Subject: Denver International Airport

• Flights of Fancy

  October 8, 1998

• What to Wear Fridays: Anne Macomber

  November 17, 2006

• What to Wear Fridays: Anne Macomber

  November 17, 2006

• The Truth is Out There, In East Denver, On Pena Boulevard

  August 29, 2007

• Thanks to Google, You Can Dive-Bomb the Cherry Creek Mall

  September 13, 2007

• And Snow It Goes

  November 26, 2007

• Looking for Larry, #2

  March 24, 2008

• The Commerce City Pizza Crop Circle: A Sign That Extraterrestrials Love Pepperoni?

  August 7, 2008

• Papa John's Gets a Pizza the Action

  August 7, 2008

• Toys Ahoy

  Classic toys help lift spirits at DIA.

  November 8, 2001

• DIA conspiracy promoted to one of history’s greatest!

  The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of "History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories" – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how the "strange and disturbing" murals have been used as proof of a vast conspiracy by the Illuminati and the New World Order. For background on the murals – and interviews with the man who created the

  November 21, 2008

• Ohio man threatened to kill President Bush, bomb DIA

  Federal prosecutors have indicted an Ohio man who they say threatened to bomb the Denver International Airport and then shoot himself in the bathroom this October. According to the indictment, if he somehow survived the bomb and the gunshot (apparently he didn't have much confidence in his mayhem skills), he would kill President Bush."I am going to place a bomb in the Denver International Airport on Friday Oct. 17, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.," he wrote, according to the indictment. "I will shoot myself

  December 3, 2008

• Where should we move DIA?

  For all the holiday travelers who hate making the 21-mile trek from downtown to Denver International Airport, the History Channel has an answer. The Mega Movers show created a step-by-step video for how Denver could move the main airport terminal closer to the city using a system of steel beams, wheels and a massive ramp. I'm thinking we should put it on top of Glendale. Click here to see the video. -- Jared Jacang Maher

  December 18, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: Building -- and budgeting -- for the future

  The holidays push most action off the public calendar this week. Tonight at 5:30 p.m., Denver City Council will start the process of stuffing someone's stocking with coal: Over the next few weeks, councilmembers will decide whether to grant landmark status to two, '60s-era Hornbein and White buildings on the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Unless they come up with a very clever compromise (say, save one, the old daycare center), their decision is bound to piss off S

  December 22, 2008

• Off Limits

  December 13, 2001

• Follow That Story

  February 28, 2002

• Off Limits

  March 7, 2002

• Best New Feature in a Denver Daily

  April 4, 2002

• Wake-Up Call: high-flying art at DIA

  The debate took off fast last week over Luis Jimenez's "Mustang," otherwise known as "DIA's Heinous Blue Mustang," which stands outside Denver International Airport. (Read more in this Off Limits report, as well as at www.byebyebluemustang, the site started by local realtor Rachel Hultin.) But in all the hot discussion over the horse, it's easy to overlook some of the great art that Denver's one-percent-for-art program got us at the airport. There are Gary Sweeney's "America: Why I Love Her"

  February 6, 2009

• DIA's promo photo kicks ass of all other airport promo photos

  Courtesy of DIASee the slideshow of DIA's promo-photo ass-kicking here. Denver International Airport's giant blue "Mustang" sculpture -- and the controversy surrounding it -- has gone national. Public debate sparked by local realtor Rachel Hultin's Facebook group "DIA's Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go" -- a development first reported by Westword -- has spread across news outlets and this weekend reached the pages of the Wall Street Journal. One of the most interesting parts of the WSJ arti

  February 10, 2009

• Big blue bear artist Lawrence Argent tells critics to lay off the big blue mustang

  With the ongoing controversy over the the late Luis Jimenez's deadly "Mustang" sculpture at Denver International Airport getting bluer and veiny-er with each passing day, we decided to call up another artist (a live one) who has also been on the receiving end of airport-art criticism: Denver artist Lawrence Argent. While his big blue bear - officially titled "I See What You Mean" - has become a beloved icon for city boosters and peeping toms alike, the big red rabbit sculpture he is creating

  February 20, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 6 edition

  The Game. And now, without further ado... Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with the Game. • Little Fyodor celebrates a quarter-century of zaniness. • Lee Ball, RIP. • Next Astrophagus gig to feature Astrophagus playing, uh, its own songs? • Diamond Boiz crew ready to bust through. • The Colorado Rap Report offers free hip-hop comp download. • Win tickets to see Tauntaun tonight at the Bluebird. • Freaky Friday: "Bunny Rabbits, Satan, Cheese and Milk." • Frozen deadbubbles tomo

  March 6, 2009

• Union Station Advocates weigh in -- mildly -- on proposed station architecture

  Courtesy of Skidmore Owings Merrill The proposed Union Station train shed As noted in the blog "New Architectural Images Released of Denver International Airport. Oh, Wait, That's Denver Union Station," the developers behind the ongoing Union Station project recently unveiled new architectural concepts for the transit hub -- including some ideas, espeically the train shed canopy, that seemed less than wonderful. Maybe it was because the proposed train shed's Teflon fabric seemed too reminiscent

  March 11, 2009

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  June 12, 2008

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  June 12, 2008

• Conspiracy to Have Fun

  August 21, 2008

• Take 23

  The Denver Internation Film Festival opens this Thursday.

  October 12, 2000

• Well, I'll See a Horse's Ass!

  In hindsight, "Mustang" is a real welcome to Denver.

  June 19, 2008

• Movie-Enhanced Art Mezzanine

  Concourse A at Denver International Airport

  September 27, 2007

• Sporting Chance

  January 24, 2008

• DIA Conspiracies Take Off

  August 30, 2007

• Bottled Poetry

  November 2, 2006

• The Movies That Made Us

  Starz FilmCenter

  May 3, 2007

• Peel Rubber

  Longmont breaks out the bikes for winter.

  November 17, 2005

• Off Limits

  Dollars and sense

  June 26, 2003

• Off Limits

  Ready for takeoff

  October 4, 2001

• Fly Me

  Travelers searching the Internet for information about Denver's airport will get more than they came for.

  November 26, 1998

• Off Limits

  April 24, 1997

• CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF'95 YEAR IN REVIEW PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR AIR-SICKNESS BAG AND SMILE, SMILE, SMILE--1995 IS OVER.

  December 27, 1995

• ROLL 'EM

  October 11, 1995

• OFF LIMITS

  October 26, 1994

• MEXICAN STANDOFF

  THE MARATHON'S NOT OVER YET: MEXICO PRESSURES DENVER TO PAY THE RACE'S WINNERS.

  October 19, 1994

• LETTERS

  May 25, 1994

• WESTWORD WINS

  May 25, 1994

• OFF LIMITS

  May 18, 1994

• RUNNING ON EMPTYHOW CLOSE IS THE DENVER INTERNATIONAL MARATHON TO THE FINISH LINE?

  January 26, 1994

• Freaky DIA Mustang sculpture makes a great T-shirt in which to read angry poetry rants

  Blucifer gets fashionable. As evidenced by this awesome T-shirt design, Denver graphic artist Jake Miller has found true inspiration in the recent hubbub over the scary/beautiful Mustang sculpture at Denver International Airport. Expect to spot a few of his screen prints being worn tonight at the Westword-sponsored Fresh City Life poetry reading devoted to ol' DIAblo. But for all that is holy, just don't look into his red laser beam eyes!! You can also score a shirt directly at Big Fish S

  April 27, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: High on the Mile Haiku City

  Verse came to worse last night at the Central Library, where close to a hundred people gathered for last night's Fresh City Life poetry reading inspired by "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's blue horse sculpture out at Denver International Airport. We were in the depths of the basement, but spirits soared as one by one, reluctant poets stood to read their haikus, their limericks, their sonnets and free verse dedicated to the deadly steed -- many of them focusing on the sculpture's truly scary hindquart

  April 28, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Denver Festival Society keeps rolling

  While most of the employees of the Denver Film Society are back at work, they're not quite sure if they're still employees, because twenty of them had officially resigned before the board voted to dismiss new executive director Bo Smith last Friday. And there's also the matter of a major budget shortfall (which can't be made better by whatever goodbye package was given to Smith). But still, they're looking forward. While the Denver Film Society drama played out over the weekend, I thought bac

  June 10, 2009

• Cut! On a third take, the Denver Film Society board finally lets Bo Smith go

  June 11, 2009