Dear Mexican: Your column about Chicanos loving the Aztecs had me both cracking up and intellectually fortified. In the end, you wrote: “But, hey: If you want to change your name from José González to Nezahualcoyotl Moctezuma and go to sweat lodges on weekends even though you’re lighter-skinned than a...
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Summer is here, and three Denver galleries have responded with exhibits that bring the sunshine and activity of the season indoors or, in one case, unloose work created under a strict set of rules over the winter and spring. Enjoy the long evenings of the solstice by taking in these...
In the last half-decade, Denver has lost quite a few places where our counterculture once thrived. Paris on the Platte, Gabor's, Cafe Netherworld, Unit B, Old Curtis Street, even Smiley's Laundromat and so many more places I could name (and I list quite a few in a love letter to...
Have you noticed that your cannabis dollar is going further than it did this time last year? According to a new analysis by Convergex, which describes itself as "an agency-focused global brokerage and trading-related-services provider," you should. Since last June, the report notes, "the average price of an 1/8th ounce of...
Black Shirt Brewing is mixing things up. The River North beer-makers said this week that it will begin tapping a keg of a new one-off beer every Wednesday at 5 p.m. "Often times, we incorporate ingredients into our beer that might be more familiar to a high end kitchen than...
Will Dynel Lane be charged with murder for the death of a seven-month fetus that authorities say she cut from a pregnant woman's womb? That may depend on the results of an upcoming autopsy. District attorney Stan Garnett said at a press conference on Thursday that his office will be...
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Cities from Los Angeles to Chicago are hiking the minimum wage. Here in Denver, Edwin Zoe of Zoe Ma Ma, which I review this week, has taken matters into his own hands with what he calls a “sustainability initiative fee.” The 15 percent fee, which is automatically added to the...
Space Gallery owner Michael Burnett believes that the impressive Pattern: Geometric / Organic, now on display at the gallery, is his best effort yet. I have to say, though, that I’ve been checking out exhibits at Space for years, and there have been many solid shows presented there. It’s true...
Denver blogs always welcome a helping hand. Two and a half years ago, Spike's Bar Rescue visited Zanzibar, briefly transforming it into Solids & Stripes. Host Jon Taffer came back to see how Zanzibar was holding up, reports Mark Antonation in our restaurant section. You can see the result for...
Gene Tang hired Joseph Arena as 1515 Restaurant’s new executive chef in February, a move that reflected his penchant for bringing in young talent that appreciates the restaurant’s combination of classical fine-dining technique with modern culinary sleight of hand. Back in 1997, when Tang opened 1515 in the century-old storefront...
Pisco Sour Peruvian restaurant on East Colfax was a cross between a dive bar, a sports bar for soccer fans, a nightclub and an eatery featuring some of Denver's more unusual cuisine. While it was run-down and lost in time, the shabby remains of a once-swanky establishment held a kind...
In January, Frank Ruybalid, the embattled top prosecutor for Colorado's Third Judicial District, resolved a long-running state ethics investigation by pleading guilty to thirteen violations of professional conduct rules for attorneys, essentially admitting that he'd mishandled the prosecution of several criminal cases that ended up being dismissed. Ruybalid was put...
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Oregon House Representative Earl Blumenauer plans to introduce a bill to Congress today that would clear and expunge particular federal marijuana offenses that are no longer illegal in a number of states across the country — but some marijuana activists are skeptical of how many people it would actually help...
Miguel, the L.A,-based singer/songwriter, R&B crooner and hip-hop dabbler, has three albums, all of which have received critical acclaim. With his latest effort, Wildheart, it appears the singer is focused on himself as a human, a lover and an artist. It's about your basest desires, your insecurities, your swagger and...
On Friday, June 19, Taylor Goodboe, 25, and her daughter, three-year-old Emma Williamson, headed off on a shopping trip. They haven't been seen since. Now, the Colorado Springs Police Department has put out an alert for the pair, noting that the person who reported them missing views the circumstances as...
Sure, you can dunk your cookies in a glass of cold milk, but come on, real adults steep their sweets in a frothy pint of beer. Of course, it helps to have an idea about what beer goes with what cookies, lest either be wasted. That's where Kansas City writer...
No. 27: The Papa Bear at Cub's Q Barbeque The Cub's barbecue truck has made a semi-permanent home for itself in a parking lot at the corner of South Broadway and Dakota Avenue, where mornings bring the sweet smell of wood smoke to the neighborhood and lunchtime brings piles of...
To our knowledge, Westword has never before published a post about cannibalistic rats. But that's appropriate, because we're guessing the officers who discovered hundreds of rats, both dead and alive, in the garage attached to a marijuana grow house hadn't seen anything quite like what they discovered Wednesday, either. About 10...
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A church service is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on the first Friday of October at Church in the City-Beth Abraham, at the corner of Gaylord Street and 16th Avenue, and about forty worshippers have gathered in the main sanctuary. But this will not be a traditional church service...
Peak 9 at the Crimson Room Many bartenders, upon dialing in a new cocktail recipe, name their drinks after things they love, with music and movies being the most common inspirations. Like many Colorado bartenders, A.J. Snowhite makes cocktails on busy weekend nights while slipping away to the mountains for mid-week...
Shootings in Aurora have made headlines of late, no doubt displeasing city representatives, who continue to fight against the reputation that the community has a violent-crime problem. And an episode that took place late Friday night, May 29, will only make the need for an image makeover that much more...
The Heart Beet at the MCA Cafe Visitors to MCA Denver are greeted by a striking work of art, even before entering the building. An enormous, sparkling heart, stuck through with a silver sword, rotates atop a pole jutting up from the sidewalk in front of the building’s main entrance. The heart,...