Is everyone using Kickstarter to push a movie project? Some days it seems like that. The crew behind CREEP!, a movie about making the worst horror movie ever — 1964’s The Creeping Terror — is in the last days of an attempt to raise $65,000 to bring the monster back…
A new 45-minute waiting area — complete with food court and real bathrooms — isn’t the only improvement planned for Denver International Airport. At a city council committee meeting yesterday, DIA managers presented a plan that would add outposts of the Tattered Cover — a true Denver institution — to…
Colorado’s archives include eighteen dioramas that were displayed at the old history museum — but are nowhere to be seen at the new History Colorado Center. Is that dumb?…
Washington State wants to ship a forty-pound box of Rainier cherries to a restaurant in every state in the country, in an effort to push the product — and it’s is looking for the right recipient in Colorado. Many readers have weighed in with suggestions, including Matthewfw: Cafe 180 since…
My nephew in Chicago has a sudden interest in Colorado politics, and he’s been closely following the progress of the civil union bill at the legislature — a proposal resurrected yesterday when Governor John Hickenlooper said he would call a special session to debate the issue…
To the side of Pena Boulevard is an inadvertent monument to airport planning, pre-9/11: No one in the ’90s anticipated the incredible demand for a waiting area far away from arrival doors, and the 116 spaces that Denver International Airport shoehorned into its jerry-rigged, 45-minute waiting area are almost always…
Photographer Scott Russell has documented the lives of Denver sign-fliers in Cardboard & Concrete, a show that debuts this weekend at Wazee Union, and puts a face — actually, eleven faces — on the city’s controversial homeless issues. But the show itself is stirring some controversy…
A sign in the window of the Micky Manor indicates that the owner has a date with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses on June 8, to see about getting the liquor license back for 2544 Federal Boulevard, which started life as a firehouse — but by the early…
Yee-haw! The National Western Stock Show has saddled up for the future. Although NWSS chairman Jerry McMorris passed away yesterday, leaders went through with the announcement of a deal that will help steer the direction of the Stock Show, expanding it beyond an every-January event into more of a year-round…
It’s the last day of the Colorado Legislature, and this session has definitely driven some people to drink — and possibly move out of state. Breckenridge Brewery, which had been pushing for House Bill 1347, which would have allowed the company to grow in Colorado (craft breweries are currently capped…
Is Colorado the Suburu state? That’s what Bree Davies suggests in “An Ode to Subaru, the unofficial car of Colorado”. While Wooderson, her beloved Outback, is the focus of the piece, there are plenty of other Subarus out there. An entire fleet of them. And their drivers are all fans…
On January 29, 2009, Alex Landau was brutally beaten by Denver cops after they pulled him over for what they said was an illegal left turn — but he charged was racial profiling. And the City of Denver agreed — or at least was worried enough about the federal lawsuit…
Washington State wants to donate forty pounds of cherries to an “iconic” restaurant in every state in the nation, in hopes of inspiring recipes that push its product. A Washington PR company asked for Cafe Society’s help in coming up with the right restaurant in Colorado for a fruit-filled delivery…
After months and months in the shadows of construction trucks, Tennyson Street has finally emerged, newly paved and curbed. And last Friday, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun” a new piece of public art paid for (like the construction project) by the 2007 Better Bond Project was unveiled at 41st and…
My favorite artifact on display at the new History Colorado Center is an old “Colorful Colorado” sign right by the fabulous floor map of Colorado, riddled with bullet holes and sporting colored-in lettering — vandalism, according to the highway workers who took down the sign. History, according to History Colorado…
On Friday the Denver Business Journal broke the news that Trader Joe’s would be opening its second store at Eighth and Colorado Boulevard. (The first — which means the one that also gets to sell liquor under Colorado’s convoluted code — will debut next year in Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street…
Britt Chester has been riding around the metro area, asking people to guess where he’s biking — for the chance to win a season B-Cycle pass. Some of these areas have B-Cycle stations, some — like Park Hill — do not. And if they don’t, advises, one reader, then they…
Trader Joe’s has signed a deal for its first location in Denver, according to this story in the Denver Business Journal. The store will be on the southeast corner of Colorado Boulevard and Eighth Avenue, where Annie’s Cafe was once located. The spot was supposed to become a hotel, but…
The same day that Spirit Airlines celebrated its return to Denver International Airport — complete with hefty new fees for carry-on luggage — its CEO, Ben Baldanza, was still carrying on about why the company is not refunding $197 to a 76-year-old, cancer-stricken vet too sick to fly. He recognized…
After more than a year of planning and very hard work, Gary Lee Bomar finally opened Gary Lee’s Motor Club & Grub last weekend — and it looks like it was worth the wait. With Gary Lee’s, this stretch of South Broadway has really gotten into gear…
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.” So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking…
Our list of “Five Kentucky Derby parties that will have you off to the races” offered an array of activities, but didn’t include the 2012 Derby Party, which bills itself as “a Colorado tradition” and is an annual fundraiser for the Sean “Ranch” Lough Memorial Scholarship. The party has been…
