Denver Post: Living

The funny thing about some of the metro area’s biggest cultural exhibits is that they have little to no Colorado ties.

Is there a dish you always order, no matter what else is on the menu? For me, it’s chile relleno. I started ordering the stuffed-, battered- and fried-pepper dish in my West Texas childhood, and haven’t stopped during a lifetime of eating at Mexican restaurants here and in Mexico.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

If you know your way around cuts of meat, you might balk at the initial directions here to first slice this flank steak with the grain. In this case, that means the long way, knife running parallel with lines of muscle fibers so clearly evident.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: My husband insists on being the driver on both long and short car trips.
He prefers his driving over my driving, as well as that of other family members or friends.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Historians like to describe the last two centuries of painting as less of an act and more of a reaction. Impressionism, modernism, surrealism, the whole of abstraction — they’re all a rejection and reinterpretation of the art that came before them; art that embraced formalism and natural beauty, that ennobled the upper classes and exalted sacred icons, that valued composition above all else.

While some of you may be out there shredding every last snowflake this season, some of us (read:  transplants who never learned to ski and now fear weather, chairlifts and avalanches) are grunting our way through the winter waiting for summer to start.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Rocky Flats Lounge, an iconic Wisconsin-type roadhouse bar that was a celebrated gathering place for Green Bay Packers fans before a 2015 fire forced its closure, will not reopen in its old spot despite rebuilding efforts going back for more than a year.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Did you reunite with your long-lost childhood best friend while waiting in the lift line? Did you see a moose running down the hill while sitting safely in a chair above?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: My husband and I have season tickets to our local symphony. Before the start of each concert, audience members are asked to silence all cellphones and to NOT record any part of the performance.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Forget your spring break beach plans for next weekend, because you should probably stick around Denver. The city just made it onto a list of the top 10 destinations in the U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share