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Best Place to Spot a Fashionista

Larimer Street stretches from the Auraria campus to the River North area — and all along the way, you’ll spot fashionistas scattered among the students, downtown businesspeople, edgy RiNo artists and tourists venturing off the 16th Street Mall. Historic Denver meets the contemporary city along Larimer, and the result is often a stylish mash-up. If […]
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The Mayday Experiment: Who’ll Stop the Rain?

Ahhhhh, this rain. Ordinarily, I would never complain about the rain. I love the staccato on the roof, the velvety moisture in Colorado’s dry air, the rolling complaint of the heavy sky. Even when I was in Ohio, so similar to Colorado this month in spring temperament, I embraced the mud...
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Best Tamales

La Fuente is a little hard to spot during the day, but the neon cacti over the door lead the way at night. For many, breakfast burritos are the main attraction, but bags of corn-husk-wrapped tamales under a heat lamp are a giveaway that the kitchen can do more than just roll flour tortillas. Available […]
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Best Restaurant on Broadway

The aroma of wood smoke greets you at the door at Gozo and tags along through the course of your meal, grounding the menu of Mediterranean-inspired dishes and blistered pizzas with rustic notes. Whether turning out quick-cooked and succulent clams with chorizo or slow-roasted short ribs, the wood oven that’s the showpiece of the chef’s […]
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Best Chimichurri

While Mary Nguyen is primarily known for her Asian and French fusions at P17 and Olive & Finch, one of her menu standouts is not a dish, but a sauce. At Olive & Finch, the chimichurri that comes on the D.F. (a beautiful mess of eggs, pulled pork, green chile and cheese) and the Nico […]
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Best Place for a Little Tongue

Chef/restaurateur Mary Nguyen came to prominence with her elegant interpretations of Vietnamese cuisine, but her love of European cafe culture prompted her to open Olive & Finch, an all-day market serving breakfast, lunch and dinner in a casual, bustling atmosphere that encourages lingering and neighborly exchanges. The overall menu board is delicious and comforting, but […]
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Best Gallery Show — Solo

Longtime Colorado artist Emilio Lobato spent the last few years caring for his terminally ill wife, Darlene Sisneros, who ultimately died. Afterward, sadness over her loss was combined with doubts about whether or not he had done enough to help her. The result of these contemplations was Emilio Lobato: The Measure of a Man, a […]
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The Eleven Best Miniature-Golf Courses in the Denver Area

I have a confession to make. I am a miniature-golf, um, connoisseur. The lure of the Lilliputian links is strong. Like croquet and badminton, it’s a pursuit that is both genteel and ridiculous. I have played everywhere — atop a cruise ship in the middle of the Caribbean and up and...
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Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Bryan Leister

#20: Bryan Leister Artist Bryan Leister, a painter who’s graduated to new media and rethinks visual outcomes using code, installation, video-game technology and animation, can’t be pinned down — it’s a new, digital world out there, and Leister wants to be a part of it, by hook or crook. This...
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Shake It Like a Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1

The Ramos Gin Fizz at Union Lodge No. 1.Vintage cocktails like the Manhattan and Old Fashioned get a lot of attention these days. They allow barroom patrons to enjoy an archetype from the early days of America’s cocktail culture  — along with modern adaptations by creative bartenders. But when Union Lodge...
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Best Seafood Restaurant

The best seafood restaurants are often shacks on the beach, with sea breezes blowing in and tables oriented to catch the rosy hues of the setting sun. But we’re in Denver, remember? Owners Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasinski used this fact to their advantage, taking our distance from the coasts as a point of liberation […]
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Best Abstract Show — Group

The art of New Mexico and Colorado has been intimately intertwined for a century — an affair that continued with Layered Perspectives at Michael Warren Contemporary. The show focused on three abstract artists: Angela Berkson of New Mexico and Teresa Booth Brown and Stanley Bell, both from Colorado. Curator Mike McClung presented each artist in […]
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Best Reuse of a Historic Building

The railroads were essential to Denver’s development, and there has been a train station at 17th and Wynkoop since the 1880s. Union Station, in its present form, was built in 1914 by the renowned firm of Gove and Walsh. In the intervening years, time and the decline of passenger rail service led the building to […]