"Cut-Rate Calatrava," Kenny Be, September 22
It Won't Fly
I loved Kenny Be's "Cut-Rate Calatrava" design for Denver International Airport. The city should just hire Kenny to design the new airport!
Jason Vigil
Denver
Artbeat, Michael Paglia, September 22
Designs on Denver
Personally, I love the current airport design and felt the new design totally covered the old up instead of enhancing it. I know little about building design, but I thought the proposed design had nothing to do with DIA, Denver or Colorado. It looked to me (and like I said, I'm no architect, but pretty aware of the local community) like some famous outsider's big ego about to be forced into a space where it didn't belong. When I first saw it, I was so dismayed!
Now I think there's a shot they'll come up with something cool, especially if it's a local, less-known kind of company doing the planning. Hopefully they'll look at the space and see what works and fits, rather than trying to leave their big ugly mark on our city.
Adrienne Christy
Posted at westword.com
"Clear Thinking," Laura Shunk, September 22
Hope Springs Eternal
A great read about a beautiful brand in the making. I wish you fortune and health in your endeavors, gentlemen!
It's just fantastic that you've captured, and further created, lightning in a bottle by use of Mr. Lindauer's water — water far superior to Belvedere's and Grey Goose's unremarkable, RO/DI-engineered "blank canvases."
Scott Garber
Denver
I appreciated the attention you gave a Colorado Company in "Clear Thinking." I just wish Westword did not find it so necessary to celebrate alcohol all the time.
Mary Flanigan
Denver
"Rind and Unkind," Off Limits, September 22
The Unkindest Cut
What the Jensen Farms debacle demonstrates is that the growers of Rocky Ford need to be able to control the labeling of produce with the name of the town — or did the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment just sabotage their economy by describing the infected cantaloupes as coming from there?
The produce anti-defamation statute (and so many others) demonstrates the incompetent, reactionary buffoonery of the Colorado General Assembly — and that of the voters of Colorado, too.
Robert Chase
Denver
"Leave It to Beaver," Alan Prendergast, September 15
A Dam Fine Story
Great story! Sherri Tippie is a hero. What dedication and inspiration. I've encouraged my friends to read this.
Joan Bondy
Denver
I had the pleasure of Sherri Tippie's "services" in the summer of 2008. I have seventy acres of hunting land within a 4,500-acre private subdivision in a fairly remote area forty miles north-northeast of Craig that surrounds Baker's Peak.
After surveying my land, which included two lakes with adjudicated water rights, she felt they would not support the family of beavers we took up there. However, near First Creek, on the east edge of the subdivision, she began to cry: She felt the habitat was "perfect." We dropped them off. I'm hoping they survived.
Keep it up, Tippie!
Gerald P. Vargo
Lakewood
I'm a huge Henry Matisse fan, and I thought the "Leave It to Beaver" cover art was brilliant.
John Murray
Denver
Kudos to Ms. Tippie for being such a dogged champion for an under-appreciated animal. I knew her many years ago, and am awed and grateful that she's still hard at work, making the world a better place. Wow, what a woman!
Janet Thew
Loomis, California
Bar Back, Jon Solomon, September 22
Tapping Into Tennyson
Thanks, Jon Solomon, for highlighting this great find for real music — just an alley door off West 38th Avenue! Love Laura, Ellyn, Vlad and Jill on Wednesdays, and all the great folk who come to sit in with them: saw Ed Battle, Carl Dixon and the great sax player Alex Nekrasov!
Jude DeLorca
Denver
