My personal commitment to the Froggish arts is nothing when compared to the two-line backstory of Uttam Lama, chef at the five-month-old Tibet’s Restaurant in Louisville. Uttam spent fourteen years as the chef at a Tibetan monastery. While there, he cooked for the Dali Lama. For culinary street cred, Uttam…
Slide Show As Charting Graf reported in this blog, and spotlighted again here, the private wall that graffiti writers refer to as “The CIA Wall” has a long and storied past. Here’s a slide show sample of some of the production pieces, or murals, that have graced the wall recently…
Super-hero and Miami electro guru Otto von Schirach this weekend asked a crowd in Denver that age-old question: would you rather have your ears twisted or have a dance-party-orgy? Find out what the answer was with this slide show review by Cory Casciato…
View larger image Montana Total Number of Delegates: 24 Pledged: 16 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a Montana Delegate: Residents of the Treasure State think that their Last Best Place isthe Jewel of the Lower 48. On average, there are only seven Montanans per square mile of Big Sky Country,…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
View larger specimen In order to make more sense of the world around us, illustrator and public house naturalist Nate Stone is compiling here a taxonomy of different barflies. While you’re out and about in Denver, if you spot any of these specimens please add your observations about their habitat…
A Senate bill was introduced Thursday that would legalize the sale of full-strength wine and beer in grocery stores. If passed, S.B. 149 could mean the death of the Colorado oddity known as 3.2 beer. In 2006, I wasted away hour after hour of my life in front of microfilm…
See a slide show sample of the show. Unlike the brutal and drawn-out battles common amongst opponents in politics and sports, rivalries in art tend to be less about victory and defeat as they are about playful competition among contemporaries. The dual exhibition showing at Indy Ink, 84 South Broadway,…
Locals Only: DJ Bedz Joins XM Radio DJ Bedz has been handling business with Denver on his chest for quite awhile now. From spinning the weekend mixes on KS107.5, to reppin’ as the official Denver Nuggets DJ, to mixtaping the heck out of the Mile High City and even appearing…
Update: The Shoppe is now open for business. Get a look inside with this slide show by Molly Kreck. In its December issue, Men’s Health magazine named Denver the “Most Dangerously Drunk City” in America. It makes sense: Denverites can count on one shaking hand the social spaces that are…
Slide Show DJ Shadow + Cut Chemist, Kid Kiola Thursday, February 7, 2008, Ogden Theater Better than: Dancing with the waitresses at Tom’s Diner. A long long time ago, 1996 to be exact, some sage named Beck surmised that the one key to any party was “two turntables and a…
Call Vlog an elitist jerk if you want. Call the subject of Vlog’s scorn in this video low hanging fruit. But seriously people, those that show up for an American Gladiator audition are just plain odd…
Doing It Together, Part One The memory of my first Lion’s Lair experience has grown fuzzy with time. Like one of those crappy, colorized classics that Ted Turner nearly ruined in the ’80s, the details won’t quite settle down, the flesh tones are way off and even the sound seems…
“Juvel” is out of a job since Denver Sugar closed shop. A major law enforcement investigation into Denver’s top escort agency has sent a chill through the local sex-for-hire industry – and the wealthy clientele who finance it. Rumors of distress in the escort underground floated by Westword’s ear earlier…
I watched Superbowl 42 on a flight back to Denver from a writing conference in New York City. Many people on the plane were coming from that same convention, so there were two main sets of passengers that night: rabid Giants fans (since we were coming from NYC), and poets,…
While other reporters were wasting their time on Super Tuesday night tracking useless information like exit polls and delegate counts, the crack political team at Westword was focused on the issues the matter: namely, which Democratic candidate’s political apparatus throws a better post-caucus party. After a sleepless night of number…
In the days leading up to Super Tuesday, I kept waiting to get an off-white invitation in the mail from an older neighbor, preferably an active, sporty grandmother-type, who had looked up my political affiliation and requested my presence in her home for the Democratic caucus. I would show up…
Call it the most competitive, high-stakes game of Jenga ever, with nothing less than the leadership of our democracy hanging in the balance. Super Tuesday lived up to some expectations—a highly competitive Democratic race and a strong national showing for John McCain—while injecting more surprises and uncertainty into what promises…
In 2001, Westword published its eighteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Performance by an East High Graduate (Don Cheadle scored in Traffic) to the Best Appearance by Coloradans in an Inaugural Parade (the Precision Lawn Chair Demonstration Team marched for…
Call them what you will: galoshes, rain boots, Wellingtons—when it comes down to it, these rubbers are a fabulous choice for wet Colorado winters and spring showers alike. And now you can get them in all shapes, sizes and colors, running from the extensive selection of patterns and colors at…
I’m a walking Obama schwag-pack right now. If you punched me in the stomach, I’d spit up a sheet of red, white and blue, “Standing with Obama,” stickers. If you grabbed me by my New Balances and shook me upside down, dozens of Obama buttons would fall out, much to…
Radda is a great restaurant, but it’s also a comfortable restaurant, an unassuming restaurant, a restaurant where families come to eat penne al cinghiale and chicken soup in a parmesan broth, made with winter vegetables, lemon and faro, and where rogue CU economics professors sit and argue vehemently about the…
