Dear Mexican: In Philadelphia, where I live, there are three Spanish-language stations on regular broadcast television. None of them offer English subtitles. I’ll bet plenty of people of all heritages would like to check out Spanish-language television, or the news from Central America or whatever, if we could get subtitles…
Jamie Laurie makes music — and also political and social change. A founder of the Flobots, he was raised in Denver, where he grew from a comic-loving kid to an East High teacher sharing rap with students. Although still based here, Laurie promotes global issues through the nonprofit flobots.org. And…
“This new nonstop flight will be a gateway into Colorado for Japan and other Asian countries,” said Governor John Hickenlooper at yesterday’s send-off for the inaugural United flight direct from Denver International Airport to Japan. And then, after a sake toast, a dream team of Denver boosters (who’s running the…
With seventy of this state’s movers and shakers headed to Japan this week for an economic mission that includes a side trip to Denver’s sister city of Takayama, there should be lots of sibling revelry. But up in Boulder, the sister-city program founded by President Dwight Eisenhower more than fifty…
Tired DIA travelers were doing double-takes as they boarded the escalator heading down out of Concourse B last night, their eyes drawn to the right by the bright sign on a new restaurant — and then riveted by the sight of who was standing under that sign: John Elway. “There…
Dear Readers: The U.K.’s spectacular Guardian newspaper has asked if I could field some questions for their readers as part of the paper’s summer travel package. Turns out Brits want to know more about Mexican food! Let’s be benevolent toward those buggerers: Their idea of what our comida constitutes comes…
Stake your claim in the latest residential hotspot,” urges the story in Saturday’s New Homes section in the Denver Post touting an open house at Century Communities at Candelas. A really hot spot: the half-life for plutonium is 24,000 years. Century isn’t the only home builder developing Candelas, a 2,000-acre…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana, who condensed his moral code into The Life of Reason in 1951 — the same year the feds announced they was building a facility dedicated to fighting the Cold War sixteen miles northwest of Denver. The…
Is it bye-bye for Boone? The once-official, now unofficial University of Denver mascot was all over the news at the end of May, when DU’s lacrosse team made it to the semi-finals in Philadelphia and ESPN2 showed many closeups of the Disney-designed character adopted by the school in 1968, booted…
Denver may be landlocked, but Lower Highlands had lots of liquid assets last night. And we’re not talking about all the new bars popping up in the hot LoHi area. A water main break at West 29th Avenue and Zuni Street sent torrents of water cascading through the neighborhood –…
Westword’s comics issue is on the street, the first in what we hope will be an annual series. Noah Van Sciver, the creator of our weekly 4 Questions cartoon (and the artist shown at right), had approached us with the idea of a comics contest before last year’s Denver Comic…
Dear Mexican: I went to a Los Angeles Dodgers game today and noticed that they now have Doyer Dogs, which are disgusting and covered in nacho cheese, jalapeños and chili. Not that it doesn’t have potential, but this is Dodger Stadium, not a food truck. But my question: Do you…
Last week, Union Station Alliance announced the first three restaurant tenants that will be in the rehabbed station for its summer 2012 opening — local projects all. But while a Snooze, the Kitchen Next Door and a new market/restaurant concept from Fruition’s Alex Seidel have signed on, it’s still unknown…
By now, just about everyone admits that the Fox31 story of the cab driver fingering an Italian businessman with the Perazzi gun company as a terrorist was a fake, including the station, grudgingly. We know how it happened (9News has done a good job of dissecting the original story), but…
Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I’ve heard about the Fast and Furious scandal, in which our own ATF was shown to be corrupt and guilty of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. I also recently saw a report about the violence in Mexico, and…
Last week’s meeting of the Denver Board of Education was a mess of complicated math problems, including: Question 1) If Denver Public Schools is planning to release 220 teachers, how long will the public-comment period — seven-and-a-half hours, filled with complaints — extend the meeting? Answer: Until after 3 a.m…
Last week, Mayor Michael Hancock was at the CELL to announce the expansion of Transportation on Patrol, a program that empowers Denver’s cabbies, limo drivers, truckers and even pedal-cab operators to alert law enforcement of suspicious behavior. Days later, a taxi driver reportedly called the cops because a supposed gun…
Things have gotten hot at Union Station, where two model-train clubs are scrambling to find new spaces for their train layouts, which have occupied space in the basement for decades. Although both groups had been told in the fall of 2011 that the layouts could remain through the remodeling job,…
On May 1, Adams County commissioners and other elected leaders gave Mayor Michael Hancock a week to provide a list of “tangible benefits” they would realize from Denver’s plans to push forward with development around Denver International Airport. Hancock responded with a letter saying their demand had an “unrealistic deadline”…
Dear Mexican: Where did the notion of adding an -o to the end of an English word and assuming it makes it a Spanish word come from? Juanito Dear Wab: “Anglos have long held power in making Spanish and Spanish-speaking culture invisible,” writes University of South Florida assistant professor of…
When a wrong is almost 150 years old, righting it may not be quick. That’s one of the many lessons of the Sand Creek Massacre, a stain on Colorado history that stretches back to November 29, 1864, when Colonel John Chivington led 700 troops on a raid of a peaceful…
The Better Block Project comes to Five Points tomorrow, when it will focus on sprucing up the block of Welton Street that’s home to the legendary Sonny Lawson Park — and its ballfield. Neighborhood groups have been meeting for over a year to discuss what to do with this parcel…
