City Park and City Park West surround what’s arguably the heart of Denver, and without a doubt the core of the impressive Denver Parks system. The two neighborhoods combined cover ground from Downing to Colorado Boulevard, and 23rd to Colfax avenues. (It’s important to include City Park West in this…
With the RTD A line now heading to Denver International Airport, to be followed by more lines opening by the end of 2016, it’s time to revisit what it means to be a good citizen on Denver’s rail system — whether commuter or light rail. It’s easy to take the benefits…
The City of Aurora really came into its own in the 1970s and 80s, when it was one of America’s fastest-growing cities. But because of that fast growth, Aurorans have had to deal with a number of issues over the years, as the growing pains of a community meet the…
Last month, Virgin Airways began offering flights to and from Denver International Airport for the first time. It was such a big deal that DIA replaced Mayor Michael Hancock’s “welcome” voiceover — the one you hear on the train when you come in to the main terminal from the concourses…
Cheesman Park has been a fancy-pants part of Denver for years…at least since it stopped being Mt. Prospect Hill Cemetery, when the parcels of land available here were understandably much smaller, and far less sought-after. By early in the twentieth century, though, the cemetery had mostly been moved, and Cheesman…
The folks at Coors Field announced last month that they were raising their outfield fences by a significant amount, both to normalize the home-run record in the field and to prevent so many teams from scoring on the poor Rockies by way of the long ball. Clearly, this is an…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” Art, of course, is in the eye of the beholder…
In previous installments of this series, we’ve focused on specific neighborhoods in Denver proper. This time, we’re looking at what raises the ire of residents of one of Denver’s suburb-cities to the north, Thornton. For some readers, this ‘burb is home; for others, it’s the part of town where they…
Much has been written about spring, and rightly so. After all, it’s the season when the world seems to come alive again: The days grow longer, the birds return, and there’s green everywhere. (No, that’s not a marijuana reference.) Spring might have officially started on March 20, but it really…
On the heels of a report ranking Frontier Airlines higher this year than last for on-time arrivals — yay, we’re now number 12 out of 13! — Denver’s hometown airline is holding a job fair today at Holiday Inn and Suites/Denver International Airport to new flight attendants. Presumably, this additional work force…
The fifth installment of our angry-neighborhoods-of-Denver series takes us to the Baker District. Nestled in the heart of the city and first laid out for residential and business use in the 1870s, Baker’s official boundaries are Sixth Avenue, Lincoln Street, Mississippi Avenue and the South Platte. These days, though, most…
Ah, Cap Hill. For some, this neighborhood is the heart of the city. For others, it’s that part of town you live in by choice in your twenties, and then escape when your stage of life shifts and work doesn’t start at 5 p.m. Full of office and government buildings, halfway…
Five Points is one of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods, so it makes sense that it has a long and winding history whose high points include the area’s time as the “Harlem of the West,” when it was a must-stop for African-American entertainers — and the only place in Denver where they…
Chances are that most of us will be glued to the TV this Sunday, watching the Broncos play in the big game, rooting for the home team and seeing if Peyton can pull off one last win. But what if you couldn’t care less about the Broncos, the Manning legacy,…
In honor of Groundhog Day — the Bill Murray classic movie, that is, not the pointless holiday that exists at this point only to give morning news crews a segment to produce in the doldrums of early February — we’re offering up a list of things that Denverites might be tired…
After ticking off seven things that ruffle the super-preened feathers of some Stapleton residents, we decided to take on another one of Denver’s vaunted neighborhoods: Highland. I lived in Highland (aka “the Highlands”) for about a decade, from the late ’90s through 2008, and in that time it changed a lot. Lower…
Today, January 22, has been named Orange Friday in the City and County of Denver by Mayor Michael Hancock, with a fan rally at noon in Larimer Square, all in honor of the Bronco’s AFC Championship game on Sunday. Not only are residents invited to deck themselves out in their…
You know Stapleton: the neighborhood in northeast Denver that used to be the airport, and now fancies itself…well, fancy. Despite the fact that it’s officially part of the city, it’s a suburb in virtually every sense, from the well-lit streets to the attached garages to the sidewalks and the schools…
To everything and everyone, there comes an ending. Here at the end of 2015, we’d like to offer up this handful of people for nomination to Colorado’s mutual “unfriend” list. It’s nothing personal (okay, in some cases, it totally is), but in the spirit of new beginnings and resolving to…
New Year’s is all about the old and the new—fresh starts, auld acquaintance not being forgotten, you know the drill. So we go out for the night to ring it all in, watch the ball drop either literally or metaphorically, and toast to the promise of all that’s coming. But for…
Music plays a surprisingly big part in the Star Wars saga, especially in the original trilogy, which of course are the only Star Wars flicks that are worth remembering—at least so far. From the Main Title to the Cantina tune to the Imperial March, they’re all classics. And don’t forget…
The Force is strong with us this week, as the latest Star Wars fanfare finally reaches its culmination with the release of Episode VII: The Force Awakens — but maybe not as strong with the advertising wizards who came up with these ideas, which are curious, at best, and asinine…
