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Denver Restaurant Week Won’t Be Two Weeks in 2015

Denver Restaurant Week started more than ten years ago to showcase the metro area's dining scene in February -- the time of year when restaurant traffic is generally at its slowest. A half-dozen years ago, to boost business at the beginning of the Great Recession, a second week was added...
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Bugging Out

Romance and mad science make for strange bedfellows, but what else would you expect from David Cronenberg? When he remade a schlocky, '50s B-movie The Fly into a modern masterpiece, he put his own spin on both the terrors of science and the relationship at the movie’s center, with gruesome...
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Hana Matsuri Sushi

Japanese food is as much about the presentation as it is about the flavors presented. And while the strip mall that’s home to Hana Matsuri Sushi doesn’t look like much, inside the elegant restaurant looks almost like a furniture showroom, with a sushi bar that’s an actual bar. Steve and Jessie Liu, who opened the […]
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Colterra Food & Wine

There are times when Colterra seems to be less a restaurant with its own gardens attached than a garden center that happens to have its own excellent restaurant. Chef Bradford Heap opened Colterra with the understanding that it would be a place where at least some of the promises of the burgeoning green movement might […]
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Church of Cupcakes

Have you had your daily prayer? If not, there are far worse ways to worship than licking the chocolate frosting off a devil’s food cupcake. Denver’s own Church of Cupcakes invites all supplicants to sample its sinful treats; owner Porche Lovely is a true believer in organic, eco-friendly and locally sourced ingredients and packaging. The […]
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Wrong Place, Right Time

Professional actors take their work seriously; in turn, they hope to have that work respected by their audiences. But once in a while, even the best of the best like to let their hair down and have a little fun. In the case of Miscast — a local tradition that...
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100 Favorite Dishes: IPA Mac and Cheese at Hops & Pie

No. 77 IPA Mac and Cheese at Hops & Pie 3920 Tennyson Street 303-477-7000 Macaroni and cheese is not something to be messed with lightly. For most of us, our childhood memories are interwoven with creamy, cheesy sauce, a crusty baked top and a bowlful of soft noodles. The odd,...
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Now Showing: This Week’s Art Options

Chihuly. For the past several years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has used its 24 acres of landscaped grounds as a setting for outdoor art exhibits. All have been popular, but none more so than Chihuly, which has attracted well over a million visitors to date. Artist Dale Chihuly, who emerged...
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Two Boulder Brothers Go Nuts With Bronuts

What do you get when two brothers who love doughnuts team up to bake and sell oversized doughnut holes with a few ball jokes thrown in? If you're Mitch and Brett Magdovitz, the answer is Bronuts: cream-filled spherical pastries with names like Bleu Balls, Monkey Balls and Chocolate Salty Balls...
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Now Showing: This Week’s Art Options

Bob Knox and Michael Clapper. The William Havu Gallery is presenting simultaneous solos: Bob Knox: Real Abstract, which is made up of paintings, and Michael Clapper: Portals, which comprises sculptures. Knox is a New York artist; Clapper lives in Denver. The paintings mark various points of progression in Knox's self-appointed...
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Ask a Mexican: Why Do Mexican Men Love White Women So Much?

Dear Mexican: Why do Mexican men think all gabachas are like the girls in Bikini Car Wash? I am married, a conservative dresser, frankly not very good-looking at all (but I do have blond hair, so maybe that counts for something on a guy's internal whore-o-meter), but I speak karate-choppin'-good...
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Thailicious Adds Serene Charm to Busy Sheridan Boulevard

Edgewater, with a population of just over 5,200, may have the highest ratio of Thai restaurants per capita of any spot in Colorado. Fans of Thai cuisine in the metro area are already familiar with the vibrant flavors and tongue-melting heat of U.S. Thai, but newcomer Thailicious, open less than...
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Photos: Union Station grand (re)opening celebration

Union Station held its grand re-opening celebration this Saturday, offering free tours, music and water-fountain fun while residents explored the results of the $54 million renovation that turned the century-old station into a revived transportation hub. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there, and sent back photos of the celebration. See also:...
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The Healing House

The Healing House menu is freaking huge. The shop is located at pretty much the western end of Alameda, just a few miles before it crooks southwest around Green Mountain and ends at the foothills. But both the quality of the organic, soil-grown herb and (notably) the selection are well worth the fifteen-minute drive from […]
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Marijuana: How to Make Pot Edibles Safely

It won't come as a surprise to anyone who follows the cannabis industry that last week's inaugural National Cannabis Industry Association's Infused Product and Extraction Symposium focused heavily on safety issues -- both consumer safety and employee safety. The importance of proper procedures and protocols was emphasized in almost every...