Between the very cold snap and Gretchen Kurtz’s discussion of hot, hot spices in her review of Namaste India, we were about ready to book a passage to India last week. Instead, Cafe Society came up with a list of the ten best Indian restaurants in Denver. It inspired much…
The fifteenth annual Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run was full of moving sights and sounds — from its start at the actual massacre site, which is marked by a sign advising visitors of the “sacred ground” where over 150 Cheyenne and Arapahoe were killed on November 29, 1864, to the…
On Friday, a judge determined that Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips was wrong to refuse to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple because same-sex marriage would “be displeasing God.” But refusing the couple service was displeasing to civil rights laws. Colorado state law prohibits “a place of public…
Tonight the Open Media Foundation will celebrate seven years of independent voices on Denver Open Media — which not only runs Denver’s public-access channels on Comcast, but also provides training and services for non-profits and kids. From the hundreds of nonprofits and thousands of people it works with every year,…
In just over two months, Colorado will finally get Trader Joe’s — and not just one, but three links in the California-based market chain will open on February 14. One of those Trader Joe’s will be at 790 Colorado Boulevard, and there’s already plenty of action in that area, including…
Looking for a cozy spot for dinner tonight? Highland’s Garden Cafe had one of our favorite dining-room fireplaces — but when that restaurant closed for the season, it closed for good: Chef/owner Pat Perry sold the spot. Chef Mark Ferguson, a native of Denver who’s been cooking in Vail, and…
On Tuesday we offered up our list of Denver’s ten best hipster restaurant, and the comments have been flying ever since. Some took issue with the restaurants on the list, others took issue with the concept of the list itself. “Leave the hipster thing alone. It’s as annoying as having…
Shortly after sunrise on Thanksgiving morning, we spot the eagles a few miles from the site of the Sand Creek Massacre, standing sentinel over the rolling prairie where more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho — most of them women, children or elderly men — were slaughtered by volunteer troops led…
Every year, restaurants scramble to open before the holidays — and December has gotten off to the fastest start in recent memory. The streak began when Westminster Brewing opened this past weekend at 7655 West 108th Avenue. It’s the first independent brewpub in that town, but it won’t be the…
A trip across the plains over Thanksgiving reminded me how much I love Kent Haruf’s books — 1999’s Plainsong and its sequel, Eventide, at least. (Benediction, the third in the sort-of series about the fictional town of Holt, seems almost like a parody.) Haruf, who now lives in Salida, grew…
After eighteen months, Lime finally returned to downtown when Lime an American Cantinaopened on Thanksgiving in the Denver Pavilions. The original Lime was in Larimer Square, but after eleven years there, owners Curt and Pam Savage Sims closed that subterranean restaurant in the summer of 2012 and started looking for…
The only thing Denverites like to dis more than hipsters (and our coverage of them) is green chile — including the dish’s various incarnations and even its spelling. And the fact that Food & Wine magazine’s list of the “Best Chili in the US” included Rocky Mountain Chili Bowl has…
Pints Pub claims to have the largest collection of single-malt whisky outside of Britain. The twenty-year-old Golden Triangle mainstay also has plenty of authentic English paraphernalia, including a British phone booth in front of the building. Which last week got a new outfit, in honor of Doctor Who’s fiftieth anniversary…
In 1980, Manny Salzman and his wife, Joanne, moved to LoDo from Hilltop before lower downtown had even been nicknamed LoDo, much less turned into a hot entertainment/residential area. They took over a four-story warehouse on Wynkoop Street, turning the 3,500 top-floor space into their home and even installing a…
The owners of Namaste India, which Gretchen Kurtz reviewed last week, are both from Nepal and say they make their food the same way they would back home — but while the fare is solid, it’s also a little stolid. Namaste’s kitchen does stock ginger, cumin, turmeric, cardamom, coriander and…
Just in time for holiday hangovers, we posted our updated list of the ten hippest bars in Denver, which includes several new entries, including Our Mutual Friend. But some readers regarded the list not as a roster of must-go spots, but places to avoid. See also: Denver’s ten hippest bars…
Travel back in time tonight when Colorado Public Television — that’s Channel 12 to most of you in Denver — hosts its annual Time Machine marathon. For the past dozen years, Channel 12’s Larry Patchett and Dominick Dezzutti have produced a special edition of Colorado Inside Out, the weekly public-affairs…
“This place is full of Indians!” said one of them on Thanksgiving morning at the Comfort Inn in Limon, base camp for the Sand Creek Healing Run. From there, the caravan headed south past Hugo, through Cheyenne County — which just voted to secede from Colorado — and on to…
Chalk up another win for Duane “Dog” and Beth Chapman, two of the biggest celebrities from this celebrity-starved state. First, the bounty hunter and his bride took on A&E, the home of Dog the Bounty Hunter for eight seasons, and cut a new deal with CMT — which just renewed…
State senator Evie Hudak will resign, as Fox 31’s Eli Stokels first reported this morning. In the process, she will save her district the cost of a recall election, save Colorado Democrats from losing their Senate majority, and save Coloradans a week more of the rancorous actitivites that have bedeviled…
For almost two decades, Hisashi Takimoto ran Taki’s on East Colfax Avenue. The location would change, the name would change, but his hospitality and flu-killing miso soup remained constants. But since Takimoto passed away in 2009, nothing has been constant at Taki’s — and now the place is closed altogether…
History Colorado opened its phase two exhibit, Living West, this past weekend. It’s right across the hall from the phase one exhibits that debuted with the museum in April 2012: Colorado Stories, or what’s left of them. The sections devoted to Bent’s Fort, Camp Amache, Steamboat skiing, mining and Lincoln…
