Chef Manny Barella went into the premiere episode of Bravo’s “Top Chef” Season 21 terrified of being eliminated first. “I’ve never been more nervous in my life, even when I proposed to my fiancee,” he joked. “As chefs, we fail in private, but failing in public is a whole different animal.” Barella, a 2022 James … Read more
In 2018, Justin Riley went to a plumbing warehouse in a remote part of north Denver to pick up some equipment for a new business he was starting, Improper City. Six years later, he has returned for his next project – transforming the warehouse itself. Riley, 36, and his team of Giovanni Leone, 31, and … Read more
Colorado might not have anyone to root for in this year’s Super Bowl, but there is a local player worth cheering on your big screen next month. Chef Manny Barella is one of 15 chefs competing on Bravo’s “Top Chef” Season 21, set in Wisconsin and airing weekly on March 20. He will go head-to-head … Read more
Montreal-born tennis star Eugenie Bouchard made her much-anticipated pro pickleball debut on Wednesday and in her words, “it was better than expected.” “Look, pickleball is crazy,” said Bouchard, adding she’s happy with how it went despite losing. Bouchard was competing in the singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles but was knocked out of the competition … Read more
Ten years after it first opened as part of the Oskar Blues Brewery’s group of “fooderies,” CHUBurger has returned to Longmont in a slightly different form. The fast-casual burger spot has opened in a permanent mobile kitchen at 3rd Shot Pickleball, 20 S. Bowen St., which Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis debuted in November with … Read more
