With the ground-breaking for an IKEA store in Centennial this week, Colorado came one step closer to becoming a shopper’s mecca. But the state took a step back yesterday when HB 1279, which would have expanded alcohol sales in grocery stores, was killed — and that means that Coloradans may…
What’s in a name? For Jim Karagas, absolutely everything. For four decades, he’s been the man behind My Brother’s Bar, the watering hole at 2376 15th Street that’s such a Denver landmark it has no sign above the door and has never really needed one — until now. The history…
John Hickenlooper has been officially out of the restaurant business for more than two years — ever since the trust he’d put his business interests in when he was first elected mayor sold his remaining ownership of seven restaurants for $5.8 million back in 2007. One of those restaurants was…
The Daily Show’s “Gone to Pot” segment on Denver’s medical marijuana industry didn’t do much for this city’s rep as a mecca for smarties (we put the “duh” in Denver), but it will certainly boost the Mile High’s status as Cannabis Capital of the World. As correspondent Jason Jones says…
“What a long strange trip it has been,” state senator Chris Romer wrote early this morning, at the end of a note with his latest round of proposed changes for the bill that would drastically restructure this state’s medical marijuana industry. The Colorado Legislature has just seven more days in…
When Brad and Libby Birky opened their restaurant, SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, people didn’t give the venture much of a chance. After all, the name stood for “So All May Eat,” and signaled the couple’s willingness to serve everyone, regardless of how much money the diners had,…
There I was yesterday morning, feeling sorry for all the residents of Arizona who didn’t get a chance to vote on that state’s show-me-your-papers, anti-illegal immigration legislation and are now feeling as ostracized as Coloradans were after the voters of this state did approve the anti-gay-rights Amendment 2. And Colorado…
Governor Bill Ritter was in Five Points yesterday, to kick off the Sustainable Main Streets Initiative that will try to jump-start economic development in four spots across the state, ranging from rural towns to the very urban Five Points. This was once a jumping entertainment district. But over the past…
Eric Osborn, the disgraced developer behind One Lincoln Park, was back in Denver District Court this week for a second trial, again involving a charge of felony theft connected with one of his real estate projects. In December, a jury had convicted Osborn on two charges of felony theft, for…
“Invasion of the ballot snatchers.” That’s what the Rocky Mountain Paranormal Research Society calls Jeff Peckman’s proposal to have Denver create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission — a proposal that will go to Denver voters on the August ballot. “The more research we do, the more furious we get,” RMPR’s Bryan…
Cops were called to CityPub, a watering hole at 3575 South Yosemite Street that’s a sibling of CityGrille, early Monday morning, on a report of a “large fight.” A fight that left one man dead, according to Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson. The death is being investigated as a homicide,…
One day it was Home Depot, the next it was Wendy’s, and then a secret admirer told me he’d stopped by “applebees and thought about u.” Now I just got an e-mail from someone who spotted me at Starbucks — at least according to this: Howdy Patricia. not usually this…
Erik Osborn, already sentenced to ten years in community corrections earlier this month, will be back in Denver District Court today for a second trial. He’s again charged with felony theft, for again allegedly using funds raised from one development project for another. Osborn’s first conviction, in December 2009, involved…
The last time any member of the public was in what’s now known as the McNichols building, the old Carnegie library on the edge of Civic Center Park, it was to pay an overdue property tax bill. But the city’s finance offices long ago moved into the Wellington E. Webb…
John Haney is a Denver cop who happens to own a neighborhood joint, Haney’s Coffee Shop. Susan Shepherd is a Highland Mommy who’s all about urban farming. Jon Lehmann even has a campaign chef. They’re all among the ten candidates running for the District 1 Denver City Council seat recently…
This city is full of angels. On Sunday, I helped kick off the Parr-Widener 5K Walk-Run, an annual event that benefits the A+ Angels, a mentoring program at East High School, and is named for John Parr, Chase Parr and Sandy Widener, who died in a car crash at Christmas…
Denver’s zoning code update, a project in the works for a half-dozen years, finally gets a public airing at a Denver Planning Board meeting at 1 p.m. today at the Wellington E. Webb Building, 201 West Colfax Avenue. Planning staffers will also be on hand from noon to 3 p.m…
The breakfast burritos started going out the doors a few minutes ago, when the three spots in the Best Breakfast Burrito Neighborhood all opened their doors for the day and the customers began coming in, looking for a to-go breakfast burrito: a steaming-hot aluminum foil tube filled with eggs, potatoes,…
Even before today’s celebration of International Cannabis Day commences in Civic Center Park at 9 a.m., this city’s booming medical marijuana business has already inspired a number of out-of-town journalists to come to Denver to cover the event. And there will be plenty to report on today, because the Cannabis…
Charlie Sheen didn’t study his Colorado legal history before he headed to Aspen for a vacation last Christmas. Three decades ago, Colorado was at the cutting edge of recognizing the dangers of domestic violence. The first battered women’s shelters in the country were established here, and Colorado was the first…
Next thing you know, Denver won’t actually be a mile high. The current Men’s Journal casts a shadow on Denver’s claim to have 300 days of sunshine annually, pegging our sunny total at 245. Turns out, boosters are counting not days, but hours of the bright stuff. How many days…
Over the past few years, cupcake shops have popped up across town; they’re this decade’s frozen yogurt shop. In Denver, you can trace the trend back to Happy Cakes Bakeshop in Highland, and that shop — now in a new location in the courtyard at 3434 West 32nd Avenue –…
