With 2,500 visitors a day, the Denver Public Library’s Central branch is especially susceptible to trends affecting the general population. “We realize that the people that come to the library — not just our customers, but anyone who walks through the doors — is representative of what’s happening in society…
A group of students at the University of Denver’s law school has started a petition requesting that DU reconsider its contract with Sodexo, a global supplier of food services that operates in many universities. DU is in the process of renegotiating its contract with the France-based company, which counts nearly 400,000…
SB17-027 would increase the penalty for texting and driving by $300 and four points per offense.
The first person Brad Allen came out to was his brother. Growing up in a conservative Christian family in the South, Allen was convinced his homosexuality was a sin, and he wanted to change it. “I told my brother, and we did research to find out what we could do…
Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, the husband-and-wife duo behind Denver band Tennis, have just finished writing and producing their fifth album, Yours Conditionally, under their brand-new label, Mutually Detrimental. A booker for Coachella heard a single from the new record and asked Tennis to play the giant music festival in April.
On Friday, February 24, Denver dignitaries including Mayor Michael Hancock and Regional Transportation Department general manager and CEO Dave Genova gathered at the Iliff Station for a ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of the R Line. But not everyone was there to celebrate: Low-income residents are demanding a better deal.
Today, immigrants rights activists from the American Friends Service Committee, Mojados Unidos, DU’s Sturm College of Law and others will gather at the State Capitol to decry a bill that they consider one of the most anti-immigrant in decades.
No offense to the City of Lights, but Denver is just a lot less dense.
Used to be that a bar was only as good as its jukebox, until even the most respectable of hole-in-the-walls started going digital. Not that we can blame them. Maintaining a thirty-, forty-, fifty-year-old machine that’s constantly prodded by drunk people is expensive. Indeed, the list of bars that maintain…
In a dimly lit theater at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton, 75 girls in elementary through high school are chit-chatting, placing their food orders with theater waiters, and patiently awaiting the start of the film. Directed by Theodore Melfi, Hidden Figures tells the true but seldom-heard story of three African-American…
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to Student “Failures”
Just in time for Inauguration Week, Vibrant, a local company, has vowed to give proceeds from its signature line of sex toys to the Rocky Mountain chapter of Planned Parenthood.
Roger Armstrong, Capitol Hill United Neighborhood’s executive director for ten years, is stepping down, and last year, CHUN announced it would outsource production of the 2017 Capitol Hill People’s Fair, Denver’s oldest arts and music festival known for highlighting local nonprofits and businesses, to an event-planning company.
It’s the second week of the beginners’ Spanish course at the Language School. Five students, including Aisha, sit around a table and ask each other how to spell their names in the foreign language. Their instructor stands close by, listening intently and correcting any mispronunciations. Aisha, a mail carrier from Aurora, signed up for the course because she was tired of coming across non-English-speaking clients and being unable to ask them for simple things like a signature.
Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, the husband-and-wife duo known as Tennis, have been to Coachella before. They just didn’t know each other at the time. It was twelve years ago. Radiohead was headlining, still riding the wave of success of Kid A and Amnesiac, which dropped in 2000 and 2001,…
Big Gigantic will return to Indio this year for its second Coachella performance.
Last January, Les Baca told herself she’d play her ukulele for others as many days as possible in 2016.
The National Western Stock Show has canceled its annual parade, scheduled this year for Thursday, January 5. “After several hours of gathering facts, we have decided to cancel the parade this Thursday,” said Stock Show president and CEO Paul Andrews in a statement. “It will not be rescheduled. The risk…
Brianna Buentello has engaged in politics since she was a child. Both of her parents are Marines – they have been deployed several times – so world affairs have always been personal. But it wasn’t until this year’s presidential election that Buentello considered running for politics, and she’s not alone…
Since the dawn of the aircraft, delayed travelers have found respite in airport bars. But this year, Denver International Airport offered a more productive distraction: a free ice-skating rink on the plaza. As of December 30, 6,325 skaters had taken advantage of the rink, which gets an average of about…
As if 2016 wasn’t twisted enough, the Coen brothers made a mediocre movie, and Blake Lively pleasantly surprised our critics.
He’s a respected singer/songwriter and former member of the Commodors. She’s a mega-pop star who can hit the shit out of some high notes. Lionel Richie and “very special guest” Mariah Carey have announced they are touring together next year. The All the Hits tour will hit 35 cities and…
