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…
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…
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…
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 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…
While Facebook entries will come back to haunt college students of today, earlier generations get to hide their more humiliating chapters — unless, of course, they worked on their college papers, as Andrew Romanoff did. Not only do those papers mean hard copies of history exist, but so do the…
“Politics isn’t about left versus right,” says Jim Hightower. “It’s about top versus bottom.” The populist progressive will give the bottom line on cleaning up political campaigns tonight at the Hightower Lowdown Hoedown…
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…
Colorado will close a lascivious loophole today when Governor Bill Ritter signs SB 128, a law making it illegal to videotape other people (say, two girls trying on clothes in a hotel room) without their permission (say, through a peephole in the wall of a neighboring hotel room). You’d think…
Dear Mexican: During the late 1960s, I worked a summer job in southern Arizona, where most of my co-workers were Mexicans from the state of Sonora. Their favorite expression when something was broken was no vale verga, literally “not worth dick,” but actually meaning “totally fucked up.” What happened with…
Denver International Airport has already inspired a planeload of conspiracy theories — that it’s built on an Indian graveyard, that aliens live in tunnels below the terminal, that it’s set up to become a concentration camp for Denver citizens. The long-delayed installation of Luis Jimenez’s red-eyed demon horse, “Mustang,” which…
“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…
For a city that embraces reading, Denver has never really embraced the One Book, One Denver program — not even after last year’s votingpalooza for the fifth edition, tied to a secret National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Big Read program, which resulted in the pick of To…
The last time stunt-eater Adam Richman, star of Man V. Food, was seen chowing down in Denver, he was taking on the seven-pound burrito at Jack-n-Grill. And after many hours of prepping and filming and chatting and chewing, the burrito won. But that didn’t discourage Richman from making a secret,…
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…
Today, President Barack Obama gets to enjoy the ultimate, inevitable result of tapping Janet Napolitano — Janet Napolitano, as though the governor of Arizona was the ideal person for the job! — to head the Homeland Security department: He’ll meet with Republican governor Jan “Jannie Get Her Gun” Brewer, who,…
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…
The highway up Mount Evans opened at 8 a.m. last Friday, after a Colorado Department of Transportation crew had shoveled the last snow off the highest road in North America. Over the next three months, tens of thousands of cars will make the trip up State Highway 5, which starts…
During the 35 years that Lawrence Pierre owned Pierre’s Supper Club, a venue at 2157 Downing Street, it was one of the town’s most venerated watering holes — both for hooking some fried catfish and for hooking up with some nightlife action. But after he sold the place in 2003…
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…
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…
In the late ’80s, after the oil-busted Denver economy had been bumping along the bottom for years, longtime Denver residents were fleeing this town in search of greener pastures (and Denver was so down, a blade of grass was looking pretty green). So when anyone new came to town –…
