I took the above photograph of Denver's iconic Daniels and Fischer Tower - a famous reminder of Denver's past - last Sunday evening as I was driving home from downtown. The Denver Broncos were playing at Mile High Stadium that evening, and everybody was getting an early start on the party. Denver is now a much livelier city than when I first moved here 32 years ago. And I give credit where credit is due: once all those millions upon millions of Californians who started moving here in the 1990s took a look at Glendale - a suburb surrounded by the city of Denver and the so-called nightclub district at the time - things began to change quickly. Glendale fell out of favor and Lower Downtown ("LoDo") was born. Now Glendale is hoping to reinvent itself by building an entertainment oriented Riverwalk along Cherry Creek, the center-point of which will be a strip club called Shotgun Willies. As I understand it, once the Riverwalk is built there are plans to rename the strip club "The Glendale Center for the Performing Arts." Good luck with that, guys.
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