The concept behind the Colfax Marathon seemed like a can’t-miss proposition. After all, Colfax Avenue — America’s longest main street — runs exactly the length of a marathon, and passes through some very colorful parts of three towns. But what worked conceptually didn’t work in reality, according to race organizers,…
When Goodfriends closes at the end of service on Saturday, May 17 (or, more likely, early on the morning of May 18), it will close for good. With it will go a lot of memories — since the restaurant/watering hole at 3100 East Colfax Avenue has been open almost thirty…
It used to be that Mother’s Day was considered the safe day to plant in Denver. But after those May 13 snow showers, experts revised their estimate, emphasizing that the real first day to safely plant gardens in this town is May 15. So yesterday, I planted my Rudbeckia, the…
Gagging over an ill-advised (and expensive) Colorado tourism campaign that invited visitors to taste our misspelled and out-of-date cuisine, last month I invited readers to send their responses to this question: “What does Colorado Taste Like to You?” And although we’re still accepting entries (you can submit one simply by…
Dear Readers: My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising number of responses — both from Irish readers and real Scotsmen furious that letter writer Great Scot could be so pendejo. Here are two: Dear Mexican: I thought the Mexican’s analysis was right on with…
Lee Steed, a senior aide to Mormon polygamist leader Warren S. Jeffs, has purchased $2 million worth of property in five spots in the Sangre De Cristo mountains for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, according to Hatewatch, the online publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center…
Beatrice & Woodsley, the new restaurant opening Wednesday, May 14, at 38 South Broadway, has quite a story behind it. That’s because it’s brought to us by the folks behind Two-Fisted Mario’s and Mario’s Double Daughters Salotto, which was named for a pair of conjoined twins. “We do a lot…
Dwayne Edward Wright, we have your wallet — the wallet you lost back in the mid-70s, when you were a student at a community college in Texas. So how did that wallet wind up under a pine tree in Conifer, Colorado?…
Yes, it’s commendable that the current issue of Draft magazine includes Denver International Airport in its “Beer Drinker’s Layover” guide to fourteen airports with good selections of microbrews. Commendable, even if mysterious, since Draft calls DIA “one of the West Coast’s craft beer meccas.” But there’s a bigger problem with…
For the past two years, on the morning of the Colfax Marathon, I’ve gotten up at dawn, prepared myself for the grueling day ahead, then steered my car east along Colfax Avenue. But unlike the stalwart runners, I did not continue all the way to the edge of Aurora, where…
Last month, the Colorado Tourism Office offered a taste of this state to New Yorkers in the form of “Colorado High Altitude Concrete,” made by the distinctly un-Coloradan Danny Meyer (“Balls!,” April 24). Anyone hungry for more was referred to a website that touts our fine cuisine of rattler cakes…
Dear Mexican: Whenever I see the television show COPS, the white folks pull over and hope no one searches anything where there are at least three syringes, one crack pipe and enough pills to make CVS Pharmacy look like a corner drugstore. The black folks are being pulled over for…
This missive about Balls! recently arrived from a Denver native and frequent bold name: I read your column about Denver. Granted the tourism office’s efforts are an easy target, but boy, you are starting to sound like Gene Amole! Although a hipper, more in-tune Gene Amole, but just as cranky…
Last month, the Colorado Tourism Office offered a taste of this state to New Yorkers in the form of “Colorado High Altitude Concrete,” made by the distinctly un-Coloradan Danny Meyer. Anyone hungry for more was referred to a website that touts our fine cuisine of rattler cakes and Rocky Mountain…
Can we talk? The Colorado Tourism Office still has some work to do. A few minutes ago, Fox News offered a distinctly unfair view of Colorado skiing. Specifically, that all Colorado ski areas are now closed, which was too bad, said the distinctly blonde anchor (who last week mispronounced “groin”),…
Dear Mexican: Consider the similarities between my people, the Celtic Scots, and yours, the Hispanic Mexicans. For centuries, we, too, tried to hold out against our larger and more powerful neighbor. The big difference is that eventually we realized that being uneducated barbarians was no way to beat the English,…
After thirty years, Taqueria Patzcuaro is finally adding a patio to the side of its building at 2616 West 32nd Avenue. The duplex that was there has been cleared away, and the restaurant’s owners hope to have an outdoor dining area in place by June. And not a moment too…
I haven’t eaten at Annie’s Cafe in years. But I still have fond memories of the great gringo green chile that was the perfect way to celebrate the end of yet another all-nighter getting Westword out the door. For that matter, I haven’t eaten at Goodfriends in years — although…
Exactly four months from now, the Democratic National Convention comes to town. Colorado’s not ready for its close-up. That became all too apparent on April 11, when the Colorado Tourism Office turned New York City’s Madison Square Park into Colorado for the day, under the chirpy order “Let’s Talk the…
“Hear that voice? That’s Danelle.” The ponytailed man was so excited to have his favorite anchorwoman bossing him around on the DIA train, it seemed a shame to correct him. But once I start talking — and correcting — Colorado, I can’t stop. “Adele Arakawa,” I said. “Yeah, that’s Danelle,”…
Dear Mexican: Lately I’ve been hearing how punks and metalheads in Mexico are trying to beat up emos because it’s been said that emos make Mexican culture look bad. As a metalhead, I support this, because I don’t see the point in being emo since they are very sensitive and…
Somewhere, Elbra Wedgeworth is smiling. To be precise, the former Denver city councilwoman is smiling down from her portrait on the third floor of the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library at 24th and Welton streets. Because fortune — hard-earned fortune — is finally smiling on this spot. On Tuesday, the…
