Comings & Goings: Time to head downtown
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If you haven’t checked out the new Centennial Plaza in front of the Hunt-Boyer mansion at 604 Second St., you should. The highlight is artist Susan Shelton’s 6.5-foot bronze Davis Centennial Seal, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the city’s vote to incorporate. The plaza includes bricks and new landscaping that highlights the historic mansion and its porch, which city officials hope to use as a mini performance venue.
Sinisa Novakovic, owner of
Mishka’s Café next door, is using some of the space to expand outdoor seating, and is “determined to restart jazz nights at the cafe that we had going for a few years a long time ago.”
Itâs rare to find food this spectacular in a town of around 4,000 people. But here we are at 3-year-old Turmeric Indian & Nepalese Restaurant in Florence, just outside Cañon City, and Iâm awash in vibrant, almost hypnotic spices that are warming me to the core. I immediately taste that somethingâs different and special here, putting it in a league of its own in the entire region, C. Springs included. But whatâs that difference? What exactly is going on? And who in the hell is in the kitchen making this magic happen?
So many questions. Good thing we have cocktails in hand as I prod GM and co-owner Pawan Khatri Chettri, whoâs also serving us. As weâre talking, a random local drops in for pickup and calls him âPaul.â I say âI thought it was âPawan.â Smiling behind his mask Iâm sure, he says, âIt is, but that guy calls me Paul.â And I realize thatâs just how gracious he is, not wanting to correct a regular cus