This past weekend, my twin daughters had planned to visit our neighborhood mall, Southwest Plaza, to shop for prom shoes. But after being locked down at Chatfield High School on April 20, the twelfth anniversary of the shootings at nearby Columbine High School, due to a bombing attempt, allegedly by…
IKEA has made a global reputation for furniture that’s well-designed and easy to assemble — and apparently its stores are like that, too. Last May, the company predicted that IKEA’s Centennial branch would open in the fall of 2011 — but now, the date’s been set for July 27. Get…
Internet years are like dog years, which makes fifteen-year-old MapQuest more like 105. But this old dog can learn directions home if you believe Arianna Huffington, now a player in the old-money empire of AOL, which owns the company headquartered in LoDo. She talked about an absurd range of topics…
There are, no doubt, saner ways to film the Cordillera Blanca of Peru than paragliding a few feet above jagged glaciers, vertiginous cliffs and freezing lakes, camera and breathing and life itself neatly suspended — but that wouldn’t be the path chosen by Sweetgrass Productions, a backcountry film crew bred…
What makes someone “the most socially influential college student?” Off The Quad, a Boulder-based digital provider of daily tips about hot goings-on, has come up with a (nerdy) algorithm to figure it out that takes into account how often said college student posts stuff on Facebook and how many different…
Say goodbye to Denver Magazine. The publication that convinced Fox31 anchors to turn into skankers on its cover a couple of years back is no more, with rival 5280 acquiring intellectual property like internet domain names and its Facebook page. Here’s 5280 founder, editor and publisher Daniel Brogan on the…
As illustrated above, the most fitting outfit for Centennial Mayor Cathy Cook to deliver her State of Our City speech today would be a tastefully designed IKEA crown. Hopefully, the speech will celebrate the City of Centennial’s tenth birthday — and recent success in attracting new business — with the…
The Denver Auto Show currently running at the Colorado Convention Center is an exhibition of dreams. The real Denver Auto show is staged on neighborhood driveways reveals that Denverites like big trucks. The 2005 Volvo Condo semi truck shown above is just one of many examples that prove Denver drivers…
We’ve made lotsa sport of Niwot-based Crocs, from a 2005 feature that included savage reviews by fashionistas to reports of what Alan Prendergast described as the “brightly hued, comfy-ugly clown shoes” being escalator unfriendly. So our first thought after hearing the company is donating 100,000 pairs to earthquake and tsunami…
In seventeen years of avid snowboarding, Ace King has heard all the bright ideas about how to fix the weekend traffic logjam on I-70. Monorail, zipper lanes, double-decker lanes — all costly, all dubious as hell, and none of them right around the corner. What King lusts for is a…
The international group that oversees the registry for website domains approved the .xxx domain last week. While the notion of creating a virtual red-light district for online porn has gotten a mixed response from the multi-billion dollar adult entertainment industry, domain names with the .xxx tag are being snatched up…
Representatives Diane DeGette and Jared Polis are taking another run at tightening federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique also known as fracking. Introduced this week by the Colorado twosome and fellow Democratic rep Maurice Hinchey from New York, the bill would remove the oil and gas…
Using more sophisticated methods of measuring traffic flow than previous studies, a report on congestion in major metro areas ranks Denver’s traffic woes among the top sixteen in the country — but much worse in terms of the actual time and money wasted by motorists jammed up on the roads…
Weld County is undergoing an explosion in the number of oil and gas companies using a technique called “horizontal drilling” to get at deposits deep in the Denver Basin, according to the Greeley Tribune. Which puts us in mind of a certain Simpsons episode…
Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel Network report for 2010, Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs all ranked among the top 15 metro areas for…
When Mike Lindsey and his family traveled to Mexico in 2008 for Christmas, they brought home more than memories. Bedbugs, the subject of this week’s cover story, “Bug Bedlam,” hitched a ride from their rental house to the Lindseys’ Fort Collins home…
One thing you can say about the Shadow Theatre Company: They sure know how to create the drama. After failing to pay rent for most of 2010, the bankrupt troupe was evicted from their Aurora space last month. Now, their former landlord has filed a report with Aurora police that…
Trinidad’s City Council voted unanimously last week to file a lawsuit against the Arkansas River Power Authority, claiming that the co-op has bungled the construction of a coal-fired power plant in Lamar that was supposed to provide electricity to southeast Colorado. It’s the latest in a series of setbacks for…
Vowing to “run this airport like a business,” Denver International Airport manager Kim Day recently announced a ten-year financial strategy to keep operations in the black while funding a billion-dollar expansion plan. But some of DIA’s longtime vendors and contractors say they’re the ones getting the business from the airport’s…
The number of foreclosed properties getting sold at auction has dropped significantly in Colorado. In Denver, just 186 were snagged at the auction block last month, a 25 percent drop from the 249 that were sold in January 2010. Could increased competition be an explanation for why the Denver Public…
In hopes of climbing out from beneath crushing debt, the Shadow Theatre Company formally declared bankruptcy earlier this month. Its biggest creditor: Seedco Financial. According to bankruptcy documents filed February 2, Shadow owes $220,924 to Seedco for a “Bank Loan.”…
New foreclosure filings in Colorado are at an eight-month low and the number of foreclosed properties being sold at auction is down nearly 22 percent from this time last year, according to a report released today by the Colorado Division of Housing. “The past several months have certainly been positive,…
