At long last — and on national television — Willow the cat was reunited with her family last week. The Today Show clip below finds Willow being lovingly caressed by family matriarch Jamie Squires while Matt Lauer asks predictable questions and she is confronted by Lola, a daughter who did…
LOW at the BLUEBIRD THEATER | 9/24/11 In the forever-growing pantheon of husband-wife indie rockers, the most common concept is twee. Mates of State, for example, have made a living of self-reflective lyrics and dualing-personality vocals cut in between charming anecdotes about the kids. If that’s the usual, then, Low…
It took almost losing her job for Sara Woodyard to realize she couldn’t have done enough with it anyway. Facing the end of the probation period that marked the first three years of her work life, Woodyard, a fifth-grade teacher, developed an acute awareness of what budget cuts can mean…
If you thought Willow, the formerly lost Broomfield feline, experienced the adventure of her lives during the five years before she turned up in New York City, think again. Since her rediscovery, the cat has become a true American Internet meme and rubbed elbows with some of its biggest names…
Denver literary guide Mindy Sink wrote for the New York Times for more than ten years of her writing career, but it is her Denver home that she returns to most often in her books. Last year, Sink exercised her feet and her time researching the city’s best walks for…
The Qdoba at Sixth and Grant has housed Coca-Cola’s 100-flavor freestyle soda fountain for three weeks now, but the Terminator of the carbonated world is still creating lines all the way to the door. I stopped by this morning to watch the drink behemoth in action and came away as…
Cat DeRose has lived near Little Raven Street for years, but she has Denver Public Schools’ third graders to thank for all that she now knows about its namesake. And later this month, they’ll be able to thank her back. DeRose’s 23-page book, Little Raven, Chief of the Southern Arapaho,…
Ask yourself, right now, how often you down five drinks (or more) in a single sitting. Answer honestly. Depending on what you decided, you might be a binge drinker. The good news here is that you’re not alone. The bad news is that Denver’s youth population is joining you…
Stem cell research comes with a generous handful of misconceptions. The first, of course, is that the science deals entirely with embryonic cells. The second, it would seem, is that it’s difficult. Within the next three weeks, IntelliCell, a publicly traded stem cell research company, will open a lab facility…
A final vote from the Colorado Reapportionment Commission yesterday announced a consensus on the state’s first new legislative maps in the past ten years. The commission is led by its sole politically independent member, Entravision CEO Mario Carrera — and he’s got some ideas about how to make the process…
In the little more than a week since the University of Denver’s most recent sustainability effort began, it has surpassed the national average for early membership. WeCar, a program in which DU partners with Enterprise Rent-A-Car to provide shared rides to students and their neighbors in the area, began September…
Meet Willow, a six-year-old calico who has gained five years, one and a half pounds and surprisingly little gray hair since she was lost from her Broomfield home half a decade ago, somehow not eaten by coyotes and discovered Wednesday in the Big Apple. To be clear, that’s roughly 1,800…
Yesterday was a sweater day. Not a bathing-suit day or a Popsicle day or even a look-out-the-window day, which we could chalk up to this being one of the 65 days of the Colorado year that aren’t graced by sunshine — if only we didn’t know better. It was a…
Sure, the Museum of Contemporary Art maintains an appropriately bizarre group of events on a regular basis. There is, after all, nothing quite like a good homing pigeon rental to go with your yarn sculpture. But MCA’s Black Sheep Fridays, in its second season this fall, make the rest of…
It wasn’t until I found a guide to the definition of “stalking” in Initiative 300, Denver’s Paid Sick and Safe Time proposal (Section 18-9-11, page 7) that my interest in the actual wording of the proposal developed into a plan to just plain exploit it. As the newest staffer at…
As seen in Contagion, the movie whose trailer features Gwyneth Paltrow dying, mass sickness — and the mass hysteria that can come with it — are relegated mostly to the fictional world. The two made an appearance today, however, at two separate meetings to discuss the 2011 Denver Paid Sick…
