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Now Playing: This Week’s Theater Options

5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. "At the center, it's a really sweet love story — and the funniest show of the year. I actually think that's true. People who think women can't be funny? Well, they should come and take a look at this." That's director Edith Weiss's description of...
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Karma Asian

This is a small, smart neighborhood restaurant that offers a broad overview of the best of several Asian cuisines. Although Karma tempts the fates by featuring a tangled, border-hopping board of fare, it respects boundaries, and most of the small plate/large plate menu holds to a strict division. As a result, each meal becomes a […]
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Nebraska and Oklahoma to Coloradans Who Voted for Amendment 64: Go to Hell

Update: A number of Republican officials from Oklahoma have publicly questioned the state attorney general's decision to file a lawsuit over Colorado's legalization of pot. In a letter to AG Scott Pruitt co-signed by six other Republican lawmakers, Representative Mike Ritze called preservation of states' rights a core conservative value...
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Creative Juices

After Jad Abumrad, the co-host and co-creator of the popular public-radio show Radiolab, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, “I was super spun around by the question of how Radiolab came to be,” he remembers. “So originally, I was asked to give a short talk about that — how...
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Simms Steakhouse

Perched high on a hill overlooking downtown Denver, Simms Steak House — which occupies the former home of Simms Landing — wows diners with a stunning silhouette of the skyline. As a result, it’s a perfect destination for date night, Sunday brunch or dinner with out-of-towners. But the big, classic menu — highlighting Colorado-caught fish […]
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240 Union Restaurant

Longevity is an important word in any restaurateur’s lexicon. Every house wants to see its ten-year anniversary in the rearview; most never get there. But 240 Union — the New American outpost founded in 1989 by Michael Coughlin, Noel Cunningham and chef Matt Franklin — is still going strong, because this restaurant has never just […]
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1301 Santa Fe Tavern & Grill

New owners have brought a new menu along with a new cleanliness regimen to the former dark, divey Hoffbrau, now renamed 1301 Santa Fe Bar & Grill. The rooftop smoking deck and wooden floor of the dining room got a good scrubbing, and the kitchen and interior underwent several much-needed repairs. The result is a […]
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Raine Giorgio’s NerdNest Gives Fangirls a Safe Place to Go Wild

Twenty-one-year-old Raine Giorgio is slumped into the soft leather folds of the old couch in her apartment near the University of Denver, wavy brown hair pulled loosely back, small frame hidden beneath a blanket while she does her Netflix-ing, blogging, fan-fiction writing and texting beside posters of The Fifth Element...
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Five Political Martyrs You Should Know But Probably Don’t

Every cause has its martyrs. Christians had Jesus. The civil rights movement had Martin Luther King Jr. The American right had those who died at Waco and Ruby Ridge. And every year, Denver Anarchist Black Cross hosts The Martyr's Ball, a fundraiser for the organization that celebrates those who have...
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The Wooden Table

The view through the Wooden Table’s windows might not be much, but Brett Shaheen’s food is a stunning sight. Shaheen, who’d worked in the kitchen at Osteria Marco, opened the Wooden Table in September 2011 with business partner Jane Duncan Knauf; the two had met years earlier at a LoDo restaurant. But instead of inking […]
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The Bar Car

When Leigh Jones – of Horseshoe Lounge fame – bought the Recovery Room a decade ago, she overhauled it completely. The resulting Bar Car looks a little nondescript, but the rustic interior, with its old-timey railroad theme, is a pleasant surprise. Also pleasantly surprising, given Colorado Boulevard’s penchant for chains, is that the Bar Car […]
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Seidel’s Suckhole Death Not Fault of Rafting Company, Judge Rules

No one denies that the vividly named Seidel's Suckhole offers challenges aplenty to rafters navigating the Arkansas River, as witnessed by the tragic death of Sue Ann Apolinar, who'd booked a journey with a company called Arkansas Valley Adventures. Jesus Espinoza, Jr., Apolinar's son, subsequently sued AVA, maintaining that the...
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Candela Latin Kitchen

Central Bistro & Bar owner Isiah Salazar and chef Jesse Vega converted their breezy bistro into a pan-Latin lounge in the summer of 2017, compiling a roster of tacos from Salazar’s upbringing and Puerto Rican specialties from Vega’s family, along with a few other dishes from Central and South America. The result is a restaurant […]
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Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill

This homegrown chain is the brainchild of Alon Mor, a native of the Mediterranean region who opened the first Garbanzo in Denver in 2007. The chain has grown quickly since then, attracting fans of high-quality Mediterranean food served at reasonable prices in a fast-casual environment. You pick your style of entree — pita (white or […]
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Marijuana Advocate Rejects Reports of Backlash Against Legalization

In recent weeks, anti-marijuana advocates have been pushing polls they say show a majority of people in Colorado and beyond are cooling on cannabis legalization. But Mason Tvert, spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project and a primary proponent for Amendment 64, which legalized limited pot sales in Colorado, doesn't see...