This is a work by Marsha Mack, who was Commissioned by Downtown Denver Business Improvement…read moreDistrict to do the piece as part of the 2019 Between Us: The Downtown Denver Alleyways Project . It is Digital print on Dibond. It kind of reminds me of those dress up character boards that kids do. According to the artist the piece "explores identity through Vietnamese objects that represent femininity and street culture while also paying homage to the traditional children's toy and alley clotheslines." The mural features three áo dài, which is a symbol of Vietnamese femininity and is commonly worn at formal events, on holidays, or as an everyday outfit. There is a bunch of symbolism with the dresses. The white áo dài is meant to represent youthfulness and purity. The red and gold laced áo dài with khăn đóng bridal crown is used for weddings. And the blue lotus áo dài, is traditionally worn by mature women. You will also see a bouquet of lotus blossoms, the national flower of Vietnam, a scooter, and a silk fan. All signature Vietnamese items. The piece is 3D as the individual pieces are attached to the brick wall. There is a sign next to the mural that gives details about it. It is beginning to peel though. The mural is very nice. I love the artwork and the play on a old child's game. It is not in a very prominent spot, like on the backside of an alley, which I just happened to stumble across. It is located in a narrow alleyway behind the mall. It is very narrow and easy to miss. The mural is right by the 16th Street Mall so there are parking garages and metered street parking available within a reasonable walking distance. There is also a spot in front of the mural that you can pull into and get out and take a closer look, if you are quick. The mural is simple, but I am here for it. I like it. It looks very real and can easily be mistaken for a cutout of a photo. Anyway, as with most murals that I have visited and reviewed, this is probably not a very long stop. I was there less than 5 minutes. With that being said, you may want to consider planning out additional stops at many of the other attractions in the area, or making this stop part of a larger itinerary to maximize your time and trip.

This is a building blocks of primary colored tower that reads "All Together Now". There's a long…read morebench along the building attached to a yellow aluminum wall with diamonds on it. The sculpture was created by Robert Behar and Rosario Marquardt, a Miami-based husband and wife team. The sculpture and bench on the wall is located outside the Corner Office restaurant and bar and across the street from the Denver Center for Performing Arts. It's been here since 2007 and cost about $250,000. "All Together Now" is a place of camaraderie and friendship belonging to all. It's intended to be a place to meet up in the city. It's hard to miss! It is 42 ft tall and is easily spotted! It is set close to a street corner (14th St & Curtis St), which helps with viisbility!

You will find this sculpture on the Plaza of the Byron Rogers Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse…read more It is the work of Edgar Britton who created the piece in 1965. It was commissioned by GSA to provide a visual focus for the Entrance to the Byron G. Rogers Federal Building. You cannot help but notice the pieces uncanny resemblance to a totem pole. It has carvings that are inspired by Native American art. Some of it looks like basic cave drawings to me. Brittion refers to it as a bronze bas-relief art column though. The sculpture originally served as a canopy support, but had to be relocated when the entrance to the building was reconfigured. The sculpture has a weathered bronze plaque on the ground that gives a very brief synopsis of the piece and its sculpture Brittion. It is pretty worn, bit still able to read. This abstract sculpture is in great shape, especially considering its age. It is a basic design but borderline historical. I will admit that most viewers of this sculpture will be visitors to the Federal Building. If you one of the few viewers that want to park and check it out, there is metered street parking within a reasonable walking distance. However it turns out that you ended up viewing this sculpture, as with most sculptures that I have visited and reviewed, this is not a long stop. I was there less than 5 minutes. So, you may want to consider planning out additional stops at many of the other attractions in the area, or making this stop part of a larger itinerary to maximize your time and trip

his is an abstract piece that you will find on the 17th Street Plaza, across from One Tabor Center…read more It is the work of Kenneth Snelson, who created the piece in 1982. The aluminum sculpture resembles a bunch of all television antennas that you would find on a roof. Its dimensions are 17 feet by 63 feet by 45 feet and costed an estimated $250,000. You can see through, walk under, and walk around the piece and are encouraged to view it from different ages. In this piece, Snelson used hollow tubes and steel cables to express an elaborate shape suspended in the air, an effect the artist called "floating compression." It is a very interesting piece and very simple. Snelson credits the inspiration of this and others pieces as lectures on geometric forms delivered by Buckminster Fuller that he attended. He had "a desire to unveil, in whatever ways I can, the wondrous essence of elementary structure." Even though it is basic. It is still a nice piece that catches your eye. Anyway, As with most sculptures that I have visited and reviewed, this is probably not a very long stop. I was there less than 5 minutes. With that being said, you may want to consider planning out additional stops at many of the other attractions in the area, or making this stop part of a larger itinerary to maximize your time and trip.

We go every year and always have a great time! They have good food trucks, a beer garden, awesome…read moremusic and fun activities for the kids.

When my fellow Yelp friend told me about a "Rockin' 80's Block Party" happening in Lakewood; my…read moreinterest was piqued. Now when she added in that it was FREE and would feature a lawn showing of Labyrinth; I was all in! So we made our way to Lakewood's Heritage Center to rock out like it's 1986! The folks at Lakewood's Heritage Center rolled out the red carpet for patrons of the event. Allowing us to browse the various buildings and exhibits. Many buildings were actually moved from other locations in the area and relocated here for preservation/restoration! Neat! I loved seeing the motel and the school house. Def some great history and knowledgeable volunteers on site. Live music was provided by Hey, Lady! There were a couple food trucks on hand to help satisfy those hungry bellies. Moe's Original BBQ, Eaton Healthy Food Truck, Baker St. Pretzels, and Paciugo Gelato Caffè; all there slinging their tasty wares. The event boasted a "beer garden;" including: CAUTION: Brewing Co, WestFax Brewing Company, Green Mountain Beer Company, Green Mountain Beer Company, Ironworks Brewery & Pub, and LandLocked Ales. Which I was quite excited about! That excitement quickly tapered off when I realized that not all the breweries were well (if at all) represented and the selection was minimal (mostly IPAs, odd). Which made it even more disappointing when they ran out of cider and the back-up was Stella's Cidre. Oh well, it's not a brew fest after all. All-in-all it was a really cute little shin-dig! Love that the Lakewood Heritage Center thought of such a creative way to bring the neighborhood together.

You've seen em, but have you taken a ride yet? I have to say cruising down the 16th St mall in one…read moreof these is really cool! Not walking, because occasionally I'm lazy, I jumped in one and found a new way to go downtown. Watching the stores, the people going by while wrapped in a huge blanket. Not on the stinky free shuttle with 100 other fools scrabbling for holiday gifts, I am care free, and seeing things a little different. A sort of Denver-Dickensonian vision unfurls in my head with the snow falling, and carols are being sung by small children's voices Then I realise my cabbie has been talking to me this whole time. Sorry, man! I get off at my destination feeling strangely refreshed before returning to my mundane little world..

What a treat. Within an older neighborhood stands the University of Denver, a very updated and…read moremodern campus with many new and architecturally interesting buildings. The private University is over 140 years in age and is bisected by Evans Avenue and University Boulevard. Commercial businesses line both the Avenue and Street. Nearby is Observatory Park with its large telescope. The homes in the area are mostly over 70 years of age and tend to be smaller homes. Within the neighborhood are medical buildings and Porter hospital along with Harvey Park and it's short golf course. As you would suspect, there are plenty of apartment houses in the area, as well as every type of business and restaurant imaginable. The area is easily reached since it is next-door to I-25 and an RTD train station is located near the campus. It is worth visiting and while in the area grab some freshly made coffee from Kaladi Brothers Coffee on Evans Avenue.

Holy crap. I had no idea how serious a theater full of 360+ geek could be about their trivia. But,…read moreI learned my friends, I learned. Geek Bowl 2009 was my first brush with this event and even though I was just a spectator rather than a, um, trivia-er? I could still feel the tangible excitement in the air. What was so exciting you ask? I believe it was either the $500, $1000, and $1500 prizes, the nearness of all the other smarties, or just the booze. It could have been a combination of all of the above though. Geek Bowl is fairly similar to the weekly quizzes in the fact that there are 8 rounds and they have varying topics. But, here each round has 10 questions. And the music round this year was performed live on a ukulele by Ukulele Loki himself. I almost lost it when he played Ozzy's "Crazy Train" on that thing. I imagine this bowl every year takes enormous amounts of effort to pull off and I simply want to say well done to those in charge and that helped out. I'll be back next year, perhaps as a challenger, or um trivia-er.

SUCKTASTIC!…read more Ill-conceived and poorly executed, Geek Bowl IV was the biggest disappointment of our quizzing year. It's very hard to believe that this was actually the FOURTH annual Geek Bowl these guys have pulled off, considering how badly it all went. The finished product was much like the Oscars in every bad way, complete with self-indulgent presenters and performances that didn't know when to end. Our planned 3-hour evening stretched into a 5-hour ordeal that dragged on f-o-r-e-v-e-r. Worst of all, the quiz itself seemed incidental to the "pageantry" and was not given the respect it deserved. Questions were read at a frenzied pace, and not repeated at all, even when mistakes were made in the intial read. The "pageantry," by the way, consisted of a choreographed group dance number by Geeks Who Drink employees (the high point of the evening,) a live music round by a one-man band that featured primal howls and painful screeching feedback from the sound system, and a 5-minute set by a stand-up comic, ostensibly planned to be at the end of the first scoring break; however as the minutes dragged on and on, it ended up being buried inside the longest scoring break ever. During breaks, music was being blasted so loud that our team, despite being huddled around a 2-ft diameter table, had to lean over and shout in each others' ears to make ourselves heard. Did I mention this was all taking place in PITCH BLACK DARKNESS?? By far the most ridiculous oversight in a long list of amateurish mistakes, the majority of the tables in the venue had absolutely NO LIGHT by which to see the answer sheets. Obviously there were a few teams who had a heads-up on this issue, because a handful had brought cigarette lighters or little LED lights with them, despite the threats of ejection from the theater for bringing any outside items into the quiz. One girl had (and I am absolutely not making this up, as bizarre as it sounds,) a FRIGGIN' SPELUNKING LIGHT attached to her head, much like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Petzl-E52-AC-Ultra-Headlamp/dp/B001N0ETU8/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=sporting-goods&qid=1264955819&sr=1-10 Our team did not get the memo about BYO-cave gear, so we had to make do with the pale blue glow of the neon beer logos above the bar some 30 paces behind us. Even that scant, buzzing light was only available when each team behind us had their bodies turned and legs crossed a certain way. Any slight shift in body position from a dozen other teams would plunge us into utter darkness again. We were writing our answers completely blindly, with no idea whether we'd entered our answer on the correct line. It was also impossible to scan the page to see if we'd left anything blank. With the blinding darkness, the sound system feedback, and the dry, overpriced food offerings, the assault on our senses was nearly complete. Then some nearby team implemented the diabolical strategy of letting a rank one at the beginning of each round so we were overwhelmed with the sulphurous stench of methane while trying to recall the name of the geriatric Polident maven or the cross-dressing journalist from Just One of the Guys. And what's with the ridiculously long scoring breaks? Certainly GWD should have known how long it would take to score for such a formidable number of teams. Why didn't they take EVERY SINGLE present employee and set them to work on scoring each round as it was collected? Instead, these employees were apparently instructed to awkwardly flail about the stage in a drunken stupor to the musical stylings of Journey. I think GWD summed it up best in their opening video: "You paid 25 bucks for this... SUCKAS!" Suckas indeed. Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice... I forget how the rest of that goes. Anyway, we're wiser now, and we won't be fooled again. Geek Bowl is a waste of time and money. At least I made off with two fistfuls of free Yelp pens, which inspired me to come home and write this review.