About damn time. As reported on the Denver Infill blog, plans are in the works to include space for a much-needed supermarket downtown at 19th and Chestnut, just west of Union Station. The developer, Nichols Partnership, the same team behind the Clayton Lane complex in Cherry Creek, and the Spire…
Slide show Video: March of the Furries (link goes to YouTube) It’s a beautiful summer day in Denver and the sun is beaming down on a small mob of people dressed in full-body fur suits. There are a bunch of wolves and other canines. A few rabbits, some cats, something…
The last item of the May 24 Message column noted that execs at the Denver Post had been discussing the future of the Sunday Style section, and suggested that its survival was unlikely. Turns out, though, that Style lives on — sort of. The Tuesday, June 5, Post presents the…
From Urban Dictionary: Main Entry: cupcakin’ Variant(s): or cupcake /’kup kake/Function: verbInflected Form(s): cupcaked or; cupcaking…
This little documentary claims to unravel the secret fascist symbology contained in the design and decoration of DIA. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, even terrified as the listless offscreen narrator expounds on theories that sound like they came straight out of a ten-day cough syrup and model glue bender…
For those of us who live in Denver City Council districts 3, 7 and 8, and haven’t yet turned in our run-off election ballots, they’re due tomorrow (Tuesday, June 5). But don’t go to your normal drop-off location, it’s not likely to be open and accepting. Here’s the list of…
The edition of the Message slated to appear in the June 7 edition of Westword deals in large part with the ways attrition and a buyout package aimed at ridding the staff of expensive older employees is impacting Spotlight, the arts-and-entertainment section of the Rocky Mountain News. Executives at the…
Day Two Event Spotlight Today is all about the music. So make sure you catch as many great acts as you can before the fair ends tonight at 7:00 Music Schedule Main Stage 10:00 10:30 People’s Fair Ladies Lounge 10:40 11:20 Burgandy Brown 11:30 12:15 Steve Crenshaw and the Blues…
Day One Event Spotlight Street Side Mural Project — If you never experience live art, this is worth checking out. Local artist will create five murals each with its own unique theme. The murals will be located across from the Performance and Cultural Stage Music Schedule Main Stage 10:00 10:30…
Can you ever have enough Harry Potter? The masterminds behind the franchise obviously don’t think so. The thousands of pages that comprise the books are looking more like a gateway drug every day. Once the taste is acquired, watching the movies is just a more efficient way to get the…
Society’s unseen illnesses are often easy for the mainstream to ignore, the “what-can-I-do” syndrome. Gang-bangin’ is one such illness, for which the only cure is community. This community, however, seemingly forgot about gang-bangin’ until Denver Bronco Darrent Williams lost his life to it on New Year’s Eve. Now, with a…
While Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian spent the last decade in prison, the right-to-die movement has raged on right out of Denver, where the non-profit, Compassion and Choices (an agency that grew out of the Hemlock Society) has continued to advocate for people like Sandy Bush, a cancer patient who couldn’t…
Slide show At this point, if you don’t know about Los Comicos Super Hilariosos, all I can say is, you better ask somebody. What’s that you say? You were asking me that exact question right now? Geez, I’m sorry. I’ll stop being such a prick and just tell you that…
Former New York City mayor and current GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is headed to Denver for a visit. Fans and supporters can meet the potential president at a party June 9 for the low, low price of $1,000. If mingling at the party isn’t exciting enough, you can get…
The biggest current newsmaker in Colorado is a guy no one wants to share the same air with. Andrew Speaker, 31, was flown to Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center for treatment of a strain of tuberculosis so virulent that he’s been placed under federal quarantine — the first…
Wednesday night MTV desperately scraped the resin from their Real World Denver crack pipe and aired the final, final, final few snippets of tripe remaining in their air-proof, secret underground vaults. The show was called “The Shit You Should Have Seen” or something like that but I really wouldn’t know…
Michael Andre and his wife, Marie. A coroner’s report issued yesterday by the Denver Office of the Medical examiner shows that Michael Andre was experiencing “acute intoxication” at the time of his death on February 23. The popular criminal defense attorney, had barricaded himself inside his Cherry Creek town home…
Steve Hogan, executive director of the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority, is looking for a new job. Hogan made this announcement after accepting a deal to lease the 11-mile Northwest Parkway toll road – which runs from Broomfield to E-470 – to a foreign business consortium that hopes to cash…
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Denver’s own gonzo brewery has gone geek. On May 15 Flying Dog Brewery announced their Open Source Beer Project, hoping to channel the talents of homebrew aficionados everywhere into the creation of their next specialty beer. The idea here is that homebrewers will take the recipe, test it, improve it…
To Whom It May Concern: My name is Aron Palma. I am a proud North High senior. I would first of all like to thank you for your time and consideration in reading this letter. The reason I am writing to you is to hopefully inspire and motivate you to…
