Bobby Stuckey, co-owner of Frasca Food and Wine, is a Master Sommelier, and he proves it every Monday night when the landmark Boulder restaurant invites a winemaker to be the featured guest at a special Monday Night Wine Dinner, the only menu served that night. Tonight the four-course menu will…
Vincent Terry and his girlfriend, Chrystal Hassell, met in Colorado five years ago, and while they’re still in love, Hassell admitted to a reporter that “we’re the worst thing for each other.” And how. Hassell recently gave birth in a motel bathroom following a crack binge, severing the umbilical cord…
It has been rough and rocky traveling for cannabis cowboys for most of the 40 years since “Me and Paul,” the hounded-by-the-Man classic in which Willie Nelson tipped off like-minded longhairs to the presence of narcs in Laredo. “If you’re staying in a motel there,” he warned dryly, “don’t leave…
This Saturday, The Lobby kicks off Adult Day Care, its monthly summer beer dinner series, with a beer-vs.-wine-themed event that will pair libations from River North Brewery and Infinite Monkey Theorem with bites from Tender Belly, MM Local and the Growhaus. And while you can buy tickets for $65, we’re…
The space at 2200 South Broadway that was recently vacated by Zocalo already has a new tenant, and one with a long history in Denver: 4G’s Mexican Restaurant. And after several recent failures in this spot (including El Olvido, Hades and South Broadway Grill, as well as Zocalo), 4G’s should…
The first annual BrüFrou beer and food pairing event went down last Saturday at the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum in Lowry. There were forty Colorado breweries paired with dishes from forty Front Range chefs, along with music and big airplanes. Westword photographer Ken Hamblin was there;…
The race to find PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Next Door 2014 is down to the wire, and Jeb Brovsky, a 25-year-old Lakewood resident — when he’s not playing soccer for the Montréal Impact of Major League Soccer — is one of ten male finalists. “Being vegan has helped me greatly on…
The Cannabis Cup took over Denver Mart this past weekend, with every marijuana-related product imaginable — including some very impressive glassware. Our photographer, Brandon Marshall, was there to capture the art of glass-blowing, and the awe-inspiring results. See also: Kitty Migaki finds inspiration in downtown Denver’s architecture…
Ace Eat Serve was our Best First-Date Restaurant in the Best of Denver 2014, and now it could also be the Best First Meal of the Day Restaurant. Because this morning, the Ace Juice Bar introduced at the restaurant last year will return to its summer hours, opening Monday through…
Over the weekend, some folks went to church and others basked in the sun while celebrating Colorado’s favorite plant. But others laced up their skates and took to the floor at the Exdo Event Center dressed head-to-toe in the red, blue and gold, not mention the orange and blue. Ken…
As you know, marijuana laws in Colorado are very different from those maintained by the U.S. government. Recreational pot possession and distribution is allowed here under a myriad of circumstances, while the feds continue to consider it very illegal — and if they find cannabis during the course of an…
The Denver Zoo has nearly 4,000 mouths to feed every day of the year, and that adds up to a hell of a grocery bill. But events like the annual Do t the Zoo gala help a lot toward filling zoo coffers. And this year’s Do on June 19 –…
While some restaurants are focusing on throwing a major Easter brunch bash, others are rolling out deals related to that other Sunday holiday: 4/20. Among the latter are Central Bar & Bistro, which is hosting a front-patio party on Saturday, and Bruxie, which is cooking up a special 4/20 deal…
Long before Coors Field opened in 1995, one of the first blocks of LoDo to be renovated was a line of turn-of-the-last century brick buildings along the1600 block of Market Street, which attracted pioneering restaurants like Brendle’s, the Manhattan Cafe, Ivory’s and Alexander Graham Bell’s. Those were replaced by next…
Big K Productions, which celebrated its twenty years of putting on record shows last year, kicked off the Denver Record Collectors Expo’s next twenty as fans stampeded into the ballroom at the Northglenn Ramada Sunday in search of musical holy grail. The platter-covered vendor tables served up everything from rare…
Has the Beauvallon curse hit again? Attivo Pizza & Subs, a popular spot that was home of the “Pancho Villo Sub,” moved across and up Lincoln Street almost two years ago, to a spot in the swanky Beauvallon. And the owners announced plans to turn the original Arrivo space into…
Labor Day weekend is one of the biggest drunk-driving holidays on the calendar. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, 1,342 people were arrested over a nineteen-day stretch between August 16 and September 3 of 2013 for suspected driving under the influence. One of them was Rebecca Maez. She was…
Coachella’s first weekend was amazing this year! Except when it wasn’t. Here are the parts of the festival that rubbed us the wrong way. Saturday Night dust storm (above) Conditions may not have been as bad as they were during last year’s Red Hot Chili Peppers set, but Saturday night’s…
There are some great shows this week. That new Phantogram record is excellent, and Shakey Graves is the Real Deal by most any definition. But let’s not kid ourselves. The main event this week is Sunday. Why Sunday? I can’t figure it out. Easter, I think. Must be Easter. A…
Fantastic Hosts, a nonprofit known for throwing wild, themed costume parties with artist-designed props, took over two floors at NORAD Dance Bar on Saturday night to celebrate the first flight into space, made by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin 53 years ago in 1961. Part of Yuri’s Night, a worldwide acknowledgement…
When the Gypsy Cafe & Parlor popped up in an old garage downtown last summer, the idea was odd, but interesting. Owner Ray Derani — whose twin sisters own Capitol Hill’s Gypsy House Cafe, and whose mother was doing the cooking at both places — had planned to offer a…
“Adventures on the Wine Route,” a Monday-night series at Bistro Vendome based on Adventures on the Wine Route, the 1988 book on the French wine country by Kermit Lynch, continues tonight with a new installment focusing on Languedoc, and featuring selections from Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant of Santa Barbara. See…
