Carbondale entrepreneur Kyle Siegel cut short a trip visiting suppliers in Vietnam and rushed back to Denver this week for a chance to win $100,000 in a competition for startup companies patterned…
Month: May 2025
The Stipend
Photograph by Jan Mellström, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 1.0. My new job came with a research stipend. I’d never had one before—a few grand that would renew each year for…
Thunderstorms possible in Denver through Memorial Day weekend
Memorial Day will likely coincide with rain and thunder in Denver this year following a wet weekend, according to the National Weather Service. The metro area can expect showers through Saturday afternoon,…
A Missive Sent Straight from the Mayhem: On Michelle Tea’s Valencia
Photograph by Juergen Striewski, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Michelle Tea once described Valencia as “a snapshot, more or less, of my twenty-fifth year on earth, written not how…
2 injured in shooting at Aurora house party
Two people were shot early Sunday morning at a house party in Aurora, police said. Aurora officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 3600 block of South Andes Way just…
A Night and a Day and a Night and a Day and a Night and a Day in the Dark
Photographs courtesy of Lisa Carver. Day One All around me are short, shiny young Romans groping each other. The old ones engage in the more solitary pleasures of hawking loogies and…
Is OKC Thunder’s depth catching up with Nuggets in playoff series?
A war of attrition fittingly tilted in favor of the team with more rations. Maybe it was inevitable, as the Nuggets and Thunder clanked 3-pointers, as fatigue infected their shooting forms, that…
The Hobo Handbook
Between Bakersfield and Fresno, California. Photograph by Rondal Partridge, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. The name of the book is a ruse. Camping on Low or No Dollars, the dingy cover page…
Metro Denver sees big surge in available home listings
Metro Denver home sellers are ready for summer, but buyers are chilling like it is still winter, and that is causing a bigger backlog of unsold properties to pile up. Buyers haven’t…
Keith McNally’s Rearview Mirror
From Reflected by Vijay Balakrishnan, a portfolio in issue no. 185 of the Review. “Restaurants will break your heart” is something that I often hear myself saying. It has become a mantra….