In Denver, the best intentions often go astray — so you can only imagine how wrong the worst intentions go. Actually, you don’t need to imagine anything: You can just look at the Denver of today, created through a series of efforts to push the city toward the bolder and…
Peter Park has big plans for Parktown: a vibrant downtown surrounded by distinctive neighborhoods; a comprehensive public transportation system of bus, train, maybe subway. “The ingredients to make good urbanism,” he calls them. He plans to mix the impressive architecture of museums, office buildings and townhomes with the scaled-down charm…
Peter Miles Regenold Bergman calls it a drive-by art show. Jim “Handsome” Hanson thinks of it more as vigilante code enforcement. The three kids riding their bikes down the alley have no idea what to think of Bergman’s experiment. They skid to a stop in the gravel and look up…
It’s easy to pinpoint the suckiest public skateparks in Colorado: Just count the number of skaters who aren’t at them. But even the best skaters don’t agree on the best concrete rides. When Westword asked twenty locals to name the state’s top ten parks — based on design, layout and…
The Hell Ride Crew took one look at the pictures of freshly troweled concrete and put out a call to the tribes. It would be the Sturgis of skateboarding, a weekend of ripping, raging, beer and bands. No big contest money, corporate sponsors or swooping ESPN camera cranes — just…
FRI, 10/22 Alternative activities such as ultra-running, ultimate Frisbee and high-endurance yoga have always found an enthusiastic home in Boulder. But extreme filmmaking? Fast forward to the Shoot Out 24 Hour Filmmaking Festival. No, it’s not a scheme to market a new lifestyle drink — although participants in the fast-and-furious…
Out here in the high country, the harmonica has always been regarded as a solitary instrument. Its pocketable size is perfect for jail-cell solos, prairie ballads or just the lonesome walking blues. But porch-sitters who think the harp is only for lonely outsiders or portly Blues Travelin’ frontmen have obviously…
Mike Walker recently got bumped by the cops — again. This time it went down on a Friday afternoon as he was heading home from school with his boy Brandon. The eighteen-year-old northeast Denver natives were treading steady down tree-lined 29th Avenue toward Williams Street when a District 2 Gang…
It may have been the first time in sports history that snow and snowboarding were incompatible. But here the snow came, landing in drizzling flakes on Tara Tongco’s hard hat — a freak spring storm hindering the completion of Six Flags Elitch Gardens’ new Halfpipe thrill ride. Standing at the…
A large world map hangs above Gale Frierson’s twin bed in his Capitol Hill apartment. Red-pin flags stick out of almost every country, marking the 67-year-old retiree’s extensive travels. A year ago, he and Amarzaya Toodoi would often stare into the map, sounding out the names and tracing the route…
The Gods of the Internet have truly blessed the geeks of Parker. They’ve bestowed onto local gamers a physical location where they can get their fix of virtual violence and computer camaraderie. It fell from the sky, they say, a little more than a year ago, landing with a dull…
2400 hours. Location: Outside of the Titan Missile Site 3, Complex 2B. A small truck speeds through the darkness down a wide dirt road, hanging an abrupt right onto an overgrown jeep trail. Two hundred yards into the field, the midnight-blue pickup stops, its headlights are cut, and Commander Chainsaw…
