We made gif portraits of everyone we met on Colfax for 5 hours
The resulting material produced a mosaic of faces and opinions of Denver's wickedest street.
Colfax Week
Denver’s looking to shut down the 7 Star Motel, its first nuisance case against a Colfax motel in years
This is the first time -- at least in existing city records -- that Denver's Department of Excise and Licenses has used a show-cause proceeding against a lodging facility.
Meet the unarmed squad of red berets who came to clean up Cap Hill
The Colorado Guardian Angels have seen the neighborhood transform since its rough-and-tumble days. Few know the "wicked" drag as intimately as they do.
If it wasn’t for Colfax motels, “my family and I would be on the street”
The motels that line Colfax are faded remnants of the avenue's glory days, vital housing for people who might otherwise be living on the streets.
The geek guide to Colfax, from games to theater, from Golden to Aurora
Where can you play video games, watch cult classics with exclusive collectibles, find cheap paperbacks and live a comic book shop Brigadoon? Colfax Avenue.
Inside Street Fraternity, where young men on the East Side find time to find themselves
Street Fraternity opened on East Colfax with the goal of working only with violent young men, but founders soon saw a larger need.
Colfax Week: Denverite’s series about the avenue that defines Denver
Our reporters have been canvassing Colfax Avenue for the past month, looking for stories that tell us about the past and the future of this cross-section of Denver.
Denver car dealerships worry about being driven from Colfax
Some Denver car dealerships worry about the emphasis on revitalizing Colfax, rising property values and the push for alternative transportation options.
OPINION: As a teenager, I lived on the 15, Colfax’s famous bus line, riding from Aurora to Civic Center
I often began my bus ride at I-225 where the Waffle House used to be because I could lock myself in the bathroom and sit under the hand dryer.
The “storage castle” changed East Colfax in 1926, and then never changed again
The goal of Weicker Depository seemed to be "preventing anyone or anything from corrupting the integrity" of the Wyman Historic District.
LOOK: What happened to Colfax? A graphic history
After the completion of Interstate 70, traffic and money stopped flowing down Colfax. Colfax lost its main street feel. A comic by Karl Christian Krumpholz.
Why does Colfax deserve a museum? “Because of the one-handed man!”
Jonny Barber's craziest Colfax story is perhaps the inevitable result of spending years as an Elvis impersonator and spending a lot of time on Colfax.
A night and a morning at Nob Hill Inn, the oldest dive bar on Colfax
A man walks through the door with a long, gray beard and a book. He wants to know if there are any reading glasses he can borrow out of the lost and found.
Lakewood turned a mall into an urban core — now it’s trying again on West Colfax
Where is downtown Lakewood? That's a loaded question with a complicated history. With new investment, it could once again be along West Colfax.
Jewish pioneers built the miniature downtown near Mile High — and a legacy on Colfax
Jewish immigrants were part of those first colonial population booms that shaped the city and state -- and they left their mark on Colfax Avenue.
A crazy Denver experiment: What if people had access to bathrooms?
Denver is deploying mobile bathroom units in big blue trailers along Colfax Avenue and downtown in the name of public health and public comfort.
Get in: We’re driving Colfax Avenue with the help of a nearly photographic memory
I recruited Tom Martin because Denverite is about to publish a week-long series on the avenue -- actually, you're reading the first piece of it now.