Rosa Parks

100 Colorado Creatives: The Ladies Fancywork Society

#100: The Ladies Fancywork Society The Ladies Fancywork Society -- a somewhat anonymous collective of crafty women -- has been delighting Denver for a half-dozen years, working covertly in the dark of night to create yarnbombed installations that sprout out of nowhere in the strangest of places. The ... More >>

Review: Big Boi at SnowBall Music Festival 3/2/12

BIG BOI @ SNOWBALL | 3/2/12The purple lights cast Big Boi in a Prince-ly hue. He's leading the audience through the chorus of "Ms. Jackson" and the entirety of the crowd is bobbing around like crazy. Big Boi is leaning back, with one arm up, casually steering an invisible Cadillac at about two miles ... More >>

Outkast is one of hip-hop's most successful and creative groups

​Outkast is easily one of the most noted and respected hip-hop groups in the game. Big Boi and Andre 3000 met in the East Point section of Atlanta when they were sixteen. The outfit combined funk, soul, jazz and blues influences with hip-hop lyrics on its 1994 debut, Southernplayalisticadillac ... More >>

Negative Degree is trying to keep Denver's hardcore scene on a "street level"

Negative Degree, one of the more active hardcore bands in the Denver punk scene for the past year or so, is part of a small wave of new local bands playing hardcore punk music, which first sprang up in basements in the '80s and has been romanticized and gold-plated in more than a few books and docum ... More >>

Latest Word is off for Martin Luther King Day...but the news marches on

Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that's march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police accounta ... More >>

Ladies' night foe Steve Horner takes on Las Vegas... and lives to tell about it

Steve Horner.​Local bar owners breathed a sigh of relief when Steve Horner left town taking the discrimination charges he'd filed against them for offering ladies' night deals with him. Denver's gain is Las Vegas's loss: Sin City is the current focus of Horner's campaign. But rather than earni ... More >>

Guns N' Rosa Parks final show at Bar Bar video, 4/28/11

Guns N' Rosa Parks last night. See video below.​A few minutes after 1 a.m. this morning, the last incarnation of Guns N' Rosa Parks hammered its way through one last thirty-minute set. Broken microphone cables, standard cover songs (Blitz, Last Rights, Infest) and dives off bar were all in ord ... More >>

Big Boi at the Ogden, 1/28/11

Photo by Kiernan Maletsky​ BIG BOI With Eligh & Scarub and The Foodchain 01.28.11 | Ogden Theater Corporate sponsorship, lead by local ski and snowboard company Icelantic, brought Big Boi to Denver last night. The Atlanta rapper, who we'd venture has never set ski/board on a mountain in his ... More >>

What week is it? A breakdown of everything you could be celebrating, January 24-30

Hell yeah, beer. This is your day. ​There are a number of so-called "drinking" holidays that roll around once a year -- St. Patrick's Day, Fat Tuesday, Black History Month -- but those, as you once heard a bartender say and now like to pretend like you came up with it yourself, are like "amate ... More >>

Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party tonight at The Mercury Cafe

​Since it finally feels like winter, it seems appropriate to begin throwing "official" holiday parties. Consider the Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party the first one of the new year, going down tonight at the Mercury Cafe. $5 gets you in the door for a night of bands, booze and jug music, while another ... More >>

Free Movie Time: The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

​It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a 16-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the supposed crime of flirting with a while woman in rural Mississippi in 1955. Though the obviously guilt ... More >>

Whoops, forgot about this amazing Outkast album

​In the year 2000, I heard my first Outkast album, Stankonia. You'll have to excuse my sheltered existence -- being a small-time kid from a small mountain town didn't exactly lend itself to being on the cutting edge.

Peeps lawyer doesn't like Peeps, and other revelations from Stephen Colbert's latest Colbert Report investigation

Stephen Colbert and John Pineau -- sort of.​Yesterday, we told you that attorney John Pineau -- who represents Carol "Chay" Burdick in a dispute that pits Peeps against possible eviction -- had agreed to speak to The Colbert Report's Stephen Colbert about a trial delay without commenting on th ... More >>

Top 10 Colorado feuds of the decade

​Most people just go along to get along. But every once in a while a hellacious disagreement -- about principle, turf, money, or who cut the cheese -- makes for an old-fashioned Western display of rootin'-tootin' feudin' and cussedness. The most memorable Colorado showdowns of the past ten ... More >>

Steve Horner fights for his right to be wrong.

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 wom ... More >>

Ladies Night foe Steve Horner doesn't even live here. So how can we discriminate against him?

Three shows take hold at Spark Gallery

The Colorado Civil Rights Division has a double standard for ladies' nights -- and newspapers

Get on the Bus

Awele Makeba tells it like it was

Fucked Up at the Larimer Lounge

Photo: David WaldmanFucked Up, Mustangs & Madras, Guns N Rosa Parks Wednesday, February 11, 2009 Larimer Lounge Better than: The G.G. Allin documentary. Right off the bat let's dispense with two things. One: Fucked Up is an awful name for a band. Two: If you are going to name your band Fucked U ... More >>

Scratch and Dent Sale: Seven Reasons Why I Don't Dance (But You Should)

The 2007 Hall of Shame

It's one thing to embarrass yourself. It's quite another to take an entire city with you.

Sit Down, Stand Up

Is Elvira Arellano a modern-day Rosa Parks?

I'll Drink to That

Mavis Staples On The Main Line

No Pain, No Gain

The Enclave has Commerce City fit to be tied.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of 2/22/2007

Ladies' Plight

Rosa Parks didn't surrender to discrimination and take a different bus. So why should Steve Horner go to a different bar?

What's in a Name?

Qusair Mohamedbhai just wanted to open a bank account. Instead, he was labeled a terrorist.

Guns N' Rosa Parks

Climax Lounge

Let Us Prey

Alan Clements uses Spiritually Incorrect to skewer modern hype.

Off Limits

High in the sky

The Big Cheese

Making book on the Webb legacy.

Off Limits

Turf rebirth

Year in Review

2001? What 2001?

Cheese Wiz

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

Lady, Sing the Blues

Odetta is happy to find trouble everywhere she goes.

Two for the Future

To hip-hop's OutKast and Black Eyed Peas, the glass is half full.

THOSE HIDE-BOUND TRADITIONS

CAN A BUNCH OF LEATHER GUYS BE SWAYED BY IRATE DRAG QUEENS? WE THINK NOT.