Highland News

I must have driven past this old set of row-homes just off Speer Boulevard in the Highland neighborhood a thousand times before I happened to notice the odd little symbol embedded in the brickwork: a swastika.

Dan Hoffman says he's been "recalling as well as reflecting" since he heard the news Thursday of super singer Michael Jackson 's passing.

Urbavore's Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers' commitment to urban homesteading.

At a recent Northfield Stapleton farmers' market, Henry Naughton, 3, helps his mom, Katie, bag their produce from Miller Farms as dad Luke stands by.

Mary Jane's is finishing up construction in Highland. Could be a fight to the finish to see which storefront pizza joint opens first: Denver Pizza Company -- whose owner, Mark Huebner, can focus on finishing his Golden Triangle spot now that he's been booted off The Bachelorette -- or Mary Jane's Pizza.

Leave it up to the all-powerful, online Mafiosi known as the Highland Mommies to break the news about a potential new eatery opening in northwest Denver.

Coors Field again asking for a law to preserve its mountain view -- and maybe get some more parking lots too Thursday, Jun.

As the Central Platte Valley and the Highlands have become increasingly active neighborhoods, city planners have developed a series of distinctive pedestrian bridges in the area to help foot traffic overcome the rail lines, river and highway that lie underfoot.

It's gearing up to be a big food and wine weekend, kids. On Saturday, Ace Hardware, Alameda Station, 417 South Broadway, is holding its first-ever "Big Green Egg" grilling competition, a smoking and grilling face-off between students from the Art Institute of Colorado and other participating hopefuls, all of whom will fire and smoke their food on a ...

As part of the ever-expanding effort to pump a little "spirit" into the venues that host Denver's First Friday events in several arts districts around town, the Artwork Network showroom, 878 Santa Fe Drive, will sell glasses of wine and bottles from the Bonacquisti Wine Company , beginning with the First Friday festivities on June 5, from 5 to 9 ...

I'm sorry to report, however, that I just received an e-mail from someone calling herself the "Highlands Mommies Moderator" rejecting my Highland Mommies membership application because I don't live within the group's playpen boundaries.

The folks behind the Cellar Wine Bar, slated for the former home of the Red Door at 2556 15th Street, have applied with the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses for a beer and wine liquor license.

BAR: SUSHI HAI Sushi Hai, one of the owners tells me, is a "little bit of LoDo in Highland." From street level, the eatery looks like a small sushi bar in the middle of a happening neighborhood.

I'm looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the "Travel by Train" sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years.

Drinking in Denver with jumbo margaritas, The Boss' crew & Cucumber Jones. By Ted Scheffler A quick weekend trip to Denver to see The Boss in concert provided the pleasant opportunity of also eating and drinking to excess.

The Lower Highland and Central Platte Valley neighborhoods flank I-25 northwest of the central business district and Lower Downtown .

April 1, 2009 - Mark your calendar for the 15th Annual 'Spring into Health' event on May 28, 2009 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.. For the first time, 'Spring into Health' is being held at Denver Zoo, an 80-acre wonderland in Denver's historic City Park.

I don't know where to begin. Should I start with the girl in the full-length fur over her sundress in the dining room - the one I'd pegged as a Russian mafia princess until I heard her speaking flawless English - or the beautiful people on the patio discussing their recent returns from San Francisco, Manhattan and London, driven home to Denver by ...

Beth Kaminsky moved back from Englewood to Denver in search of more diversity for herself and 3-year-old twins Gus and Mae.

First, the bad news. Pho 99, the excellent little pho shop in Alameda Square -- the plaza now being torn down to make room for an enormous hardware store -- has closed.