Colorado is an active state, no doubt about it. Every year we either have the lowest rate of obesity, or we’re bitter about losing out to those skinny bitches in Massachusetts. And we’re by and large environmentally conscious, too. Put those two factors together, and you have the reason why…
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has been a political success in Colorado, and over the past few years his name has repeatedly popped up in talks of a Hillary Clinton vice-presidential running mate, most recently on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and inVanity Fair, where he ranks in the top seven possibilities as…
When I moved to Denver in 1998, I was told: “Just wait…someday there won’t be any empty space between here and Boulder, and it’ll all be one big metro area.” Well, the first part of that has pretty much happened. You can argue about open space and greenbelts and whatnot,…
The fifth annual Denver Comic Con will invade the Colorado Convention Center over Father’s Day weekend, June 17 through June 19. What started as a humble hometown show (albeit one with big aspirations) wound up breaking attendance records year after year, taking off from just over 25,000 attendees in its…
Nestled between University and Colorado boulevards to the east and west, and Sixth Avenue and the eponymous Cherry Creek to the north and south, the Cherry Creek neighborhood has gone through big changes in the last few decades. What had been a relatively modest and working-class began to become “the”…
Ever since the Transportation Security Administration was developed in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, travelers have been frustrated by some of the policies and practices that the TSA has put in place. From longer and slower lines to an increased level of physically invasive inspection, the…
City Park and City Park West surround what’s arguably the heart of Denver, and without a doubt the core of the impressive Denver Parks system. The two neighborhoods combined cover ground from Downing to Colorado Boulevard, and 23rd to Colfax avenues. (It’s important to include City Park West in this…
With the RTD A line now heading to Denver International Airport, to be followed by more lines opening by the end of 2016, it’s time to revisit what it means to be a good citizen on Denver’s rail system — whether commuter or light rail. It’s easy to take the benefits…
The City of Aurora really came into its own in the 1970s and 80s, when it was one of America’s fastest-growing cities. But because of that fast growth, Aurorans have had to deal with a number of issues over the years, as the growing pains of a community meet the…
Last month, Virgin Airways began offering flights to and from Denver International Airport for the first time. It was such a big deal that DIA replaced Mayor Michael Hancock’s “welcome” voiceover — the one you hear on the train when you come in to the main terminal from the concourses…
Cheesman Park has been a fancy-pants part of Denver for years…at least since it stopped being Mt. Prospect Hill Cemetery, when the parcels of land available here were understandably much smaller, and far less sought-after. By early in the twentieth century, though, the cemetery had mostly been moved, and Cheesman…
The folks at Coors Field announced last month that they were raising their outfield fences by a significant amount, both to normalize the home-run record in the field and to prevent so many teams from scoring on the poor Rockies by way of the long ball. Clearly, this is an…
The recent uproar over the KKK Cop Painting created by a tenth-grader and displayed in the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building got us thinking about this city’s colorful past with public art — and by “colorful,” we mean “sometimes fucked up.” Art, of course, is in the eye of the beholder…
In previous installments of this series, we’ve focused on specific neighborhoods in Denver proper. This time, we’re looking at what raises the ire of residents of one of Denver’s suburb-cities to the north, Thornton. For some readers, this ‘burb is home; for others, it’s the part of town where they…
Much has been written about spring, and rightly so. After all, it’s the season when the world seems to come alive again: The days grow longer, the birds return, and there’s green everywhere. (No, that’s not a marijuana reference.) Spring might have officially started on March 20, but it really…
On the heels of a report ranking Frontier Airlines higher this year than last for on-time arrivals — yay, we’re now number 12 out of 13! — Denver’s hometown airline is holding a job fair today at Holiday Inn and Suites/Denver International Airport to new flight attendants. Presumably, this additional work force…
The fifth installment of our angry-neighborhoods-of-Denver series takes us to the Baker District. Nestled in the heart of the city and first laid out for residential and business use in the 1870s, Baker’s official boundaries are Sixth Avenue, Lincoln Street, Mississippi Avenue and the South Platte. These days, though, most…
Ah, Cap Hill. For some, this neighborhood is the heart of the city. For others, it’s that part of town you live in by choice in your twenties, and then escape when your stage of life shifts and work doesn’t start at 5 p.m. Full of office and government buildings, halfway…
Five Points is one of Denver’s oldest neighborhoods, so it makes sense that it has a long and winding history whose high points include the area’s time as the “Harlem of the West,” when it was a must-stop for African-American entertainers — and the only place in Denver where they…
Chances are that most of us will be glued to the TV this Sunday, watching the Broncos play in the big game, rooting for the home team and seeing if Peyton can pull off one last win. But what if you couldn’t care less about the Broncos, the Manning legacy,…
In honor of Groundhog Day — the Bill Murray classic movie, that is, not the pointless holiday that exists at this point only to give morning news crews a segment to produce in the doldrums of early February — we’re offering up a list of things that Denverites might be tired…
After ticking off seven things that ruffle the super-preened feathers of some Stapleton residents, we decided to take on another one of Denver’s vaunted neighborhoods: Highland. I lived in Highland (aka “the Highlands”) for about a decade, from the late ’90s through 2008, and in that time it changed a lot. Lower…
