Kenny Knight is a 62-year-old Parker man who put out a country/psych-rock album called Crossroads in 1980. It was not a success, and disappeared into obscurity until it was discovered by a record collector earlier this year. Now, Crossroads is the subject of glowing reviews in national music publications like...
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If Troy Guard’s combination of Pop Rocks and yellowtail sashimi at TAG hinted that he was a magician, his treatment of TAG|Raw Bar just down Larimer Street confirmed it. One day the subterranean space was TAG|Raw Bar, and then, before we could blink, he’d waved his wand and turned it...
One of the hottest topics in the Denver area these days is high rent prices. As evidence, we note that a recent post featuring eight reasons why Denver-area rents are so high has been among our most viewed in recent months. But now, a new analysis from California-based RealtyTrac suggests that renting...
The phrase “street tacos” doesn’t leave much wiggle room for interpretation: It signifies tacos served on the street from carts, trucks, kiosks, market stalls or trailers. But even inside Denver’s top taquerias, which put a wall or a window between you and the frost-fractured sidewalks and the roar of traffic,...
There we were, two restaurant critics drinking coffee and talking shop — quietly, of course, so that no one around us could hear. “What’s big in Denver right now?” she asked, noting that in her home town, fried chicken and bourbon are all the rage. “Beer,” I replied, the answer...
A jury deliberated less than an hour last Thursday following a three-day trial in Denver District Court, and afterward, Hasan Jones was acquitted in a drive-by shooting case. But that doesn't mean he's the man shot almost two years ago by gang member turned anti-gang activist (and Westword cover-story subject) Terrance...
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Forgiveness gets a bad rap: It's seen as akin to giving in, backing down, capitulation. In reality, the opposite is true, says Megan Feldman Bettencourt in her book Triumph of the Heart: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World: Forgiveness is hard. That, the Denver-based author says, is the real reason we...
As we've reported, there have been plenty of police shootings in Colorado of late. Indeed, there was one at 3:20 p.m. yesterday on the 111000 block of Huron Street, when an officer with the Northglenn Police Department shot a man who allegedly had opened fire on cops responding to a...
Gretchen Kurtz did not have great experiences at Lo Stella Ristorante, which last fall moved into a space in the Golden Triangle that has swallowed up several other restaurants. And as she writes in her review this week, Kurtz found several things hard to swallow at Lo Stella, including the fact...
No. 31: My Wife's Doughnuts at Osaka Ramen Osaka Ramen just opened in late April but has already earned a reputation as one of the top tonkotsu spots in town. An exploration of the full menu, though, reveals that chef-owner Jeff Osaka has a knack for more than just noodles and...
One of the selling points for pedicabs is that people who've overindulged can use them to travel safely from place to place. But that wasn't the case for one Denver woman. After passing out in a pedicab, she awoke semi-nude in a downtown alley to discover that she'd been sexually...
"The idea for Spruce had been brewing for some time," say owners Taylor Romero and Becca Miller, who finally opened their brick-and-mortar menswear shop in Berkeley this summer. "I was working at a web space for a while and I felt I wasn't being creative or like I had to chance...
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Juggalos — fans of the band Insane Clown Posse — frequently complain about getting a bad rap. As we've previously noted, they see themselves as peaceful, music-loving members of the extended ICP family, even though plenty of cops and the like think they're part of a potentially dangerous quasi-gang. But...
Jake Lloyd, who starred as the young Darth Vader in 1999's Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, hasn't acted for years, but he remains one of the most Googled celebrities with Colorado ties. Last December, we featured Lloyd on this subject and noted that most people searching for Lloyd wanted...
#13: Peter Miles Bergman Peter Miles Bergman is well schooled in both art activism and the craftsmanship of modern communication arts, and when he’s not teaching at Metropolitan State University Denver, he’s printing books and zines and creating art pranks in cahoots with the Institute of Sociometry, a guerrilla art...
In our look inside the decision not to criminally charge the officers who killed Jessie Hernandez, seventeen, while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car this past January, we noted that Denver's Independent Monitor had questioned the Denver Police Department policy allowing cops to shoot into moving vehicles...
The Unborn Child Act would have sanctioned a murder charge in cases like the one involving Michelle Wilkins, whose unborn baby was allegedly cut from her womb by Dynel Lane. The baby, a girl named Aurora, later died. But while Republicans backed the measure, Democrats voted against it in committee, arguing that the...
You may have noticed the Taja Indian sign above the space that was until recently Bombay Bowl in the shopping center at Broadway and Sixth Avenue. While it may seem odd that one fast-casual Indian restaurant would take the place of another, Taja is under the same ownership as its...
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#14: Jason Coates Jason Coates carries a camera wherever he goes — but he also wears his heart on his sleeve. The Denver entrepreneur, videographer/photographer and world traveler not only runs his own production company, Collective-Culture, but also documents and shares the underbelly of global cultures through his social networking...
Dear Stoner: I’ve been smoking pot for a few years, but in the last six months I’ve started smoking more as I drink less (I’m 25). My parents have always been against marijuana, but I want to be honest with them if I continue to partake. How should I break...
The humble potato takes many forms in the culinary world, but the best results come from simple and straightforward techniques: boiling and mashing, baking or best of all, frying. French fries never go out of fashion (or fail to please, when done right), but recent years have seen a surge...
Back in January, seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez was killed by police while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car. The incident spawned protests against alleged excessive force, a petition calling for a federal investigation and scrutiny from Denver's Independent Monitor, who raised questions about Denver police policy in regard to shooting...