While her ancestors looked up at the stars under dark Western skies and pondered the heavens, Charee Peters has wrestled with complicated formulas and mathematics to try to unravel those same mysteries. When Peters walks across the stage and graduates from the University of Denver on June 4, it’s believed […]
Don’t mistake Jeannette Le for your stereotypical sorority girl. The 22-year-old, who will graduate from DU on June 4, represents the less celebrated side of the Greek system. She works much harder than she plays. Le will get dual degrees — a bachelor’s degree in business administration and international business […]
For champion gymnast, hospitality maven and A student Brianna Springer, life truly is a balancing act. The junior attends DU on a full athletic scholarship. She’s won dozens of event titles and awards and was one of 12 individual gymnasts in the nation to compete in the NCAA women’s gymnastics […]
Peter Morton created the world’s most popular rock ’n’ roll restaurant. Then he opened a hotel that changed Las Vegas forever. Now what?
“Opening a restaurant is fun,” says Frank Bonanno. “It’s the running of them that’s tedious.” Maybe that explains why the 43-year-old Denver restaurateur has opened three new places in the past three years: the cozy noodle bar Bones, which sits on the same block as his flagships Mizuna and Luca […]
Most music schools teach students how to perform on stage, but they don’t teach skills for performance in the business world. Ramon “Ray” Ricker (BME ’65) fills in the missing notes to help aspiring musicians avoid becoming starving artists in his book Lessons From a Street-Wise Professor: What You Won’t […]
There’s a saying in marketing that you sell the sizzle, not the steak. That works if you’re selling something that has sizzle. But when it’s your job to promote more sedate commodities like potatoes, honey and wool, the hurdles become a little bigger. Unless you’re Lori Garcia-McGehee (BBA ’95). A […]
When they were seniors at DU, Maddy D’Amato (BA sociology ’08) and Alex Hasulak (BSBA ’08) called on their fellow students to help them perfect their granola recipe, bringing samples to campus for their classmates to taste and evaluate. Three years later, the pair’s Love Grown Foods granola is on […]
From community-supported agriculture and farm-to-table restaurants to bestselling books by Michael Pollan and Barbara Kingsolver, fresh, local food is all the rage in culinary America. The problem, says Lisa Rogers, is that fresh and local isn’t as easy to come by as people think. All looks good at Whole Foods […]
Steele Platt (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’82) remembers the day he arrived in Newport Beach, Calif., back in 1990. He had a brand new Mercedes and a briefcase filled with $100,000. He knew the day marked the end of his successful career in Denver’s restaurant and nightclub industry, but […]
If you were a kid in the late 1800s and early 1900s, you lived in a heady time: Coca-Cola, cotton candy, Life Savers and Popsicles all were invented during that era. But adults, arguably, had it even better. Until Prohibition, “Americans were the best cocktail makers in the world. People […]
Susie Heller (BA education ’72) has cooked up quite the career over the past 25 years. After a chance meeting with the famous Jacques Pépin in 1985, Heller began working as a culinary producer on his television show and on shows with his friend Julia Child. She’s since produced dozens […]
Lunch boxes are more than a hobby for alum and restaurant owner Bryan Ehrenholm.
Blair Taylor (BSBA hotel and restaurant management ’74) is well known around Denver for his award-winning Cherry Creek restaurant, Barolo Grill, and its legendary annual staff trip to Italy. What most Denverites don’t know is that the fine-food aficionado also owns Enotec Imports, a boutique Italian wine importer. By age […]
Kyle Schlachter (BS environmental science ’03) turned his passion for dirt into a love of wine. The geography PhD student studies and markets the Colorado wine industry for a living. Schlachter began writing his dissertation on lake sediment and fire reconstruction but became distracted by his developing interest in wine. […]