Email Author Kelsey Whipple

2012 Stories by Kelsey Whipple

• Occupy Boulder: Evidence suppressed after police enter tents without warrant

  published Jan 27, 2012

  For two Occupy Boulder protesters arrested for violating the city's anti-camping ordinance, the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search has proven to be a valuable defense. In the ca... More >>

• What the Frackr!: Grassroots group pushes for fracking moratorium in Arapahoe County

  published Jan 26, 2012

  The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled tha... More >>

• Spark Theater trolled Craigslist for its latest play, Casual Encounters/Missed Connections

  published Jan 26, 2012

  As a kid, playwright Sean Paul Mahoney was "totally obsessed" with the Madonna/Rosanna Arquette movie Desperately Seeking Susan. Both the voyeurism and the romance fascinated him, but in his mind, he ... More >>

• Occupy Boulder: Attorneys use Fourth Amendment to defend protesters

  published Jan 25, 2012

  Of all the constitutional freedoms cited in defense of the Occupy movement, the First Amendment is staked most territorially. But in Occupy Boulder, attorneys defending protesters arrested for illegal... More >>

• Wil Alston, ex-Denver communications director, takes finance gig created by Michael Hancock

  published Jan 24, 2012

  After six months at the head of Mayor Michael Hancock's communications staff, Wil Alston began a new position yesterday leading the same function for Denver's finance department. Hancock created the p... More >>

• TEDx Marks The Spot

  published January 19, 2012

  One half theater and one half academic lecture: If that formula sounds simple, it's not. TEDx Mile High Salon celebrates Colorado's artists... More >>

• Tobacco-Free Aurora pushes for city ordinance requiring retailers to be licensed

  published Jan 23, 2012

  What Tobacco-Free Aurora lacks in longevity and membership, it makes up for in ambition. Founded a little more than a year ago with a rotating volunteer staff of twelve to thirty, the group recently p... More >>

• Songwriting camp helps veterans transition from active duty to civilian life

  published Jan 20, 2012

  For five days this week, ten veterans selected to represent the range of issues that come with their careers will tell their stories to four professional songwriters chosen to promote the strengths th... More >>

• Veterans pair with songwriters to create a full-length album about the military experience

  published Jan 20, 2012

  When military nonprofit LifeQuest Transitions wanted to raise awareness for the issues of moving from active duty to civilian life, it chose what founder CW Conner somewhat cheesily refers to as "the ... More >>

• Out Front Colorado, LGBT magazine, sold to new owners

  published Jan 19, 2012

  After weeks of rumors that the local LGBT publication was on the block, Out Front Colorado officials announced yesterday that the mag has been sold to Transformation Communication Group. What exactly ... More >>

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  Occupy Littleton launched with five-person general assembly

  published Jan 18, 2012

  On Sunday, at 2 p.m. in the Bemis Public Library, five people gathered to launch the first general assembly of Occupy Littleton. If the idea that democracy takes time ever needed proof, this would be ... More >>

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  Death Before Dishonor

  published January 19, 2012

  Being a hardcore band from Boston can be both a blessing and a curse — a curse in that it can so define a band that it won't be able to... More >>

• Occupy Denver v. Occupy Boulder: Is the difference in tactics or police responser

  published Jan 17, 2012

  If Occupy Boulder and Occupy Denver weren't fully supportive sister occupations located roughly an hour from each other, it would occasionally be tough to tell that they're even struggling against the... More >>

• Alex Landau discusses the lack of prosecution for the officers who beat him

  published Jan 17, 2012

  Three years ago, Alex Landau became a symbol of sorts for racial inequality and police brutality in Denver. Three years ago, Denver police officers pulled Landau over for an alleged illegal left turn,... More >>

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  Occupy Denver: Mayor Michael Hancock says public doesn't care anymore

  published Jan 17, 2012

  Yesterday afternoon, RedLine art gallery housed hundreds of Occupy movement supporters from Colorado and beyond as they reflected on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and how to translate it to prot... More >>

• Broncos rally can use chalk, but Occupy Denver can't

  published Jan 13, 2012

  This afternoon, residents are invited to participate in something referred to as a "spirit rally:" Come down to Bannock between 14th and Colfax sometime between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., hang out with th... More >>

• Alex Landau and the Colorado Progressive Coalition promote racial profiling hotline

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Three years ago on Sunday, police officers pulled over Alex Landau, then nineteen, for taking an illegal left turn onto Emerson. They then beat him bloody. Although Landau received one of the city's l... More >>

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  Tim Tebow: The ten crappiest pieces of Chosen One merch on Craigslist

  published Jan 13, 2012

  Whoever thought it would be awesome to paint a $300 portrait of Mickey Mouse as Tim Tebow is only slightly less credible than the person who will buy that painting. One step above them is the Disney l... More >>

• Sports Authority Field at Mile High: Debate with neighbors over glare from signage gets testy

  published Jan 12, 2012

  Last night, after a long lecture about neighborhood crime and a short drive for membership, the Sloan's Lake Citizen's Group confronted its single largest neighbor: the Broncos' stadium. After the dea... More >>

• Alexandra McLean tops list of five notorious teacher-student sex crimes

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Our most recent choice for Shmuck of the Week was Englewood teacher Alexandra McLean, who allegedly cozied up to a student in a car following a performance of Lend Me a Tenor. Shockingr Sure, but no... More >>

• Occupy Denver: Restraining order bans Shelby's owner from Occupy Boulder site

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Update: Peter John Jentsch, current Occupy Boulder protester and bodyguard of Occupy Denver's canine leader, Shelby, was released from jail last night after he was arrested early Sunday morning for t... More >>

• Sports Authority Field at Mile High: Signage decision extended to talk to neighbors

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Tim Tebow lit up Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Sunday, but plans to upgrade the corporate signage at the stadium are still causing a few sparks. As the deadline for public comment passed on M... More >>

• Photos: Set designer Glenn Grassi thinks big about tiny (and livable) homes

  published Jan 11, 2012

  The fully functioning home in which Glenn Grassi is standing in isn't much larger than his bedroom was that time he joined the circus. It is significantly smaller than the sets he made and won nationa... More >>

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  Denver named 15th Gayest City -- based on pretty much nothing

  published Jan 10, 2012

  Yesterday, Denver made number fifteen on The Advocate's list of the Gayest Cities in America. But we need only to tell you (spoiler alert!) that Salt Lake City is ranked number one in order to convinc... More >>

• Colorado in space: Buzz Aldrin's son on how a spaceport would change the state's economy

  published Jan 09, 2012

  Colorado currently hosts the number two space economy in the country, but the possibility of adding a spaceport on the Front Range could raise our rank while raising the industry's stakes. Whether you... More >>