Hot Flashes

Getting to know Denver's Hottest Service Employees.

A A A Comments By Jared Jacang Maher Thursday, Aug 4 2005

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Steve

Age:29

Status: Kryptonite locked

Where do we lust for thee?Victory Courier

Grindstone:Bike messenger

Admirer said: "Whoa! How long has this guy been flying under my radar? Then he caught me staring, and I blushed so hard."

Steve is quick to admit that he is really hot, but not in the way that we're thinking.

"I run a high temperature," he says, melting us under his intense gaze. "I sweat. I'm just a hot person."

Really? Us, too! And we don't even have to professionally pedal the mean streets of Denver to know that bike messengers are just about the most scorching service employees on wheels. Maybe it's the way Steve shatters the corporate stuffiness of an office-building elevator or darts helter-skelter between cars downtown with collected abandon that makes us want to double back to his courier clubhouse or squat or whatever other cool bohemian hellhole he lives in between deliveries.

Though Steve's day job is mobile, his off-time pursuits are quite stationary. Four years ago, after graduating from Metropolitan State College with a degree in photojournalism, he opened up the modest art gallery Chance Operations, off 20th Avenue and Grant Street. At a nearby bus stop, he also maintains what he calls a "guerrilla garden," an unauthorized pocket of flowers and shrubbery that he hopes will add a little beauty to this asphalt pad we call the city. Sadly, Steve recently found out that both his gallery and his garden will soon face the backhoe as a developer pursues grand visions of upscale loft housing at the site.

Still, Steve isn't sweating it. He can always coast by on his looks.