Denver Sights

There’s plenty of public art in Denver, including a blue bear and this horse in a red chair (here and here, respectively). Tourists can also sneak a peak inside the Unsinkable Molly Brown’s house on Pennsylvania St.

Denver Nights

El Chapultepec is a little jazz club on Market St in LoDo, and one of a number of finds in Denver.

Whiskey Blanket

I just bought Whiskey Blanket’s It’s Warmer Down Here (2004) on the basis of a few tracks they offered on MySpace.
It’s hip hop, socially critical hip hop (crit hop?), set atop a well constructed downtempo trip hop music bed (yeah, I’ll cut it with the hops already). It immediately brought to mind MC 900 Ft. [...]

Fun With (Explosive) Balloons

Okay, so this is certainly in the “don’t try this at home, kids” category, but we can all laugh and point at other’s stupidity. Denver’s ABC channel 7 reported last month on a foolish fellow who inflated balloons with acetalyne, the highly flamable and explosive gas used in welding, and drove off to a superbowl [...]

Tesla’s History In Colorado Springs, Colorado

Nikola Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs on May 17, 1899. He was met at the train by patent lawyer Leonard Curtis, and was taken by horse and carriage to the Alta Vista Hotel, where he would reside while in Colorado. Tesla was greeted at the hotel by a group of reporters, one of whom asked [...]