Sounds like the author of “36 Hours in Denver,” published in the New York Times on August 10 and geared to the upcoming Democratic National Convention, wasn’t completely thrilled with the assignment — or with doing much fact-checking, either. The only two restaurants mentioned as potential stops during those 36…
Hurry, voters, hurry. A friend who’s not exactly a man-of-the-people and thus would like to avoid crowds at the voting booths Tuesday was confused by a recent Denver Votes! mailing from the Denver Elections Division. He’s smart, if not social, but he was still puzzled by these instructions: Note! 1…
We were back at the Buckhorn Exchange, sitting under that two-headed calf (“really two-faced,” said one of my dining companions), trying to decide between the alligator and rattlesnake appetizers (we went with alligator — which really does taste like chicken once it’s battered and fried) and debating whether it’s possible…
Politics makes strange bedfellows — even when one of those fellows plans to go nowhere near his bed during the Democratic National Convention. Developer Stan Kroenke is married to Ann Walton Kroenke, number 336 on Forbes.com’s most recent list of billionaires; her uncle, Sam Walton, founded Wal-Mart. And Ann helped…
Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the work force. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. Our supervisor tells us that if we can speak so much as one word of English, we cannot speak in Spanish. We are constantly being threatened…
The first body was found on June 25, the morning of Bike to Work day, stalling — and stunning — many bikers pedaling along the Platte, who wound up taking a detour as the body was fished out of the river.. Then on Sunday, July 27, a jogger running in…
On Friday, August 1, the Rocky Mountain News published its fourth piece in a week on the wind turbine in Wray that’s part of the DNC’s carbon offsets program. An op-ed essay from Russell Simon, the communications manager for the Carbonfund.org foundation in Washington, D.C., it was also the third…
Forget about the upcoming Democratic National Convention. Breakfast at Racines this morning was the real DPC — Denver Power Convention. Chew on this! Over a single hour, our spy spotted the following lineup (not necessarily together): Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce honcho Joe Blake; Dem power-broker Howard Gelt; uber developer…
Looking out my back window, I can see the Pepsi Center, where all the Dippin’ Dots carts and pretzel stands and private suites have been banished while the facility is transformed into the site of next month’s Democratic National Convention — or at least the three days leading up to…
The DNC rumors keep flying. Protesters are going to fling feces at the cops (for more on that, see page 13). Some delegations will be staying as far away as Wyoming. And in the city that wants to host the greenest convention ever, you can’t even recycle a Gatorade bottle…
Dear Mexican: What’s with calling yourselves “La Raza”? Being Mexicans, Chicanos or whatever isn’t enough — now you’re the race? Sounds pretty racist to me.The Race Is On Dear Gabacho: Few things annoy the Mexican more than the Know Nothing Nation’s deliberate ignorance of this most nebulous of Mexican idioms…
In our Best of Denver 2008 award that named Facethestate.com the city’s Best Political Blog, we called its founder, Brad Jones, a “snot-nosed kid.” Well, the snot-nosed kid knows his way around a story, and on July 27 he blew mainstream media outlets away with his revelation that a wind…
The Rocky Mountain News’s “Bet made on carbon offsets” article on Saturday started with this: “Thanks to a windmill that tolls day and night producing clean electricity, the tiny eastern plains outpost of Wray has landed in the center of the fast-moving, carbon-offset world.” When he read that, Brad Jones,…
While Bill Owens was co-hosting a radio show with Craig Silverman on the afternoon of July 24, Frances Owens, the former First Lady (pictured), was doing her own buddy act with current First Lady Jeannie Ritter, announcing the launch of the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund, part of the centennial celebration…
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in our contest asking readers to argue in 25 words why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa. Below are the winners for some of the cities that carry the Mexican; see the full list at www.westword.com. Don’t like…
“I love the things you say. I love the way you are a part of my life every day.” Every day, I think about Jared Polis, one of three Democratic candidates for Congress in the second district. I think about him not because of the myriad political missives that his…
How convenient! Even as Representative Wes McKinley and southeastern Colorado ranchers were complaining about the Army’s revised plans to take part of Pinon Canyon for a training facility, a ranch family was revealing that they had had found a rare, albino eagle on their Pinon Canyon property. After KOA radio…
For weeks, I chronicled my attempts to grow a Denver Daisy — a PlantSelect seed that’s the progeny of Rudbeckia birta and Rudbeckia “Prairie Sun,” specifically chosen to commemorate the City and County of Denver’s 150th birthday on November 22, 2008,” according to the packets of free seeds distributed by…
You see a lot of things on a 950-mile road trip, although you don’t see them for long if you’re trying to average 77 miles (with gas/bathroom stops). But on that long trip yesterday from Clearwater Junction, Montana, to Denver, Colorado, the most welcome sight of all may have been…
Dear Mexican: Why are there Mexicans in the Border Patrol? What a hypocritical thing to do to our people.Carne Asada Carlos Dear Wab: Not only are Mexicans in the Border Patrol, but la migra’s own figures show that Latinos make up about 52 percent of its force, comfortably outnumbering gabachos…
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What with all the history being made in Denver these days, it’s not surprising that Mayor John Hickenlooper might lose track. On July 9, the city celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the Auditorium Theatre — which had opened on July 8, 1908, just in time for that year’s Democratic National…
