We’ve been profiling RTD’s public-art pieces on our Show and Tell blog, and on Monday, the series reached”Winter Crossing,” the stunning mural by Denver artist Stephen Batura that hung at Union Station for a decade — and then disappeared when the historic facility was closed for major renovations. “RTD removed…
The new sign outside 4500 Washington Street caused more than a few drivers to slam on the brakes — not just because they suddenly realized they needed some fiery Bubba Chinos green chile, but they wondered what had happened to the longtime tenants of the building, Muneca’s Mexican Restaurant and…
Jen Jasinski has not only survived the first three weeks of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, but she was the big winner of last Wednesday’s “Sex, Murder and Greed” elimination challenge, when each chef had to create a dish based on one of those soap-opera themes, all judged by cast members…
While the homegrown Smashburger chain continues to rack up smashing stats, adding locations across the country as well as two more in the metro area (there are now 21 Smashburgers in Colorado), another attempt at creating a burger chain has gone flatter than a smashed patty. Both H Burger locations…
Johnny’s Diner had a long run in Aurora, but when a recent fire department inspection determined that the place needed a new fire suppression hood over the grill — a $3,000 repair — that was enough to convince the owner to decide to get out of the diner business altogether,…
On Friday the University of Denver’s Pioneer Mascot Steering Committee released its decision on the search for a new mascot — and the decision was no decision. “The research shows that nearly 70 percent of the University community is either receptive or neutral to moving forward with a new Denver…
“Are giant bears walking through downtown Colorado Springs?” asked a nitwitted FoxNews anchor last week, after video of the dumpster-diving bruin outside of the Edelweiss German Restaurant in Colorado Springs aired for the umpteenth time on the network. And Fox wasn’t alone; the schnitzel-hunting bear became an instant celebrity around…
When Trader Joe’s revealed that it would finally open a store in — one of three now slated to open in the metro area in 2014 — neighbors of the future TJ’s site at East Eighth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard rejoiced. They were not nearly as excited when they heard…
After months of study by the 76-member Pioneer Mascot Steering Committee, which included an online survey sent to 78,032 members of the greater University of Denver community, the committee just released its decision on the hunt for a new mascot. Is the school’s new symbol for the Pioneers the Elk?…
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again. Ten counties in northeastern Colorado are still considering seceding from the state. Cheyenne County (population 1876, appropriately enough) has already gotten the proposal on the November ballot; Weld County could do the same soon. In this week’s Westword, we offer some…
Civic Center Eats will sport a very tasty addition today: DPL Connect, a tricked-out trike that peddles (and pedals) a collection of free books (tomes being purged from the collection) and also serves up a wi-fi hot spot. The book bike made its debut yesterday on the Garden Block of…
Jonah Munson, the exec chef of the two locations of the Walnut Room, has a lot on his plate. Including dealing with naysayers who wonder why a pizza place — even a pizza place with two addresses — has an exec chef in the first place. See also: – Justin…
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again. Tired of being ignored, even insulted, by the Colorado Legislature, ten northeastern counties are considering ditching this state altogether and starting their own. They don’t like anti-gun, pro-gay, pro-grass, pro-green urban Colorado telling them what to do. They don’t like being…
We remember when rebranding would get you hanged or shot. Or both,” wrote Lew Cady, the just deceased (and very much missed) adman who did so much to help shape the image of this state. How soon we forget. Once again, Colorado has gone back to the drawing board to…
Why should LoHi have all the fun? Last month chef Lance Barto left the kitchen at Linger to help open The Social in Castle Pines — where residents welcomed him with open arms. And open mouths. See also: – Photos: The Social opens in Castle Pines – Lance Barto departs…
The Great American Beer Festival ticket pre-sale started a week ago today, and complaints started very soon after. But people who don’t live in an area as beer-blessed as metro Denver think it’s time for people to stop crying in their beer about the GABF. See also: – Reader: Great…
Colorful Colorado became a lot less colorful yesterday. Lew Cady — resident of Central City; graduate of East High School; adman and publisher of the Little Kingdom Come; beer-drinker (and beer-can collector); baseball fanatic; lover of lists and hijinks; wearer of cowboy hats, boots and beards; friend to thousands, grandfather…
Great American Beer Festival tickets went on pre-sale last Tuesday for members of the Brewers Association and the American Homebrewers Association, and the complaints to the Brewers Association started seconds later. There were so many, in fact, that the organization posted an apology on Facebook later that day: “Your staff…
For political pundits and satirists, Anthony Weiner is the gift that keeps on giving. Even as he was resigning from the House in disgrace, it turns out that “Carlos Danger” kept living dangerously, sexting other women around the country. How did he find the time to run for mayor of…
Our January 10 issue featured a caricature of Colorado’s Secretary of State on the cover, along with the headline “Scott Gessler Is Always Right.” Gessler liked the article so much that he used it for a campaign fundraiser, promising to give an autographed copy of the issue to “anyone who…
ViewHouse has been such a big hit since the giant eatertainment complex opened in the Ballpark neighborhood in March that owner Francois Safieddine and managing partner Brad Manske are planning to open a second location next spring, in the southern ‘burbs. That’s a very different neighborhood, but ViewHouse 2.0 will…
Jack Casey’s Four Mile House, a Glendale fixture for decades, has closed. The bar, which won Westword’s 2003 Best of Denver award for Best Happy Hour for Absolutely Free Food, started life as a barn, back in the days when what’s now Glendale was filled with dairy farms dedicated to…
