Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #27 Garrett Atkins

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Hit-leader Garrett Atkins scores big in this Indian-inspired chiffon wrap skirt and asymmetrical cropped top made of silk brocade by Kandyce Hudson……

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #56 Franklin Morales

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Powerful left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales will get more ground ball outs in this top-of-the-rotation starter party dress by Armando Guerra……

Kenny Be’s 2008 DNC Dream Days: One Year Later

Remember those five dreamy days last August when the 2008 Democratic National Convention made every Denver moment seem like magic? It’s all such a daze. My, how things have changed…. 2008 DNC Dream Daze: With 15,000 members of the media in town, journalists could be seen standing every ten feet…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #19 Ryan Spilborghs

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. That late-night downtown roar is for Ryan Spilborghs and his 14th-inning casual glam slam in the hippest chic of Mona Lucero…..

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #46 Jason Hammel

A baseball card collection that features the boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. What better confidence booster for pitcher Jason Hammel than a classic power suit cut from luxurious fabrics by Gino Velardi……

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #97 Joe Beimel

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Relief pitcher Joe Beimel shows off his ink in a halter mini-dress trimmed with purple macrame by Alec Smith……

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: Colorado State Fair presents Rodeo Du Soleil

Another change that must be made to the annual event to appeal to contemporary audiences and sell more tickets…. Rodeo Du Soleil: Rodeo attendance has been on the decline for decades. Urban audiences want to view animals acts with less combative aggression, and with more colorfully costumed anthropomorphism. An acrobatic…

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: State Fair agricultural-exhibit repair

Another change that must be made to the annual gathering to appeal to contemporary audiences and sell more tickets…. Embrace Urban Agriculture: Now is the time to open up the agricultural competitions to include an exhibition for the state’s third-largest crop — marijuana. Along with corn and hay, judges would…

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: State Fair repair

Certain changes must be made to the annual gathering to appeal to contemporary audiences and sell more tickets…. Get out of Pueblo: Relocating to the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur would situate the State Fair closer to the state’s population base. Here, the boredom of rural drudgery would be replaced with…

Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: Overland zombies emerge from underground

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 31. Overland: Spaced out fairies, hobbits and zombies Due to geography and street design, Overland is the south-central neighborhood that everyone drives through but no one ever sees. Its long history of invisibility has allowed Denver to pursue a plethora of…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #31 Matt Daley

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Rookie reliever Matt Daley pitches the perfect scoreless inning in a one-strap cocktail dress by Nancy Sedar Sherman……

Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: Dixieland, away down south in Marston

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 30. Marston: Pot-bellied Confederate fire plug Marston is a thin slip of neighborhood that juts deeply into Jefferson County and is cut off from the rest of the city of Denver by Marston Reservoir, and the residents couldn’t be happier. The…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #5 Carlos Gonzalez

A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Left Fielder Carlos Gonzalez can better chase his (field of) dreams in a bright, bold-print halter dress made from vintage fabrics by Taryn Slawson……

Kenny Be’s Yard Arteology: Smothered lawn combo

The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments…. Figure 29. Civic Center: Invasion of the giant poblano pod The most uncommon lawn ornament is the oversized food sculpture. The days when Big Boy and Papa Burger could be seen shoulder-pressing their massive fiberglass whoppers from atop drive-in carport awnings are…