Love your North Denver neighborhood? Shop locally

by Elisa Cohen

NORTH DENVER – If we love the color our local stores bring to our streets, we must spend some of our holiday dollars in our local stores. To sweeten the local shopping deals, Tennyson Street is holding a Jingle and Mingle to lure shoppers out into these neighborhood stores on Wednesday, December 10 and again on Saturday, December 20. Shoppers will be serenaded with Christmas carolers and children will have an opportunity to have their pictures taken with Santa. Read more

Bliss Cafe, a hip, mod venue for food, music

by Elisa Cohen

ARVADA – Bliss, the state of ecstatic happiness so far from reach at times it seems a foreign word. With children attending schools along the Aurora border and the outer edges of Arvada and their dueling night time performance schedules, our family sampled the food at Bliss in Olde Town Arvada, in part because the café looked so inviting and in part because it was equidistant from two events our children were involved with in their schools. Luckily for us, the food was good, the mod hip environment was charming, and the service was quick enough that we all managed to make it to our destinations in time to enjoy the events of the evening. Read more

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Family-Friendly and Surreal

by Craig Williamson

HARKNESS HEIGHTS – One of the favorite books of my childhood was Roald Dahl’s classic Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I remember being angry when the movie version with Gene Wilder came out, because they changed things slightly, including having Charlie behave inappropriately and then get away with it.  I knew that the current production at the Denver Victorian, an adaptation of the book, couldn’t try to match the special effects of either film version, so I was curious how they would deal with the magical and surreal world Dahl created in his story.  Read more

NHS Ethics Club Food Drive

by Elisa Cohen

HIGHLAND -  North High School’s Ethic Club, founded by North High senior Isaac Solano, lives its name. The extracurricular group meets after school to perform works that will help the school and the surrounding community. This holiday season, the Ethics Club once again strives to feed the hungry with their 3rd annual canned food drive. The club seeks the help of the community to reach their food drive goal. Read more

Red Trolley – ice cream and more

by Elisa Cohen

Now that winter’s chill is finally starting to feel itself inside our bones, we headed off to Red Trolley at 32nd and Clay for some delectable homemade ice cream and gelato treats. Yeah, eating a big dish of handmade pear sorbet may seem off season, but to offset the chill, a kicking cup of their Novo coffee or any other hot drink makes for a delightful dessert diversion any time of the year. Read more

Speech and Debate at Curious Tackles Adolescence, Sexuality

by Craig Williamson

Curious Theatre presents an intense and funny production of Stephen Karam’s Speech and Debate, a show that takes on difficult issues around sexuality and adolescence.  The show is very funny, but also presents three teenagers’ views of the hypocrisy of individuals and the unpleasant implications of inappropriate sexual relationships between youth and adults in positions of responsibility.  Read more

RTD selects 41st and Fox for the Goldline station

by Elisa Cohen

GLOBEVILLE – RTD has selected 41st and Fox for the Goldline station in North Denver. Residents of Sunnyside will be able to walk across a vastly improved pedestrian bridge to access the station, and bicyclists will join them by taking an elevator up to the top of the bridge and another elevator back down. A number of factors narrowed the selection to the east side of the tracks. Read more

No sharing NW campuses

by Elisa Cohen

NORTH DENVER – Three North Denver schools – Skinner, Lake and North – dodged the need to share their campuses. Citing a lack of students in the neighborhood, Denver Public School administrator Brad Jupp said the decision is temporary and that DPS would continue to monitor the buildings to see if some sort of sharing or closure is in order in the future. Read more

Organics recycling goes green

by Elisa Cohen

SLOAN’S LAKE – Berilyn Branch has a new after dinner routine; she reaches into the garbage and sorts the organic trash from the plastics. Habits die hard. Since signing up to be in the city’s organic composting pilot program, Branch has to undo decades of garbage habits that include throwing everything but cans and newspapers into the trash can. With the city’s new green composting bins accepting food scraps, soiled paper such as napkins and cartons, and all yard trimmings virtually the only items that need to be thrown away as trash are plastic packaging. Read more

The sanctuary of home

by Elisa Cohen

HIGHLAND – The sanctuary of home promises respite from the storms of life. To come home, to shut the door, and to relax amongst one’s own beautiful objects is a freedom defended by all American political parties. Whether John McCain or Barack Obama takes over the helm of the country, home furnishing and interior design store Sanctuary Home promises to provide Americans of all persuasions with the objects of beauty and comfort they desire with prices to meet the budgets of Democrats, Republicans, Greens and Independents alike. Read more

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