A perfect storm of just EVERYTHING happening in one week: Tuesday Verses, First Friday Artwalk, Tricycle Gardens Community Workday, The Carnival of 5 Fires, Second Street Festival…

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Check out the 2007 Second Street Festival line-up of performers and artists scheduled on 4 stages across 2 days with poetry, brass, funk, choir, kung-fu, a petting zoo, AND MORE…. [via]

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The Sector Report for September (PDF) from Lt.Lisa Drew is out. Highlights include info on arrests for drug violations, info about an initiative to reduce theft from automobiles, and a funny narrative about a man getting caught for stealing beer from the same place 3 different times.

inRich has 2 front page articles about the goings on this weekend, giving good coverage to the 2nd Street Festival and tonight’s First Friday events, including a list of the 28 venues participating in tonight’s festivities.

This Saturday @ 8AM, join the “Long Walk to Freedom” and experience the “virtual reality” of re-entry into society issues from the perspective of an inmate in the process of being released from jail.

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Today’s RTD has a piece about the Art Cheerleaders (”part performance artists, part crusaders”) cheering demonstration and bake sale in front of Gallery5 last night.

The RTD has a piece on yesterday at the 2nd Street Festival, with Philip E. Brown Sr. as the new unofficial “mayor” of the Second Street Festival on the street and Roosevelt Brunson sharing a bit about what 2nd Street used to be like (”There were church people, bootleggers, gamblers. It was everything.”).

Franklin Street Community has a recap of August’s Gilpin Games, an afternoon sports camp for kids and school supply give-away.

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The 1200 block of West Marshall (at Harrison Street) is a low, open space between a crush of apartment and university buildings to the west and rows of historic housing to the east. Which way will this space go?

A look back at the great Style Weekly article Conspiracy Theory about Operation Crackdown, “an innovative drug-conspiracy case that resulted in the indictment of 21 drug dealers, cleared at least two homicides and did much to clean up crime-plagued Carver”, makes the point that the area has really gotten into a new place these past few years.

We’ve heard that the new construction at Harrison and Leigh Streets will end up totaling around 15 houses, with the buildings themselves being 2 or 3 house units.

This week’s Style Weekly has a look at the success of First Fridays, asking if the city could/should provide more services and support for the downtown success story.