Denver is changing fast, as people are discovering as they start going out and about in the city again. I drive down Colfax all the time, writes one reader. Noticed as they were taking apart the old PT sign..there was an older one under it. All I could see was Famous Chef. Could not find anything on this old restaurant. Can you help?
Famous Chef turned into the infamous PT s All Nude.
Sure can, thanks to Michael Roberts, who shared the story just a few months ago as the city moved forward with plans to turn the property at 8315 East Colfax Avenue, which once hosted PT s All Nude II, into a $15 million, 82-unit affordable-housing complex.
As the daughter of longtime Denver music fixture and Colfax Museum founder Jonny Barber, Sophia Barber was bound to work in the music business. Jonny took Barber to a lot of concerts throughout her childhood, and during her time at George Washington High School, she put on her own shows.
After graduating from high school, Barber moved to Los Angeles in 2018 to study in the University of Southern California’s music-industry program. She met St. Louis native Sophie Moser in the program, and the two went on to form Sophia Productions, their own event production company, in January 2020.
A few months later, the COVID-19 pandemic shut down most of the entertainment industry, with Barber and Moser eventually moving back to their hometowns while taking classes virtually through USC. Although they didn’t put on any concerts in the past year, in October they launched