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Face to face? Newhart wants to meet college football ref doppelganger

January 19, 2015

Veteran comedian Bob Newhart would like to meet his college football referee lookalike, Greg Burks, who is a Colorado Springs native and University of Colorado-Boulder grad.

Burks, who was the referee in Monday’s first College Football Playoff championship game between Ohio State and Oregon in Arlington, Texas, was named the Mountain West Conference coordinator of football officials. The Mountain West, based in Colorado Springs, includes two local schools, Colorado State University and Air Force.

Below are links to stories on Burks and Newhart and Mountain West’s announcement of Burks’ hiring:

www.blogs.denverpost.com/colleges/2015/01/16/mountain-west-just-hire-bob-newhart/33144/.

www.etonline.com/news/156264_bob_newhart_would_love_to_meet_his_handsome_college_ref_lookalike/.

Referee Greg Burks, left, and comedian and actor Bob Newhart.

Referee Greg Burks, left, and comedian and actor Bob Newhart.

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Brooks adds seven shows to Pepsi Center stop

January 19, 2015

Garth Brooks fans who missed out on snagging tickets to his two sold-out Pepsi Center performances now have the opportunity to make the country mega star “More Than a Memory” with seven additional shows added to the Denver tour in March.

Adding a bigger bang for your buck is that Brooks’ wife, Trisha Yearwood, will share the bill during the Pepsi Center’s nine shows.

The dates are as follows: 7:30 p.m. March 18, 19 and 24; 7 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. March 20 and 21; 3 and 7 p.m. March 22. Tickets are on sale at www.altitudetickets.com/garth or by phone at 1-844-634-2784.

Ticket prices are $57 plus $9.50 in fees; a maximum of eight tickets will be sold per customer. Pepsi Center recommends buyers to register in advance at its site to speed purchases.

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Denver eateries maintain Four Diamond status

January 19, 2015

Six Denver restaurants were awarded Four Diamond status for 2015 by AAA in an announcement Friday. Panzano, Rioja, Colt & Gray, Edge Restaurant & Bar, Mizuna and Palace Arms were all repeat winners of the award.

Oddly, no new Denver or Colorado restaurants were added to the list. Last year’s winner Restaurant Kevin Taylor in the Hotel Teatro has closed. Colorado’s only Five Diamond restaurant is The Penrose Room at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. Colorado finished the year with 20 Four Diamond restaurants, down from 22 in 2014.

Only 689 restaurants in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico qualify for Four Diamond status.

According to AAA, “AAA’s professionally trained inspectors use published guidelines to conduct unannounced hotel and restaurant evaluations, assigning approved establishments a rating of one to five AAA Diamonds.”

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Mo’ Moe’s Bar B Que set to open in Steamboat

January 19, 2015

The opening of Moe’s Original Bar B Que is set for early February at 1898 Kamar Plaza in Steamboat Springs. Serving up Southern soul food, the quick service restaurant also will offer its fresh from the pit meats and down home sides as take out, in addition to a catering service serving the greater Steamboat Springs area. Hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.

“In a resort town that caters to visitors, Steamboat locals can often feel squeezed out of their own community during peak ski and summer tourist seasons,” said co-owner Chris Gander. “Since all of the Steamboat owners are long-time locals for several generations, we want to serve our fellow residents what they deserve and crave, reasonably-priced food and cheap beers in a relaxed atmosphere, away from the resort madness of Ski Town USA.”

Moe’s Original Bar B Que has been named one of the Top 10 Rib Joints in the U.S. by Relish and Top 10 BBQ Chains in America by Daily Meal and USA Today. Years after learning to fire roast meats in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mike Fernandez, Ben Gilbert and Jeff Kennedy discovered a shared passion for BBQ and founded Moe’s Original Bar B Que in 2001 in Vail.

For more information, visit www.moesoriginalbbq.com.

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Laugh line: Today’s eavesdropping

January 19, 2015

Eavesdropping on Twitter: “Four-year-old comes out of her room, jumps up in the air twice, shakes her head and says, ‘I can’t fly’ in a sad voice.”

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Book it, Dano! Denver Restaurant Week releases menus

January 16, 2015

Visit Denver launched Wednesday the menus and list of restaurants participating in the 2015 Denver Restaurant week at www.denv.co/2015drw. This year’s dine-around runs from Feb. 20 through March 1, which includes two weekends.

“We want people to be intrigued by new restaurants or tantalized by menus from some of their favorites and go on line and book reservations right away,” said Richard Scharf, president and CEO of Visit Denver.

This year, the city’s largest culinary event with more than 250 eateries throughout the metro area, will offer multi-course dinners for the fixed price of $30, not including tax or tip. Many of the participating restaurants also include wine, beer and drink specials.

“The fun of restaurant week is looking at how all the chefs, faced with the same challenge of providing a knockout multi-course meal for just $30, get creative to find different solutions,” Scharf said. “Denver’s restaurant scene is exploding and gaining a huge national reputation, so this is an excellent time to get out and explore some dining spots.”

More restaurants sign up daily, so diners should check the site often for new listings at www.denverrestaurantweek.com.

 

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Frankel putting Skinnygirl stamp on marijuana in Colorado

January 16, 2015

Bethenny Frankel, the beauty and brains behind the Skinnygirl adult beverages brand, is putting her Skinnygirl stamp on marijuana.

According to Us Weekly magazine, the former “The Real Housewives of New York City” star will launch her own line of Skinnygirl “no munchies” marijuana in states where cannabis is legal including Colorado.

“It will be a specially engineered strain of pot designed to not give you the munchies,” an insider close to the Skinnygirl cocktails creator, 44, tells Us. “She read about how profitable the cannabis industry is and wants to get in on that.”

The former talk show host and entrepreneur tweeted on Dec. 20, “OMG it’s the craziest thing to see marijuana legal in Aspen. People walking into pot stores like it’s the @Gap #prohibitiondone.”

Read more at www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/bethenny-frankel-planning-to-launch-skinnygirl-marijuana-2015151#ixzz3OvFueD7p.

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Time to cowboy up at local eateries

January 16, 2015

A variety of local restaurants are serving specials in honor of the 2015 National Western Stock Show. Here are some offerings:

* ViewHouse (2015 Market St. in Denver and 7101 S. Clinton St, in Centennial – www.viewhouse.com) is celebrating the 2015 National Western Stock Show with its “Cowboy Special” offered through Jan. 24. Enjoy a porterhouse steak rubbed in ViewHouse seasoning, seared on a wood fired grill and topped with a demi-glace and garlic butter alongside asparagus and a loaded salt-encrusted baked potato for $29.95. Add a Bulleit Old Fashioned for an additional seven dollars.

* Looking for a break from steak?  Head to Humboldt Farm, Fish & Wine (1700 Humboldt St. – www.humboldtrestaurant.com), where the fish, farm and wine specialist will be serving the Mutton Bustin’ Bolognese Special during the Stock Show, which is Colorado lamb with crushed tomato, smoky bacon, mirepoix and red pepper flake over rigatoni, paired with a glass of Alexander Valley Cabernet for $30.

* The Cherry Cricket 2641 E Second Ave. (www.cherrycricket.com) is serving the Cowboy Cricket special featuring the half-pound Cowboy Cricket burger topped with smoked cheddar, Western barbecue sauce, bacon and crowned with haystack onion strings.  Choose from a side of cole slaw or french fries. Served with a Coors original draft beer for $13.

* Stout Street Social (1400 Stout St. www.stoutstsocial.com) which opened last month across from the Colorado Convention Center downtown, is welcoming Stock Show visitors with the smoked prime rib and an Alaskan Brewing Company smoked porter for $24.95. Stout Street Social offers 40 beers on tap and about 25 in bottles, including a list of unusual and hard-to-find beers on the cellar list.

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Wazee Supper Club changing owners

January 16, 2015

Roadhouse Hospitality Group has acquired the 40-year-old Wazee Supper Club at 1600 15th St. in lower downtown, making it the 17th restaurant for the family-operated Colorado-based company.

Roadhouse Hospitality Group has been one of the state’s best-established restaurant family dynasties for nearly three decades. Owned by the brothers  Dan, John and Mike Shipp the group comprises such diverse eateries as the popular Washington Park Grille, Reiver’s, Spanky’s Roadhouse in the University of Denver neighborhood, the upscale pair of dining experiences that are the two Hodsons (downtown and SouthGlenn) and myriad mountain destinations such as the Kickapoo Tavern in Keystone, as well as four Dusty Boot Steakhouse & Saloons in the metro area and the mountains.

“We could not be more excited to add Wazee Supper Club to the mix,” Dan said. “It fits in perfectly with our mission, and we can see the potential for bringing it back to its former glory.”

The Shipp brothers plan renovations for Wazee that will revisit its past while retaining the significant features that the beloved and now-famous restaurant – President Barack Obama ate pizza there in 2014 during a Denver stop – lost over the years through ownership changes and remodels. Otherwise, the Shipps intend to keep the look and feel of the eatery as true to the original as possible.

“Our hope is to change as little as we can and bring it back to what it was,” Dan said. “People loved the old Wazee and so did we, and that’s what we want to see it return to.”

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