Sonny Lawson Park, in the 2300 block between California and Welton streets, is home to Denver’s most famous ballpark: Sonny Lawson Field. Jack Kerouac watched baseball games here, and the Negro League played in the park before the game was integrated and the field was named after Sonny Lawson, the first…
Last night’s sunset revealed a particularly lovely sight: The signs of the Dirty Duck are again glowing. An April 1 fire at the abandoned Rockies Inn next door had forced the temporary closure of the Dirty Duck at 4780 East Evans Avenue, and seven weeks later the burned hulk of the motel…
Transportation issues could create a real traffic jam in Denver today. A coalition of local and national business, environmental and transportation groups are hosting the second annual Live.Ride.Share, a conference devoted to the growing technology-driven transportation trends, at the Colorado Convention Center. Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will be…
If you haven’t headed to Jefferson Park for your last supper at La Loma, you have another reprieve. Since 1981, the massive Mexican restaurant has been perched at 2527 West 26th Avenue — just down the hill from the little bungalow where Savina Mendoza opened her original spot in 1973…
The Denver City Council is about to get a crash course on one of Denver’s most enlightened citizens: Emily Griffith. The legendary educator got her start in Denver as a substitute teacher, became a deputy superintendent of schools for Colorado in 1904, and founded the Opportunity School a century ago. Its…
“If we build it, they will come,” said Downtown Denver Partnership CEO Tami Door at the 2016 State of Downtown briefing at the Hyatt Regency on May 10. “And they are coming.” And coming, and coming, turning Denver’s downtown into one of the most successful in the country – and…
On April 26 the New York Times ran a Sunday travel story titled “Denver’s Vintage Train Station Gets (Another) Update,” which raved about the $54 million renovation of Union Station, taking readers from the Great Hall – “a grand public foyer…unlike most bench-filled waiting rooms” – to the new commuter…
I first saw Denver on a train coming from the East, as so many people had for almost a century at that point. Overnight, the Denver Zephyr (R.I.P.: 1973) had carried my family across the plains from Chicago, and when we’d woken up that morning, we’d spotted the mountains on…
The James Beard Foundation will announce the winners in its 2016 Restaurant and Chef categories tonight. Only two Denver area contenders remain in the running for awards: Alex Seidel of Fruition and Mercantile for Best Chef: Southwest, and Frasca Food and Wine for Outstanding Restaurant. But Denver-based Craftsy already came up…
Get in your car…now! All that snow in the mountains means that some resorts are extending their seasons still further. Wolf Creek has gotten 432 inches this year, and is anticipating more this weekend — so the mountain will reopen through Sunday, May 1. Lift tickets will be at the…
Que Bueno Suerte!, a restaurant featuring upscale, modern Mexican cuisine, will open this summer at 1518 South Pearl Street. We thought the saga of this building had everything — and then its new owner, Mission Yogurt Inc., signed colorful, talented Dana Rodriguez, founding chef at Work & Class (and chef at…
Matt Batrowny and his brother, Brian, were early supporters of Bernie Sanders. One day last summer, shortly after the senator from Vermont announced that he was running for president, recalls Matt, “We were walking down the street with a couple of buddies, and we had Bernie T-shirts on. A lot…
Bob Berlute came to Denver last week to see the billboard that his father had painted decades ago on the side of 2801 Welton Street, a ghost sign that was uncovered in the process of developer Star Mesa Property’s restoration work on the building. The sign, too, has been restored,…
In February, La Loma announced that in two months, it would be leaving the spot at 2527 West 26th Avenue in Jefferson Park where it’s been perched for the past thirty years, and moving to the space vacated by the Trinity Grille, at 1801 Broadway, while it continues to plan…
Denver is losing some of its great dive bars, as development gobbles up the buildings that have long housed these down-and-dirty saloons. Some of the city’s classic watering holes have dried up altogether; others have been renovated out of true dive status, although they remain excellent bars (for examples, see…
Emily Griffith would likely give this assignment an A, even if it required a couple of extensions — and isn’t a done deal yet. The legendary educator who founded the Opportunity School in Denver a century ago was a visionary, opening a groundbreaking program that was geared toward giving an…
April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month — and that’s no joke. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation, there were more than 15,300 distracted driving crashes in the state last year — a number that has grown by 16 percent in the last four years. And 69 people were killed…
The curtain could rise again on the Aztlan Theater. Lindsey Bartlett visited the landmark on Santa Fe Drive, and spoke with the longtime owners who are hoping to bring new life to the place. No sooner had we given a Best of Denver award to Denver FUGLY than Brad Evans’s…
During his town hall meeting in Wisconsin last night, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump covered a lot of ground with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews — discussing immigration, the current campaign’s lack of decorum, and then abortion…again, and again. But even with all those subjects on the table, he managed to get…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
Don’t touch that dial! Denver rises again: On Monday, April 4, Kelley & Kafer, the talk show on KNUS/710 AM, will move from 1 to 4 p.m. into the key 4 to 7 p.m. drive-time spot, switching slots with national yakker Hugh Hewitt, who’s moving his show to D.C. and…
We were sitting in the down-home bar that serves 2016’s Best Breakfast Burrito — Smothered, looking across the intersection at the upscale Chinese spot that’s the Best New Restaurant in Denver. This intersection at the corner of 35th and Larimer streets is one of the many spots in the city…
