Known across town for his sparkling personality and civic enthusiasm, Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton has raced to the front of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge fan pack to welcome the inaugural event to sport-crazy Colorado…..
Residents of Garfield, Rio Blanco and Weld counties already know the drill, so to speak — the march of natural gas rigs across their landscape. Activists are gearing up to fight a surge in well permits in South Park. And now the Four Corners area is bracing for a possible…
The portrait stenciled onto a car stop next to a five-gallon all-purpose bucket filled with trash in the picture above could easily be read as an analogy, a metaphor or a simile of our times. But first the viewer must determine if the old bearded fellow is Ernest Hemingway, Herman…
Aurora policemen are known the world over for their ability to turn crime prevention into a joy ride through Wyoming. Now students can share in the fun of erasing small mistakes with oversized Aurora 911 pencil-top erasers…..
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…
