DENVER: A CITY IN CREATIVE FLUX Denver likes to call itself the Mile High City, which sounds like something a marketing team scribbled down after a few too many craft IPAs. It’s technically true, the city sits exactly 5,280 feet above sea level, but altitude is only half the story. The other half is a city that has shed its cowboy clichés to become a fully-fledged creative playground: the kind of place where you trip over a mural on the way to a sour beer, then end up debating abstract expressionism in a converted warehouse. As artist and Denver native Andrew Woodward told me on returning after 13 years in Boston: “Denver is historically a boom-bust town. I enjoy seeking out views that convey the city’s history mingled with modern development.” Once dismissed as a dusty stop-off en route to Aspen, Denver is now a destination in its own right. RiNo: Where the Walls Talk If you want to understand Denver’s pulse, start in the River North Art District (RiNo). Once a grid of auto shops and warehouses, it’s now a living mural with 150 walls painted that includes everything from Shepard Fairey’s iconography to Indigenous storytelling and Jeremy Burns’ trick-of-the-eye Larimer Boy/Girl. Between murals, … Continue reading DENVER: A CITY IN CREATIVE FLUX