Blending sounds from around the globe is nothing new for Pink Hawks, the Denver world-music powerhouse led by saxman and singer Yuzo Nieto. The band has pulled funky rhythmic influences from West Africa and South America, but the latest addition to its sound comes from much closer to home. That...
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What happened to Durango Herald reporter Chase Olivarius-McAllister is both hilarious and appalling. Hilarious because several law enforcers make incredible asses out of themselves. Appalling because it's indicative of the way too many men treat women in the media and the workforce in general. As first reported by Jezebel, La Plata County Deputy...
Pete Turner ran his homegrown chain of burrito joints for for nineteen years without hearing so much as a peep about its name, Illegal Pete's. But then last year Turner opened a location in Fort Collins — and activists there complained that the name was a slap at the undocumented. "I didn't...
The Oscar-winning screenwriter whose exploits are the subject of the upcoming biopic Trumbo, opening November 6 across the region, would be the first to snort at the thought of his life becoming Hollywood fodder. Then he would take the money and write the script himself. In recent years, Dalton Trumbo...
Last week, we posted about the five Colorado counties where incomes have risen the most since 1980. Now, we look at the other side of the coin: the five Colorado counties where incomes have fallen the most over that same period. As before, the information comes from the folks at...
In August, we told you about the arrest of Ivan Lopez-Banuelos and Alese Silva for an alleged kidnapping that netted $80. Now, Denver District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough tells us these charges are being dropped. But if that sounds like good news, it's not. The previous accusations against Silva...
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On Saturday, November 21, the CBS news program 48 Hours will broadcast a program dubbed "The Strange Case of Kurt Sonnenfeld" — and that's certainly an accurate title. Sonnenfeld was accused, then un-accused, and subsequently accused again of murdering his wife, Nancy, in Denver during the first minutes of 2002. By the...
Matt Scobey has been part of the Denver scene for ten years, but he has never had a higher profile than he does right now. That’s partly because his “Talavera Bolsa,” a crumbling partial floor made of concrete tiles, was the only unalloyed success in last summer’s otherwise disappointing Vis-à-Vis...
Artopia 2016 s just a month away, and you'll want to get your tickets now — because prices go up tomorrow! Saturday, February 20 will be a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms...
If you hadn't been told or didn't know, you would have thought FFS was a band that had played live together for years. The ease with which the members played off of and with each other was definitely part of the charm. But, as it turns out, Russell and Ron...
Denver’s vibrant art culture has started to generate national attention, even getting mentioned as one of the town’s key attributes on all of those “best city” lists on the Internet. Although the Mile High City still has a ways to go in comparison to international art centers, it is nonetheless...
Tonight, Denver City Council will vote on whether to rezone a portion of the Emmaus Lutheran Church property off of Speer Boulevard at West 32nd Avenue. Built in 1907, the church is surrounded by other businesses and is close to Highlands Square which is filled with restaurants, bars and shops. Approving...
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It used to be that the art world in Denver took a breather in August, to mark the close of one season and allow galleries to gear up for the next one, which started after Labor Day — but that’s clearly not the case anymore. This month has seen a...
Just a week after a SWAT team standoff in Greenwood Village that resulted in the destruction of a home where a suspect had taken refuge, more officers in military gear were deployed to deal with a man who refused to cooperate with authorities. And for part of the crisis, he...
Back in 2009, our Alan Prendergast assembled the definitive list of Denver's eight worst intersections. And according to more recent information assembled by the McDivitt Law Firm, many of them haven't improved since then — although the rankings are in a different order. Look below to count down the top...
Throughout the congested rows of seats in Armstrong Hall on the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs, students and guests of all ages gathered in the tight quarters to listen intently to the legendary Chuck D of Public Enemy. Chuck had come to speak with Idris Goodwin, (CC’s own hip-hop...
Earlier this year, we shared a list of the ten wealthiest Zip Codes in the Denver area — many of which are located in parts of the city that have been well-to-do for many years. But when it comes to the five Colorado counties in which incomes have risen most...
Earlier this year, we interviewed Amy Hasinoff, a CU Denver communications professor and the author of Sexting Panic, a book highly critical of the way our society deals with the sexting phenomenon — often by criminalizing teens who take part in the activity. "One of the reasons we have such terrible...
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In 1970, Janis Joplin died of drug overdose at the young age of twenty-seven, silencing a voice that had filled millions with joy and inspiration. Now the new documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which opens this week at at the Sie FilmCenter, tells the artist’s story in her own words...
Last year, in a post entitled "Is Colorado Pot So Good It's Making Mexican Cartels Want to Take Over?," Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), shared some worries. "From what we're hearing, Colorado marijuana is a lot more desirable than the Mexican marijuana," he...
Pizza Fusion opened in May 2011 not only as a pizza joint serving Colfax Avenue but as a vocational training center in partnership with the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Today the pizzeria announced that although the training program has been a success over the last four years, pizza sales have...
Aesthetics have been primary in my life as an artist, central to all I do and think about — whether I want them to be or not. It has always seemed impossible to separate form from function. And in a very real sense, the two are inseparable: No matter whether...