A party at Fairmount Cemetery? Ghoulish as that may sound, the resting place’s tranquil, tree-dappled setting is the perfect backdrop for a celebration this evening of Colorado’s August 1, 1876 statehood. As Westword noted in its recent exploration of Alameda Avenue, Fairmount has always freelanced as a Denver park, since…
As work continues on refurbishing the long-dilapidated “Fontius” building on the corner of 16th and Welton, passersby are starting to get a sense of what the glory days must have been like for this historic structure, which went up in 1922 as the Steel Building, home to a Steel’s department…
Score one for Colorado’s film scene. Skills Like This, the Denver-based indie caper film helmed by local Oscar-winning producer Donna Dewey and longtime Denver commercial director Monty Miranda, has clinched a U.S. distribution deal with Shadow Distribution, the first such deal for a Denver movie in a long, long time…
The gloves have long been off for local scribe Naomi Zeveloff. As an editorial fellow here at Westword, she unleashed fury on the likes of Republican House District 56 hopeful Muhammad Ali Hasan in an article ColoradoPols.com called “quite possibly the single most damaging piece of press that we have…
Denver’s a pretty nifty place, full of killer views and happy people and slightly-lower-than-the-national-average gas prices, but it’s missing one thing: nautical miscellanea. No early-morning fog rolling in as unseen ship bells clank their solemn dirges. No ancient seafood shacks wafting aromatic promises of fried clams and chowder. No salty…
Rule number one about yard sales: If you want the good stuff, you’ve got to show up early. Hence the 7 a.m. meet-up on this Saturday at Common Grounds in Highland Square. Realtor Brad Evans, his girlfriend, Erin Siegel, who owns a skin-care store, and longtime newspaperman Jim Burrus stumble…
As this slide show demonstrates, the competition last Friday night was frothy and furious at Fluid Coffee Bar’s “Live to the Fullest Cup” fundraiser for local Novo coffee roaster Semeon Abay, who was recently diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer. Shots were pulled, milk was steamed and froth was sculpted…
As previously noted, Denver Water’s high-impact, multi-year “Use Only What You Need” marketing campaign is racking up achievements. According to a recent Denver Water press release, water use in 2007 was 20 percent lower than 2001 levels. The marketing means to this end are remarkable, to say the least. This…
There’s always room for one more at the Tillemann-Dicks’ dinner table. Armed with fine silver and blue china, Shiloh Benson Tillemann-Dick, eighteen, carefully sets the lace-draped table, which is large enough for a corporate boardroom. His eleven-year-old brother, Zenith Wisdom, meanwhile, wrestles Nordik, the family’s Great Pyrenees, into a side…
There are lots of reasons for attending the “Live to the Fullest Cup” event at Fluid Coffee Bar, 501 East 19th Avenue, this Friday at 7 p.m., which will raise money for 26-year-old Semeon Abay, head roaster for the Denver-based Novo Coffee, who was recently diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate…
In the Tillemann-Dicks’ house of many talents (the subject of a July 10 Westword feature), 20-year-old Liberty Belle is known for her stellar cooking. That means she not only scrounges up enough food for all 10 of her siblings, but is also skilled enough to keep them all happy. Here…
As our July 10 cover story makes clear, there’s a lot of stuff going on in the Tillemann-Dick household – more than could be fit into a single Westword article. Here’s the best of the rest. To help keep Timber and Annette’s eleven children straight, here’s a slide show of…
Family man and inventor Timber Dick, who’s at the center of a July 10 Westword article, was obsessed with cars — specifically how to make them more efficient. Several years ago, he and his son Corban began studying one of the least efficient parts of an automobile: the internal combustion…
View larger image The Tillemann-Dick family’s magnificent endeavors, traced in a July 10 Westword profile, have inspired one of its members, 14-year-old Gloriana Willow, to embark on artistic flights of fancy. “It is awfully hard to get all of the Tillemann-Dicks together at one time,” she explains. “So, with the…
It’s hard enough getting thrown into the heady world of international high fashion when you’re still a teenager. It’s even tougher when the dominant language of the fashion house where you’re working isn’t your native language but instead, say, Hungarian. Though 16-year-old Mercina Grace Tillemann-Dick, one of the many players…
Shiloh Benson Tillemann Dick has a head – a very large head – for politics, one that stands out even among the feisty politicos of the colorful family profiled in the July 10 Westword. The 18-year-old correctly predicted Obama’s church affiliations would prove problematic – last August. Shiloh took time…
Like all eleven of the children in the Tillemann-Dick household featured in a July 10 Westword cover story, 24-year-old Charity Sunshine followed her bliss – right into opera, in her case. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she’s recently been studying the work of…
The American Presidential Experience, the largest traveling presentation of presidential memorabilia, will set up shop in Invesco Field’s parking lot during the convention. Here are some of the items you will not see at the exhibit: -Back-up set of George Washington’s false teeth with MO DOLLAZ spelled out in diamonds…
It’s not too surprising that one of the biggest hits at ROFLCon, the Harvard University conference on Internet celebrity, was Colorado native Ben Schulz. After all, Schulz is the player behind that unlikely and slightly unhinged World of Warcraft superstar, Leeroy Jenkins. A Wired magazine article on the April conference…
What the cluck is going on around here? First the Denver Botanic Gardens started hosting super-popular “urban chicken” classes, despite hardly anyone being sure the birds were actually allowed in Denver. Then up in Fort Collins, locals started crowing for hen-friendly zoning laws. And now the Colorado Springs Gazette, seizing…
A few months ago, in order to assist the Colorado Tourism Office with its woefully embarrassing state marketing campaigns, we asked readers, “What Does Colorado Taste Like to You?” Looks like one of those readers was none other than that empress of evoo Rachael Ray, and she responded with an…
The yo-yos will be out in force today in front of the Wizard’s Chest, 230 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek North, their discs a-spinning, their strings woven into endless permutations. That’s right: The twelfth annual Rocky Mountain and Colorado State Yo-Yo Championships rock the sidewalk today, beginning with registration at…
