Market Street Summerfest coming to LoDo next month

Beats on the Creek, outside Coohills tonight, isn’t the only live music coming to LoDo this summer. The Market Street Summerfest, a free event, is coming to 20th and Market streets on Saturday, August 11. That’s a corner that’s home to El Chapultepec, the city’s oldest jazz club and one…

Coohills introduces Beats on the Creek summer concert series

Coohills, 1400 Wewatta Street, has launched a new summer concert series: Beats on the Creek will take place every Tuesday on the restaurant’s patio — and the adjacent bridge over Cherry Creek — from 5 to 8:15 p.m. “We’re thrilled to be offering lower downtown a concert series in an…

The Dushanbe Teahouse’s long, strange trip

A stormy night in Boulder, rain lashing down, flood warning in effect, and four of us sitting in a comfortable corner of the Dushanbe Teahouse. Looking out, we can see the swollen creek rushing by, and we speculate on just how high it might rise. There’s no one on the…

USA Pro Challenge signs on Infinite Monkey Theorem wine

The Infinite Monkey Theorem is now the official wine partner of the USA Pro Challenge, which means that the world-class cyclists who will be pedaling through the Colorado Rockies next month will be rewarded at the finish of each of the seven stages with Monkey Theorem wine in the VIP…

Actor Bill Murray and Squeaky Bean owner Johnny Ballen…meet

The Squeaky Bean’s Johnny Ballen wasn’t at the Bean on Saturday night. Instead, he was bartending a party for the class of 1972 at Regis University — the same college that actor and comedian Bill Murray attended years ago. And Ballen, who wore one of his Squeaky Bean tuxes to…

Il Mondo Vecchio gets cheeky with guanciale, salumi

This is the second in a series of pieces profiling Colorado-grown products…and what some local restaurants do with them. Read the first installment, on Hazel Dell mushrooms, here. Sticky, fragrant, bright orange fat. Rendered from chunks of silky guanciale, it slathers the agliolini all’ Amatriciana pasta at Cellar Wine Bar,…

El Diablo and Sketch will remain closed this weekend

Happy hour will not be very happy today at El Diablo and Sketch tonight. The restaurants remain closed, after the city slapped the building in which they’re housed, the First Avenue Hotel, with a notice to vacate very early on Tuesday, July 10. According to the city, the structure is…

Liquid porn: Sean Kenyon showcases his new Squeaky Bean cocktails

Sean Kenyon isn’t the kind of guy to shy away from the spotlight — or the liquor cabinet. The Denver-based cocktail kingpin (or bartender, as he prefers) has been slinging drinks for 26 years, and he’s incredibly good at it, racking up contest titles and accolades around the world, sitting…

Rocky Ford cantaloupe hit King Soopers today

Rocky Ford cantaloupe took a big hit last year, unfairlyfingered by the FDA in the early days of the listeria outbreak in a September 14, 2011 release that warned consumers not to eat Rocky Ford cantaloupes. And never mind that the real culprit, Jensen farms, was more than a hundred…

A parade of pleasures at The Kitchen’s happy hour

Happy Place: The Kitchen, 1530 16th Street, 303-623-3127 The Hours: Monday through Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. The Deals: $1.25 oysters; $3-$7 appetizer specials; $4 select beers; $5 wines by the glass and specialty cocktails. Were we happy? Flip the page to find out…

Guess where I’m eating a roast beef sandwich?

After several days of eying everything on my plate with suspicion (food poisoning has a way of making you cynical), I finally got my appetite back, celebrating the return of a hungry belly with a roast beef sandwich…followed by a scoop of ice cream, both of which you can find…

Cinebarre: Turn up, tune in, drop cash

For me, going to the suburbs for anything is like taking a spaceship to a distant planet populated by strange aliens and strip malls. Still, on occasion I’ll haul my shorts out to an outlying town. In this case, it was Thornton, because I’d heard that Cinebarre has movies, booze…