Before last night’s epic Denver City Council meeting started, and well before its members voted nine to four to preliminarily approve the proposed urban camping ordinance, the line for public attendance stretched far outside the City and County Building. Many of these people left during the following seven hours of…
THE BLACK KEYS @ 1STBANK CENTER See Also: • Slide show: Black Keys at the 1STBANK Center • Slide show: Black Keys at Fillmore, 6/3/10 • Q&A with Nick O’Malley of Arctic Monkeys • The Black Keys at Fox Theatre, 7/20/09 A clear sign that shit is about to get…
The album cover is a cloudy sunset scene, every song ends in an intentionally epic fade-out, and the lyrics evoke nothing if not a slightly rugged, overtly ambitious Keane. Tallied correctly, that would normally equal three strikes. But Sakhalin, funded in part by fans on Kickstarter, is the confident, piano-pushing…
Initiative 84, a proposed constitutional amendment that would require lenders to prove ownership of property before foreclosing on it, has passed another hurdle in its move toward legalization. On Friday, proponents and opponents met before the state title board to discuss its language, which made it through relatively unchanged. The…
Civic Center Park, which shut down in March for construction work and landscaping work, will remain closed longer than originally announced. According to Parks and Recreation reps, the downtown hub will continue to be shuttered through at least mid June. The news applies immediately to Occupy Denver, whose members have…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. The first time Belinda Garcia was confronted by racism, she was in a public pool. During elementary school, she, her parents and four siblings walked into a Denver YMCA and stood there roughly five…
The gradual shift in musical sensibility for Arctic Monkeys (due at 1STBANK Center with the Black Keys on Monday and Tuesday) can be traced through the guys’ aesthetic: They wear sunglasses a lot now. They wear them in music videos and on stage, and sometimes when it’s not really sunny…
JEFF MANGUM at OGDEN THEATRE | 4/26/12 See Also: • Jeff Mangum comes to the aid of a distressed fan at Coachella • Neutral Milk Hotel books a room in Denver. • The Apples get set to reap the fruits of their labors Jeff Mangum has not returned to Denver…
Between the two days of Denver’s most recent 4/20 celebration, the Denver Police Department cited or arrested a total of 92 people. And while the event’s organizer, Miguel Lopez, is not on that roster, he was detained on 4/21 and faces investigation for allegedly assaulting an at-risk adult. The bizarre…
If the mountains to the West are the first thing that Denver’s visitors notice, the second are all the people standing on corners holding signs? While panhandlers, as they’re commonly known, are sheltered by the First Amendment, Denver’ sign-fliers are also prohibited from using profanity or being aggressive, and they…
Marie Losier spent seven years of her life quietly watching two people become three by becoming one. Even today, she is subdued as she describes what that means. When Genesis P-Orridge, industrial-rock revolutionary and founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, moved to New York in the 1990s, he fell…
If the last time you rented a movie from Blockbuster also happened to be the last time you watched an Eddie Murphy movie, you’re not alone. But just in case you did feel like giving up Netflix, Hulu and Redbox and rewinding that copy of Beverly Hills Cop III you…
Although there have been rumblings about it for months, Denver’s proposed urban camping ordinance has only been circulated in draft form for the past few weeks. In this week’s feature, “For the homeless, ‘urban camping’ is no picnic,” Jef Otte took a look at its direct implications by spending a…
At last Thursday’s meeting of Denver’s Commission on Homelessness — the first meeting of the group since last November — Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks, who wrote the proposed ordinance to ban “urban camping” in Denver, tried to explain that this proposal hadn’t come out of the blue. “We’ve been…
Ants are not glamorous animals, and neither are the five brothers and cousins in their namesake Denver band. On record, the guys function like a small, sloppy, rowdy and hungry colony of aggressively nostalgic former Warped Tour moshers. With discordant shouts and dramatically orchestral riffs layered over every track in…
In this week’s feature, “Medic!,” we followed the Colorado Street Medics, a group of self-trained medical assistants who provide first aid at protests. The collective, which will soon be memorialized in museum form, owes its legacy to one man: Ron Rosen. Called “Doc” even before he trained in acupuncture and…
In March, four Occupy Denver protesters were accused of robbery and second-degree assault during an incident at the 1500 block of Broadway. According to the police report, the four allegedly knocked down a skateboarder and stole his board. Yesterday, however, the city dismissed robbery charges against three of the arrestees,…
Today, after the Commission on Homelessness called for an additional four weeks to consider an urban camping ordinance, Denver City Council moved its final consideration date to May 14, one week later than previously scheduled. The decision came with a final vote of four to three. If approved, the bill…
Denver’s regional recycling plant is not a good place to lose your car keys. It is, however, a good place to get rid of old cartons. After five years spent educating the city not to do just that, Denver Public Works announced today that it now has the capability to…
Outside of maybe The Sound of Music, it would be hard to imagine a musical as far across the genre spectrum from the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Wicked. So when musical director Julian Yarcho decided to merge the two in tonight’s charity fundraiser, when the company of Wicked will…
In this week’s cover story, “Medic!,” we featured the Colorado Street Medics, an international network of activists with more than forty years of history. Much of that history is recorded in Denver, where the community’s first street medic museum will be launched inside the 27 Social Centre. Click through for…
If you’ve ever heard an “Occupy your mom” joke, you’ll know that Occupy memes have gone just about as far as the national movement’s politics. But the University of Denver has jumped on the bandwagon: The twenty or so members of the school’s Young Americans For Liberty took on wealth…
