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Barry Fey Did Not Put a Gun to Axl Rose's Head, But ...

​... the Denver-area promoter admits the pistol was in his pocket when Mr. Rose left Mile High Stadium on Guns N' Roses' co-headlining show with Metallica. Fey is FULL OF YARNS about his years promoting shows, and he's just penned a book, Backstage Past. My colleague Dave Herrera, music edit ... More >>

Light Posting Today on The Daily Weekly, so Here's a Cute Dog Video

​Uberblogger Curtis Cartier (pictured at right, "napping") has today off, so expect a much lighter load on The Daily Weekly. Never fear, however, because he will be back come Monday, providing you, our dear readers, with the weirdest, newsiest crap he can find. In the meantime, please enjoy th ... More >>

Burritos for Everyone, More Burritos for Me

​"I don't dislike chain fast food restaurants for their ubiquity, but for the deadening effect they have on businesses around them--the way they suck all the oxygen out of a neighborhood by offering ease and convenience and cheapness and exert a gravitational pull that draws trade away from in ... More >>

Why Mexicans Should Learn How to Dance to Tropical Music

​"I don't dislike chain fast food restaurants for their ubiquity, but for the deadening effect they have on businesses around them--the way they suck all the oxygen out of a neighborhood by offering ease and convenience and cheapness and exert a gravitational pull that draws trade away from in ... More >>

Tennis

​"I don't dislike chain fast food restaurants for their ubiquity, but for the deadening effect they have on businesses around them--the way they suck all the oxygen out of a neighborhood by offering ease and convenience and cheapness and exert a gravitational pull that draws trade away from in ... More >>

Watch Gustavo "Ask a Mexican" Arellano Battle Tom "Show Me Your Papers" Tancredo Live at 6:30 p.m.

​Denver's Westword, our fellow Village Voice paper, will host a live debate tonight at Su Teatro in Denver between "Ask a Mexican" columnist Gustavo Arellano and recently defeated conservative Colorado Gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo, known as an anti-immigration firebrand who once referr ... More >>

Washington's Initiative System May Be Retarded, But At Least It's Earthbound

​If you couldn't make heads or tails of many of Washington State's record number of ballot initiatives while attempting to vote in the election concluded yesterday, you're not alone. What began as a process for citizens to circumvent the legislature as a last resort has pathetically morphed in ... More >>

Riding the Peacock at Mayuri

​"I pushed my way back through the knots of people, turning my shoulders into narrow gaps, and twisted out the door into the cold and dark of the night. The sudden quiet and the chill in the air was sudden, like a slap. I walked into the parking lot, lit a cigarette, and leaned against my car- ... More >>

Dreaming of a Robotic Future: Where's My Beer, Stupid Robot?

Not the beer robot in question, but close enough​I have spent years trying to shoehorn my views about the inevitable robot apocalypse into newspaper (or blog) stories that are nominally supposed to be about food. And because every day on earth is just one day closer to the day when the robots ... More >>

KJR Blacks Out In Denver, But Luckily His Cell Phone Doesn't

This is Scott's brain on Coors and Akvavit.​Check Colorado off the list of states where I've sung karaoke. I'm now up to 11 (Washington, California, Nevada, Iowa, Arizona, Oregon, New Mexico, Massachusetts, Maryland, and New York). I spent last weekend with my oldest and dearest friend, Scott, ... More >>

What's In A Name: The Fainting Goat

Maybe the little fella's just trying to get a tan...​I was wandering around 45th Street the other day, and what should I see but a little storefront gelato shop called Fainting Goat Gelato. Now a normal person might've just walked right on by. But me? I've never been accused of being normal. ... More >>

Ask the Critic Redux: Green Chile for the Geographically Challenged

​Yesterday, I did my best to help out a misplaced Denverite looking to get his fix of a very particular kind of green chile--the sort made only by the various relations of Stella Cordova at Chubby's in Denver. Chubby's is a disparate local chain of (kinda) beloved taquerias that exist primaril ... More >>

Big-Ass Burrito Blues: Taqueria La Venadita

​This week's review of Taqueria La Venadita (and the five meals I ate their in preparation for it) went a long way toward convincing me that I might just be able to survive in these Northwestern climes. Good tacos, tortas, a place to sit and watch Mexican telenovellas or the occasional episode ... More >>

Culinary Three-Way, Old Seattle Style

​The list was growing long--Laura and I huddled up on the couch, tapping away at laptops, trying to find the shape and texture of an entire city's restaurant scene while still living out of luggage and boxes that were fast becoming furniture. "This looks good," she'd say, tilting her machine ... More >>

Comment of the Day: "Fish Whore"

This would've been funnier if I could've found a picture of a hooker in front of Pike Place Market, but no such luck.​I've been called a lot of names over the years. Some of them I've deserved. Some of them I haven't. But leave it to local commenter Dan Sum to come up with a new twist on an ol ... More >>

Meet the Weekly's New Food Critic

Jason Sheehan writes—as he once cooked—out of necessity, with murder in his heart.

Shilling for Pagliacci

​I've been getting a lot of "hello and welcome to town" emails from the chefs, owners and PR flacks in town. But the one that caught my eye today came in from Jason Cheung, general manager over at Pagliacci's University Pizzeria location (4529 University Way NE). Not only was Cheung able to ... More >>

The Weekly's New Food Critic Arrives After a Thousand Miles Without Bacon

​One thousand three hundred and seventy three miles, six states, three day's driving, five pounds of beef jerky consumed, two tires blown (in Utah, on a Sunday no less, so thank Jesus and the gods of interstate travel for the guys at Paco's Rim World who set me right NASCAR-style in about thre ... More >>

Beard Award Winner & Best-Selling Author Jason Sheehan Named New Seattle Weekly Restaurant Critic

​I'm pretty damn pleased -- thrilled, actually -- to announce that the Weekly has hired a new restaurant critic, and it's a writer I have been following for ages: Jason Sheehan, who has been reviewing restaurants for Denver's Westword (sister paper to the Weekly) for eight years, but will be m ... More >>

We Do Assimilate Sometimes, You Know?

​I'm pretty damn pleased -- thrilled, actually -- to announce that the Weekly has hired a new restaurant critic, and it's a writer I have been following for ages: Jason Sheehan, who has been reviewing restaurants for Denver's Westword (sister paper to the Weekly) for eight years, but will be m ... More >>

Swine Flu Roundup

As you know, swine flu has come to our corner of the country. It has also... ...closed an elementary school, ...scored us a visit from a cruise ship, ...infected a Pasco man in Denver, ...inspired a cumbia song that is one of the most discussed YouTube videos in Mexico right now, ...inspired fa ... More >>

Full Tilt: Bringing Together Ice Cream and Passover

After picking up my gefilte fish from On Safari, I zipped down to White Center (as long as I was close) for a roast chicken from Rosticeria Y Cucina Paisano (9615 15th Ave. S.W.), the virtues of which can be read HERE in Jonathan Kauffman's recent review. While I was in White Center, I figured I mig ... More >>

IACP, Colorado Whiskey, Local Award Finalists

I worked my butt off all day here in Denver for IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), barely enough time to chill out at the apartment with some limoncello before the official welcoming event at the art museum. We showed up to a subdued crowd at the event and immediately spotte ... More >>

Skills Like This: From Denver, With Love

I worked my butt off all day here in Denver for IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), barely enough time to chill out at the apartment with some limoncello before the official welcoming event at the art museum. We showed up to a subdued crowd at the event and immediately spotte ... More >>

Notes on Vermouth

Last week's Search & Distill dealt with the Washington State Bartenders Guild and a recent vermouth tasting. Here I am in Denver at the liquor store and not a single bottle of wine worthy of drinking. Thanks to my recent tour through the land of vermouth, I was able to convince a gaggle of cranky ... More >>

Japanese-French Fusion Restaurant Opens in Belltown

Gambas, an affordably priced Japanese-French fusion restaurant, just opened its doors in the former Belltown site of Mom's Teriyaki. It's owned by Mongolian husband and wife Sally and Gambat Puntsag, who came to Seattle two years ago from Denver.

Another Newspaper Dies

Denver's Rocky Mountain News, Colorado's oldest paper, closes tomorrow, the paper just announced. (A little less than 5 percent are being hired by the Denver Post). Rich Boehne, chief executive officer of Rocky-owner Scripps, broke the news to the staff at noon today, ending nearly three months of ... More >>

Might Hearst Actually Find a Buyer for the P-I?

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

More Bad News for Newspapers

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Tonight: Political T-Shirts by Artists, an Obama Fundraiser at Catherine Person Gallery

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Learning from past mistakes

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Chris Walla: DNC is Like SXSW With (More) Snipers

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Democracy Prevailed, Free Association Lost in Last Week's Primaries

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Demo Convention Looks to Seattle for How to Deal With Protesters

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Washington State Delegates: Hipper Than The Rest Of The Country's

Consensus among the numerous reports of the P-I's imminent demise seems to rule out an obvious, alternate conclusion: that Hearst might actually find a buyer, potentially sparing us from a life without Cathy Sorbo's Saturday column. Whether Scripps is able to sell Denver's Rocky Mountain News by mon ... More >>

Pemberton Music Festival

Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27

Footage from the first Fluid reunion show

Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27

If I Make Your Bed, Can I Stay in Your Country?

Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27

The Weekend Review: Jan. 25 to 27

Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27

The Rot Aways

Tuesday, November 20

GABF Saturday Night Session and Recap

Tuesday, November 20

GABF Opening Night

Tuesday, November 20

This Weekend's GABF

Tuesday, November 20

Black Eyes For Gates Foundation

Tuesday, November 20

Beer Drinker, Beer Maker

Tuesday, November 20

Hefeweizen, Pike XXXXX Stout, Brouwer's Cafe, and Washington Cask Beer Festival

Tuesday, November 20

Camping Commonalities

Seattle's tent cities for the homeless are not unique, nor are the challenges.

The Ataris

Seattle's tent cities for the homeless are not unique, nor are the challenges.

Thanks for leaving

Dallas gets Condit, Stonecipher, and an office staff to be named later.