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What Chefs Are Bringing to BruFrou This Saturday

Brüfrou, the food-and-beer extravaganza featuring pairings from Colorado breweries and chefs, kicks off its second annual festival at Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space museum on Saturday with two sessions and a separate pre-event forum called TastyTålks, where local food and beverage experts will discuss current restaurant and beer trends...
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Getting to the Soul of the Matter at Catfish King

When attempting to tease apart the strands of American cooking that weave together soul food and Southern food, there's no better source than Adrian Miller, author of the James Beard-award winning Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time. Miller's book is a great...
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Zombie Crawl Cop’s Use of the N-Word: Offensive or No Big Deal?

As we've been reporting, the Denver Police Protective Association has called for Denver Police Chief Robert White to resign because cops weren't ordered to intervene before a pair of police-brutality demonstrators poured red paint on a memorial to fallen officers on February 14. Turns out a DPPA board member is also...
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Wynkoop Restructures Brewing Operations, Plans for Growth

Coors Field may be celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year, but it's still not as old and grizzled as the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which will turn 27 this fall. And although the famous brewery helped create both the vibrant Lower Downtown neighborhood and Denver's craft-brewing scene, its age is beginning...
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Infusing Edibles in Your Own Kitchen Is a Breeze With the Mota Pot

Even though there are plenty of places where you can find a pot brownie in this town, sometimes you want something tasty that's not easy to find in an adult-use or medical dispensary...vegan ice cream, perhaps, or gluten-free chocolate cake. If that's the case, you're in for hours of prep...
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Escaping the Bullshit With Homebody in Boise

The guys in Homebody pulled into Boise, Idaho, for the Treefort Music Fest on Wednesday, March 25. On paper, the drive from Denver to Boise is roughly eleven hours, but it really takes more like thirteen-plus if you choose to take I-70 instead of I-25 out of Colorado. Why make...
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It’s Curtains for Young Frankenstein — Here’s How to Snag a Seat

Young Frankenstein is close to wrapping up its monstrously successful run at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, so grab tickets now. Meanwhile, Detroit continues to roll at Curious Theatre Company and Mary Poppins has landed at BTD Stage in Boulder. Keep reading for capsule reviews of these productions. Detroit. Detroit...
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Ten Characters to Watch in Orange is the New Black, Season Three

Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returned June 12 for its third season, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips in...
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Reading Partners in the Running to Receive KIND Grant

Reading is a vital part of early childhood education, but not all children have the means to practice their literacy skills. Reading Partners is seeking to change that by bringing books and tutors to children who need help with reading. “Access to books is something many of us take for...
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Meet the New Raven and the Writing Desk

The Raven and The Writing Desk is the same band Denver has known for the past four years in name only. Spouses Scott Conroy and Julia Libassi are still the band leaders, and they are still clinging to the literary name of Raven and The Writing Desk. But beyond that,...
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Dear Stoner: What’s the Deal With Live-Resin Extract?

Dear Stoner: What’s the deal with “live resin” extract? What makes it so expensive, other than the fact that tourists will buy it? If the extraction process for “live resin” is to freeze and process the plant while it’s still alive, then “live resin” does not cure. As a patient,...
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Photos: See Five Fireballs That Lit Up Colorado Skies

Early on March 11, many Denverites saw a ball of fire streak across the sky. Subsequent reports suggested that the object was probably an earth-grazer meteorite — and this kind of thing actually happens fairly often in the state. Evidence aplenty can be found at Cloudbait.com, the fascinating website for Cloudbait...
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AG Cynthia Coffman Denies Blackmail in Steve House GOP Sex Scandal

Sex, blackmail and Republican politics make for a potent brew, which explains why a story involving an alleged attempt by Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (and former Congressman Tom Tancredo) to force Colorado GOP chair Steve House to resign or else face exposure over a supposed affair continues to gather...
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Laws Whiskey House Releases Second Whiskey: Secale Straight Rye

Al Laws is passionate about what he loves. As the owner and founder of Laws Whiskey House, it’s obvious that what he loves is whiskey. “I really, really like rye whiskey,” he says. “I think it’s the most sensual whiskey.” This week Laws and head distiller Jake Norris released the...