When you write about development in Denver, readers respond — whether they're commenting on a story about Goed Zuur, a new taproom devoted to sour beers opening on Welton Street, or on one of Teague Bohlen's columns about what makes residents of certain neighborhoods mad — mostly recently, residents of Five Points...
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Among the manifestations of the feminist movement in the ’70s was a critique of sexism in fine art. It was undeniable that at the time — and stretching back to antiquity — women had essentially been fenced out of painting and sculpture. (Interestingly, the barriers to women in ceramics and...
"This has been too long in coming,” Governor John Hickenlooper said at the end of the Healing Run commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre. “On behalf of the State of Colorado, I want to apologize.” He did just that on December 3, 2014, standing on the steps...
It was 8 a.m. when the doorbell rang, the ordinarily melodic tones turning to scratchy demon fire against my eardrum. Anyone who knows me knows I’m absolutely not a morning person, and typically force myself to go to bed around 4 a.m. — so after a bleary ook at the...
The bloodshed continues. The warm early fall weather has brought with it a rash of shootings in the metro-Denver area, with a number of them having fatal results. Two more took place early Sunday morning, September 27, in Aurora. The first left a man dead. The second resulted in a serious...
What’s in a name? The sign above a restaurant’s door can often tell you all you need to know, especially if you’re the kind of eater who would rather savor a particular dish than spread your appetite across a broad, rambling menu. Some eateries are single-minded in their dedication to...
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“Did I want to shoot comedies?” asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer's funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “It’s funny — not at all.” But then came MacGruber, Jorma Taccone's 2010 SNL film.“The director wanted me because I wasn’t...
Dan Cress is a Western State Colorado University Professor and an active musician best known for his work with the band Iola. But now, he's in the public eye for reasons far different than scholarship or fine guitar work. He's scheduled to make his first court appearance this morning after...
The annual Boulder Arts Week unfolds in all its glory for the third time starting on Friday, March 25, and the schedule includes dance, poetry, film, theater, music, art, classes, workshops and much more. Festival founder and coordinator Emily K. Harrison has created an umbrella concept that unites these diverse disciplines...
The image, part of a Denver Public Schools student art show displayed at the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building in Denver, is obviously meant to provoke. After all, it features a police officer in a KKK hood holding a gun on an African American child in a white hoodie against...
They say that there are only three sure things in life: death, taxes and Iggy Pop. The former Stooge simply doesn’t know how to do bad shows – he won’t allow himself the luxury of an off-night. While his age is showing quite vividly on his face and even moreso...
There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two...
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Wiz Khalifa announced today that he will partner with Denver-based RiverRock Cannabis on an exclusive line of cannabis products. This is the first collaboration of its kind that the multi-platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated hip-hop artist has done, though Khalifa has long been associated with marijuana culture, titling his 2011 debut Rolling Papers. ...
TechWears combines fashion and technology in jewelry and accessories made from recycled items — including old computer parts — by founder Drew Johnson. "I am finding my way as I go," he explains. "I used to call myself chief executive upcycler, and the more I get into it, I realize that I...
Sorry to startle you, but summer is over. Yes, it's only the first week in August, but the first pumpkin beer has been released: Thank you(?), Upslope Brewing. And hops farms are getting ready to pick their sticky-fresh cones for wet-hop season. One of the first to do this is...
The van leaves the Stout Street Health Center in downtown Denver on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Others climb aboard in Colorado Springs or Pueblo before the van heads east, into the vast, sparsely populated grasslands of the Lower Arkansas Valley. The passengers are all referrals, vetted and pre-approved, like sailors...
Black Cube's pop-up exhibition that opens March 5 in Texas will mark a lot of firsts for the nomadic museum. This will be the first time that executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell has taken Black Cube outside of Colorado, as well as her first time working in conjunction...
Paris Belle Williams was born this past February and died in June. The following month, the little girl's parents, Lossie Thomas and Patrick Williams, who'd moved to Avon from the Los Angeles area, were arrested on suspicion of numerous charges, including child abuse resulting in death. Now, the pair have...
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The tweet — in which a teacher is compared to a penis prior to the use of the hashtag #douchebag — seems like the kind of thing a pissed-off student might send. But it went out into cyberspace from the (now-deleted) Twitter account of a teachers union, the Douglas County...
Caribbean cuisine is a rarity in Denver, probably with good reason. After all, moving to a city where frostbite is even a remote possibility couldn’t have much appeal for anyone who grew up on a tropical island. Still, a few folks from the Caribbean have found their way to our...
This past week, I visited Nashville and had the pleasure — the pure pleasure — of seeing Loretta Lynn perform live on the Grand Ol' Opry. As I listened to her still-vibrant voice deliver "Coal Miner's Daughter" and songs from her fine new album, Full Circle, I marveled anew at...
The United States government is paying $175,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a severely mentally ill inmate who committed suicide in 2013 while in solitary confinement at the federal supermax in Florence. Although the settlement contains no admission of fault, one of the attorneys in the...