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Denver Queer-Owned Restaurants Face Controversy

For many Denver-based queers who bow down to the seitan and tofu gods, two restaurants…

Hate at City O’ City

City O’ City is known as a safe haven in the city. As one of…

The Myth-maker: Josiah M. Hesse on City O’ City and Watercourse Owner, Dan Landes

When I first met Dan Landes he looked like an urban Marlboro man who just stepped out of a peyote sweat lodge.

It was 2008 and I was sitting down to interview Landes about consumer ethics. As the owner of a vegan bakery and two vegetarian restaurants that seemingly banned all corporate products, I was curious to pick his brain about Fair Trade products and factory farms. I was expecting a wildly idealistic, out-of-touch madman who would grill me with his black-belt veganism. Instead I found a practical businessman who’d simply figured out how to make his eccentricities work to his advantage.