How do you know you’re in a classic dive? It helps if the owner stands up and welcomes you to his place — the place he’s had for 58 years, and bought before he was old enough to own it legally. Jerry Feld bought the bar at 404 Broadway back…
The 2010 election is less than a year away, and judging from this past Tuesday’s vote, things are going to get plenty messy. But here in Colorado, we’re still cleaning up after the dirty dealings of 2006. The gubernatorial race was particularly bad, with 527s and party operatives pushing the…
First, Hapa Sushi owner Mark Van Grack offered free orange undies to participants in last week’s Naked Pumpkin Run, urging them to “Run Responsibly.” Now he’s fired up an ad that includes a map of metro Denver with the four Hapa Sushi locations marked in red — and 59 local…
What’s happened to the liberal mecca of Boulder? First, cops put a lid — and some pants — on plans to resurrect the Halloween Mall Crawl, as well as the Naked Pumpkin Run. And now the city’s looking at strictly regulating medical marijuana dispensaries — if it doesn’t ban them…
Happy birthday to Twelve, which brought fine dining to a less-than-fine location at 2233 Larimer Street last fall, but has survived that first tough year. And tonight, chef/owner Jeff Osaka will celebrate his restaurant’s first birthday by gifting diners with a complimentary glass of sparkling wine and an amuse-bouche to…
There’s nothing mellow about medical marijuana in Colorado. In a wacky emergency session yesterday, the Colorado Board of Health tossed out its definition of “caregiver” to comply with a recent Court of Appeals decision, postponing the adoption of any new herbiage verbiage until December 16. In the meantime, Denver City…
It’s been a year since Neighborhood Flix, the ambitious movie theater/café in the Lowenstein project, pulled the plug — but with any luck, the lights will soon be back on at 2510 East Colfax Avenue. That’s because Frank Schultz, who runs Tavern Hospitality Group (owner of the Cowboy Lounge, the…
The state isn’t letting any grass grow under its feet — and may be looking at prohibiting grass growing in your basement. The Colorado Board of Health has scheduled an Emergency Rulemaking Hearing for 10:30 a.m. today, to discuss — and possibly eliminate — its definition of “significant responsibility for…
Marilyn Musgrave’s political career rose from the dead last week, as the former Colorado congresswoman and current director of the Susan B. Anthony List’s Votes Have Consequences project campaigned for the election of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate running for the 23rd Congressional seat left vacant when Republican John…
Hapa Sushi takes public — and pubic — service seriously. Stop by the popular sushi bar at 1117 Pearl Street in Boulder to pick up your free pair of orange underpants — briefs or thongs, featuring the Hapa logo and the words “Run Responsibly” — and you’ll be covered against…
Pam and Ricardo Martinez met on a United Farm Workers picket line in California. Now, almost forty years later, they share a life, a family, a passion for social justice and Padres y Jovenes Unidos, the Denver nonprofit they co-founded in 1991 — as well as another big national honor…
Sheriff’s deputies have run into a roadblock in their push to get an initiative on the Denver ballot: the Denver Elections Division has determined that more than half of the almost 60,000 signatures on initiative petitions were invalid. The deputies need 41,666 valid signatures to put the measure, which would…
It’s the wild, wild West,” proclaims Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown, who’s getting ready to give medical marijuana speculators a good, swift kick with his cowboy boot, to get them to toe whatever line the city decides to draw. Better that, he says, than kick them out of Denver altogether…
Pot Party Tom Tancredo has never inhaled. In fact, he’s never even tried pot. So when he says that marijuana should be legalized, there’s no need to ask what he’s been smoking. Legalizing marijuana might seem an unlikely crusade for the controversial former congressman whose campaign against illegal immigration inspired…
For sunny days, Argyll Gastropub, at 2700 East Third Avenue, has a great patio. On snowy days, it has the “Snow Days Deal.” At any time when it’s snowing, Argyll will sell you a 20-ounce Imperial Pint of Murphy’s Stout for half price — 50 percent off the usual $5.25…
“Rocky Mountain High” is getting quite a work-out as national media outlets run stories on the booming medical marijuana business in Colorado. With both city and state officials talking about reining in the industry with new regulations, I put calls into both Governor Bill Ritter and Mayor John Hickenlooper on…
Colorado’s parks, recreational areas and open space are subsidized by the Colorado Lottery, which over the past fifteen years has sent millions of dollars to Great Outdoors Colorado. Community colleges are slated to be supported by another form of gambling: Last November, Coloradans voted to expand gaming at casinos in…
The news is full of real stories about real people in need. People who can’t find jobs, people who can’t pay their mortgages, people who can’t feed their families. Not high on the list of the truly needy: People who want to feed their hunger for fame. But still, Cheri…
Cherry Creek was slow last night, without the usual crowds at Little Ollie’s and Houston’s. But just down the street at 201 Columbine Street, in the former home of Jim Sullivan’s Ocean (and Mao before that), there are signs of life: The sign is up announcing that Earls is on…
KJ’s Coffee Bar, the Whittier neighborhood watering hole at 1710 East 25th Avenue that Kenny and Kristin Johnson opened last year, adds music to the mix tonight, when DJ LHD and friends start spinning at 7 p.m. But don’t come to KJ’s empty-handed: It’s running a food drive to benefit…
Colorado is not all about balloon boys and terrorists — unless you count fat babies and health insurance companies. Senator Michael Bennet has been getting a lot of face time lately, speechifying about our broken healthcare system. And in his most recent speech, he may have finally given the debate…
It’s been three weeks since we first posted news of our search for a medical-marijuana reviewer. Within five minutes of that posting, we had our first application for this extremely part-time job. Within ten minutes, our first media inquiry. And the applications and media calls keep coming. This morning –…
