There’s no time to delay if you want to be the next voice of “Train Call” at Denver International Airport…and happen to be a “Denver media friend” with at least seven years of experience in the market. The deadline for applicants is today, November 30.
Fourteen months after Denver lost one of its great dive bars, The Squeeze is back in business.
Forget getting to the airport by the A-Line; because of an accident at Colorado Boulevard, passengers are being transported by bus. And don’t worry about that traffic jam on I-270…because even once you arrive at Denver International Airport, you won’t be going anywhere fast. There’s a problem with the trains,…
In mid-November, Denver International Airport announced a contest to find replacements for train announcers Adele Arakawa and Alan Roach. Just one problem: Unlike Arakawa, who retired this summer, Roach still lives in Denver, despite his high-profile gig as announcer of the Minnesota Vikings.
Denver International Airport officials can now turn their attention to choosing new voices for the train, finding the right people to represent the state, people who might even stick around. And so they’ve announced a contest to find The Voice.
The RiNo Made Pop Up Shop just popped up at the Source, offering a preview of the goods that RiNo residents and businesses will be selling at a permanent RiNo Made shop, slated to open in early 2018 right next to a new RiNo Art District Office in Zeppelin Station…
Breakin’ Convention 2017 isn’t the first time the Denver Center for the Performing Arts has filled the Galleria with hip-hop dancers. Back in 1984, Break for Summer brought thousands of fans into the complex to cheer on hometown crews.
Meow Wolf was so blown away by Itchy-O’s performance last March that it created a video of the group, and is partnering on the troupe’s Hallowmass festivities on October 31.
Mayor Michael Hancock celebrated the reopening of the renovated Shoemaker Plaza at Confluence Park on October 14. And as promised, the plaque embossed with the poem “Two Rivers” by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado’s first poet laureate, is back on display.
Memo to Hollywood: If you want a feel-good do-good event, do not bring in a comedian who has a reputation as a bad boy. A comedian like George Lopez, who wound up leaving the stage at the Carousel Ball.
“I See What You Mean” has inspired a nickname (the Big Blue Bear), pranks, knock-offs, and a worldwide photographic tour on #denverbluebear.
The first question people ask about the Campus Lounge, a classic watering hole in Bonnie Brae: When will it reopen? Now we have the answer: October 18.
Before it gets a new voice for the train, Denver International Airport should ditch the bossy instructions for more useful messages. Here are five suggestions.
Lonely Planet recently released its roundup of the ten coolest neighborhoods in the world. Now the travel media company is drilling down with “Hot ’hoods in the US: 10 neighborhoods you need to visit.” Two of them — Sunset Park in New York and Frelard, Seattle — are repeats from the…
Denver International Airport is trying to put more local flavor in its concessions. But shouldn’t the airport ask the locals before they lift neighborhood names?
Is Westword’s editor a juggalo?
Colorado’s been using “Come to Life” for its tourism campaign since 2012. Atlantis, a resort in the Bahamas, started using it in May. It’s not anymore.
The inaugural Dead Beat Walking Tour, which followed in the footsteps of such literary legends as Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, was such such a hit last month that Summer Waters, founder of Colorado Walking Tours, quickly added more dates that could take advantage of long evenings and balmy weather, including a tour on Thursday, September 14.
The owner of the Stockyards Saloon says his bar has to close. But Fred Orr, who owns the building that houses that bar, says the news reports are all wet: the bar should be able to keep pouring through the next Stock Show.
“Why do we do this?” asked Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute and host of the annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party, at the August 26 event. “Only one reason. To piss off people on the left.”
Were you planning on spending the weekend at Fitgeek’s Muddy Mortal, a 5K obstacle course and fantasy-driven outdoor festival at the Colorado Off Road Extreme course in Agate? Well, you can scratch that. The event disappeared in a poof of smoke on August 8,
More than forty restaurants and taquerias will be serving samples of their street tacos at Tacolandia on August 20 at Civic Center Park, and chef Jamey Fader has blocked out his own special area: VIP.
