Patios are so popular in Denver that bars and restaurants fight for every square foot of turf or sidewalk where they can plant a table, a chair, a stool. As a result, this city is full of great places to sit outside — some spots garden-like and secluded, others street-wide,…
“Denver Stories” is a genius marketing move: Every May, Curious Theatre Company picks four local celebs (or what passes for a celeb in this town), has a local playwright create a short play about them, and then produces all four on one evening that turns into a giant fundraising event…
It’s Eat Here Now! night at 910Arts event gallery, 910 Santa Fe Drive. From 6 to 9 p.m., you can look at the current exhibit on growing and eating locally, sample Colorado produce, and see the film Seeds of Community: Creating Sustainable Family Gardens. And it’s all free. For more…
John Hickenlooper didn’t even know he had a cousin named George until one day in 1991, when a fellow in town for the Denver International Film Festival went over to the Wynkoop Brewing Company for a beer. Hickenlooper isn’t a very common name, and those who carry it tend to…
Steve Horner, please go back to your corner. Or at least give the besieged Colorado Civil Rights Commission a break and concentrate on alleged injustices in Minnesota, where you’re now living. You know where to file in that state: Back in 1993, you made your first complaint to the Minnesota…
It’s too late to grab the free pizza that Zpizza was handing out last night, but you can buy a pie today, when Zpizza officially opens for business at 4940 South Yosemite in Greenwood Village. Lori Midson got a taste of the chain when she was in California a couple…
The tipster poured her story into my ear, a long, involved tale of bureaucrats behaving badly. “I’ll talk to the writers and see if we can get that in the paper,” I told her. “Oh, I don’t care about the paper,” she said. “I want it on TV.” Since I…
Parisi, at 4401 Tennyson Street, hosts a wine-tasting and seminar on the wines of Biondi Santi, led by winemaker Luca Belingardi, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. The price is $50 per person (and includes imported Tuscan salumi, cheeses and bread), and reservations are definitely required; call 303-561-0234. Cook Street,…
On Saturday, El Camino could have been Swimclub 32 all over again when a parade in honor of Seamen on Hooker — an annual, nautically themed neighborhood party on the 2900-3100 blocks of Hooker Street — parked in front of the restaurant at 3628 West 32nd Avenue for a refreshing…
You can’t get Cheli’s chili in Chicago anymore — the Cheli’s Chili Bar there closed when Chris Chelios was traded to the Detroit Red Wings. You can get it in Michigan, of course; the hockey player has three Cheli’s Chili Bar restaurants around Detroit. And now you can get it…
George Hickenlooper has spent the last several months with Jack Abramoff, the jailed influence-peddler who’ll be the focus of his next film, which stars Kevin Spacey. For his last effort, the filmmaker used a much less experienced crew of actors: the staff of Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, who just happens…
Two very different wine-tastings tonight.The Fort, at 19192 Highway 8 in Morrison, features more than forty wines from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. tonight; admission is $37, and includes the Fort’s appetizers. For reservations, call 303-697-4771.And down in Denver, Lala’s Wine Bar + Pizzeria,…
At Il Posto tonight, “A Slow Evening” will feature chef/owner Andrea Frizzi preparing a seasonal menu in honor of Slow Food Denver. Dinner is $65 per person (members of Slow Food Denver and/or Denver Independent Network of Restaurants), $75 others, and includes wine, tax and gratuity. For reservations, e-mail rsvp@slowfooddenver.org…
In this corner — weighing in at seven pounds (if you’re going for the official Big Burrito challenge, as Adam Richman did on a recent episode of Man v. Food), or a more reasonable pound or so, if you just want to grab a breakfast burrito when the place opens…
I’m looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the “Travel by Train” sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years. And some day there will be a lot more of them, if current plans for the revelopment…
Big Papa’s BBQ is about to get bigger. Andrew Besemer’s homegrown chain — which Jason Sheehan raved about a few years ago, earning himself a “This I Believe” slot raving about barbecue on National Public Radio — is about to get another link. Big Papa’s, which already has a store…
Tonight at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, winemaker Etienne Hugel will present the wines of Hugel & Fils at a Monday Night Wine Dinner devoted to the flavors of Alsace. Dinner is $45 per person, with optional wine pairings extra; for reservations, call 303-442-6966. Osteria Marco, 1453 Larimer Street,…
When Cebiche, the Peruvian restaurant at 2257 West 32nd Avenue, closed right after the start of the year, its phone message promised to announce a new location within a couple of weeks. Cebiche’s Sergio Iraola says he’s still looking for the perfect spot — and in the meantime, there’s some…
When Jason Sheehan checked in with Joe Vostrejs a couple of weeks ago, he had high hopes that the LoHi Steak Bar that’s moving into 3200 Tejon Street — the old home of North Star Brewery — would be open in June. He just didn’t know when in June. “We…
This morning, the 2009 class of North High School will rehearse for tomorrow’s graduation ceremonies at the Colorado Convention Center. The entire graduating class. That’s because on Tuesday, Denver Public Schools put a halt to North principal Ed Salem’s plan to prohibit about 50 out of 180 graduating seniors from…
Don’t order in from the Denver Pizza Company tonight. Although that’s the purported business of The Bachelorette competitor Mark Huebner, described as a “pizza entrepreneur” from Denver in advance publicity for the show that kicks off Monday, there’s no such joint in town. Not yet. But then, it would be…
Go hog wild on Friday, May 15, when the Culinary School of the Rockies, 637 South Broadway in Boulder, offers “Pork on Pork: The Wide World of Bacon” from 5:30 to 9 p.m. The price for all the pig is $95; for more information, call 303-494-7988 or go to www.culinaryschoolrockies.com…
