Denverites socializing over dinner with strangers with Timeleft

Denverites socializing over dinner with strangers with Timeleft

On Wednesday evening, I walked into an Asian fusion restaurant in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, unsure of who’d be joining me at the dinner table. Instead, I left that decision to a service called Timeleft, which aims to build relationships within a group of strangers matched through a personality algorithm over a shared meal. Although … Read more

Denver closes Sonny Lawson, La Alma-Lincoln parks over drugs, violence

Denver closes Sonny Lawson, La Alma-Lincoln parks over drugs, violence

Denver Parks and Recreation has fenced off portions of Sonny Lawson Park and La Alma-Lincoln Park in what the department described Friday as its latest effort to curb rising drug sales, violence and vandalism in those spaces. A pocket of grass and trees near the intersection of West 14th Avenue and Kalamath Street also was … Read more

Denver’s best queer bars and gay clubs

Denver’s best queer bars and gay clubs

Denverites looking for LGBTQ bars have to be willing to roam, since the city’s cultural scene is not always matched by the amount or concentration of LGBTQ clubs. Over the last year or so we’ve lost a few spots, including Fusions, Lucid, and the 3 Kilts Tavern, so the remaining names are all the more … Read more

Populus hotel in Denver opening two new restaurants

Populus hotel in Denver opening two new restaurants

If you’ve driven past Denver’s Civic Center in the last few months, it would have been hard to miss the newly erected Populus hotel with its funky, eye-shaped windows from top to bottom. Designed to evoke Colorado’s aspen trees, the 265-room hotel, at 240 14th St., was developed by Urban Villages, which calls it the … Read more