But before I fly east, I will see the HOLY MODAL ROUNDERS movie at the Starz theatre as part of the Denver Film Festival, and afterwards Peter Stampfel will perform. I saw Weber & Stampfel play a couple of times in the early '80s, once at Folk City and once at the Mudd Club (these were in some city to the east of Denver by a good bit). I gave Stampfel a copy of my band's demo tape.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― keyth (keyth), Friday, 18 November 2005 03:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Friday, 26 May 2006 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
my parents are visiting denver next week. my dad will only want to golf
This was at least the second opportunity on this thread for a feckless Brit to pipe up with Things To Do In Denver With Your Dad hyuk-hyuk and I can't let it pass now.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
AND, I wish you would come to Denver.
― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
A.) Of all the things I've heard negative about Denver, it's always been "bland", "too far away from everything", "expensive", etc. I hadn't heard complaints about the transient population, though.
B.) I still don't get complaints about homeless people. You may get an occassional aggressive dude, just like you may get the occassional someone at the table next to yours incessantly jabbering into his cellphone. Besides that, they're just people who have a lot more problems than you do.
C.) Even if I were to bitch about homeless people, how could I possibly start with Denver? Those hobo's riding unicycles down the avenues of Berkeley, now THERE are some people I can roll my eyes at.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/_photos/2006-08-07-bell.jpg
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link
anyway denver is A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH, and once the denver real world starts FORGET IT, population boom!
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
you will never let me forget my stinky greeley roots.
― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
guys, i was wrong. the denver real world did nothing to attract new citizens.
=(
― homosexual II, Monday, 25 June 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5739961,00.html
a 69 year old woman is facing charges for celebrating too loudly when the Denver Broncos score
http://mas.scripps.com/DRMN/2007/11/05/110507horn_o.jpg
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 10:52 (sixteen years ago) link
what to do in denver the weekend of july 25th?
― Jordan, Friday, 11 July 2008 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
hey guys can this replace the rolling boulder thread? this one is better.
jordan can you find out where your cousin lives ?? I mean is it the suburbs or is it in metro denver?
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Denver IS better than Boulder!
― kate78, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
mountains still looking good
― admrl, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
will do
― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i am hungover in denver today! went and had a few too many drinks at gabor's. how come they can't make a mix drink taste normal???
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:00 (sixteen years ago) link
can't wait to drink at high altitude
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
am I going to have to give you a piggy-back ride home???
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
ha, i don't know, but i hope altitude sickness is like chicken pox? after my last trip i should be immune for life.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
just drink a ton of water and you should be fine!!
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ok. i love water so that works out well.
so are you going to see the offspring or cowboy troy this weekend, or both?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
things i did in denver: went for a run in wash park (wow you guys sure love volleyball and dogs), went to heritage square amusement park with the family and went down the alpine slide, ate some ice cream at bonnie brae (tasty), went to some lame bars in that area (lame).
― Jordan, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:28 (sixteen years ago) link
did you see anyone in madras shorts?
sorry I couldn't make it out to do anything this weekend :/
― homosexual II, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
oh for sure. i bet they were going to the "do-it-yourself dog wash" down the street.
that's ok mandee, maybe next trip.
― Jordan, Monday, 28 July 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
How expensive is it to rent here compared to, say, Portland? Or Seattle?
― Ronnie Thunders, Friday, 24 April 2009 21:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I rented a two-bedroom 1200 sq foot apt in the Baker neighborhood for $850.
― kate78, Saturday, 25 April 2009 05:46 (fifteen years ago) link
"SNOW...HEAVY AT TIMES WILL DEVELOP WEDNESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUEINTO THURSDAY. TOTAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 10 TO 18 INCHES AREPOSSIBLE...WITH UP TO 24 INCHES IN THE DENVER AREA. NORTH WINDS AT15 TO 30 MPH WILL PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW."
i tried to tell my 5 y/o--"this is one of the best times for you, you get to go to sleep hoping for a snow day." im pretty sure he'll get it this time.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 28 October 2009 03:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Post pictures tomorrow!
― kate78, Wednesday, 28 October 2009 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/snowjpg.jpg
19 1/2" so far, another 4-8 expected today.
― bitter about emo (Hunt3r), Thursday, 29 October 2009 14:15 (fourteen years ago) link
What part of town are you in?
― kate78, Friday, 30 October 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
What are the pluses and minuses of living in Denver? We really liked the city and almost vaguely thought we would want to live there, but it might have been like that Cleveland episode of 30 Rock.
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 11:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Where do you live now?
― kkvgz, Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Pluses:- Small enough to get around easily- Feels like a community- Clean, organized, nice to look out- Mountains nearby- Okay music scene- Pretty good restaurants- Mountains nearby- Not too expensive
Cons:- Pretty much the only big city around in like five hundred miles--I don't care about this, but some people do
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i honestly didnt realize there were any other denver ilxors. wow, i am a fool!
oh, another cons: lots of mountain BRO culture and hippies around. i dont really mind these innocent folks, but some people get upset about it.
― homosexual II, Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't live in denver, but i work there. i think denver's cool, can't really put my finger on any *real* cons. I think compared to some cities, it might seems a tad boring/personality-less, but once you dig a little deeper there's plenty going on. some people complain about traffic (sometimes I do, too), but really, if you've lived in any other big-ish city, the traffic is not really remarkable.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll make it to Denver one day
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:09 (fourteen years ago) link
― kkvgz, Thursday, August 19, 2010 8:17 AM Bookmark
Brooklyn. New York City often feels like too much for me although it's unlikely that I'll pick up and move to Denver.
Good things I noticed:Never felt too crowdedNice residential neighborhoods right in the city within a walk or short drive of commercial areasLots of green spaceLove the stadiums being right downtown in a nice commercial area (we got $4 rockpile tickets, sat at a local brewery for a bit, waltzed right in for the 3rd-8th innings of the game, and then walked out)Community -- my friend who I was staying with had several neighbors he was friendly with. I also noticed that it was easy for him to get several other people to show up for the game on short notice.People generally care a lot about fitness and the outdoors
Negatives:Did seem a little clean-cut and unvariedSome parts were a little too emptyFelt like maybe it could get boring
― Theodore "Thee Diddy" Roosevelt (Hurting 2), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:13 (fourteen years ago) link
This like us when we went out to New Mexico. Grass is always greener, amirite. Would still SRSLY love to live out there sometime though!
― .. help? (admrl), Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, i think you can definitely stumble across parts of Denver that just feel like dull office parks where no one ever goes. but a bunch of the neighborhoods (wash park, s. broadway, highlands) really have nice, classic atmospheres. and downtown is surprisingly packed with stuff these days -- tons of great restaurants, awesome places to drink beer (a big part of my job currently is this: www.denverbeerfest.com), one of the better bookstores in the world ... oh, lotsa medicinal marijuana these days too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno, i think one of the main problems with the perception of Denver, is that there's not a lot of romance/mystique surrounding it. when you tell people you live/work in Denver they're like "oh ..."
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 August 2010 15:23 (fourteen years ago) link