• Best Members' Show: You of All People! Here of All Places!
• Best Abstract Show by a Denver Artist: Big Lots, Wendi Harford
• Best New Public Art Downtown:  Joseph Riché's "Trade Deficit"
• Best Show About the Intersection of Art and Commerce: Colin Livingston: The Big Idea
• Best Venue for Dance/Avant-Garde: Packing House Center for the Arts
• Best Halloween in a Cemetery: Halloween Cemetery Tour and Spirits of Riverside Art Show
• Best Side Trip by a Pop Band: The Flobots
• Best Gallery Show — Duet: Monroe Hodder and Michael Clapper
• Best Workspace for Greenies: Green Spaces
• Best Growing Concern: The GrowHaus
• Best Green Ideas: Blue and Yellow Logic

The challenge focused on a 46-acre site that included the Coliseum and its parking lots to the southwest toward Globeville Landing Park. The site sits at the crossroads of the redeveloping area north of Downtown that features nearby the RiNo arts district, future FasTracks transit stations, South Platte River amenities, and excellent highway access. One of the competition’s main assumptions was that the Coliseum had to remain the property of the city and continue as an entertainment venue. Click here for more information on the Rocky Mountain Real Estate Challenge.

Congratulations to the Flatiron Development Group from CU, we applaud your vision and thank you for engaging the RiNo Community. Click here for a summary of their visionary project.

GREAT article in The Denver Post today about RiNo!
Written by Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic check it out here.

Hinterland, 3254 Walnut St. 720-309-1764 or hinterlandartspace.com. No location in RiNo has a rougher feel than this time-worn structure, with its nondescript exterior and raw interior spaces. A studio adjoins a small, garage-door gallery, where a solo exhibition by Allie Pohl is on view.  (Photo: Reza A. Marvashti , The Denver Post )

More great press on FUEL and TAXI from this week’s Westword.
http://www.westword.com/2010-05-06/restaurants/fuel-caf-helps-energize-the-rino-neighborhood/

Fuel Cafe at TAXI:
3455 Ringsby Court, Suite 105
Denver, CO 80216
303.296.4642
www.FUELCAFEdenver.com
Monday – Friday: Lunch 11am – 3pm
Thursday, Friday & Saturday: Dinner 5pm – 9pm

River North Art District will be mentioned in the April/May edition of ReadyMade Magazine

ReadyMade is a magazine about people who make things and the culture of making, for the innovator inside each one of us.

Pick up a copy and support the magazine!

http://www.readymade.com/magazine/

Local artist’s art piece is stopping traffic and pedestrians travelling on 14th and Arapahoe in the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The 60 foot billboard of Kathy Knaus’ painting“Grinder” was installed on Monday, March 1st as part of the Denver Theatre District’s project.

Kathy Knaus is a painter and installation artist and a member of the artists’ cooperative Ice Cube Gallery at the Dry Ice Factory (3320 Walnut St) in the Rino Arts District. She currently is exhibiting “Meat Market” at the Ice Cube Gallery until March 20, 2010. The Denver Theatre District’s (http://www.denvertheatredistrict.com/) project is to expose Denver artists and galleries and add vitality to downtown Denver by placing art pieces on billboard’s and LED signs throughout the Denver Theatre District. Ivar Zeile, the creative director of the Denver Theatre District states, “Kathy Knaus’ artwork fits well into the directive of the Denver Theatre District’s goals to feature progressive and visually engaging contemporary art in the outdoor gallery that reflects the high caliber being created locally in Denver. The billboards also have specific size parameters, with the wide panoramic being the most challenging to fit without compromising the integrity of the original work. My hope is that those who engage with “Grinder” will be compelled to learn more about Kathy’s work as well as the burgeoning contemporary scene here in Denver.”

TAXI is about creating a culture and environment built around innovation and new ideas – that is very much embodied in Bob’s kitchen at FUEL.

A taste of some of the recognition FUEL continues to receive for maintaining the highest standards and never being too predictable:

http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_14450739 
(list of top restaurants that recognized FUEL as a trendsetter)

http://frenchpressmemos.blogspot.com/2010/02/extra-heartbeats.html

Image text (from March issue of 5280):
It’s a testament to Bob Blair’s cooking that the tucked-away Fuel Cafe has not only survived but also thrived. Once you find this funky, eclectic eatery (located in the TAXI development in burgeoning RiNo), you’ll return for the dynamic soups (hope for the showstopping sausage and white bean with escarole), the Cubano sandwich, and the specials the kitchen cooks up each day. Open for lunch during the week and dinner Thursday through Saturday, the restaurant has a constantly changing menu that reflects Blair’s mood. One day, that means Asian braised short ribs with kimchi; the next it’s comfort food in the form of crispy oyster po’boys.
3455 Ringsby Court, 303-996-6988, www.fuelcafedenver.com

Plus Gallery in the news:

Bill Amundson makes the front page - click here 
Take Five” gets some press - full article here

and Schimek and Novik at Lisa Kowalski Gallery:
http://www.denverpost.com/art/ci_14421065

Check out articles about two of the more famous RiNos: 
Susan Wick and Michael Ensminger in the 
lates issueof 303 Magazine! They're stars! 
Click HERE

A.D. - a CG animated Horror-Adventure written by RiNo Haylar Garcia. The movie teaser was directed by Ben Hibon (Codehunters) and produced by Bernie Goldmann (300), Tarik Heitmann and Renee Tab.

Check out the final trailer, leave good comments, raise the hype and help push the film into greenlight!

GO HERE to see the teaser!