Unlike so many Western towns, Denver has a wealth of wonderful neighborhoods close to the heart of the city. But with that wealth of neighborhoods comes a surfeit of NIMBY issues that often spill out of their immediate area and into City Hall — as the fight over a new…
Is it possible that last Tuesday’s casting call at Suite 200 for The Real World wasn’t, well, real? It certainly wasn’t crowded when Claire Delahorne left at 11 p.m.: “In 2012,” she wrote in her Real World blog post the next day, “a major cable network casting for an insanely…
In honor of the Chinese new year, we dropped by Alameda Square twice this week, for dim sum at both King’s Land Seafood Restaurant and Super Star Asian. Somehow, both restaurants managed to survive all the disruption created by the construction of a giant Lowe’s store two years ago. And…
Have something you want to ask Alex Martinez, Denver’s new Manager of Safety? This is your chance: Westword writers will be meeting with the former Colorado Supreme Court justice this morning, to get an overview of the office and ask about some specific issues, including the recent rulings overturning police…
Jasmine Gardens didn’t last long at 1935 Federal Boulevard. That address now belongs to Masa Asian Kitchen, whose spartan space and spare decor gives no hint of the extensive menu…
In honor of the Chinese New Year, we’ve been eating our way through Alameda Square, where there’s always plenty of parking since the Lowe’s store that was supposed to resurrect the area closed in November, after less than two years in business. Amazingly, both Super Star Asian and King’s Land…
Chill! The Snow Show has filled the Colorado Convention Center with a blizzard of activity, and the white stuff is spilling outside the facility into the 2012 Art of Winter, a snow-inspired exhibition featuring Colorado artists and innovators. At noon today and again next Thursday, the Denver Theatre District will…
One woman’s favorite dumpling is a dish someone else dumps on. In 100 Favorite Dishes, Lori Midson recently raved about the xiao long bao at Lao Wang Noodle House. Those wrappers are too thick, sniffs one critic. Listen to him, pleads another reader:…
“Where is the change?” asks a letter outlining a series of disappointing, business-as-usual moves by new Denver Police Chief Robert White. It was signed by “Men and Women of the Denver Police Department” and sent yesterday to Mayor Michael Hancock’s office, which was scrambling last night to find a copy…
Jennifer Rosen had an amazing array of interests. We met her in the early ’80s, when she and sister Robin Chotzinoff covered a Chippendale’s show: Jenny provided the photos, Robin the words. Robin went on to provide many more words as a longtime staff writer for Westword, but we always…
The long, strange trip of Quiznos, a homegrown chain, took another turn yesterday when Avenue Capital Group, a New York hedge fund, took controlling interest in the company. Reports the Wall Street Journal, “The deal, approved by all Quiznos creditors, keeps the chain, known for toasted subs, out of bankruptcy…
Il Vicino Wood Oven Pizza, a New Mexico-based company that has a restaurant at 550 Broadway, managed to do what Brown Dog Pizza, an outfit out of Telluride, could not — secure a liquor license for 1001 South Gaylord Street. Brown Dog got badly bitten in that dogfight, which involved…
Hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created a musical about a cannibal when they were University of Colorado film students, have an even more unlikely hit on their hands with The Book of Mormon. The boffo Broadway musical will start its tour here in August — and tickets…
There’s an art to putting people in the right jeans, which Bree Davies revealed yesterday in her Fitting Room Confidential post. People who want flare jeans, for example, have no flare. And then there are those deadly Dad denims… What do your jeans say about you? Not much, in Cory’s…
Revisit the glory days of The Real World: Denver tomorrow night, when Tyrie Ballard, one of the cast members of the eighteenth incarnation of the reality show that held LoDo hostage five years ago, is featured in the opener of Real World, the Challenge: Battle of the Exes. In the…
Cherry Creek, once a dining hot spot, has cooled off considerably in recent years. But the area saw several new restaurants join the Creek lineup last year, and two of the first openings of the new year are both in Cherry Creek North. An outlet of Pasquini’s , the fifth…
A blizzard of snow business is about to hit Denver with the start of this week’s Snow Snowconvention, and it’s now snowing in the high country. But it’s too little, too late to keep the Junior Freeskiing Tour on schedule…
Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in…
Supporting the arts is just good business. That’s the basic message of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, which was founded in 1985 and has grown to over 130 members, just announced the finalists for the 25th annual CBCA Business for the Arts Awards. And not only does this…
Denver Restaurant Week just posted the menus of the almost 300 restaurants participating in this year’s Denver Restaurant Week, which begins February 25 and runs for two weeks. We’re running a DRW contest for the best tips on how to get the most out of this annual eating orgy –…
Yesterday, we parked our car off Packinghouse Road, outside the Stockyards Inn, tucked in back of the historic Livestock Exchange Building — which got its start in 1898, then was expanded in 1916 and 1919 — and walked into another world. The world of the National Western Stock Show…
Denver is full of amazing artistic visionaries who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And each year for the past seven years, we’ve been awarding five of these creative geniuses with MasterMind awards. Members of each class of MasterMinds have done amazing things with their awards, frequently using…
