Throughout the congested rows of seats in Armstrong Hall on the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs, students and guests of all ages gathered in the tight quarters to listen intently to the legendary Chuck D of Public Enemy. Chuck had come to speak with Idris Goodwin, (CC’s own hip-hop...
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In 1970, Janis Joplin died of drug overdose at the young age of twenty-seven, silencing a voice that had filled millions with joy and inspiration. Now the new documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which opens this week at at the Sie FilmCenter, tells the artist’s story in her own words...
Aesthetics have been primary in my life as an artist, central to all I do and think about — whether I want them to be or not. It has always seemed impossible to separate form from function. And in a very real sense, the two are inseparable: No matter whether...
After twenty years in the Denver Tech Center, Brook's Steak House quietly closed on January 1, and its location at 6538 South Yosemite Circle could become a hotel. "When we first opened, we were the only fine-dining steakhouse south of Cherry Creek. And we were extremely successful," Brook's owner Robert Melton...
Last year, in a post entitled "Is Colorado Pot So Good It's Making Mexican Cartels Want to Take Over?," Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), shared some worries. "From what we're hearing, Colorado marijuana is a lot more desirable than the Mexican marijuana," he...
I don’t normally review restaurants where placemats are decorated with pictures of what I’m eating. But there I was, sitting in a red trolley at The Old Spaghetti Factory, a plate of Spaghetti Vesuvius before me. “WARNING,” the placemat cautioned in all capital letters ringed by a red box. “This...
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Peyton Manning may have looked a little wobbly in the Super Bowl, but we was right on target when it came to shilling for Budweiser during his post-game interviews. You've probably heard the clip — along with the outcry from people who thought it was blatant ad placement, inappropriate given...
Earlier this year, we shared a list of the ten wealthiest Zip Codes in the Denver area — many of which are located in parts of the city that have been well-to-do for many years. But when it comes to the five Colorado counties in which incomes have risen most...
Green Girls of Paris at Black Eye CoffeeWhen bartenders love an ingredient — the way it tastes, the way it smells, the way it’s made, the story behind it — they find a way to create a cocktail centered on that ingredient. When the the first drops of the cocktail...
Most Americans have been programmed nearly from birth to begin craving traditional Thanksgiving dishes as soon as the days start getting shorter and there’s a chill in the air. Turkey, relegated to brown-bag-sandwich duty the rest of the year, suddenly beckons us with Rubenesque curves of leg and breast provocatively...
If you haven't been to Jagged Mountain Craft Brewery for a while, you may notice some changes the next time you order a pint. Over the past few months, the brewery has completely replaced its old lineup with brand-new beers and a new approach. The overhaul is a result of the exit...
The restaurant space at 4900 West Colfax Avenue has seen as many ups and downs as the street itself. For decades, Tante Louise was Denver's nonpareil French restaurant before closing in 2005. The place was purchased by Ed Novak and Jerry Friztler, of the Broker fame, and named the Cork...
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Pizza Fusion opened in May 2011 not only as a pizza joint serving Colfax Avenue but as a vocational training center in partnership with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Today the pizzeria announced that although the training program has been a success over the last four years, pizza sales have...
Joyce Lisbin doesn’t shy away from crabs, chlamydia or controversy. At seventy, the longtime sex educator is now spearheading a multi-faith operation designed to guarantee religiously affiliated women and their families something they don’t always have when faced with an unwanted pregnancy: a choice. A choice that shouldn’t endanger their...
Some Lincoln High School students are pushing back against a plan by Denver Public Schools to open a middle school charter school at Lincoln, located in southwest Denver. A protest organized by the community group Padres y Jovenes Unidos is scheduled for 5 p.m. tonight in advance of a 6...
Fall is here, which means football season is here, which means fantasy football is back! How’s your team? (Just kidding: No one who’s not in your league cares.) Sadly, it also means the tired, lazy comparisons between fantasy football and Dungeons & Dragons are back. Whether it’s a meme like...
The exercise in mass hysteria known as the Salem witch trials lasted little more than a year. Nineteen people were hanged, and one was pressed to death with rocks. Hundreds of others, mostly women, were accused of practicing the dark arts but spared execution. Fifty of them confessed to being...
In September 2014, our Melanie Asmar broke the news that director Quentin Tarantino wanted to film his next movie in Colorado. The following month, The Hateful Eight (Tarantino's eighth flick, appropriately enough) was officially approved to shoot in the state — specifically the Schmid Ranch outside Telluride. Over the months that followed,...
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In August, we told you about Go Topless Fort Collins, a campaign to goad the Fort Collins City Collins into removing the line "the breast or breasts of a female" from its public-indecency ordinance. Months later, the council is considering doing just that — among other things. As documented in a...
There's no shortage of craft beer at Denver International Airport. Passengers flying in and out can find outposts of New Belgium Brewing and Boulder Beer in the terminal, and a variety of local selections at bars and restaurants throughout the concourses; there's also a kiosk in the B Concourse selling...
Denver has seen drastic growth in its coffee community over the last few years, which is great because as a fast-growing city, we need something to keep us going. On board with the coffee boom is Corvus Coffee Roasters, well known for bottled cold brew found in stores all over Denver...
Jeff Cleary has been making bread at the Grateful Bread Company for a decade, but soon he'll be making his own flour, too. The Golden bakery's new grain mill just arrived from Austria and will be installed over the next two weeks so that Cleary and his crew of bakers...