Travel + Leisure just released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits. There’s good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry in over our pathetic showing in…
Amid the regrouping of Occupy Denver, which was booted out of Lincoln Park but is still growing as a movement, the state’s official Democratic political power brokers are in Las Vegas, at “Project New West Summit: A Roadmap for the West in 2012,” which today includes an appearance by Governor…
There have been some tense times between Aurora and Denver officials since word came down this summer that Gaylord Entertainment would like to build a hotel/resort complex in Aurora — and move the National Western Stock Show there, too…
There are dozens of great restaurant bars in the metro area, and yesterday Laura Shunk attempted to narrow that list down to Denver’s five best bars in restaurants. Barflies are questioning one particular inclusion: Cherry Creek Grill…
Gardeners along the Front Range are harvesting the fruits of their labors — and those gardeners include many local restaurateurs, who are supplying much of the produce for their own kitchens. Laura Shunk is currently profiling these chef/farmers, and her post on the Black Cat’s Eric Skokan yesterday prompted this…
County clerks began mailing ballots out yesterday. And in Denver, Pueblo, Boulder and a half-dozen other counties, that also meant mailing ballots to voters labeled “inactive” — some because they’d simply skipped one election cycle. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler had sued Denver County to prevent that, but a…
Be thankful to your ancestors that got on that boat, landed here, and created the life you have today.” Those are the words of Mickie Lava Clayton, a longtime leader in Denver’s Italian community who passed away last November, less than a month after the 2010 Columbus Day Parade and…
History Colorado, the new museum that replaced a thirty-year-old facility a block away, will be dedicated today at 12th and Broadway — marking a very good outcome for what was once a very bad idea: burying the building underground at Civic Center Park…
Lots of sour notes at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last week, with twenty boardmembers resigning before the musicians ultimately agreed to a 9 percent paycut. But at a meeting yesterday, what remains of the CSO board took several strategic moves to ensure the symphony’s survival…
Who put the “international” in Denver International Airport? Not just the Martians living in those underground tunnels at DIA. Next May, Icelandair will introduce non-stop flights from Denver to Reykjavik, Iceland — and the airline just launched a photo contest for two round-trip tickets on that inaugural flight, along with…
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. She’s been concerned about food safety throughout her tenure in Congress, and yesterday, she and California Representative Henry Waxman sent a letter demanding a full investigation into the listeria contamination that’s already killed fifteen people…
Hold your horses! Cowboys only have to stay on a buckin’ bronc for eight seconds, but the debate over the proposed National Western Stock Show relocation continues to bump along. Five weeks ago, Mayor Michael Hancock gave NWSS officials until October 1 to come up with an explanation of why…
At tonight’s inaugural Pen and Sword open house at the Denver Press Club, a turn-of-the-century treasure at 1330 Glenarm Place, thirteen club member-authors will offer “the stories behind the books” from 6 to 9 p.m. But the stories, and the night, won’t end there. Stories rarely end that neatly…
The listeria outbreak that’s killed at least thirteen people has been traced to cantaloupe from Jensen Farms in Holly. While the FDA has been looking for the cause of the contamination there, the feds have never suggested that the problem was sick workers. But that hasn’t stopped the Yes on…
In the fall of 2009, local officials looked around and suddenly discovered that the medical marijuana business was booming in Denver. In fact, it might have been the city’s only growth industry at the time. The national media discovered the story, too — and when Westword advertised for a medical…
Last week, Anderson Cooper interviewed Willow the Cat. On Monday, he featured two more Coloradans on his new show, Anderson — but the story of Kristen and Will Stillman, which first appeared on the cover of Westword a year ago, isn’t nearly as warm and fuzzy…
Just one more day until President Barack Obama comes to town, and the conspiracy theories are really taking off. Denver International Airport managed to survive Operation Mountain Guardian (OMG!), the Homeland Security exercise that included DIA as one of its locations on Friday. But will it survive the onslaught of…
And the verdict is in: Justice may occasionally be blind, but it is not deaf. Called up for jury duty this week at Denver District Court, I got a quick canned lesson — via a video narrated by Ed Sardella — of our civic duty, backed by a real lesson…
Conspiracy or coincidence? President Barack Obama will be returning to Denver on Tuesday, September 27 — just four days after a major Homeland Security terrorism-emergency exercise in this city. And already, the web is running wild with conspiracy theories that Obama is coming here to 1) avoid Comet Elenin, or…
Lori Midson is off on a mouth-watering mission: She’s winging her way to New York City, where she’ll attend tonight’s dinner at the James Beard House being prepared by the Five — which now comprises ten local chefs. The Five concept got its start in 2008, when Leigh Sullivan decided…
Talk about a veiled threat! On Saturday, a bride emerged from a LoDo salon hours before her scheduled nuptials in the mountains, only to find a Denver boot on the Range Rover that a friend had borrowed so that they could arrive at the ceremony in style. Now we’ve got…
Last September, I told the story of Kristen Stillman. She’d survived incredible horrors while imprisoned in a home in northwest Denver, where her mother had left Kristen and Will, her twin, when they were just eight. Eric Torrez, the head of that household, tortured the twins, raping Kristen and fathering…
