Photo: Jay Bianchi | Jay Bianchi, Former Denver Bar Owner, Found Guilty of Five Sex Offenses | By Brendan Joel Kelley, Westword | Once a mainstay of Deadhead venues around town, Bianchi was accused of drugging people and having sex against their will. The jury filed back into the courtroom at 11:56 a.m.,on November 14, a full week after beginning deliberations in the sexual-assault trial of former Denver bar owner Jay Bianchi. A few minutes later, the room went still as Judge Andrew Luxen took the stack of verdict forms from the bailiff and began quietly reading through them — a long, silent minute with every eye in the room on him, including Bianchi’s. The man who’d once held court as the impresario behind Grateful Dead-inspired bars Sancho’s Broken Arrow and So Many Roads, among others, sat stiffly, shoulders tight, blinking hard.
One by one, the judge read the verdict aloud: The jury had convicted Bianchi of five felony sex offenses involving three women, a sweeping rejection of his defense and an end to a case that had forced Denver’s jam-band nightlife to reckon with one of its most recognizable figures.
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https://www.westword.com/music/jay-bianchi-former-denver-bar-owner-found-guilty-of-five-sex-offenses-40805338/
Sleep-Deprived Senior Community Reeling As Classical Music Mysteriously Blares For Two Days Straight
By Daily Caller Staff, Daily Caller
Residents of a Buckhead senior community say a mobile surveillance trailer across from their building began blasting classical and opera music with flashing blue lights around 5 p.m. Wednesday and continued through Thursday night, wrecking sleep and fraying nerves.
The trailer sits in the shuttered Kroger lot on Morosgo Way [Atlanta, GA] and also plays automated warnings like “You are trespassing,” a tactic intended to deter trespassers that instead has neighbors demanding answers and relief, according to 11 Alive.
“It was louder than this,” resident Josephine Kitt said, pointing toward the unit still emitting sound late Thursday. “At first, I thought it was Christmas carols. Then I realized it was classical music. It hasn’t stopped since.”
“Opera is beautiful — when you’re watching it on your own time,” said neighbor John Lennon. “But when you’re trying to go to sleep, it’s distracting.”
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Go here to read more about the “rude neighbor” here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/sleep-deprived-senior-community-reeling-as-classical-music-mysteriously-blares-for-two-days-straight/
Denver Artist Community Displaced After Broncos’ New Stadium Site Spurs Property Sale
By Rhea Jha, KUSA 9 News Denver
[We’ve included this story here in case you know of a place the artists might be able to move to. Please let them know.] Developers are circling the land around Denver’s Burnham Yard as the Broncos advance plans for a new stadium. But inside one of the buildings caught up in that rush, a warehouse filled with artists fears the city is about to lose something irreplaceable.In recent months, investors using newly created LLCs have spent millions buying up properties surrounding the railyard. Among them is Prism Workspaces, a warehouse at 999 Vallejo Street that sold for $5.4 million in an off-market transaction.
Prism is home to 60 to 70 artists who have studios there, making it one of the largest creative hubs in Denver.
For the artists who occupy its studios, the transaction means they will likely be forced to move within the year — and many say they have nowhere else to go.
“I don’t think many people are aware of this artist community here,” said Julie Seavy, a glass artist and oil painter who has worked inside Prism for nearly eight years. “We’re a bit of a forgotten community.”
The building’s twice-annual open house — an event that typically draws 500 to 600 visitors — took on a different tone on Friday. Seavy, believes it might be one of the last ones they host, so many of her conversations at the event revolved around the future.
“Finding a space comparable to this is going to be really hard,” one visitor told Seavy. She replied, “There’s one, but it’s not nearly as nice and they don’t have much availability there. So, yeah, it’s going to be really hard to find a space.”
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Go here to read more and about what kind of property they are looking for:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/denver-artist-community-displaced-after-broncos-new-stadium-site-spurs-property-sale/