When Todd got a ticket for supposedly running a red light this spring, I convinced him to fight it. So it was only fair that I meet him at the Denver City and County Building at 4:30 on a Friday...
My food critic friend Denveater loves oysters, and I’ve been bugging her to take me out and introduce me to some. Sunday night we stopped briefly at Ocean Prime in Larimer Square but decamped...
I had a wonderful evening in downtown Denver Thursday night. It was cool out but not cold, and the streets and bars and restaurants were full of animated people. I got off the B at Wynkoop and 15th...
It’s January, the time of year when I usually feel like losing a few pounds (and that phase of the year lasts until the summer). It’s only the first day of my diet, and already I feel...
I’ve been posting photographs of food on my blog for two years now, but I’ve noticed the results are hit-or-miss, to put it charitably. When I heard about a food photography class being...
Better late than never… My Favorite Feature: Precious As a general rule, I see documentaries at the SDFF because I figure they’re less likely to show in theaters. And although I did see several...
Perhaps it’s because I generally get around on foot, but I tend to notice bikes locked up around Denver. This one was near the Convention Center. Not all of them seem entirely practical. I took...
One of my favorite sights in downtown Denver is the Gas and Electric Building lit up at night. During the day, its subtle patterning becomes more evident, especially when compared to the crunchy...
I’ve been feeling fallish lately, a bit melancholy, but also determined to get things done before winter drives me inside. Saturday Todd and I were out revegetating Carnage Canyon, and Sunday...
Despite the thumping from dancers practicing their moves upstairs, the 20-plus people celebrating Transition Denver’s first birthday party at the Mercury Café were able to discuss the way forward for...
I took this photo along the 16th Street Mall in downtown Denver. The sign reads: “All donations go to the care and feeding of this statue.” I wonder what that silver paint does to your...
Danielle Ate the Sandwich wasn’t the only new act I saw Friday at the last Skyline Park concert of 2009 in downtown Denver. Speakeasy Tiger was great fun. Lead singer Kyle Simmons’s voice...
Todd and I arrived at India House in downtown Denver after a Saturday afternoon of missed connections. He hadn’t meant to come all the way to downtown Denver; in fact, he had been in Boulder and...
Funny how things work out sometimes. I went to the last of the 2009 Skyline Park concerts in downtown Denver, and Danielle was the first act. She stood on stage with her ukelele and winked at me when...
Finally I had the privilege of buying cupcakes at Mermaids, in downtown Denver just off the 16th Street Mall at Champa. It was my fourth trip there: the first time, I had no cash, and the second and...
Wandering around lower downtown Denver today, just checking things out, I made a delightful discovery: Bouquets. According to the website, it was founded in 1985 as a “fresh cut flower shop with a...
How, I ask you, could anyone resist this bottle of orange-yogurt goodness? Clearly Todd and I could not. You can see our grubby fingerprints all over it.Every time I shop at Pacific Mercantile in...
Last week I visited four art galleries in downtown Denver but wrote about only the first two. Today I’ll review two smaller galleries on the northwestern side of Wazee. According to its website...
As the bus hauled itself around the corner of Wewatta toward Union Station, I saw people in the stands at Coors Field. But baseball was not where I was headed. I wanted some heavier stuff. I wanted...
I must be a dancing fool, because what I loved most about last weekend’s two festivals was the dancing, albeit of very different kinds (see Red Balloon Boy in action at the end of this post). My...
When I went by PrideFest last weekend, it was like going to a huge party where everybody is as happy as can be. Not that the other Denver festivals I’ve attended haven’t been fun. It’s just that...
Alto 1320 15th Street (between Market and Larimer) downtown Denver 303-893-2586 Alto closed the last week of June. Everything about Alto is beautiful: the restaurant, the bar, the servers, the food...
In late May I mentioned the garden under construction at 15th and California in downtown Denver but didn’t show any pictures of it because it had just been laid out. The reddish building behind...
Denver Nail Lounge 500 16th Street, Suite 136 (16th and Glenarm) downtown Denver 303-534-0778 Bus directions: take the MallRide up to Glenarm Sometimes lately it seems that all I write about is...
Leela’s European Café 820 15th Street (at Stout) downtown Denver 303-534-2255 Open 24/7 Bus directions: take the MallRide to Stout and walk over I was so pleased to stumble upon Leela’s...