🕵️ Authorities seek info in swastika mystery

We’re back with more recommendations from City Cast Denver Neighbors about their fave local people, spots, and organizations in the Mile High, so they can become your favorites too 💕

📣 Mike W. is shouting out Sie Film Center. “I finally got a membership this year and it has been so much fun!!”

📣 Matt C. is shouting out The Delores Project, a local nonprofit offering housing for women, trangender, and nonbinary people facing homelessness. “They've lost $250k in federal funding and could really use some help!”

📣 Hannah W. is shouting out Wing Slingers. “I go to the location at 84th & Federal, and they’re always super nice and fast. And the wings are PERFECT.”

Become a City Cast Denver Neighbor today to share your own shoutout in this newsletter and on the podcast 🎤

🚔 JeffCo Authorities Seeking Info on Giant Swastika

As of Tuesday afternoon Jefferson County law enforcement were still seeking information about a giant swastika displayed on a hillside along I-70 over the weekend. The vandalism has since been removed. Anyone with information can leave tips at 303-271-5612. [CPR]

🌳 Denver Dedicates Part of City Park to Native Communities

On Denver’s first officially recognized Indigenous Peoples Day, community officials declared a section of City Park near 17th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard a “living land acknowledgement.” The dedication serves to acknowledge the history of genocidal violence and racism toward Native American communities that took place at the site. The city plans to commit $1.5 million to transform the site into a gathering space for Native communities.

✈️ Why You Won’t See That Viral TSA Video at DIA

The Trump Administration recently released a video that is being played at TSA checkpoints at airports across the country. It features Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem blaming the current government shutdown — and thus, potential travel delays — on Democrats. Both Denver International Airport and the Colorado Springs Airport have chosen not to air the video, but for very different reasons. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🚩 New Data Center Raises Air Quality Concerns

For more than a century, residents of Denver’s Elyria-Swansea neighborhood have been exposed to toxic fumes and dirty air spewed out by industrial factories and construction projects in the area. Just as the community has finally managed to get attention from state health regulators, plans to construct a new data center in the neighborhood has locals sounding the pollution alarm again. [CPR]

We love when we spot something cool/weird/wacky around Denver. Like this seasonal homage to one of the city’s finest film institutions 😉

Check out the current show lineup at Sie FilmCenter, including special shadowcast showings of “Rocky Horror Picture Show” on Oct. 18, Nov. 29, and Dec. 20.

Have you seen something fun or curious around town recently? We want to see it too!