On February 23, comedian Lee Camp appeared on FOX News, where he proceeded to sound off on the hosts and their audience. “What is Fox News?” asks comedian and activist Lee Camp on the air. “It’s just a parade of propaganda, isn’t it? It’s just a…festival of ignorance.” Obviously Camp is a man with some political convictions. He’s also a
Read moreThis just in from Jack, who’s on the scene with the Tent State crowd: Tent State is about to march from the Coliseum down Brighton and Broadway to the DNC. Rage is walking with them. Looks like 4,000 people or more. This could be fun. Stay tuned. UPDATE: A group of police in riot gear just offloaded near Blake and
Read moreI hate to sound a negative note, but it’s time to call a few DNC attendees on the carpet. Word flying around the waiter and bartender network in downtown and LoDo is that the DNC crowd isn’t tipping very well. (Sorry, no names or locations here – you’re just going to have to trust me.) I’ve talked to several bartenders
Read moreDNC08, day one observation: there’s just way the hell more going on that we can cover. There are 11 of us, and I’m not sure we could do what we feel like we ought to be doing if we had 111. It’s especially tough because S&R isn’t and never has been about being the firstest and the fastest. We rarely
Read moreSo, the Minutemen are in town agitating about securing our borders. We’ve been thinking about the idea of a border fence for quite awhile and up until recently we were adamantly opposed. For one thing, it seemed unlikely to work, and for another, anybody who’s been to a Home Depot lately can tell you that fencing is expensive as hell.
Read moreScholars & Rogues is looking forward to meeting as many DNC attendees as possible – we aren’t the official hosts of the convention, but a lot of us live here in Denver and we’re excited about the prospect of introducing you to our town. We’re also pretty excited that Lime, one of the greatest restaurants in a town full of
Read moreAnd now, a few more things that didn’t quite fit into other articles, or that arrived late, or that we forgot, or whatever. The fact that these are all being lumped under a miscellaneous category doesn’t mean they’re not well worth the time and effort. So here are some scattered thoughts about food, neighborhoods, recreation, sports, shopping and more.
Read moreWe had a request for some recommendations on good breakfast places, and there’s good news – DNC attendees have some very good options close at hand. Racine’s, which is located in the Governor’s Park neighborhood just off Speer, is about as good as it gets.
Read moreDenver is an interesting city for Italian food. On the one hand, we don’t really have a lot of very good options, which is odd for a city this size (and for a city with as strong an Italian heritage as we have). On the other hand, what we lack in quantity we make up for in quality. So let
Read moreusquebaugh The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | Date: 1996 usquebaugh WHISKY1. XVI. — Ir. and Sc. Gael. uisge beatha ‘water of life’, i.e. uisge WATER, beatha life. If you like single malt, you’re in for a treat. If you don’t like single malt, bear with us. We may be able to change that. One of Denver’s purest, most
Read moreNo two towns are quite alike, but as a guy who’s been all over the US I can testify that Denver ranks pretty high on the uniqueness scale. Its geographic location is a big part of the equation, to be sure, and the culture that has emerged from its particular history makes it not quite like any other city in
Read moreSo. You had a great dinner. Or you’re out relaxing and enjoying the evening. Or maybe you read this post and promised yourself to seek out something cold and obscenely creamy. One way or another, though, it’s time for dessert. How about some gelato? If you aren’t familiar with gelato, it’s Italy’s version of ice cream. And it’s like ice
Read moreWhen you think of cities with great sushi, you probably think of places on the West Coast – Seattle, San Francisco, LA, and so on. You probably don’t think of Denver. However, despite standing some 1000 miles from the nearest ocean, our fair city is home to some not-bad-at-all sushi. I don’t know all the places in town, but I
Read moreYou may live in a place with good Mexican food. You may live in a place with what you think is good Mexican food. But unless you live in the Rocky Mountain Southwest, you probably don’t have access to anything quite like what we’ll be dishing up in Denver during the DNC. Come hungry, is all I can say. The
Read moreColorado has, over the past 15 years or so, established itself as a genuine microbrew mecca, and just about every place you walk into either makes their own or is serving up something produced by one of our many local breweries. We host the Great American Beer Festival every fall, and while we tip our caps to all the great
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