Good morning, Colorado.
My stupid, beloved Braves were eliminated last night, ending my baseball interests a month early for yet another season. So now my nighttime October entertainment turns to scary season.
My girlfriend and I are planning to watch a different scary movie every night this month, and have already knocked out modern classics “Cabin in the Woods” and “The Babadook.” Any other suggestions are welcome, with her only caveat being “nothing too weird.” I disagree, though. The weirder the better.
What’s not weird? Our daily dose of news.
OUTDOORS
The Ever Vail project west of Lionshead Village — depicted in this 2010 artist rendering — proposed more than 400 units and a commercial village. That concept is gone and a new plan for the parcel along Gore Creek partners Vail Resorts with the Town of Vail and East West Partners. (Handout)
The Town of Vail and Vail Resorts this week announced a partnership to develop a fourth base village at the Vail ski area where the ski area operator a decade ago planned to build its own luxury village. The deal includes workforce housing and the ski area company agreeing to drop its appeal of the town’s 2022 condemnation and eminent domain acquisition of a 23-acre property in East Vail where Vail Resorts planned housing for 165 employees. Jason Blevins has more.
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WATER
Farmland near Swink is shown in this July 2 photo. Opponents of recent water sales to entities like Aurora and Colorado Springs say the sales threaten agricultural interests in the Lower Arkansas Valley. (Mike Sweeney, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Lower Arkansas Valley water districts and Aurora plan to open talks later this year aimed at providing aid to the region to offset the impact of a controversial, large-scale water purchase by Aurora that will periodically dry up thousands of acres of farmland. Jerd Smith has more.
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ARTS
Mark Treadway works on a painting that will be displayed at the Art Beyond Boundaries Auction, held at the Gunnison Arts Center. Treadway participates in the Six Points Evaluation and Training program located in the Six Points Thrift Store. (Dean Krakel, Special to The Colorado Sun)
“They ended up here for a reason, so if we can provide what they need and keep them here, that’s the ideal.”
— Nancy Lakiotes, assistant director of Six Points
On Friday, the Gunnison Arts Center will hold an opening reception for the Six Points Art Show, an annual, monthlong exhibition to showcase the work of Six Points clients with intellectual disabilities. Parker Yamasaki has more on the history of the art show.
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MORE NEWS
COLORADO REPORT
- Denver says it has enough motel rooms and tiny homes for people leaving homelessness — for now. The city has sheltered nearly 2,000 people living in encampments, though some returned to the streets.
— Denverite
- Mountain drivers frustrated with traffic, “nasty” conditions due to leaf-peeping “ding dongs”. “If you park on the side of the road where there is not room to park, I hope you stub your toe really hard,” one TikTok user said.
— The Know 🔑
- Billionaires dominating Colorado’s election, new reports show. Extremely wealthy individuals — most from outside Colorado — are donating huge sums to persuade voters to approve two 2024 ballot measures: Proposition 131, which would create ranked choice general elections, and Amendment 79, which would enshrine abortion access in the Colorado Constitution.
— Axios Denver
- Aurora apartments in disputed viral “gang” video targeted for closure by city. “Our primary focus is getting these delinquent property owners to take care of their properties and their tenants,” Aurora spokesman Ryan Luby said.
- — The Aurora Sentinel
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Oct. 3-9
The Yellow Barn Farm’s namesake barn stored hay for decades when the farm served as an equestrian center. Since 2021, sisters Azuraye and Devon Wycoff have converted it into an event space. (Photo by Devon Wycoff)
Yellow Barn Film Festival. Last year we visited a big yellow barn on the side of Foothills Highway, north of Boulder and south of Lyons, while the sister-owners of the barn planned the property’s first film festival, appropriately titled the Yellow Barn Film Festival.
On Sunday, the yellow barn folks are hosting their second film festival, making this an annual event that you can still experience in its early years. This year’s lineup mirrors last year’s in its themes and throughlines. Expect a lot of films about Indigeneity, land stewardship and agriculture. And Lily Gladstone. There will be more Lily Gladstone.
The one-day program begins at 10 a.m. with a series of documentary shorts followed by a Q&A. After that, there will be two feature film screenings, one of “The Unknown Country,” a 2022 drama starring Gladstone, and the other of “Common Ground,” a documentary that digs into America’s broken food system. A series of narrative shorts and a cocktail mixer round out the day’s events.
Tickets to individual film blocks are only $12 — cheaper than a night at the Arc or the Alamo Drafthouse, or buy a full day pass for $35.
$35 full festival pass; 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Oct. 6; 9417 N. Foothills Highway, Longmont
- AyA Con. Annual comic convention that blends nerd culture and Indigenous heritage. The festival is open to everyone, and will center Indigenous creators. Stop into a storytelling workshop, watch the futurism fashion show, attend a live comic reading or participate in the cosplay contest. Free; Oct. 4-6; McNichols Civic Center Building, 144 W. Colfax Ave., Denver
- “Nepantla” Curator Talk. Opening reception and curator talk for “Nepantla,” a group exhibition of 36 Chicano/Latino artists exploring the space in between countries and cultures. Tonight, the show’s curator will give a talk starting at 6:30 p.m. Exhibition is on display until Jan. 5. $10; 6-8 p.m., Oct. 3; Museum of Art, Fort Collins, 201 S. College Ave., Fort Collins
- Indigenous Artist Panel. A panel discussion with Indigenous authors authors Robin Kimmerer and Angeline Boulley, photographer Matika Wilbur and poet Kinsale Drake. The artists will discuss the connections between their work and Indigenous traditions, arts and sciences. $50; 6-7:45 p.m., Oct. 8; Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver
See you tomorrow.
— Kevin & the whole staff of The Sun
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