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Chicano Brings the Brown Power Movement Back at Museo de las Americas

Challenged to create an art show to enhance History Colorado's companion exhibit to 1968, El Movimiento — a straightforward visual history of the local Chicano rights movement that flourished in the barrio areas of Denver decades ago — Maruca Salazar of the Museo de las Americas came up with a street-smart answer...
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Why Profs Think Colorado Should Pay Nebraska, Oklahoma for Pot Problems

In December, as we've reported, Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado in the U.S. Supreme Court over the state's marijuana laws. Among the claims: Colorado's marijuana experiment undermines pot bans in neighboring states, "draining their treasuries and placing stress on their criminal justice system." Colorado's attorney general has...
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Rocky Flats Should Ban Burns Forever, New Petition Says

More than sixty years ago, when the federal government decided to build a nuclear weapons plant, it picked an eleven-acre spot on the Front Range northwest of Denver, a landscape studded with farms and ranches — and just sixteen miles upwind of a major city. When it opened in 1952,...
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Pizza or Manaeesh? The Best of Both Worlds at Amira Grill

The sign above the door at the Amira Bakery has been recently updated to read Amira Grill — the old sign was a simple vinyl banner, but the new one looks much more permanent — but the breads are still the main attraction at this Lebanese joint.  Manaeesh (often spelled...
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Dusten Fischer, Expectant Father, Stabbed Nine Times in Lodo

Dusten Fischer and his beloved, Ashleigh, are expecting the birth of their first child together — a boy they've already named Brantley — on February 19. But less than a week away from that date, Fischer is in critical condition at Denver Health after being stabbed nine times during an...
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First Look: The Multisensory World of Helicopter Copter

Helicopter Copter is not a band, really. And though a group of musicians came together to create textured pieces of sound, they don't necessarily consider the finished work songs. And though there are six recorded sonic expressions in this first body of work entitled Whisper Down The Lane, the pieces...
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Would Higher Beer Taxes and Legalizing Pot Cut Down on Campus Rapes?

Numerous studies have suggested that marijuana users are less violent than those who consume alcohol. But would substituting marijuana for liquor also cut down on sexual assaults currently plaguing so many colleges across the country? Yes, argues New York magazine's Annie Lowery -- and she believes higher taxes on liquid...
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Sharod Kindell, Shot by Police in January, Arrested Again Last Week

On January 9, Sharod Kindell, a 23-year-old Denver native who’d had repeated run-ins with the police, was shot in his vehicle and severely wounded by Denver police officer Jeffrey DiManna. Kindell’s story, which we told in "Hands Up, Don't Shoot," our February 5 cover piece, has helped inspire growing discontent...
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Reader: Coloradans Stay in Great Shape From Random, Unprotected Sex

A new report shows that Colorado is America's least obese state but doesn't do as well in a number of other health categories, including rates of chlamydia and binge drinking. Several of our readers had fun making connections between these results. Here are four examples. See also: Colorado Is the...