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”),…
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,”…
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…
What does Colorado look like to you? To American Airlines passengers stuck at Denver International Airport last week, it must have looked like the back of that fleece the guy ahead of them in line was wearing. That, and endless fast-food meals and frustration. Too bad the FAA couldn’t wait…
The University of Colorado just got an F in music appreciation. Next week, the dean of the College of Arts & Media at CU Denver will lead a tour of CAM’s classrooms. “As the first college in Colorado devoted entirely to arts and entertainment,” the school’s announcement boasts, “CAM combines…
This is the second week in the federal trial of Cory Voorhis, the immigration agent accused of accessing the National Crime Information Center database and leaking information that wound up used in an anti-Bill Ritter ad back in October 2006, one of two involving Ritter’s dealings with illegal immigrants when…
Here’s my favorite story about the Mexico City Lounge — a great neighborhood joint that was in the ballpark neighborhood long before Coors Field ever entered the picture. Back in the days when Denver having a Major League Team was just a pipe dream, Pete Coors was having lunch with…
Bad enough that Colorado actually paid money for an awful, out-of-date tourism campaign that sounds like an old Joan Rivers shtick: Let’s Talk Colorado. But can we talk about what that campaign’s sending out to would-be tourists? Today an e-mail newsletter arrived from the Colorado Tourism Office, with handy links…
Last week the Colorado Legislature shot down a proposed economic subsidy for filmmakers — despite the impassioned testimony of John Ashton, aka Sergeant Taggart of Beverly Hills Cop — which gives you a pretty good idea of the B-list star power of the state’s current film scene. But late last…
Denver has a lot to do to get ready for the Democratic National Convention, including fixes both large and small that could help this city put its best foot forward. First up: Going public with the fact that the anonymous voice that started sounding off on DIA trains last summer…
Actor John Ashton addressed the Colorado Legislature Tuesday, urging lawmakers to support a new economic incentive for moviemakers. No, not that John Ashton. The guy testifying was the John Ashton of Beverly Hills Cop, who now lives in Fort Collins. Colorado’s original John Ashton — John C. Ashton, to be…
Drink up! Representative Jerry Frangas has moved to protect one of Denver’s most liquid assets: First Friday, the art events that every month draw thousands of people to gallery-heavy districts around Denver – including Tennyson Street, where Frangas first encountered the event. There are also First Friday celebrations in Rino…
We are not on trial for the DNC. I am not a member of Re-create 68,” Glenn Morris told the court. “We are on trial for what happened on October 6, 2007.” What happened then is still a matter of dispute — but one thing is certain: Something very like…
The Colorado Statehouse goes live at 1 p.m. today — and not a moment too soon. When Speaker Andrew Romanoff, et. al., decided to start broadcasting their sessions (at coloradochannel.net and Comcast’s channel 165), they didn’t have any idea that they’d be getting a mid-season star: Doug Bruce. “Our goal…
At 6 a.m. Tuesday, Fox News reported that it had already received over a thousand e-mails from viewers discussing Hillary Clinton tearing up the day before in New Hampshire — and over 40 percent didn’t believe they were real tears. “Some people think elections are a game, lots of who’s…
The best defense is a good offense. Friday was David Lane’s birthday, and the criminal defense attorney gave himself a present by wreaking some legal havoc. When Claudia Jordan, the Denver County Court judge presiding over a hearing for some of the 83 Columbus Day protesters, announced that potential witnesses…
“It’s sad.” All day, the shoppers keep coming into All American Vogue, pausing to look at the Fiesta ware, to read the anti-Bush bumperstickers, to finger that ’50s jacket they’ve fingered so many times before, and then to stop before the man standing behind the counter. The stretch of Broadway…
