Ryan Frazier, union hero? Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has been the unions’ punching bag ever since he co-sponsored the initiative to put Amendment 47, the right-to-work measure, on next week’s ballot. He’s faced lawsuits and attack ads, and, as came to light this morning, he even received a vulgar…
Harry Potter, Randian hero. No one is off limits from the cerebral scrutiny of local political writer Ari Armstrong. On his FreeColorado.com blog, he smacked down the liberal website ProgressNow for its hypocritical stance on the word “bitch-slapped.” Lately right-wingers, too, have been feeling his highbrow wrath, thanks to columns…
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Those lips are made for baby-smooching. The plan was simple. Take my 16-month-old son to the Joe Biden rally in Commerce City yesterday, so the vice presidential candidate could plant one on him. That’s the American dream, right? Getting your baby kissed by some utter stranger in the name of…
“I’m Mark ‘Wiseguy’ Udall and my Tommy Guns and I approve this message.” You’ve got to hand it to those Republicans: They know how to promote Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall. First, they sent out a mailer suggesting Udall wants to make Colorado more European, which sounds fantastic. (Legalized…
“Hey, this isn’t the carpool lane!” Intrepid city gazer/DenverInfill blogger Ken Schroeppel spotted a curious scene this morning. According to Ken, the car seen here was unoccupied; the owner parked on Central Street above the highway to pop into Masterpiece Deli for some grub. Unfortunately, he left his car in…
“I’m Mark ‘Frenchie’ Udall and I approve zis message!” The strangely cheery flier appeared in the mail last week. “Europe, it sure is a nice place to visit…” read its cover, emblazoned with pretty pictures of beautiful tourists spots across the pond. By golly, it sure is! The flier was…
“No more root beer for me, bartender. I’m driving.” Happy Hour: It’s no longer just for alcohol. That’s the idea behind the Red Trolley ice cream shop’s root beer float happy hour. The phrase alone inspires giddy excitement; saying it aloud will certainly leave a childish grin on your face…
Ryan Frazier is in fine spirits, all things considered. He’s at ease here, glad-handing and flashing warm smiles, at the clubhouse of the Heritage Eagle Bend 55-plus gated subdivision in southeast Aurora, where the grass is country-club green and the folks are Republican red. It’s as if he hadn’t read…
Amendment 47 has the eye of the tiger. While “Ryan Frazier Puts His Job on the Line With Amendment 47,” this week’s cover story, focuses on Ryan Frazier, the 31-year-old Aurora city councilman who’s backing the aforementioned amendment — an issue on the November ballot that would prohibit mandatory dues…
Union Station. Denver Union Station’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, prepared by the Regional Transportation District and other local agencies, is one of the final pre-construction steps in the station’s protracted redevelopment. It’s also one of the last chances the public will get to officially comment on the project before the…
And if you want to install a stripper pole, it’s coming out of your security deposit. Roommate hunters on Craigslist must have thought they lucked out when they first spotted a September 24 posting about a shared space on Capitol Hill that seemed quite the steal: “$200 with some requirements,”…
William Larimer: Not an official general, not an official city founder. Now that the Democratic National Convention has come and gone, Denver’s getting ready for another big shindig: Its sesquicentennial birthday party. As the (recently much-repeated) story goes, on November 22, 1858, General William Larimer, a town promoter from Kansas,…
Julia Ormond. Most Hollywood stars could safely say they’re against modern slavery and might even pose for a protest picture about it. But you’d be hard-pressed to find one who could spell “trafficking.” Luckily, Julia Ormond is not your average movie star. As founder and president of the Alliance to…
A modest proposal for Union Station’s plaza. Plans are quickly progressing on the new public spaces to be constructed as part of Union Station’s redevelopment. Hargreaves Associates, the landscape architect in charge, has been regularly presenting progress on its plan, including an asymmetrical design for the plaza in front of…
Lilith Forzane is looking for steamy geek love. She’s just popped in (having materialized out of thin air) at the entrance of the Science School, where the school’s director, zazen Manbi, and I are about to embark on a tour. “I believe Lilith is an escort,” says Manbi, eying her…
Monty Miranda’s Skills. Colorado’s small film scene lost one of its stars recently when Monty Miranda, director of the upcoming indie caper Skills Like This, packed up and moved to Los Angeles. “Yes, I signed with a new production company in Santa Monica, BeachHouse Films, and my manager had been…
Ready for your close-up, Jeeves? 20/20 delved into the cushy, diamond-encrusted worlds of America’s super-rich last week and, as is usually the case with such “Lifestyles of the Rich and Richer” pieces, the story included an obligatory interview with America’s number-one butler teacher: Denver’s own Mary Louise Starkey, head of…
CELL founder Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL If today’s 9/11 anniversary has you recalling those horrible attacks seven years ago, you may want to head over to the CELL, Denver’s new terrorism museum. The space, at 99 West 12th Avenue, has been hailed by…
All aboard. The $477 million plan to transform Denver’s Union Station into a bustling transit hub is inching forward, even as protracted debate about what, exactly, this hub should look like continues. Today, September 9, at 12:15 at the Tattered Cover Lodo, an organization called the Open Space Initiative Group…
SkyNet doesn’t have a tumah. Something fishy has been going on with SkyNet, the giant LED video screen that was installed on the side of the Colorado Convention Center several weeks ago, and we’re not just talking about the fact that it seemed to be named after the world-destroying computer…
Ted Koppel rolled with Bobby Lentell (left) and other Denver pedicabbers. While Denver’s pedicab community may not have been part of the official “green extravaganza” planned for the Democratic National Convention last week, the environmentally friendly three-wheeled vehicles still ended up making a splash. “I am just on cloud nine…
