The Occupy Wall Street movement is, in many ways, a numbers game. The same is true of its Denver affiliate, where the numbers might be smaller but the fervor for the cause — the causes, really — maintains a strength in direct proportion to its national parent. During a three-hour…
Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago everyman rapper scheduled to play the Fillmore tonight, made an early stop on his tour of the city to support the Occupy Denver gathering in front of the state capitol earlier this afternoon. Fiasco has maintained an increasingly public profile about his support of the Occupy…
Re-envisioning an entire geographic area is a surprisingly straightforward process. First, there are the facts: Grand County is the Colorado’s 21st largest, has been around since 1874 and is home to quite a lot of water. Like many mountain areas, it share the same qualities its high-elevation peers sport –…
Maria Mosina is almost as graceful a speaker as she is a dancer. Almost. A principal ballerina with the Colorado Ballet, Mosina began her career with the Bolshoi Ballet Grigorovich Company in Russia, and it is with a soft Russian accent that she describes her career as “completely natural” but…
The state’s focus on youth crime is adjusting to a substantial drop in numbers as the result of a big announcement from the Department of Human Services yesterday. As of last month, the number of Colorado youth committed to juvenile detention programs has decreased to a total lower than any…
Jonathan Franzen is a great American novelist in large part because he has written a great American novel — two, in fact. Last night’s Pen & Podium lecture at the Newman Center found the charming and occasionally awkward author of Freedom touching on bird watching (an enthusiastic hobby), The Moody…
Thirty students at Colorado State University have been thinking a lot about the future recently. For the next three years, CSU has tied itself to the future of the automotive industry as a participant in its quest for sustainable transportation. And with a new donation from Siemens, the university is…
Denver Parks and Recreation has unveiled the beginning stages of a plan to overhaul City Park’s Dustin Redd playground and replace it with a newer, larger model. The project comes with an end date of 2013 and the goal of creating a regional playground to attract visitors from across the…
The things I remember about going to the circus as a child are limited, but they are awesome. I distinctly recall riding an elephant — though my parents do not — and only recently have I accepted the vegetarian guilt that comes with that potentially false memory. This was before…
If you’ve ever wondered how Colorado knows, say, that its youth are more likely to smoke on school campuses than the average U.S. student, the answer is that it asks them. Every other year since 1991, the Center for Disease Control has administered the Youth Risk Behavior Survey at a…
Even now, 62 years old in the church that is his second home, Reverend Larron Jackson can split his life easily into three separate metaphors. Those words, in turn, found their way into the title of his recent autobiography, The Ghetto, the Gridiron and the Gospel, a painfully honest if…
This morning’s No On 300 rally rally in Skyline Park brought out approximately seventy representatives and supporters of the hospitality industry, everyone from five crop-topped Hooters employees to three much more conservatively dressed Denver City Council members. But everyone in the group sported the plain but aggressive “No On 300″…
The goal is noble. The rules are simple. And the results — well, they vary. In the spirit of both creativity and caffeine, Denver artists celebrated 24-Hour Comics Day this past weekend, the eighth incarnation of this national event, and the participants who eventually conquered the event’s requirements proved even…
When (What’s the Story) Morning Glory? was released, its presence on the scene was almost as explosive as its creators’ antics. Noel and Liam Gallagher — sometimes jokingly known as Cocaine and Abel — aren’t really brothers as much as they are the antithesis of each other, the most charming…
The Denver Drug Court’s treatment program is split into more than a handful of individualized tracks, but until earlier this month, none catered specifically to the needs of veterans. While they make up 5 to 8 percent of the 850 people enrolled, vets remain the least likely to receive help…
Last night’s Insane Clown Posse show and the previous night’s Dark Lotus show, both at the Ogden, have left a generous amount of weed in the air, to be sure, but they also came with a circus-sized serving of juggalo love. While we were searching Craigslist for the ninja we…
INSANE CLOWN POSSE at the OGDEN | 9/29/11Somewhere between the moment someone threw up on me and the moment I realized it had happened, I received first-hand evidence that membership in the juggalo family comes with a small price. Last night’s Insane Clown Posse show began and ended with liberty,…
The process to turn wood into jet fuel sounds like half alchemy, half magic. But Gevo, Inc. an Englewood renewable chemicals and biofuels company, calls it science…
A small but sturdy herd of PETA activists is stomping its feet against the circus’ stay in Denver. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals supporters took their grievances against Ringing Bros. & Barnum & Bailey’s treatment of its elephants to the front of the coliseum this afternoon in…
While (appropriately) pouring over glasses of ice water at their meeting this morning, the members of the Denver Water Board voted unanimously to support a 5.5 percent hike in the city’s water rates. After four months of public discussion, the decision comes as a direct result of analysis indicating the…
The list of names opposing the Denver Paid Sick Leave Ordinance is growing, and quickly. Yesterday, six members of the thirteen-person City Council added theirs to a list that already includes Mayor Michael Hancock and Governor John Hickenlooper. To cement their opposition to the toll the ordinance would take on…
Last week, DPS launched the Great Lives in Colorado History series. Written by local educators, the thirteen biographies completed so far introduce Coloradans of the past to third-graders of the present. The results are both educational and complete: In the two we borrowed to channel our inner eight-year-olds, we’ve already…
