At their July 17 meeting, Denver City Council members voted unanimously to approve the Safe Occupancy Program, a conditional building occupancy program for unpermitted spaces designed to ensure safety while also limiting displacement; it will be overseen by Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD) and the Denver Fire Department. In the wake…
After more than seven months of discussion, the city presented its Safe Occupancy Program proposal for DIY spaces and other unpermitted facilities at the Denver City Council meeting on Monday, July 10. And already, amendments have been proposed.
Ellementa, a startup dedicated to building a network for women interested in cannabis wellness, just started its Denver chapter in June, but already its Mile High meetings are as comfortable — and energizing — as a coffee klatsch. On July 12, a dozen women gathered in a room at the…
At the July 11 meeting of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, Kent Rice, executive director of Denver Arts & Venues, announced that he had approved the airport’s request to deaccession Interior Garden, with eleven stipulations.
Breckenridge is a true Colorado treasure for a variety of reasons that haven’t been mentioned in all of coverage of the July 4 wildfire, including great beer, great skiing and an incredible arts district. Here are ten reasons Breck is cool.
For Colorado artists weighed down by a shortage of studios, ever-rising rent and increased government scrutiny of DIY spaces, Concept was going to be “a space to dream, create, inspire,” promised founder Jeanie Nuanes King on the con.cept colorado Facebook page. But on July 5, Nuanes King announced that the dream is over.
Sweet Leaf had a very good 4/20. So good, in fact, that the owners of the Colorado dispensary company told vice president Nichole West to plan a big thank-you party for the cannabis industry. And this summer, it’s hosting invite-only parties at the Metlo.
Over six months after the city closed two DIY spaces for safety issues, Denver Community Planning and Development and the Denver Fire Department, along with other agencies, have announced their proposal for the Safe Occupancy Program, a “voluntary path to compliance for existing spaces.” That proposal goes to a Denver City Council committee today, but Amplify Arts Denver says it is “deeply flawed.”
A dozen years after Westword did its first profile of Broadway, we returned to this “magnificent thoroughfare” and detailed how Denver’s booming economy has affected the road from top to bottom. But there’s no development that captures the public’s imagination — and anger — more than the pilot bicycle-lane project,
Tourists and other travelers arriving at Denver International Airport quickly learn not to delay the departure of the train, and to “hooollld on, please.” Those instructions are part of “Train Call,” a Jim Green art piece. Over the past twenty-plus years, only four voices have issued those bossy orders. But that could soon change.
Colorado’s tourism efforts finally came to life five years ago, with the “Come to Life” campaign. But now Atlantis, a resort in the Bahamas, has taken the tagline for its own massive campaign.
Over six months after the disastrous fire at Ghost Ship in Oakland and Denver’s subsequent closure of two DIY spaces for safety issues, Denver Community Planning and Development and the Denver Fire Department today are announcing their proposal for a Safe Occupancy Program, a “voluntary path to compliance for existing spaces.”
The art-gallery exodus to Lakewood continues. At the end of the month, Sally Centigrade, our Best of Denver 2016 winner for Best Lowbrow Art Gallery, will close its three-and-a-half-year-old space in Larimer Square and open in a new spot in Belmar. “We’re super-excited to be in a bigger space with other galleries,” says Maya Bailey (aka artist Mayah Mazcara). “We’ve way, way outgrown our space and being able to show the amount of artists that we have….We had to move.”
We can understand increased security at government buildings during these challenging times. But while heading into the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Building last week, we discovered that another item had been added to the forbidden list: Sharpies.
If you’ve never shopped at Rockmount Ranch Wear, a Colorado institution at 1626 Wazee Street, this is your chance. The Western wear manufacturer/retailer that invented the snap-button shirt is hosting its first-ever sidewalk sale, starting today.
Michael Huttner is back in Denver as the CEO of Powerplant Strategies, a national cannabis communications and public affairs firm that he helped found last fall, which provides strategic advice to investors in the cannabis space.
Lakewood has been attracting creative businesses priced out of Denver. Ii’s most recent score? Reed Photo, the fine-art printing enterprise that lost all twenty parking places outside its office at 888 Federal Boulevard and will take over a Harley-Davidson dealership on West Colfax, a building that was once a theater.
Denver is planning a major renovation of the Denver Performing Arts Complex , a project known as the Next Stage. It might want to start with some more helpful signage….especially if it wants to keep those dollars coming in from philanthropists.
At the fourth and final “sharing session” to discuss the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge that occupies most of the site that was once home to the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, there was on sharing. So two weeks later, opponents shared something else: a motion to stop construction of the refuge.
The National Western Center is galloping ahead with plans to become a year-round destination and regional asset, and recently sent a survey to stakeholders, geared toward creating a unified brand for the billion-dollar project.
Meow Wolf is notifying the Denver recipients for a total of $54,000 in arts grants for DIY venues and organizations: $20,000 from the City of Denver, and $34,000 from Meow Wolf’s own fund.
This year’s annual 420 Rally left behind everything from trash to complaints about long lines. Four days after the gathering in Civic Center Park, Mayor Michael Hancock called for a review of the annual event. The results were just announced: an almost $12,000 fine for the organizer, who’s banned from applying for event permits for three years.
