After Occupy Boulder pressured the city for weeks to deny its newly proposed park closure rule, Boulder’s City Council Agenda Committee has opened the issue for a public hearing on January 3. If passed, the proposal will enforce a curfew similar to that of Denver, requiring city parks and recreation…
An adult goose releases approximately one pound of poop every single day. This fact stays relatively unnoticed until wintertime, when thousands of Canada geese — seemingly overnight — come out of the woodwork and waddle onto your property and into your parking spot. Why are there so many? The truth…
There are few things in this world more terrifying or awe-inspiring than the experience of witnessing a nerd achieve his life’s dream. There are probably more than a few cases in which this involves Star Wars or, if pressed, its nemesis that ends in Trek, but Charlie Ross’s has got…
Bands break up all the time. This is an established fact, and depending upon how many of your favorite band’s original members are alive, sane or producing concept albums, it can be a welcome one. The only difference this year is the purely unfair share of fallen rock soldiers that…
If you missed kART Across America at the Denver Starz Film Festival, the time you have left to see it on the big screen is limited. So if you can avoid your holiday plans for one more day, see it tonight. The film, directed by Denver natives and thoughtful funny…
We would present this without comment, but we’re not ready for the repercussions. It has been a busy December for Occupy Denver, whose three-month anniversary is tomorrow: thirteen arrests in Loveland, nine at Civic Center Park, fires, Tebowing, a fake death, homeless heckling and a (failed) attempt at a federal…
Whichever one of you asked for a new Radiohead song for Christmas, thank you. To be honest, you should have been a bit more specific, but we at Backbeat are counting our blessings regardless. According to the epic Brit rockers’ obsessive fansite, Atease.com, the long-lost track you are about to…
Call it a quarter-life crisis: Andy Raney does. Because before watching the documentary that resulted, it’s slightly difficult to imagine why two adult males — Raney and co-creator Jeremy Make — would travel the United States in a used and dilapidated golf kart named Christine for a hundred days, moving…
The Occupy Denver encampment is not the only city feature to be called an eyesore in recent weeks. Plans to add more, bigger and brighter corporate signage to the Sports Authority Field (previously known as Invesco) are already under attack by neighbors who worry about light pollution from the stadium…
Updated, 12:40 p.m. December 22: Michael Clapper, one of nine arrested at Monday’s raid on the Occupy Denver encampment, has officially been charged with four counts of 4th degree arson. Behind the charges are the allegation that Clapper intentionally set fire to an encumbrance and other items in the area,…
Two nights ago, Occupy Denver protester Ben Meyer woke up on the sidewalk of Broadway, put on his shoes and spent the rest of his evening with the Denver Police Department. The next night, he spoke on Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Last night, the fire-forged raid on Occupy Denver earned…
Last night’s Occupy Denver eviction is unlikely to be the last one in the near future. In a statement on the subject, Mayor Michael Hancock supported the city’s actions and cited the now commonly repeated concerns of public safety and access. Accompanied by new Police Chief Robert White, Hancock confirmed…
About a week and a half ago, Occupy Denver protester Tanner Spendley became the main character in a situation that could easily be a bar joke. Three days before the local group occupied the Walmart distribution center in Loveland, Spendley heard a knock on the door of his Denver apartment…
To sum it up briefly, Occupy Denver’s meeting with Police Chief Robert White this afternoon lasted less than an hour and ended without any decisions or a consensus, but the main issue remained unresolved: whether there would be a police raid on the camp to remove its built-up fort city…
If you can get past the fact that Dick Cheney’s name is spelled wrong in the title of this video, the rest of it is still confusing. On Friday, a handful of Occupy Denver protesters visited the site of the former vice president’s recent (and secretive) trip to the Brown…
Friday marked a stark contrast between the polite Civic Center Park of yesterday and its new protest version 2.0. In the center of the park, the Civic Center Conservancy held a belated birthday party for the park’s greatest supporter, former Denver Mayor Robert Speer. And in the front of the…
MATISYAHU @ OGDEN THEATRE | 12/17/11Less than half a minute into a first song appropriately titled “Open the Gates,” Matisyahu’s dancing had already grown so intense his yarmulke could no longer support it. Instead, it popped off. This action would later repeat itself, like proof of his prowess, five times…
In the hierarchy of things that happened in the pop metal world after Nirvana’s Nevermind was released, this one has to rank pretty high in the pantheon, at least locally. The year was 1993: The music industry was booming, hair metal was fading and a handful of Denver rock enthusiasts…
They don’t make Air Bud movies about pit bulls. There are no commercials in which a pit bull licks ice cream from a gleeful toddler’s cone of Rocky Road, and only Weimeraners seem to drive cars. In Denver, the pit bull breed is illegal, and it has been for decades…
Update, 4 p.m.: Public Works announced it is “re-evaluating” its plan to evict Occupy Denver. For the moment, Denver Public Works is backing away from its plan to remove structures from Occupy Denver’s encampment at Civic Center Park. After receiving a warning notice to remove the forts or face official…
After thirteen arrests on Monday following weeks in which no one was jailed, Occupy Denver spent last night strengthening its small fort city at Civic Center Park and preparing for a second wave of busts. Yesterday, Public Works officials served the group with a second official notice to remove all…
Neighbors can be scary, shrill, suffocating things. They listen to country radio, smoke on your shared patio, leave passive-aggressive notes about how you parked your Yaris, and borrow eggs almost as often as they “borrow” your copy of the New York Times. But no matter how often you interact with,…
