The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Golan v. Holder, a case concerning copyright law, this fall. DU music Professor Lawrence Golan is the lead plaintiff in the case, which claims that current U.S. copyright law has made it prohibitively expensive for smaller orchestras to perform copyrighted music. It used […]
In the 45 years that Gary Mobell’s family has owned the Blue Bonnet Café, he’s seen a lot of restaurants come and go. And he knows that as great as it is to have a hot dining scene in Denver, it also means increased competition in a tough economy. “We […]
When the restaurant that would become White Fence Farm first opened in 1973, it was the southwesternmost eatery in Denver. Owner Charlie Wilson has seen the area surrounding the restaurant change a lot since then — what was once fertile farmland is now homes and strip malls — but his […]
Looking for tips on effective resumé design? Talk to Brad Klausen. The DU art grad was working for a design firm in Los Angeles when a newsletter from the Pearl Jam fan club caught his eye. Inspired by what he saw, Klausen (BFA graphic communication design ’98) designed a Pearl […]
After a year of tweaks and experimentation, Max Krieger is ready to heat things up at Zingers, the fast-casual chicken-and-chili restaurant that he and his father, Dennis Krieger, opened near the DU campus in August 2010. While Zingers is gaining attention for its ghost-chili-fueled “hottest wings in Colorado,” Krieger hopes […]
From north to south, breakfast to dinner, pancakes to pizza, these 26 alumni-owned restaurants are putting DU on Denver’s culinary map.
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 […]
Students need passion, know-how and real-world experience to succeed in DU’s school of hospitality management.
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 […]
Featuring cookbooks spanning more than 100 years, the Husted Culinary Collection is a fascinating history of the way we eat.