restaurant reviews

Take a deep breath, and back away from the cell phone

She interrupts the order with her hand in the air, a referee’s “timeout,” and an urgent call from her friend Susan, who, incidentally, is also eating at California Pizza Kitchen. The event necessitates unending giggles, followed inevitably by, “Really? No way! Oh my gawsh! That’s crazeeeeeeee!”

Food for thought: What happens when we win?

I, too, have long been an advocate for same-sex marriage. But what’s slowly coming to the fore in states where this is already a reality is a social double-take. Advocates and allies have been pushing – with tremendous passion – for this equal right and opportunity, but some haven’t thought much past the signing of the legislation that they seek. What, after all, does it mean to be married?

Food for Thought: faith, food and a dating disaster

My early dates in the Denver dating scene were spent pretending away my faith in these situations, as though it were an automatic strike against me. I talked up food. I waxed eloquent on writing. I extolled the virtues my favorite authors.
But nothing about faith. Or church. Or religion. It was too risky.

Food for thought: communion is more than a ‘church’ thing

At least once a week my friends and I gather around bottles of good wine…

Food for Thought: cooking with Child-like abandon

My parents loved Julia Child. She was more than some entertaining fancy to them –…

Food for thought: where culinary arts “meat” communion

I’m an unusual gay man. Let’s face it: not many of us jump with glee…

European cuisine serves up brilliant simplicity

Charcoal Restaurant 43 W. 9th Ave., 80204 303-454-0000 Find a terrific looking free-standing restaurant in…

More than a gay Christian

Everyone knows the boyish face of Hal Sparks – that geeky, quirky, Queer-as-Folky icon famous…

Neighborhood bar dishes up a divine slice

The building that now houses Ernie’s Bar & Pizza has become a casual and friendly…

Rabbi talks gays and Judaism

Temple Emanuel, led by Senior Rabbi Joseph Black, is one of the more prominent Reform…