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.

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.

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.

Walliver, Water World’s new mascot, joins a lineup of Colorado mascots good and bad. Here are the five best and the five worst.

The politics of holiday celebrations are, in a word, weird. Who in the world decides that this or that day is a holiday of some sort? Barring some sort of religious, traditional, or lunar reason for a holiday’s placement on the Western calendar, there seems to be no rhyme or reason for any of it. We touched on this earlier in the month when our latest Tips for Transplants mentioned that June—not July, for some reason—is Fireworks Safety Month. But since then it’s come to our attention that there are a lot of dubious holidays that almost dare us to recognize them.So what are the least important holidays of summertime? Here are ten days on the holiday calendar that we invite all our readers to join us in ignoring completely.

June is the month for a lot of things: it’s Celibacy Awareness Month, National Bathroom Reading Month, and somehow Fireworks Safety Month, which clearly seems like a month too early.  You have to wonder what sort of power and money the Fireworks lobbyists must have to have kept that out of July, when apparently it’s Do Whatever with Fireworks Month. But of course, it’s also the first month of summer, so here are ten things for you to remember in June—along with your SPF 100 sunscreen and some shades that don’t make you look like you’re trying too hard.

May in Denver is nothing but transition. May can be anything. May will be what you want it to be, or at least what it wants to be. May is snow and sun, outdoors and in, the promise of warmth to come and a reminder of the winter (that wasn’t). May is that friend that always agrees with you, even when you know for a fact that he or she definitely doesn’t. So yeah…May is great to hang with, but really, you can’t trust it.