Meth ahoy! Those waiting to get into Invesco Field at Mile High last night to hear Barack Obama’s acceptance speech went on quite an odyssey as the queue snaked this way and that through the stadium’s asphalt wasteland. Attendees were forced to clamber down hillsides, guard against line cutters at…
View image. The line to get into Invesco Field at Mile High for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech last night seemed to go on forever – but just how long was it? Using Westword’s advanced mapping tools (Google, a ruler and a calculator), we traced and measured the line’s route at…
Lauri Lynnx Murphy, Rodney Wallace and Brian Robertson go Boom. The key to grabbing a bit of the spotlight during the convention is to ride on the VIPs’ coattails, as anyone who’s crashed a party or two can attest. Turns out local contemporary artists are using the same strategy to…
Move over, Batman. Vanessa Martinez is on the prowl. With all the drunk and oblivious and self-absorbed people around right now, Denver is a pickpocket’s wet dream – that is, unless they have the misfortune of running into Vanessa Martinez, 5280 magazine’s web editor and, as it turns out, possessor…
Steve Meyer. Anyone who’s moseyed around downtown the past few days has surely noticed Denver’s turned into a spoke-and-handlebar town. Not only are the Freewheelin free bikes turning the streets into a sea of green, but Denver’s many pedicabs are out in force day and night. And in the heat…
Looking to embarrass celebs? Come right in. Turns out all you have to do to get into the glitziest parties in town is to be one of the sleaziest folks around. Flush with democratic fervor, a bunch of us attempted to exercise our God-given right to get into parties we…
Bike. Free. Denver right now is essentially one big schwag bag. Everywhere you go, everyone’s giving stuff away: smoothies, condoms, booze, morals, you name it. The best freebie of all, however, has to be the Freewheelin program that has 1,000 bikes stationed around town for free public use. Yes, the…
Larry Mizel, left, with Bill and Jeannie Ritter at the CELL Colorado Governor Bill Ritter watched silently as the busy 16th Street Mall street scene around him exploded into flames. Thankfully, this was not a real-life catastrophe transpiring on the first day of the Democratic National Convention, but part of…
Kanye West Word is Kanye West, who’s scheduled to perform on Wednesday night at the Exdo Event Center for the ONE Campaign and the Recording Industry Association of America, is staying at the Museum Residences, the ultra high-class Daniel Libeskind-designed apartments across from the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building. And…
Lots of states claim to be home to the mythical Springfield of Simpsons fame, but only Colorado can brag that it’s the site of that other great cartoon capital of the world: South Park, the setting of the subversively impertinent Comedy Central animated series of the same name. South Park’s…
The Rollin’ Rockies. Sure, Colorado’s Major League Rockies may be mired in mediocrity this year, but this city’s other Rockies team – the Rollin’ Rockies Colorado Wheelchair Softball team – have lately been dominating the diamond. The Rollin’ Rockies, founded in 1996 to provide Coloradoans with disabilities an accessible yet…
Steve Meyer. As noted in a recent Westword story, Denver is essentially ground zero for the growing international pedicab industry thanks to local pedicab designer/promoter Steve Meyer. Meyer had hoped his company, Main Street Pedicabs, would play a large role in the eco-focused Democratic National Convention, but his hopes were…
The green scene. As anyone who’s moseyed across the new Highland Bridge over I-25 can attest, the stretch of 16th Street right there is turning into one of the choicest locales around, thanks to its killer views of downtown and its connection between hopping Highlands and busy Platte Street. No…
“A little bit softer now, Hillary.” All dressed up for the DNC and nowhere to go? Fear not, since here’s the tentative list of the myriad shindigs, bashes and blow-outs planned throughout the city during the convention, August 23 to 28. As this schedule demonstrates, there’s ain’t no party like…
Phil Anschutz’s ride. As noted in this week’s story on Union Station, the grand old station used to welcome celebrities arriving to Denver from all over the country and the world. Now the station will once again host VIPs, since during the Democratic National Convention several rail companies will roll…
Training session. You don’t need to wait until Union Station’s redevelopment to find dozens and dozens of engines and passenger cars chugging through the vicinity. The trains are already there, deep in the basement, down a length of shadowy corridor and through a series of locked doors. And, if you…
Passengers disembark from the rumbling trains by the hundreds, by the thousands. They’ve arrived at this station from Aurora and Littleton, from Golden and Boulder, even from over the Continental Divide and across the Great Plains. As the trains empty and creep away from the platforms, others pull in, disgorging…
Ever wonder what that über-cool barista is thinking while slinging your extra-foamy cappuccino – you know, the cute one who seems to really want to know how your day is going, but is actually just angling for a fiver slipped into the tip jar? Well, now you can find out…
Denver when it was flashy. Civic boosters recently unveiled new signage going up in the newly christened “Denver Theatre District,” the downtown locale surrounding the Denver Performing Arts Complex and Curtis Street, signage that’s the first step towards transforming the area into a Western version of Times Square. Sure, this…
Today, just in time for the DNC, civic boosters plan to turn on SkyNet. Don’t worry, you can keep your end-of-the-world weapons stockpile locked away; we’re not talking about Skynet the scary computer-based defense system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots in the Terminator movies. We’re…
Newly spiffy Block 162, formerly one of the worst blocks in Denver, will be strutting its stuff during the convention. On the 16th Street Mall side of the block, the oft-maligned Fontius Building, now officially the Sage Building (named after future tenant Sage Hospitality), is now scaffolding-free, its historic renovation…
According to the DNC, half of the 60,000-plus seats available for Barack Obama’s DNC acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High will go to Coloradans. Those hoping to attend need to fill out an application here. Officials say it’s first come, first served, but we all know they’ll be…
