For four years now, the two-by-three-block space of vacant lots at Globeville Valley has undergone a slow-moving renaissance. Guided by community nonprofit Groundwork Denver, the area is scheduled for a series of resident-led projects to transform the former superfund site into Platte Farm Open Space, a bicycle, pedestrian and family…
Night and Day Vintage smells like cinnamon, and it looks like a scene inside Alice’s imagination. For those who enjoy retro deco without an empty-bank-account echo, it might as well be Wonderland. Located one block west of Broadway on 11th Avenue, Night and Day has an interior that leans heavily…
THE SHINS @ RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATRE | 5/29/12 Fewer than thirty seconds into their set and the Shins already needed a do-over. Playing Red Rocks could make any band nervous, but its grip is especially tight on one for whom U2 were gods growing up and for whom “this Red…
Today marks the announced effective date of Denver’s new urban camping ban, an ordinance that makes it illegal to camp on public or private property without permission. After months of debate, followed by a two-week implementation period, both Occupy Denver and the homeless community prepared for its first day in…
“Welcome to my jealousy,” croons lead singer Nick Sanders on Regret Night’s latest EP, Dirty Little Things — but it sounds more like hope. Forged in the pop-proficient rock of the late ’90s, the Denver quartet reveals its ambition from the start, strutting through all the usual topics and warping…
Occasionally relaxed but never repressed, London techtronica duo Simian Mobile Disco has existed outside of the mainstream since the moment its members pressed fingers to buttons. This is precisely where they want to be: Annoyed by aggro-electro and fascinated by the potential of technology, James Ford and Jas Shaw issued…
A few years after Harold and Kumar visited White Castle — but before they escaped from Guantanamo Bay — Kumar Patel’s real-life alter ego, Kal Penn, served a two-year-stint as the associate director of the White House’s Office of Public Engagement. In 2008, the House and 24 star campaigned in…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. The first time Magalie Lerman knew she had a drug problem was not the first time she overdosed. Nor did she realize the second time. Today, Lerman is two and a half years sober…
Burro racing may sound like a silly sport, but its devotees are serious about it, and the one-hour documentary Haulin’ Ass explores that competitive drive by following three racers through the 2009 competitive season. “This is a little attempt at finding the true West and the lifestyles of the not…
The statistics are heartbreaking. In five Denver neighborhoods — Baker, Westwood, Whittier, Villa Park and Valverde — residents are several times more likely to experience cardiac arrests than anywhere else in the city. Worse, locals who had heart attacks in three of the five communities during two recent years didn’t…
Civic Center Park will soon be back in shape. The city closed the park in late March, but employees are re-sodding the Broadway Terrace this afternoon. The work is expected to continue through the end of the week, and the fences surrounding the perimeter will last only through the 2012…
The Denver Police Department has released the training bulletin that details how officers should approach violations of the city’s new urban camping ban. Before the ordinance goes into effect May 29, officers are partnering with homeless outreach workers to prepare a department-wide response that de-prioritizes the status of homeless individuals…
The mass protest against the weekend’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit might be 1,000 miles from Denver, but its ties to the city are represented by at least 25 Occupy Denver protesters who traveled to attend. And when Occupy Wall Street placed a call for national action this weekend, the…
CREED @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | 5/19/12 There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who can be open-minded about Creed and those who cannot. It’s fair to say that the majority of the mainstream media falls into the first category, and perhaps for good reason: The ’90s all-stars…
On Monday, Denver City Council voted 9-4 to pass an urban camping ordinance, and the meeting wasn’t pretty: Opponents shouted “Shame!” at the councilmembers, turned their backs on the proceedings and launched a sit-in outside council chambers. From there, roughly fifty protesters followed the pro-ban council members to their cars,…
As it turns out, a good Twitter account doesn’t necessarily make a good television show. Nonfiction funny man Justin Halpern learned that lesson the nationally televised way when real-life anecdotes from his hilariously crabby father translated poorly from social media into a cheesy, laugh-grabbing sitcom starring William Shatner. (Captain Kirk…
Within the next three to nine months, Denver’s Civic Center could become the city’s first national historic landmark. Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Hancock testified at a National Park System advisory board meeting in favor of the area’s qualification of the honor, which will move to the National Park Service…
Justin Halpern has made a living off his memories, of which he has many. Ranging from brutally honest to painfully embarrassing, the deeply funny writer earned a cult following and three-million-strong Twitter army with his wry observations on his grouchy father in Sh*t My Dad Says. Now he’s aiming his…
Kim Atencio is new to the streets, and for two weeks now, she has kept a secret from the city, the Denver Police Department and her six children: At night, when they are asleep, so is she — hidden inside Civic Center Park. She knows that the city’s parks come…
The story of Creed (due this Saturday, May 19, at the Paramount Theatre) begins in the mid-’90s, when the band changed its name to Creed from Naked Toddler and embarked on a career marked by hard riffs, mainstream metaphors and Vedder vocals. Not too long after winning a Grammy in…
There is so much about this album that shouldn’t work. For one thing, Ben Knighten’s voice is the soft, Disney-caliber croon of road-trip montages and your grandmother’s car stereo. For another, his backing instrumentation is sparse, less simple than it is frankly easy — or easy listening. And his lyrics…
The mood was charged from the beginning. Even before City Council voted nine to four to approve Denver’s new urban camping ordinance, one audience member made a point during the Pledge of Allegiance. During its conclusion of “peace and justice for all,” he shouted “ALL!” in protest against the measure…
