That would be District 10 City Councilman Chris Hinds, asking one of the people who live in a neighborhood where a company wants to build a hotel, because the resident missed the last go round of this situation. The situation: The developer wants to be granted a tiny piece of land at Chestnut Place and …
We can dance for joy about this, since the sculptural depictions of dancers are gone, and work has begun to build a new entry to the Sheraton Denver Downtown hotel. This renovation project was announced in late August, and now it's time to get caught up with it. It is still painful to recall the …
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Who could forget it? It was long, occasionally nasty, and didn’t end the way many people wanted. But during that election campaign, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said his administration would create an agency devoted to housing issues. This was six months ago. One could have considered it something like the cliché of rearranging the deck …
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Yesterday afternoon, I visited the Denver Art Museum to view “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature.” It is an all-enveloping exhibition, with more than 120 paintings, and it was interesting to watch the advancement of his work over many years. Although I have never been totally in love with Impressionism, I understand its role in …
The cartoon on the cover of this week’s New Yorker is called “Towering Wealth.” The artist is Mark Ulriksen. A blurb at the front of the magazine notes that he will be speaking about his work on October 24 at The Big Draw Festival in San Francisco. He’ll see some new towers there, and if …
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Actually, that is not totally true, because some tree houses are pretty, um, rustic. But the one that went under the microscope of Denver’s Board of Adjustment yesterday was far from that: It has a strong contemporary design, but it does not have any permits -- and thus the hearing to figure out what happens …
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In August, Denver had Modernism Week. In September, Denver had Doors Open Denver, granted, over a weekend. Now, in October, it is time for Denver Design Week, which runs from Thursday, October 17, through October 25. Denver Design Week is loaded with talks, panels, commercial opportunities for viewing, a discussion on the Martin Building renovation …
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And it’s all about Ferrovial. Yesterday, I went on STLToday.com to read about the baseball Cardinals’ smashingly superb one inning and what happens next. But what diverted me was a story about the fact that company Ferrovial wants to manage work for St. Louis’ airport, Lambert Field. Ferrovial is known here as one of DIA’s …
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RedLine Art Center is home right now to an exhibition that is quite topical. That’s because the work is by artists from South Korea, focusing on various protests, including the 2016 South Korean Candlelight Revolution. The focus is on that country’s activism over many years. What also is topical: There is much more art than …
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Trying to navigate the world of hemp can be murky For years, it seemed to me that hemp was just perfect for making ropes and clothing and industrial material, but now it is something to actually find a way to really understand it. That’s because until last year, it was a problem child. Now, farmers …
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Chandler in Denver 