, by February 1.But sales — of both the spicy inventory and the store’s furnishings — have been going so fast…
It was fun while it lasted, but the Tiki Torch Restaurant and Bar has been extinguished after less than six months. Last summer, the tiki bar/restaurant took over the former home of the Okoboji Inn at 5280 West 25th Avenue in Edgewater. But Mykel Martinez, who’d owned the legendary 15th…
The total number of job losses across the country announced yesterday range from 65,000 (according to the New York Times) to over 71,000 (CNN). But no matter how you add things up, the outlook looks gloomy. Better polish your rose-colored glasses for Colorado’s dual announcements coming today: Governor Bill Ritter…
A second Star is now shining in the metro area — and just in time to celebrate today’s start of the Chinese New Year.Last week, after a few delays, Heaven Star finally opened at 7600 West 120th Avenue in Broomfield. This is a second restaurant from the folks who brought…
The lovely space at 2191 Arapahoe Street is about to swallow another restaurant. On Friday, the Carrera family sent out this note:Buenos Aires Grill will be closing its doors for business as of February 16, 2009. We sincerely appreciate all the support you have given us over the years. It…
Governor Bill Ritter was at the last day of the National Western Stock Show, taking in the rodeo with his family (Ritter was one of twelve kids, all raised on a farm in eastern Aurora) — and enjoying a few light moments before the hard work of the week ahead…
Mark Tarbell didn’t get the doors of his new place, Mark & Isabella, open by the end of December, as he’d predicted to Jason Sheehan, but he came close. Driving through Belmar this weekend, we saw that his new Italian restaurant is up and running in the former home of…
The last time I was in Pulcinella, the downtown Denver outpost of a homegrown chain of Italian eateries, it was to try the special holiday cocktail — a concoction just as sweet as the restaurant’s cozy little bar area. But when I popped by last night, at prime dinner time,…
Ken Salazar has been sworn in as Secretary of the Interior. Michael Bennet is now a U.S. senator. Tom Boasberg is taking over as superintendent of Denver Public Schools, promising to “accelerate reform.” That leaves just one more chair to fill — the U.S. Attorney’s seat vacated by Republican Troy…
Since we haven’t been able to make contact with Pizzeria Mundo, a noble attempt to offer international pizzas that’s faced numerous challenges since it opened, yesterday I made my way to the front door of the restaurant at 1312 17th Street (shown here in happier times).This mission wasn’t easy: The…
When John Hickenlooper was a favorite to take Ken Salazar’s Senate slot, local politicos slobbered over the idea of a winner-take-all race for the Denver mayor’s seat in May. But Michael Bennet’s appointment to the Senate ended that game of musical chairs, and now the last outstanding issue that might…
Tosh’s Cantina has encountered some delays moving into Marina Square — but that’s nothing compared to the problems encountered by the occupants of 3090 Downing Street, the original home of Tosh’s.Blackberries Bar & Grill, an offshoot of the successful coffee shop a few blocks down on Welton Street, lasted only…
After all the Washington, D.C., pomp and circumstances (one major circumstance being that, Barack Obama’s astonishing rise aside, most of those in power are indeed insiders), it’s refreshing to consider Colorado’s citizen legislature, which has a hundred part-time lawmakers who work until early May, then return to their real lives…
Looks like the new year has claimed another casualty. There’s no answer when you call Maxwell’s — an American Brasserie, an ambitious, upscale eatery that occupied a stand-alone space at 7340 South Clinton Street in Englewood. If and when Maxwell’s reopens, the owners might want to do some fast proofreading…
Fat Daddy’s — the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook — was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen + Bar, which was done in by — well, who knows what.But now the…
Jason Sheehan wasn’t bowled over by Second Home, which opened last March in the old Mirepoix space in the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. And now Peter Karpinski, chief operating officer of Sage Restaurant Group, has announced that Jason Rogers is the new executive chef at Second Home, with Anton…
Since it first opened at 19th and Pennsylvania more than three decades ago, Las Delicias has become one of Denver’s most successful homegrown chains. And today from 11 a.m.- 9 p.m., the outlet at 7610 Conifer Road (off Highway 36 and Broadway) will donate 15 percent of all food sales…
The Cherry Cricket makes one of the town’s great hamburgers (here’s Jason Sheehan’s List of the town’s Best Burgers), which is why the Travel Channel will be stopping by Denver’s Best Burger Bar at 2641 East Second Avenue today, to film a segment of Man v. Food with host Adam…
In so many ways, the Democratic National Convention of last August seems like a dream, a dream that packed the streets and businesses of Denver, and sent images of this city around the world. Looking out the window now, I can barely make out the silhouette of Invesco Field at…
