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| | | A Colorado Playoff Trifecta | Playoff games for the NBA, NHL, and NLL all start this month, and Denver is going to all three of them! The Nuggets, the Avs, and the Colorado Mammoth are each coming off incredible regular seasons with promising outlooks for an equally impressive postseason run. All three teams nabbed top four spots in their respective playoffs — and it’s a big deal. Need to catch up fast? We’ve got the quick and dirty so you can jump on the bandwagon. | | The Denver Nuggets | - Round 1: The first game of the Nuggets playoff season will be at Ball Arena against the #6 seed Minnesota Timberwolves on Saturday, April 18, at 1:30 p.m. It will be streamed exclusively on Amazon Prime. [NBA; 9News]
- Know your numbers: The Nuggets are looking good. The team is coming off a hot 12-game win streak, heading into their eighth consecutive playoff appearance. They secured the #3 seed following a 54-28 regular season and are currently boasting the best offensive rating in the league. [NBA]
- Who to watch: Dynamic duo Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray. [Sports Illustrated]
- A conversation starter: The Minnesota Timberwolves knocked out the Nuggets — defending champs and heavy favorites at the time — from the 2024 playoffs in a nail-biting seven-game series. Ready for redemption, the Nuggs won this year’s regular season series against the Timberwolves 3-1. [CBS]
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|  | Artists painted over the César Chávez mural in Westwood. A new mural, by three local women artists, is being planned to replace it, with an official debut on Cinco de Mayo. (Photo credit: Armando Geneyro) |
| 🎨 Local Artists Paint Over Westwood’s César Chávez Mural | Westwood residents gathered outside Kahlo’s Restaurant Wednesday evening for a community event to paint over a mural on the Morrison Road building depicting César Chávez. A new mural that will center women of the Chicano movement (to be painted by three local women artists) is planned to replace the Chávez painting after allegations of sexual abuse against the once iconic civil rights leader came to light last month. [9News] | | 🚏 RTD Begins Staff Layoffs | More than two dozen RTD employees will lose their jobs by July 2, according to emails sent to staff by agency officials in recent weeks. Leadership described the layoffs as part of a years-in-the-making “organizational realignment” that is separate from the RTD’s current efforts to close a $200 million budget gap. When asked exactly how many employees will be impacted, agency officials said, “At this point, final numbers are not yet available.” [Denver Gazette 🔒] | - Big changes on the horizon: RTD CEO Debra Johnson announced earlier this month that she would not be extending her contract slated to expire next spring. Additionally, lawmakers are currently considering legislation that would drastically overhaul the agency’s governing board. [9News; Newsline]
| | 🛴 Veo Contract Advances to Final Council Vote | Following multiple delays, City Council is at last scheduled to take the final vote on a contract with Veo Micromobility to be Denver's exclusive e-scooter and e-bike provider. If approved, Veo will replace Bird and Lime with an anticipated deployment date of May 1. The company has promised Denver riders cheaper rates and stronger safety measures. [Westword] | | 🎢 Elitch Gardens Will Remain For Yet Another Season | The future of the downtown amusement park has been up in the air for years while plans for the massive billionaire-backed River Mile redevelopment project remain ambiguous. The park will open for the season this weekend, and will in fact mark the park’s longest season yet. [Denverite] | | ⛔ The Pearl Drama Fallout Continues | In a rapid unfolding of events this week, lesbian bar The Pearl met a swift and dramatic demise that involved scandalous accusations, $83,000 in community fundraising, and then the immediate return of said community funds. Now, tragedy strikes again when a notice of tax seizure appeared Wednesday on the door of the building that for three decades housed the famed Mercury Cafe. [Westword] | - What does the future hold? The Pearl was one of the last spaces explicitly serving the lesbian community in Denver, but there’s signs of hope in pop-up events and dedicated dance nights still being put on by and for the sapphic community. [City Cast Denver 🎧]
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And that’s a wrap! It’s been real, y’all. In case you missed it, I’m hanging up my City Cast hat for good and riding off into the Mile High City sunset. This is my final signoff as an official member of the team, but you’d better believe I’m a City Cast Denver Neighbor! So I’ll see you at the next members-only meetup, right? | | My final pitch: Become a member. Support this incredible team of talented, Denver-loving journalists and all the hard work they do for our community. Their work can’t succeed without your support. They build Neighbors, and neighbors build Denver 💚 | | | | Until next time 🫡 |
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