Cherry Creek North has finished its fix-up with new signs, sidewalks, lights, landscaping, benches, parking metersjust in time for some serious Christmas shopping.
And the Ginny Williams Gallery at the corner of Fillmore Street and East Third Avenue has a special installation for window shoppers. It might raise a few eyebrows, Williams acknowledges, but it is full of good intentions.
On the left side of the gallery sit nine cardboard shipping boxes of Trojan latex condoms. On the right side of the gallery sits a stack of 41 more boxes. Each box, measuring 11 by 11 by 17 inches, says it contains 128 units, with 12 items per unit. What we have here are 50 boxes built to hold 76,800 condoms. The Adam Ralston installation, “Untitled 1991,” went up in commemoration of World AIDS Day, which was Wednesday.
“I am just trying to draw attention to AIDS,” says Ginny Williams, who keeps the gallery going more as a hobby than a business. “It’s not my intention to create a stir, I just want to remind people that this horrible disease has not yet been conquered. I’ve always been interested in this, and a little goes a long way.”
Williams says she’ll leave the installation up for another week, then put up some Christmas art.
Melo times three.
I picked up the New York Post while back East and saw that hoops columnist Peter Vecsey thinks Carmelo Anthony has a case of the big shots.
“‘MELO LIVIN’ LARGE” reads the headline. “Star needs three stalls in Nuggets’ locker room.”
Upon discovering the trio of lockers at the Pepsi Center last month, Vecsey reported that he asked Nuggets player Al Harrington whether what the writer saw was real.
“Yeah,” Harrington said. “When I got here, I told Melo that’s the height of superstar selfishness.”
“We couldn’t stop laughing,” wrote Vecsey. “In a league of bennies beyond belief, Carmelo Anthony has to be the first in history whose domain distends three full stalls, one on each side (where he stores assorted belongings) of his lounging locale.”
Anthony isn’t totally alone, Vecsey reported. Chauncey Billups and Kenyon Martin each have two lockers.
writer Aaron Lopez says Vecsey’s column is “overblown.”
“Carmelo never demanded three lockers,” he says. “It just happened. But the veterans and good players get the most media attention after the game and need the space around their lockers.”
See you later.
Colorado Gators Reptile Park in Alamosa will be featured in a pilot at 6 p.m. Thursday on Animal Planet. If people tune in, “Rocky Mountain Gators” will become a series.
Erin Young, who works at the park, says they follow around the workers as they care for the 350 alligators and other reptiles. Sounds like a hit to me.
City spirit.
To be inducted into the Colorado Sports Hall on April 12: Art Berglund, Jason Elam, Keli McGregor (posthumously), Bobby Unser, Larry Walker and Alfred Williams . . . Sez who: “Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.” Dan Rather
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