Tamara Banks is a Five Points neighborhood icon: Kenny Be’s Hip Tip

Limited space to fit Washington Street, Welton Street, 27th Street and 26th Avenue on horse-drawn streetcar signage culminated in calling this neighborhood transit stop Five Points. From streetcar suburb of the aristocracy to historic jazz-age “Harlem of the West,” the people of Five Points have always been the heart of…

Letters: The Flagstaff House helped me propose to my wife

“A Surprising Turn,” Laura Shunk, February 10 Peak Performance I can’t tell you the lengths that the Flagstaff House went through to help me propose to my wife, who had been wanting to go there for as long as I could remember. I proposed on the deck while the staff…

Six great Colorado hoaxes

This weekend, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit featured Great Wall Story, a play by Lloyd Suh based on the true — really! — story of how, in 1899, three Denver reporters came up with a hoax that the Great Wall of China was being torn down, and…

Dana Cain creates her own fun — and makes Denver fun for creators

Dana Cain is an Enneagram Social 7: The Enthusiast. And then some. Social 7s, according to the nine-pointed Enneagram personality system, run away from pain and have a passion for gluttony. And while too much is never enough in Dana Cain’s universe, the beauty of it is that she’s more…

Wild horses: BLM backs off plan to round up West Douglas herd

There aren’t a lot of wild horses left in Colorado, but a small herd of mustangs fifty miles north of Grand Junction just got a reprieve. Besieged by legal challenges of its plan to relocate “excess” horses from public lands to private holding facilities and pastures, the Bureau of Land…

John Suthers defends his defense of the Defense of Marriage Act

We spread Denver blog post link love. The Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic on John Suthers’s dismissal of criticism about his Defense of Marriage Act stand. Eddie at People’s Press Collective touts Falcon School District 49, Ben DeGrow and… Cookie Monster? At Denver Egotist, Carmel Hagan fears that your kids are…

GoGo dancers go-go for it at Caffeine auditions (PHOTOS)

Westword photographer Marcus Gadison didn’t exactly draw the short straw when he was assigned to capture images of the gogo dancer auditions for Caffeine at the Church. His shots are among the many new photo galleries on display. Check out the Red, Yellow, Green Party at Sutra, Hollogramz at Galatic…