Pinon Canyon Preservation Festival: Home on the Range

Colorado candidates cowboyed up this week, riding into the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association annual convention in Pueblo to tout their ties to rural Colorado. And in the southeastern quadrant of the state, no topic causes more of a rural row than the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The…

USA Today takes off on Anubis and aliens at DIA

Thanks to the Anubis statue now standing guard outside Denver International Airport, all those conspiracy theories about DIA have taken off again — and they’ve landed the airport smack-dab in today’s edition of USA Today. “Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside…

Mexican-Americans can hate recent arrivals, too: It’s called assimilation

Dear Mexican: I’m a civil-rights lawyer. I sue the San Diego Minutemen. Whenever the Minutemen are accused of being racist, they always say something like “I’m part Hispanic,” or they’ll note that some of their members are Mexican. This last claim is actually true. Some of the most zealous Minutemen are actually Mexican-Americans. I’m…

Gary Faulkner displays Colorado’s can-do spirit

And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden — and was…

PETA to City of Denver: Pluck you

PETA isn’t chickening out on its push to put “McCruelty,” a 250-pound, bloody and bandaged chicken sculpture, on the 16th Street Mall — and today could be decision day for the City of Denver. PETA has filed all the required applications for the “temporary display of a sculpture…as part of…

Cellar Wine Bar ready to pour

It’s been in the works for over a year, but it looks like Cellar Wine Bar, at 2556 15th Street, is finally ready to uncork and open its doors. The glasses are stocked, the flowers on the bar. Cellar is in the heart of the very hot LoHi neighforhood, just…

Jezebel’s may not be haunted, but it’s jinxed

“Now Open Under New Management,” says the beer banner installned by the now old-new management in the completely dark Jezebel’s Juke Joint & Brothel, the spot at 3862 High Street that was formerly the High Street Speakeasy and a host of other has-beens. The web site is only slightly more…

Pot jokes: The Colorado Supreme Court declines to hear mine

The Colorado Supreme Court does not care about my definition of a caregiver. This week, the court declined to consider the appeals court ruling that upheld the controversial conviction of Stacy Clendenin, a Longmont medical marijuana grower who was convicted of drug distribution because she did not qualify as a…

The Mexican has a DREAM for undocumented students

Dear Mexican: I work at a high school where there are a significant number of students without papers. Two students I’d worked with for four years (one from Mexico, the other from Paraguay) graduated last June, and they are now attending community college. They have both read your books. My…

Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado

The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there’s “oil for miles and miles,” Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled into…

Celebrate Pierre Wolfe Day — for PHAMALY’s sake

June 1 may — or may not — be Pierre Wolfe Day in Denver, but the party tomorrow is definitely on: Wolfe will host a benefit luncheon for PHAMALY, the incredible theater troupe whose members all face health challenges. Although Mayor John Hickenlooper did declare June 1, 2006, Pierre Wolfe…