A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I were in a bit of a cake emergency (a decoration disaster!) and were heroically rescued by a local bakery/cupcake shop called Lovely Confections. Porche Lovely, the owner of Lovely Confections stepped up to the challenge and was able to spontaneously re-decorate a cake from another bakery in about [...]
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Tasty Colfax – 07/28/09
Giving my props to a local business restraurant crawl: Tasty Colfax Eats on the Beat! Tuesday, July 28th 5:30 to 9:00PM Tickets are on sale now at www.MyColfax.org or at: Hooked on Colfax: 3215 East Colfax Ave. (Adams and Colfax) Tattered Cover Coffee & Tea: 2526 East Colfax Ave. (Lowenstein CulturePlex) Put down the remote and [...]
Back to the neighborhood
For the last few months, I’ve been so busy with work that I kind of disengaged with the neighborhood issues, and it felt great to participate in the “officer’s meeting” of my neighborhood association tonight. I will be working on a project to re-engage with the neighborhood on a grassroots level, by having each block captain [...]
Denver’s South City Park Neighborhood
South City Park Neighborhood in Denver has been our home for the last year and our window into life in the city. It’s very a hip neighborhood, but it’s not “trendy hip” like Capitol Hill, or even “chic hip” like Cherry Creek. The neighborhood is home to Bluebird Theater, and many other local businesses. Steve’s [...]
Tattered Cover Book Store
I spent another evening at the Tattered Cover Book Store on Colfax tonight. I love visiting book stores in general and Tattered Cover is as good as it gets. And just a few minutes ago while browsing their website to make a link to for this post, I noticed that they have their own MySpace [...]
Getting involved in local politics
As I’ve written about it here before, I’ve been looking for a way to get involved and to learn more about politics. I’d like to learn more about how candidates bubble up to win elections and about what goes on in the “back-end” of political activities. To start, this week I attended a so called [...]
African Community Center: Initial Reaction
For a while now I’ve been thinking about volunteering locally in Denver, and now that I don’t have to spend 3 hours everyday commuting to Boulder I think I can finally devote some time to it. Yesterday I visited the African Community Center in Denver. The ACC is “Denver’s newest Refugee Resettlement program which welcomes [...]
