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Jack Was Here: Showing you the places Jack Kerouac once was

Yes he was.​Jack Kerouac was here. He came here and wrote about it in On the Road, his most enduring work, and fell in love with Denver to the extent that, at one point, he actually bought a house in Lakewood. Yes, Kerouac was indeed here, but one thing that will not be here, apparently, is Fr ... More >>

Top 10 list of Colorado movies a ten-cent ticket fee didn't subsidize

"The Searchers."​The Colorado legislature just nixed a plan to tack a ten-cent fee onto movie tickets, money that would have been used to provide financial incentives for film companies that want to make movies in this state. As revised, the bill would now ask for donations from movie-goers -- ... More >>

Will a nearby school put a halt to Welton Street's resurrection?

The Rossonian Hotel is just beyond the 500-foot, no-liquor line.​As we reported yesterday in Cafe Bites, there have been numerous roadblocks to the redevelopment of the strip of Welton Street that's at the heart of Five Points -- some anticipated, some surprising. The most recent? The Tubman H ... More >>

The Place to Be

Five Points gets jazzed for this year’s festival.

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Five Points gets jazzed for this year’s festival.

Red, White and Blues

Five Points gets jazzed for this year’s festival.

Welcome to Collywood

Five Points gets jazzed for this year’s festival.

Welcome to Collywood

Five Points gets jazzed for this year’s festival.

Bygone Days

Crossroads Theater resurrects the Rossonian.

Best of Westword 1991 Winners

Crossroads Theater resurrects the Rossonian.

The Matrix

Can a white woman with ties to Dune, Keanu Reeves and Burning Man effectively represent Denver’s historically black city council district?

The AFI Top 100 Films -- And The Top Ten Movies Filmed in Colorado

Can a white woman with ties to Dune, Keanu Reeves and Burning Man effectively represent Denver’s historically black city council district?

On the Road, Again

Here's something to do in Denver when you're dead: stay famous.

Jazz It Up

Here's something to do in Denver when you're dead: stay famous.

East Meets West

Tan Dun's Passion merges cultures

Junkman Cometh

Bluesman Willie Houston turns a junkyard into a juke joint.

Best Creator of Experimental Theater

Thaddeus Phillips

Letters to the Editor

From the week of March 15, 2001

Brick by Brick

A new development in Five Points could help the city sell the old Rossonian Hotel.

Familiar Tunes

Jazz makes a comeback in Five Points while the venerable Rossonian Hotel sits and waits.

The Rogue of Five Points

Painting the town with Count Bacon

Cracking the Case

A local pathologist takes time out from real-life cancer-fighting to do some fictional crime-fighting.

Off Limits

A local pathologist takes time out from real-life cancer-fighting to do some fictional crime-fighting.

CHECKING OUT

A local pathologist takes time out from real-life cancer-fighting to do some fictional crime-fighting.

A LOAN AGAIN, NATURALLY

A CASH-FLUSH CITY AGENCY MEASURES SUCCESS--AND CONTROVERSY--ONE INVESTMENT AT A TIME.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS

THE CITY OF DENVER HAS SUNK MORE THAN $2 MILLION INTO THE HISTORIC ROSSONIAN HOTEL. BUT CHECK OUT ITS ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT PLAN.