With Thanksgiving behind us, we’re heading fast into gift-giving season. Knock a few names off your shopping list while treating yourself to some thought-provoking talk — and beer! — at the best literary events of the week ending December 2, 2017.
This is a week to celebrate both local authors and independent bookstores, with Indies First on November 25, 2017, kicking off Small Business Saturday.
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From Hillary Clinton to Michael Hancock hosting Claudia Rankine, here are the best literary events in Denver November 13 through November 19.
As everyone in Denver tries to re-set their internal clocks (thanks, Daylight Savings Time!), the calendar includes plenty to lit events to illuminate these darker evenings and keep those bleary eyes open for just a few more pages. Here are six of the best.
Poor Mike Pence. The vice president of the United States is headlining a Colorado Republican fundraiser on October 26, and apparently the state Republican Party is having such a hard time selling tickets that they’re offering a “Groupon-like deal” to see him: $150 for one ticket or $275, the original price for a single ticket, for two.
On October 11, RTD’s B-line was granted permission to “soon dismiss” its crossing guards—the flaggers, that is, that were hired to make redundant (and assure the effectiveness of) the mechanical gates that normally keep traffic away from the rails. But they’ll still be stationed along the A-line, and that got us thinking: man, that must be an isolating gig. Which led us to wonder what other lonely jobs exist in the Mile-High city?Please note that “lonely” is meant in no way as a pejorative. Chances are pretty good that you’ll read some of these job descriptions as you sit in your cubicle farm and think “actually, that sounds sort of nice.” To each their own, right? So here are the loneliest jobs in Denver—and if you think yours is more lonesome? Come down from your fences, desperado, and tell us about it in the comments.
To dress up in costume or not to dress up in costume: That’s the Halloween question. On the plus side, dressing up can be a lot of fun. On the not-so-plus, it can be a lot of pressure. You can’t just go to Target or one of those pop-up stores…
The New Yorker gave Denver the thumbs-up in their Sept. 9 issue, writing in an article titled “Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters For You” that the second home base for the net-retail giant should be (imagine drumroll here)…right here at Mile High. They state as their reasons the usual stuff that we already know about good ol’ Denver: a young and smart population, ready to work; central location in the US, with an international airport; and a fantastic quality of life, complete with good mass transit options (shhh…don’t tell them that it sometimes doesn’t work). But as much as we appreciate the approval, with all due respect, we think that The New Yorker missed a few points in our elevated favor. Here are the top ten reasons they didn’t consider.
And so the monthly Tips for Transplants series comes full circle: In October of 2016, we ran the first monthly rules list, all about the unwritten suggestions for surviving and thriving in Denver like you had a NATIVE bumper sticker on your Outback. And we’ve kept it going, every thirty days or so, to the amusement of some and the extreme indifference of others. But still, we persisted.
The Old West was a weird place — but not weird enough for Denver author and editor David Boop, who rounded up a posse of fantasy/sci-fi writers for the Western-horror anthology Straight Outta Tombstone.
August in general is the doldrums of the summer — the warm-weather holidays are pretty much over until Labor Day ushers out the season of fun, most people have already used up their vacation time, and the kids are bored with the video games you bought just a couple of months ago. We’re all just waiting for September to roll languidly around and start autumn, because seriously, this heat sucks.
Good news—Frontier Airlines is hiring. And not a moment too soon, it seems, based on the spectacular flame-out of Frontier’s recently departed Head of Corporate Communications Jim Faulkner, who lists “crisis communications” as one of his responsibilities on his LinkedIn profile. One has to wonder if he got a little mixed up as to what that term implies. We do not think that means what you think it means, Mr. Faulkner.Faulkner’s inadvisable attack on 9News’ Kyle Clark—after a clear misinterpretation of a snarky Frontier Airlines story on Clark’s newstastic show Next, ended his career at the airline at least one day early—opening the door for another equally gifted communications expert to grace Denver’s hometown airline. But what are the requirements for the gig? Here are ten suggestions.
Parking is one of those things that we all have to do — at least those of us with a license who like to get behind the wheel now and then. (If you can get along in 21st-century America without driving, more power to you.) But the problem is, no…
Today, July 8, marks the beginning of the Meet in the Street Prototyping Series by the Downtown Denver Partnership. On every Saturday through August 26, proposals to improve, grow and celebrate the 16th Street Mall will be displayed on the strip.
The 2017 Denver Comic Con was a big success, but fans also had some complaints. Here’s how Con officials respond to the grumbling.
It’s July in Denver, which means that once Independence Day is done, we will enter the lazy days of summer, when everyone is either vacationing, anticipating getting out of town, or regretting that they took time off back in June when it wasn’t so damn hot. But that doesn’t mean that there’s nothing to do here — or at least, no rules to follow.
For the sixth year in a row, downtown Denver is experiencing a pop-culture invasion. Here are the ten biggest surprises from the first day of Denver Comic Con.
Denver Comic Con returns June 30 through July 2, stuffing the halls of the Colorado Convention Center with pop-culture goodness. To keep track of all the awesomeness, we’ve created another handy Denver Comic Con Bingo card.
There’s going to be an embarrassment of nerdy riches at the Colorado Convention Center this weekend, June 30 through July 2, when Denver Comic Con returns for a sixth successful year. Here are ten rules to remember.
Walliver, Water World’s new mascot, joins a lineup of Colorado mascots good and bad. Here are the five best and the five worst.
With the recent acquisition of Whole Foods by the online retail giant Amazon, some significant changes are coming…and it’s not just because Jeff Bezos has a hankering for some $6 asparagus water. Here’s are eight ways your shopping experiences may change in the coming months — and exactly what that means for your pocketbook, digital or otherwise.
