Subject: Martin Luther King Jr.

• Mixed Messages for Martin Luther King Jr. Day

  January 20, 2008

• The Convention: Fit to Be Fried

  July 1, 2008

• The Real Reason Why the Democratic National Convention Won't Be Shortened

  July 3, 2008

• The Real Reason Why the Democratic National Convention Won't Be Shortened

  July 3, 2008

• Color Commentary

  November 6, 1997

• Letters to the Editor

  April 20, 2000

• Best anti-ticket service

  June 29, 2000

• Ranking the 2009 Holidays: the Childless Dirtbag Edition

  As federal holidays go, there are few more worthy than next week's Martin Luther King Jr. Day. But unless black people celebrate the good doctor's achievements with some raucous party I'm not invited to -- entirely possible, since I'm whiter than a Cheers cast reunion -- it's not exactly the most rocking holiday of the year. And let's be honest: When we're circling days off on our desk calendars, most of us don't get misty-eyed thinking about the sacrifices made that led to our three-day weeke

  January 16, 2009

• Wake-Up Call for the week ahead: From MLK Day to more tough sledding

  Although all eyes are on the action in D.C. this week, there's plenty going on in Denver. It starts with the MLK Marade today, when this city hosts the country's largest annual gathering (a combo march/parade) in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., which gets under way at 10:45 a.m. at City Park and winds up at the Civic Center.The future of the Civic Center will be the focus of the discussion when the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission meets on January 20. And Denver City Council will have it

  January 19, 2009

• Yes we can: March for MLK and donate to end hunger

  We have a dream -- that no one in Colorado will go hungry today. For the first time, the Martin Luther King Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission has partnered with Food Bank of the Rockies, by hosting a soup/chili food and fund drive at the beginning and conclusion of today's Marade in honor of MLK. Colorado's MLK march/parade is the largest in the nation, and volunteers from the group Capitol Hill for Change will be stationed throughout City Park and the Denver Civic Center -- the beginning/ending p

  January 19, 2009

• Night and Day: Obama Inauguration parties in Denver

  This morning's Martin Luther King Day march took to the streets with an historic edge: Denver celebrated one African American who helped make it possible for another to become president all these years later. The elated nation that elected Obama Commander-in-Chief will be bumping the clouds tomorrow, from coast to coast, and hey, it would be almost un-American not to join in the celebration. Not all of us can squeeze into the public festivities while freezing our buns off in D.C., but there

  January 19, 2009

• Icing on the Marade

  What's a parade - or marade, for that matter - without free stuff? There was plenty of it today in Civic Center Park, the endpoint of the city's official Martin Luther King Day Marade. (For those of you who are wondering, in the grand tradition of the cockapoo -- half cocker spaniel, half poodle -- and the centaur, a marade is half march, half parade.) This year's featured free license plate holders, lollipops, drink cozies and oh, a cake the size of a man. The Cake That Denver Breathed On. Eve

  January 19, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Barack to the future

  In so many ways, the Democratic National Convention of last August seems like a dream, a dream that packed the streets and businesses of Denver, and sent images of this city around the world. Looking out the window now, I can barely make out the silhouette of Invesco Field at Mile High, where Barack Obama accepted the Democratic nomination for president on the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech -- and where record crowds stood in a line that snaked around the sta

  January 20, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  November 15, 2001

• Best Parade

  April 4, 2002

• The Rocky Mountain News throws one heck of a migil

  Cute kids make good migil photos.The mood at last night's Rocky Mountain News candlelight migil (half march, half vigil --- so coined, in the tradition of the Martin Luther King Day Marade, by someone cleverer than me) was light. Although the details of the event hinted at the possibility of theatrics, the actual gathering felt more like a class reunion with a cause. An estimated 300 current and former Rocky staffers, readers and history buffs -- including a few in costume -- started at the Den

  January 30, 2009

• Letters to the Editor

  October 17, 2002

• Off Limits

  January 23, 2003

• The Jukebox Effect

  Photo: Claudia LopezI deejayed a Valentine's Day party at the Horseshoe Lounge on Saturday. The bar had a great vibe, as always, and the ample crowd was in the mood for a good party. It was the first time I ever had to play music for four and a half straight hours, and I was initially worried that I would: a) run out of songs I wanted to play, or b) not have the right music to keep the party going. I underestimated both the strength of my music collection and the self-sustaining power of a party

  February 17, 2009

• Best Development on Colfax

  March 25, 2004

• Best New Building in the 'Burbs

  March 24, 2005

• We Shall Overcome

  January 17, 2008

• Gee's Bend

  April 3, 2008

• Now Playing

  Capsule reviews of shows

  November 1, 2007

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters from the week of 2/7/2008

  February 7, 2008

• Bobby

  In this star-studded piece of hero porn, Emilio Estevez blames the ills of the world on RFK’s murder. But what about the man?

  November 23, 2006

• Hell to the Chief

  Joan Baez

  November 9, 2006

• DJ Z-Trip

  Thursday, June 1, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 1-866-455-2263.

  June 1, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  June 2, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  December 23, 2004

• Dream Time

  MLK breakfast benefits youth

  January 15, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  January 15, 2004

• Columbus Day Forecast: Stormy

  Identity struggles continue to pit Italians against critics.

  October 10, 2002

• Cheese Wiz

  Are you a man or a mouse? Read all about it.

  November 8, 2001

• Swivel Action

  When the Bush administration does something worth protesting, La Mitzvah will be ready.

  September 27, 2001

• Rage Against the Machine

  Renegades (Epic)

  February 1, 2001

• Class Wars

  Northeast Denver's schools are running out of room.

  April 6, 2000

• The Young and the Restless

  As the turks of Denver's black politics grow old, what's to be made of their legacy?

  April 1, 1999

• Night & Day

  January 21 - 27, 1999

  January 21, 1999

• Night & Day

  January 7 - 13, 1999

  January 7, 1999

• Thrills for the week

  January 15, 1998

• Amen to That

  December 25, 1997

• Feedback

  February 20, 1997

• Thrills for the week

  January 16, 1997

• OFF LIMITS

  January 17, 1996

• THRILLS

  January 10, 1996

• I AM NOT A CAMERATHEY'RE WATCHING YOU AT THE CAPITOL--OR ARE THEY?

  October 25, 1995

• Today's featured event: This weekend's events go highbrow, lowbrow and over the rapids

  Here comes the weekend, kids, so pray for more sunshine and fewer thunderstorms, because there's just a lot to do. To begin with, you can check out Westword's events search page for a bounty of weekend recommendations. But -- what the heck -- here are a few more. Tonight from 5 to 9 p.m., the galleries of Downtown Aurora's tough little East End Arts District will be throwing open their doors for East End Summer Art Walk, featuring open houses, opening receptions, live music and demonstrations

  June 12, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: Emmett Till, RIP

  The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till's lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white woman on a trip to the South, it was reburied in a new casket, and the original designated for inclusion in a future memorial. "His mother had the gut and grit to say that 'I want America to see what

  July 22, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: The Obama promise, stuck in line

  ​Denver looks golden in most memories of last year's Democratic National Convention -- including Barack Obama's acceptance speech, which was delivered on August 28, 2008, exactly 45 years to the day of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. But then, there are the memories of trying to get into that speech, moved from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field at Mile High at the behest of the Obama team, with that crew (and the feds) taking over arrangements from the city. Which meant

  August 28, 2009