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Denver loses a cross between the Soup Nazi and Mr. Miyagi

Denver blog posts have multiple personalities. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the comment of a reader saddened by the closure of Oshima Ramen, whose owner is described as "Soup Nazi meets Mr. Miyagi." Denver Stiffs' latest podcast debates which Denver Nuggets will stay and who will go...
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Baby’s on Fire

The female-scream decibel level is sure to reach epic proportions tonight at the Colorado Firefighter Calendar Tryouts. “It is a night that’s on fire,” says CFC boardmember Crystal Mackey. “It’s literally a runway show of shirtless firefighters, with tons of crazy, screaming women.” Those women will watch as men in...
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Continental Divided: Our guide to the ten states of Colorado

Is Colorado a state of mind? This state survived last year's secession movement, when a dozen counties wanted to leave Colorado (and, in one sad case, align with Wyoming), but Colorado is still separated by differences in geography, economy and philosophy. In honor of Colorado Day -- August 1, which...
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Ned Garthe on stupid ways to end up in jail: Comic

Editor's note: Each week, illustrator Noah Van Sciver asks a Colorado band or musician four questions and then draws their conversation. We call the resulting comic "4 Questions: Comic Strip Interview" because we have no use for obscurity. You can see more of Van Sciver's work and even buy it...
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Lola unveils new logo and menu in changing LoHi

Ten years isn't a long time, unless you're in the restaurant business, in which case surviving a decade can seem like a monumental achievement. And with the rapid changes in Denver dining tastes and the explosion of hot new restaurant neighborhoods over the past few years, older eateries find themselves...
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Now Showing

Be a Cloud not a Grid. Vertigo Art Space owner Kara Duncan invited well-known Denver artist Theresa Anderson to curate a show, which resulted in Be a Cloud not a Grid. And although Vertigo is fairly compact, the show's charisma makes it look bigger than it is. Anderson's selections are...
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Reader: The review of Pantaleone’s brightened my day for the Fafalios family

Last summer Kitchen Nightmares came to metro Denver, and chef/host Gordon Ramsay gave makeovers to three long-time Colorado restaurants: The Old Neighborhood in Arvada, Mangia Mangia in Woodlawn Park and Pantaleone's New York Pizza. Before she caught last month's episode featuring Pantaleone's, Gretchen Kurtz visited the Fafalios family's almost-thirty-year-old pizzeria...
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The Ten Best Hipster Bars in Denver — 2014 Edition

The word "hipster" gets tossed around a lot in the blogosphere, usually as a derogatory term for someone who wears different clothes or likes different things than the troll or flamer employing the word as a slur. But every generation has had its defining iconoclasts -- the mostly young and...
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9News continues ratings dominance despite talent departures

As we noted in our recent post about the retirement announcement from 7News anchor Mike Landess, 9News has enjoyed a run of ratings victories that's been all but uninterrupted since Landess and former co-host Ed Sardella first teamed up at the station circa the late 1970s. And that hasn't changed...
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Peyton Manning busted for drugs? Not that Peyton Manning

When headlines started popping up about Peyton Manning being busted on drug charges, some Broncos fans likely hit the panic button. But frankly, we feel sorrier for Manning herself. Yes, herself. This particular Peyton Manning is an eighteen-year-old woman from Nashville whose relatively modest arrest has made headlines across the...
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Everything I need to know I learned from loving metal

Most people regard metal music as an anti-intellectual, chest-beating, noisy fit for cavemen. Despite this being 100 percent true, there are a few positive things that result from having an intense dedication toward one of the most juvenile forms of music out there. While listening to metal may still sentence...
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Ten best new Denver restaurants of 2014 — so far

In 2013, more than 250 restaurants opened in metro Denver, everything from ambitious crowd-pleasers like Old Major and Best of Denver winner Lower48 Kitchen to a smattering of out-of-state doughnut houses. While 2014 might not be quite on pace to top last year's opening numbers, there's been no shortage of...
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Susie Wargin joins Dave Logan at KOA, Dave Krieger fired

Back in April, we told you about longtime 9News sportscaster Susie Wargin's plan to leave the station after her contract expires in August in order to devote herself to real estate. Now, however, her career has taken another turn. Beginning this afternoon, she'll begin co-hosting the rebranded Colorado Afternoon News...
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Reader: “All people deserve a basic level of human dignity”

"Party in the Park," Alan Prendergast, May 15 Land of Lincoln I am writing in response to Alan Prendergast's "Party in the Park." I am a longtime resident and homeowner in the La Alma neighborhood. I have a very different feeling about the neighborhood than Jim Schneck, who does not...