The USA Pro Cycling Challenge starts in Colorado Springs on August 21, 2011, and ends in Denver on August 28, 2011. In between, the professional stage race will test a competitor’s endurance as much as it test’s a Colorado resident’s patience…..
You’ve gone to IKEA’s new store in Centennial. You’ve battled the lines. You’ve figured out those cute illustrated but confusing instructions. You’ve built the bed/dresser/bookshelf/etc. And it didn’t break when you put your ass/clothes/books/etc. on it. Hallelujah! What to do next? Share your IKEA love with other IKEA lovers…
According to just-released data compiled by the Colorado Division of Housing, the state’s apartment vacancy rate is the lowest it’s been in more than ten years. And, as this account from Inside Real Estate News points out, the rental market is particularly tight in Denver, with the average metro apartment…
Montana City, the area’s first platted township, was founded in September 1858 on the east banks of the South Platte river near West Evans Avenue. The following spring, the cabins were dismantled and floated downriver to be rebuilt at the confluence of Cherry Creek. Rufus “Potato” Clark then homesteaded the…
Largely based on Public Policy Polling’s results revealing John Hickenlooper’s approval rating as third best in the nation, Hickenlooper Lovers is a novelty line starring the Colorado Governor as an anime character featured on notebooks, folders and backpacks…..
Organized by the Discovery Series committee of the Urban Land Institute’s Young Leaders Group, today’s Highland walking tour will feature the architects, developers and builders who are causing the strange changes in an older neighborhood being replaced by the new…..
A Denver-based “energy shot with eight superfruits,” Bazi has gone the way of the 7-Eleven. The beverage was once sold only through a multi-level marketing network — a scheme Westword explored in the 2009 cover story, “The Wizard of Bazi.” But now, Bazi has ditched that model for the tried-and-true…
Most lists of the country’s cutest, prettiest, drunkest, most livable/affordable/promiscuous places and/or people are, well, about as stupid as they sound. Standard response: “Sez who?” But there’s reason to believe that Glenwood Springs earned being singled out as the “Most Fun Town in America” last week in a cross-country contest…
A month ago, CenturyLink began taking down the giant Qwest sign that’s cast Denver in a blue light for years. Last night marked the official switch-over — and it was clearly a big job. Look below to see CenturyLink photos of a transition that truly marks a sign of the…
One of our first firm pieces of evidence that Carmelo Anthony planned to leave Denver was when he put his house up for sale — a transaction that ultimately cost him $6 million. And the next Nuggets longtimer who could hit the road? Kenyon Martin, whose excellent Greenwood Village estate…
Why did proud progressive Rachel Maddow pay a slow-clap tribute to, of all companies, Denver-based Newmont Mining on her MSNBC show last night? Because, in a day of epic losses on Wall Street following Standard & Poor’s U.S. credit downgrade, Newmont stood out as the rare non-loser. For a while…
Jason Sadler had a brilliant idea: He’d take pictures of himself wearing T-shirts with companies’ logos on them and then tweet and Facebook and make YouTube videos about it all day. For money. Now, two and a half years later, he’s hired four other T-shirt-wearers who wear T-shirts all day…
Not to be outdone by fellow Playboy cover girl Barbi Benton in the marketing of extreme cribs, Roxanne Pulitzer and husband Tim Boberg recently offered the Wall Street Journal a tour of their 23,000-square-foot Telluride home — which is up for sale for $19.9 million. That’s slightly higher than the…
I avoided attending IKEA Centennial’s July 27 grand opening due to the crowds. But my twin daughters wanted to visit the store on Saturday afternoon to pick up items for the CU dorm room they’re going to share, and given that ten days had passed, I figured things would have…
It turns out that even Aspen’s elite can’t escape the effects of the world recession. Smarting from the latest stock plunge, high country homeowners are also digesting today’s report in the Aspen Daily News that assessed property values in Pitkin County have dropped $10 billion over a two-year period –…
Getting rejected by a potential employer is disappointing. But getting rejected after building the company’s logo out of LEGO pieces and submitting it as your résumé is even worse. Thus was the case with Kendra Wiig, who applied for the job of community manager last September for LEGO Universe, an…
You can take the man out of the brewery, but you can’t take the beer away from the man. Governor John Hickenlooper will cement beer as Colorado’s state beverage on Monday when he joins Pete Coors and Glenn Knippenberg, present of Coors subsidiary AC Golden Brewing, in toasting Colorado’s 135th…
If you were wondering why the holy hell so many people are camping out for tomorrow’s grand opening of IKEA Centennial, there’s a simple answer: bribery of a pleasantly Swedish sort. Here are the details about giveaways over the first few days courtesy of the Colorado IKEA Fans blogspot…
To the average person, Tennyson Street between 38th and 44th avenues is an inconvenient mess of construction. To business owners, it’s a badly mismanaged city project that threatens their livelihood. Over the last few years, the northwest Denver street has become flush with shops, restaurants and art galleries — and…
Colorado’s first IKEA store is just seven days away from doing business, and lovers of Swedish furniture want to know the latest grand-opening information. The IKEA assembly instructions below are meticulously illustrated to help Colorado IKEA fans to self-assemble their own Centennial celebration…..
Update:This past weekend, Estate Auctions spent two days selling off furniture and belongings left behind by Carmelo Anthony, who lost about $6 million on the sale of his Denver-area house after moving from the Nuggets to the New York Knicks. But if you didn’t get a chance to bid, you…
Yadda-yadda-yadda has obviously paid well for Jerry Seinfeld. Otherwise, he could never have afforded the spectacular Telluride residence he’s now put on the market — for a mere $18.25 million. Fortunately, you’ll get a lot for the money — including eleven bedrooms and twelve and a half baths…
