Tech geeks have lately been calling Denver one of the most detailed 3D cities around. Probably thanks to Mapquest being based here (not to mention a new in-town Google office) our fair city has become one of the testing grounds for fancy new three-dimensional map environments. What does that mean…

It’s weird how you people out there think. I mean, I can write the worst, most scurrilous things about some beloved local vegetarian restaurant and you let it go by without comment. I can pen a fawning crush note to some rinky-dink taqueria and if I hear anything from the…

A distinct odor greeted the visiting dignitaries as they donned hardhats and toured Alpine Waste’s spanking-new, $5-million recycling plant in Adams County this afternoon, a dumpster away from Furniture Row. A warm, ripe, garbagey odor, probably from the food residue clinging to the tin cans being sucked off a conveyor…

The Downtown Denver Partnership wants your ideas to gussy up Block 162, since most of the block will remain unoccupied for foreseeable future while Evan Makovsky decides what to build on it. And we can’t have an entire city block looking like Ground Zero on September 12 when the Democratic…

Click here to see the whole piece. In an alley near Ninth Avenue and Sherman Street is a retaining wall known to local graffiti world as “the CIA wall.” The name, presumably, comes from the Colorado Institute of Art located across the street, though the school has no official connection…

For the charge of first degree murder, a Jefferson County jury found 19-year-old Michael Tate not guilty yesterday in the death of Steven Fitzgerald, but not because of Tate’s insanity defense. Tate’s relief was short-lived, however, because in the judge’s next breath she read the guilty verdict on the second…

It’s become an easy joke, poking fun at MTV and what makes for the majority of its content. So easy, in fact, that Justin Timberlake can do it. “I challenge MTV right now,” he said, accepting the “Quadrulple Threat” award at the Video Music Awards Sunday night, “to play more…

I’ve never gotten over my instinctive dislike of traditional holidays, and instead make up my own — personal, private mileposts on the calendar with their own rituals and rites of observation, celebrated mostly alone. One such holiday landed on the Thursday right before Labor Day weekend: New Phone Book Day…

Wonders never cease at the highest-security supermax prison in the free world, the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside Florence. This week, for the first time in more than five years, journalists will be allowed inside the place. And a 69-year-old woman visiting from Great Britain, whose visit with a notorious…

The Colorado Judicial Branch has named its Outstanding Judicial Officer of the Year: District Judge O. John Kuenhold of Alamosa. Lots of people think highly of Kuenhold, who’s been on the bench since 1981 and chief judge of his district since 2004. He’s worked long and hard on issues ranging…