Subject: Salida

• More Messages: Death Be Not Loud

  June 23, 2006

• Delegating Denver #41 of 56: Oregon

  April 28, 2008

• Sally Perisho Puts Together a Great Show

  May 16, 2008

• Tunnel of Love

  Lower Downtown Holiday Experience

  December 2, 1999

• You Gotta Have Art

  Ninth Annual Salida Art Walk

  June 14, 2001

• Best arts festival

  June 29, 2000

• Best Annual Festival Dedicated to Art

  March 29, 2001

• Off Limits

  August 2, 2001

• Best Bicycle-Built-for-Two Club

  April 4, 2002

• Pop Quiz

  April 3, 2003

• Stephen Scott

  June 24, 2004

• Another dubious explanation for why the Rocky Mountain News died

  Ed Quillen. The Denver Post may not have ordered all of its columnists and contributors to opine on the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, but it might as well have, since few scribes with access to a working keyboard have resisted the urge thus far. The latest to weigh in is op-ed regular Ed Quillen, whose piece "How the Rocky Hurt Itself" offers a theory every bit as shaky as Jared Polis's the-bloggers-did-it (and-it-was-a-mercy-killing) supposition. In addition to the bad economy, Quillen b

  March 5, 2009

• Soul'd Roots supports justice for all

  www.soul-droots.orgAt 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, "Soul'd Roots: A Food & Media Justice Institute," hosts a Community Eat-in and Food Politics Talkback with an impressive roster of panelists, including Oakland-based eco-chef, food justice activist and author Bryant Terry, who'll be on hand to sign his new book, Vegan Soul Kitchen.  Terry, along with Mercury Cafe chef-owner Marilyn Megenity; Root Down exec chef Ryan Leinonen; Shannon Francis, agricultural director at Woodbine Ecology Center

  March 12, 2009

• Night & Day

  June 25 - July 1, 1998

  June 25, 1998

• Unlucky Strike

  Gary Rudd got zapped one day, and life has never been the same.

  June 28, 2001

• Denver Envisions the Art Scene in 2028

  We asked these local creatives to predict what the arts scene in Denver will, or at least should, look like in 2028.

  February 21, 2008

• Prefab Pitfalls

  A new seminar teaches everything you need to know about prefab houses.

  February 21, 2008

• Little Pleasures

  Small spaces do a lot with a little.

  June 5, 2008

• Snow Boat

  April 3, 2008

• Skyrockets in Flight

  Jimmy Descant explores optimism and corruption in a new show.

  November 1, 2007

• Three 2D/Three 3D

  William Havu Gallery is full of heavy metal.

  June 28, 2007

• From the Ranch

  Salida hosts an art party like no other.

  May 24, 2007

• Mel Strawn: Coins & Medals +

  Sandra Phillips Gallery

  April 27, 2006

• How to Survive...A Summer Road Trip

  Pack the sunscreen, hitch up the Impala, and just go for it.

  June 2, 2005

• Now Showing

  March 31, 2005

• Now Showing

  March 24, 2005

• Off Limits

  That's a Wrap

  March 3, 2005

• Hop-Heads Unite

  The Great American Beer Festival flows again

  September 30, 2004

• Off Limits

  Bean and nothingness

  September 16, 2004

• Splash Down

  FIBArk Whitewater churns up thrills

  June 17, 2004

• Galloping Gals

  Op Girls tour gives Bettys a chance to skate

  April 1, 2004

• Artbeat

  Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  September 25, 2003

• The Message

  Power Up

  September 25, 2003

• Feel Like Roamin'?

  Sargent show displays amore

  June 26, 2003

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 12, 2003

• Trap Sheet

  Why was it so hard for these upstanding, law-abiding citizens to get arrested?

  February 3, 2000

• RV or Not RV?

  Camping in a Wal-Mart parking lot is the natural thing to do.

  September 16, 1999

• No Bravo

  Rio Bravo Catina serves fine food, but the atmosphere can be less than grand.

  August 19, 1999

• Denver Post ends daily delivery in outlying parts of Colorado

  Ed Quillen. Betcha Ed Quillen is pissed. Last month, Quillen, a Salida-based contributor to the Denver Post, offered what I saw as a dubious reason for why the Rocky Mountain News had gone under: The tabloid had focused its circulation efforts on the Denver metro area, as opposed to energetically promoting its product to readers elsewhere in Colorado. In regard to the Denver Post, which had maintained more of a statewide presence, I wrote at the time that "it may actually be losing money on ev

  April 30, 2009

• Doing the math on Christo's Arkansas River wrap

  Wolfgang Volz, copyright Christo 2007 "Over the River," the plan by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne Claude to stretch almost six miles of silvery fabric over the Arkansas River between Canon City and Salida at a cost of around $50 million, has plenty of supporters. Congressmen, college presidents, Chamber of Commerce types and sundry art lovers have weighed in to endorse the project. But lately, the Bureau of Land Management has been getting a dose of art criticism from the installa

  May 12, 2009

• Forget Shane: Come back, Christo! Christo, come back!

  Wolfgang Volz, copyright Christo 2007 As noted in a previous blog, "Doing the Math on Christo's Arkansas River Wrap," Colorado art mavens and opinion leaders are just crrraaaazy about Over the River, the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to suspend six miles of silvery fabric over the river between Canon City and Salida. They can't wait to get the permits cleared for the fabulous, massive installation, even if the thing's only going to be gawkable for a couple of we

  June 19, 2009

• Rosie's passes the high-altitude torch to Breckenridge Brewery

  I saw this bumper sticker affixed to a light pole outside a brewery in a little mountain town last week, but the brewery wasn't Rosie's Brewpub and the town wasn't Leadville. Instead, someone had decided to celebrate Rosie's, which closed May 30, just a few feet from the front door of Amicas in Salida. An unusual pairing of Neapolitan pizza joint and brewpub, Amicas was slammed with tourists, locals, river enthusiasts and motorcyclists all enjoying a few hours, a day or a week off, and a fun p

  July 8, 2009

• Down by the River

  August 13, 2009

• Face the State Radio expands

  Face the State's Brad Jones.​Face the State is best known for its right-leaning website, which churns out new and typically credible content on a daily basis. For instance, among FTS' latest posts is an item about state rep Cory Gardner, a possible rival to Congresswoman Betsy Markey, who's hosting healthcare town halls while she's out of the country. But the operation also supplements its new-media platform with an old-media feature: Face the State Radio, which regularly produces one-minu

  August 12, 2009

• Praise Be

  August 27, 2009

• And Colorado's prettiest town is... you must be joking

  ​It's been at least a week since our fair state made it on any Most Livable, Charming, Fittest or Drunkest list. So thank heavens for the folks at ForbesTraveler, the "luxury travel authority from inspiration to reservation." Its latest ingenious and largely predictable compilation of "America's Prettiest Towns" does not snub our picturesque state. Well, not much.

  November 2, 2009