The Holly keeps rising from the ashes. Yesterday, the new Nancy P. Anschutz Center, home of the Jack A. Vickers Boys & Girls Club, celebrated a grand opening attended by notables such as Mayor Michael Hancock, Phil and Nancy Anschutz, John and Paige Elway, and Jack A. Vickers; see photos…
If things had gone according to plan, the University of Denver would be rolling out its “Evolution of DU’s mascot” event right now, highlighting past icons and introducing a new mascot, chosen after the 76-member Mascot Steering Committee studied the subject, narrowed down the options, then surveyed its constituents. But…
Even as Denver International Airport pushes forward with its South Terminal expansion, it’s updating parts of the airport that were outdated almost from the day DIA opened in 1995. The toll booths on Pena Boulevard proved a real bottleneck; they were moved closer to the parking garages, and the area…
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler had scheduled an announcement for September 17, long before floodwaters started spilling over in Colorado. So should he have cancelled what would turn out to be his gubernatorial kickoff once he found out that much of the state would soon be underwater? That’s the…
The only thing rising faster than the floodwaters this past weekend are the natural urges of Coloradans to help out. The best source for information we’ve found is Help Colorado Now, a partnership between the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and Colorado Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster…
The second annual Denver Startup Week starts today, and this very high-tech event — filled with free, smarty-pants lectures and presentations — has one very low-tech bonus. Southwest Airlines is offering Denver Startup Week participants a chance to win an all-expenses paid trip to the company’s Dallas HQ to spend…
A month after its founder, Joshua (no last names, please) was featured in “Free for All,” Josiah Hesse’s July 25 cover story on people living off the grid, Praxis Creative Arts Space, the community warehouse space that Joshua had started with a few friends near Denver’s Art District on Santa…
The Denver Police Department was prepared to throw the book at scofflaws — the good book. On September 6, an e-mail went out from Mary Beth Klee, the DPD’s deputy chief of administration, that Chief David Quinones had okayed the delivery of “a box of Bibles to each of the…
Here in Colorado, it’s our nature to fight for the state we love — and to get quite cranky when we see something that we don’t think does this state justice. For the past year, Colorado chief marketing officer Aaron Kennedy has led an all-Colorado crew on what’s been billed…
By last year, the population of Buford, Wyoming, had dwindled to exactly one: Don Sammons, who ran the convenience store, lived in a nearby mobile home and was ready to get out. So he put it up for auction, and Vietnamese businessman Pham Dinh Nguyen bought it for $900,000 –…
The marketing mavens behind makingcolorado.gov, the state’s rebranding campaign, quickly realized they needed to emphasize altitude. Colorado is “king of the mountains,” points out Aaron Kennedy, the state’s chief marketing officer. Still, pushing altitude also created another dilemma: They didn’t want a logo-slogan combo that might confuse being in the…
The “Peak.” That’s what Colorado’s new logo has been dubbed — officially, at least. But plenty of people have their own, unofficial nicknames for the green-and-white triangle introduced yesterday by brandcolorado.gov as the state’s next brand. When we reported yesterday on the new slogan, “It’s our nature,” readers also weighed…
Here in Colorado, it’s in our nature to fight for the state we love — and to get quite cranky when we see something that we don’t think does this state justice. For the past year, Colorado chief marketing officer Aaron Kennedy has led an-all Colorado crew on what’s billed…
When Colorado’s new brand is introduced next week, it will have a brand-spanking new tag line to go with it. Last month makingcolorado.com, the website that’s been collecting input and keeping people posted on the project’s progress, listed two possibilities that sounded like Cialis ads: “Rise” and “Ever Upwards.” Those…
When you Google “Colorado Flag” and see crocheted hats, beer-can coolers, tie-dyed T-shirts and incredible tattoos, all bearing the image of that golden sun and the big red C, you’re at first impressed by Colorado’s endless creativity. And then, when you search more and find Sons of the Confederate decals…
Ten northeastern counties are considering seceding from Colorado to protest the state’s perceived snub of rural affairs. Cheyenne County (population 1876, appropriately enough) was the first to put the proposal on its November ballot; Segwick, Yuma, Weld and Phillips have since joined those counties that might no longer want to…
The Broncos may have taken a beating in that preseason game in Seattle Saturday night, but the team’s Executive Vice President of Football Operations still has fans across the country. Here’s proof — an artistic endorsement of the sixteen-year team veteran and Hall of Famer that seems better suited to…
Yes, Colorado has been a lot less colorful since Lew Cady, one of this state’s most creative characters, passed away on August 4. To give him a proper sendoff, family, friends and fans will gather in Central City tomorrow, raising a glass or two or ten in three of the…
We’ve been profiling RTD’s public-art pieces on our Show and Tell blog, and on Monday, the series reached”Winter Crossing,” the stunning mural by Denver artist Stephen Batura that hung at Union Station for a decade — and then disappeared when the historic facility was closed for major renovations. “RTD removed…
On Friday the University of Denver’s Pioneer Mascot Steering Committee released its decision on the search for a new mascot — and the decision was no decision. “The research shows that nearly 70 percent of the University community is either receptive or neutral to moving forward with a new Denver…
After months of study by the 76-member Pioneer Mascot Steering Committee, which included an online survey sent to 78,032 members of the greater University of Denver community, the committee just released its decision on the hunt for a new mascot. Is the school’s new symbol for the Pioneers the Elk?…
If at first you don’t secede, try, try again. Ten counties in northeastern Colorado are still considering seceding from the state. Cheyenne County (population 1876, appropriately enough) has already gotten the proposal on the November ballot; Weld County could do the same soon. In this week’s Westword, we offer some…
