Coronavirus updates in Denver: news you can use and slices of life in these strange times
It’s like your Twitter feed right now but with fewer trolls and more news.
Alex Chavarria organizes groceries inside the Sun Valley Kitchen, March 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
11:23 a.m. Local man shadowboxes through pandemic
Reader (and my friend) Jake Pelton saw this guy beating COVID-19 up in Civic Center Park yesterday.
-Ana Campbell
9:56 a.m. The Big Empty
Videographer Blake Rubenstein of Guerilla Capturing deployed his drone during the lunch hour on March 24 and March 26. What’d he find? A whole lot of nothing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4q3bKvzfiY
7:53 a.m. The library will host daily story times…starting today!
Starting today, those angels at the Denver Public Library will read stories every day Monday through Friday. The first hour, 9 a.m., will be in Spanish, 10 is for toddlers and 11 is all ages. The stories will be read (and archived) at youtube.com/denverlibrary.
-Ana Campbell
7:44 a.m. Denver jazz legend Freddy Rodriguez Sr. dies from coronavirus complications
Rodriguez, 89, was a staple at El Chapultapec for more than four decades. He had been in the hospital for a week.
“He was our king, our sax man,” his son Freddy Rodriguez Jr. told The Know. “Not just in music, but in life. He was an old-school, dedicated person who treated everybody with respect.”
Denver’s STAR program gets tentative $1 million to expand with more vans, longer hours
Westword Music Showcase will return with an expanded two-day festival in the RiNo Art District
What will happen with evictions in Denver once the CDC moratorium expires?
A food hall with 9 restaurants and tons of patio space is coming to McGregor Square
Hundreds celebrate La Raza Park’s new sign, months after the park was officially renamed — and decades after people started calling it that
LOOK: Denver’s Juneteenth parade returns to Five Points
Byers Library, named after Rocky Mountain News founder who praised the Sand Creek Massacre, may get a new name
DPD has been involved in at least five fatal shootings since May, but the department that investigates use of force is still without a permanent leader
LOOK: Juneteenth, now a federal holiday, has long been a big deal in Denver
Things to do in Denver this weekend, June 18-20
We asked passengers of the 15L, Denver’s most interesting bus route, what they want from the transit system
Cut down trees at the Loretto Heights campus catch fire
Denver City Council’s flexing a new law designed with transparency in mind to consider Mayor Hancock’s pick for DIA CEO
Juneteenth is back with in-person festivities this year. Here’s how you can celebrate in Denver
City opens “cooling stations” at 10 rec centers to help Denverites beat the heat
A more contagious variant of COVID-19 has been identified in Denver
RTD’s University of Colorado A Line won’t be called that starting next year
