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8500 Peña Blvd. Denver, CO 80249

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Best Public Art at DIA
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2012 | Best Public Art at DIA

The creation of "Mustang," Luis Jimenez's 32-foot-tall rearing stallion in blue painted fiberglass, has all the elements of a good movie: Mature artist gets a major commission and attempts to create his masterpiece, but can't seem to complete it. More than ten years pass, with dueling lawsuits crossing between the artist and his patron, the City and County of Denver. Then, in what would be considered the climax -- if later outrageous events didn't eclipse it -- the... More »
2012 | Best DIA Conspiracy Theory

Denver International Airport has inspired many fine conspiracy theories -- that it's a creation of the New World Order, that there are Martians living underground -- but none as uplifting as the one exposed on The Colbert Report this fall. According to William Tapley, who calls himself both "Third Eagle of the Apocalypse" and "Co-Prophet of the End Times," DIA is full of phallic symbols -- not surprising, since it's designed to look like a giant penis. We don't even want to... More »
2011 | Best Unnerving Addition to Denver International Airport

The Denver International Airport has long been a hotbed of hand-wringing conspiracy theories -- the Leo Tanguma-painted mural featuring gas-masked Nazi-ghouls and multicultural children in caskets, the giant laser-eyed Mustang of Death that murdered its creator, and the Masonic capstone have all led wingnuts far and wide to speculate that our airport is in fact the future site of a New World Order-administered alien concentration camp -- and given that legacy, its isn't hard to... More »
2008 | Best Parking Amenity

You may lose your luggage at Denver International Airport, but you'll never lose your car. DIA's public-parking-lot elves do their utmost to ensure that you'll remember not only which of the eight overnight lots you parked in, but what row and spot, by handing you a reminder note as you embark on the airport shuttle. But should you lose that slip of paper and find yourself wandering among the Siberian SUV wilderness of the Mount Elbert lot, never fear. The elves log every car, by its license... More »
2008 | Best New Public Art

Even though it's been widely ridiculed -- and hated -- it's hard to deny the power of Luis Jimenez's "Mustang" on the approach to Jeppesen Terminal at DIA. The 32-foot-high outdoor piece is a perfect example of the artist's sensibility, bridging the gap between the high art of classic Western imagery and the low brow of the carnival's garishly painted fiberglass ornaments. The gigantic rearing stallion, with its luridly blue coat, bulging black veins and glowing reddish-orange... More »
2000 | Best birdwatching -- east

All right, maybe Denver International Airport isn't exactly a nature preserve, but try and tell that to the birds (not the giant steely ones). The airport has had to catch and release intrusive sparrows from Concourse C, halt construction for migrating burrowing owls on several occasions and alter flight paths to protect the sensitive ears of bald eagles at several nearby nesting areas such as Barr Lake -- a real birdwatching mecca. Compared to its other problems, though, these glitches... More »

Reader: The naked truth about the naked woman at DIA

By Patricia Calhoun | Thu, April 12, 2012

Overnight, the unnamed woman who stripped at Denver International Airport has become Colorado's biggest celebrity, responsible for the most-viewed item on TMZ. The would-be traveler, who was taken to ... More »
New World Order! Conspiracy theories keep landing at Denver International Airport

By Patricia Calhoun | Wed, September 28, 2011

If these walls could talk. Barack Obama left town yesterday without going anywhere near Denver International Airport. After barely three hours on the ground in Denver, which was part of a three-stat... More »
Climax Jerky and other Colorado vendors coming to DIA

By Patricia Calhoun | Wed, July 27, 2011

We've always been pretty cranky about the lack of Colorado-centric food items at Denver International Airport -- especially Colorado-centric food items that visitors can take back home as souvenirs fr... More »
DIA adds a few Colorado-centric carts and kiosks...and they're hiring

By Patricia Calhoun | Mon, July 25, 2011

We've carped plenty about the lack of Colorado-created items at Denver International Airport, and a new program will not only introduce a few state-specific retail outlets, but will also be hiring som... More »
Taking off: Santiago Calatrava has spectacular designs on DIA

By Michael Paglia | Thu, August 05, 2010

Denver made international architecture news last week when Spanish-born Santiago Calatrava came to town to unveil his designs for the expansion of Denver International Airport. An engineer and an architect, Calatrava gained fame — and respect — wi... More »
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