Politics makes strange truck-bed fellows. Four years ago, Helen Thorpe, a veteran Texas political reporter who’d married John Hickenlooper and moved to Denver in 2002, was a passenger in Tom Tancredo’s tan Chevrolet pickup, touring the part of northwest Denver he called Tancredoland, where he’d grown up — and where…
After a six-month battle to place its McCruelty statue — a giant maimed chicken — near the McDonald’s on the 16th Street Mall, a fight that involved plenty of legal squawking and wing-flapping, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has given up on Denver. The city should be lovin’…
The truck stops here: The mediation session last Thursday was supposed to calm tensions around the 5300 block of East Colfax Avenue, a stretch of asphalt that’s only improved since Erich Roorda and Jill Warner opened Mod Livin’ nine years ago. But that was before the Little Orange Rocket threw…
The horrors that Kristen Stillman has endured in her short life are beyond imagining: abandoned at the age of eight by her mother, raped repeatedly by the man she was left with, bearing four children fathered by her rapist before she was twenty. And then the final injury, one far…
Another day, another appearance by Tom Tancredo on Fox News — which now has a page devoted to the American Constitution Party’s candidate for Colorado governor. Last night, Tancredo explained his eleventh-hour run to Bill O’Reilly. Watch the clip below…
Was Dan Maes offered a deal, maybe even a govement job, to drop out of the governor’s race? The blogosphere was abuzz after the Post’s Lynn Bartels broke the Maes story, wondering who might have made the offer. The bigger question: What job could you possibly give Dan Maes? Here…
Against all odds, Denver has a vibrant downtown that weds the present with the past — and today, it celebrates both something old and something new, starting with a ribbon-cutting at the Four Seasons Hotel Denver at 1111 14th Street…
Dear Mexican: I’m not the type to let things slide when I see something that strikes me as ignorant, no matter who it is. When my friend’s mom posted jokes on Facebook about Mexicans and her friends popped up with comments I felt were racist, I just had to step…
This summer, the complaint calls started coming with irritating regularity to the Denver Police Department District 2 substation, to the Denver Department of Environmental Health, to the office of Denver City Councilwoman Carla Madison. There were problems at Mod Livin’, the hip retro store at 5327 East Colfax Avenue, the…
When Jim Karagas, owner of My Brother’s Bar, Denver’s oldest continually operating saloon and a joint he’s run for forty of its 130-odd years, heard that Brothers Bar & Grill, a Wisconsin-based chain, planned to open an outpost in town, he was concerned that it might cause some confusion. So…
Early voting starts today, which means you can stop by any voting center (find them here) and choose a gubernatorial candidate from a lineup that no one would have thought possible a year ago: Denver mayor and Democratic John Hickenlooper, Republican candidate Dan Maes and third-party candidate Tom Tancredo, who’s…
First, gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper sports a Western shirt by North Carolina-based Wrangler rather than one by hometown hero Rockmount Ranch Wear in a campaign commercial. Then, he shows up for a fundraiser at Brothers Bar — the Wisconsin import, not My Brother’s Bar, the Denver original. Always boot Colorado?…
Yesterday, the American Planning Association officially named LoDo as one of its 10 Great Neighborhoods for 2010 — even if the Washington, D.C.- and Chicago-based nonprofit has a rather unusual view of the history of that neighborhood: “Founded by General William Larimer, Jr., in 1858, LoDo was originally the birthplace…
“We need more oversized condos,” reads the message scrawled on a hearing notice posted outside a historic home in the 2900 block of Umatilla Street at the edge of Highland. “Thanks, developers.” But save some gratitude for the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission, which last week turned down the request to…
Dear Mexican: What is it with the Mexican hangup on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right leg was removed from the knee down. When he returned to Mexico City, he ordered…
If the Republican Party slips to minor-party status in Colorado, which will happen if Dan Maes fails to get 10 percent of the gubernatorial vote, it could face a major problem. No, not the fundraising limitations that have already been reported, but a sudden flood of would-be Republican candidates that…
Move over, medical marijuana. The big new business boom is mobile food trucks, as evidenced by the success of Civic Center Eats in Civic Center Park every Tuesday this summer, giving Denver a taste of this increasingly vibrant area. And today, Civic Center Park will start seeing a roster of…
The pianos have been silenced — for now — and the NewsCube was closed after just a few weeks of operation. But there are still signs of life popping up on the 16th Street Mall, including the skating rink that will open in Skyline Park after Thanksgiving and a second…
Sitting on their curvy coach this morning, the perky hosts of Fox & Friends noted that today marks the fourteenth birthday of Fox News. Just fourteen years? Seems like Fox has always been there, kicking liberals and providing full employment for current and former Coloradans…
Dear Mexican: Mexico is truly an amazing, beautiful country! Huge oil reserves, mineral deposits second to none, tourist potential unparalleled! God gave Mexico every possible advantage. And yet the Mexicans, in all their wisdom and intellect, have turned it into a backwater, undeveloped, narco-ruled Third World cesspool of corruption and poverty. How were…
Artist Patti Cramer was a familiar sight around town, walking her dogs through some of the unlikeliest neighborhoods, an unknowing prognosticator of all those places that would one day be hip, which she lived in simply because they were interesting: LoHi, long before anyone ever dreamed of tagging the edge…
One of the most extraordinary things about Denver is the incredible community of artists who call this place home. Whether they grew up here or simply moved here as soon as they could, in Denver they found a wide-open canvas they could fill with their own dreams, their own visions,…
