Denver Restaurant Week has begun! Kitchens were scrambling to keep up with the crush last night, with sold-out houses all over town for the first day of DRW, which officially started February 25 and continues through March 9. It’s the biggest eating-orgy ever, with a record 340 restaurants all offering…
J. Wilson, who was named Beerdrinker of the Year this past weekend at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, has gone through trials before. Last spring, for example, he lived for 46 days on nothing but water and dopplebock (a German style of beer) that a local brewery in Iowa, where he…
The February 26 Denver Post featured a lengthy article on Joneen Mackenzie and how she became a crusader for abstinence education — a crusade she leads through her Center for Relationship Education, which is funded by a pair of grants, including one approved by the Colorado Board of Education even…
It’s IHOP’s National Pancake Day, and participating restaurants will be serving up a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes to anyone who asks from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. today — and all you need to do is make a voluntary donation to support Shriners Hospitals for Children. There are…
Arby’s just signed hot, Boulder-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky to polish its image. But it’s going to take more than a “Good Mood Food” slogan to create a good bottom line for this company, so Jenn Wohletz suggested her own fast five fixes for Arby’s . Here’s a sixth: Bottle…
WTF, Fruita? The Western Slope town already has a festival devoted to Mike the Headless Chicken, so was it such a stretch to put out a WTF welcome mat? But before the debate was over — how welcoming was it, really, to greet tourists with a hearty “what the fuck?”…
The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it’s suspicious that he’s cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). So Denver’s looking good these…
Free breakfast! No, not this morning, but today you can start signing up for the Denver area Chick-fil-A Breakfast Giveaway, which runs March 5 through March 10. Here’s the deal: If you reserve an entree online, you’ll get that item free when you come to the specified store with your…
Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge’s second nomination…but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:…
Governor John Hickenlooper met with newspaper reps in town for the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention at the Governor’s Mansion yesterday. There, he talked about Iowa, Christo, the coolness of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia…and how Westword was a very good neighbor during the Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s early years — since…
The Top Chef crew came to Denver this week, auditioning chefs for the tenth season of the Bravo show. “We’ve had auditions before in Denver, but never a proper casting call, and it was time to see what the city’s chefs really had to offer,” Hunter Braun, Top Chef’s senior…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
Lisa Bailey and Keegan Gerhard have looked at several locations around town where they could put a second location of D Bar Desserts, the spot they opened on East 17th Avenue back in 2008. And now they’ve decided where to put it: not in Denver but in San Diego, where…
Are we stuck with the Denver boot? Yesterday, in advance of Mayor Michael Hancock flipping a Denver omelet to promote Denver Restaurant Week, we wondered what better items were named for this city, which seems to be officially memorialized by nothing more than the Denver boot, a clamp devised to…
LoHi remains the city’s hottest restaurant neighborhood in town, with would-be restaurateurs still looking for open spaces in the area. The most recent project announced is Central Bistro and Bar, going in right on the edge of Highland, where Lance Barto will be serving new American food. But what about…
Saturday night’s Artopia was an entertainment mashup of music, performance art, visual arts, fashion, food and other almost undefinable activities, fueled by alcohol and general high spirits. You can get a feel for the annual event in this slide show — which inspired Found Artist to cry foul:…
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet — as Michael Hancock is quickly learning as mayor of Denver. (You may have to knock a few heads, too.) And today, Hancock put those egg-breaking talents to good use as he flipped a Denver omelet in the ultimate…
Mayor Michael Hancock will learn to flip a Denver omelet today at a photo opp pushing Denver Restaurant Week. A Denver omelet? That may be the dish that’s been labeled with this city’s name, but it’s hardly the best example of this city’s cuisine. Former restaurant critic Jason Sheehan was…
When the first Spicy Pickle opened at 988 Lincoln Street in 1999, it quickly drew faithful fans with its hearty sandwiches — always accompanied by a homemade pickle. That early rush fueled lots of dreams, dreams of the kind of success that other homegrown chains, most notably Chipotle, which started…
When we didn’t find many Shit People in Denver Say videos, we created our own. But then Erin Streets, a 25-year-old Denver designer, weighed in with her own Shit Girls in Denver Say , which Nick Lucchesi says is very funny. Not so Shannen:…
A group of local residents have just sent a letter to officials in Arvada, Broomfield, Westminster, Golden and Superior, urging them to request that the Environmental Protection Agencies and the state’s health department test airborne dust in the area of Rocky Flats that could become part of the Jefferson Parkway…
Happy thirtieth birthday to Marlowe’s, which opened in February 1982 on 16th Street — before there was even a 16th Street Mall. We’d gotten to know Phil “Zoom” Roberts as the owner/operator of Govnr’s Park, a ’70s fern-bar hangout that remains a sports bar hangout today, and when he and…
