In the past week, Denver has welcomed the creation of almost 200 units of low-income housing for families and former members of the city’s homeless community. Today, seven days after Bluff Lake Apartments launched 92 units, the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless marked the grand opening of the $17 million…
Picture your favorite part of Chatfield State Park. Now keep reading — because plans to reallocate 20,600 acre-feet of the Chatfield Reservoir to prepare for Colorado’s growing population could create noticeable changes in that summer staple. Outlined in an environmental impact statement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the…
Sometimes, it takes a village. On Saturday, it took a neighborhood. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day, residents, community organizers and nonprofit volunteers gathered for Denver’s first Better Block project, which re-created West 25th Avenue from Federal Boulevard to Eliot Street. The makeover attracted more than 1,500 visitors…
Today, the United States Supreme Court rejected three of four core provisions in Arizona’s controversial immigration law — but allowed the most hotly contested to remain. It is still legal for state police to stop, interview and detain people they have “reasonable suspicion” to believe entered the country illegally, an…
When the members of local experimental rock band Eldren gathered themselves and their gear together for a June 4 show at Aspen’s Belly Up, they quickly noticed one person was missing: Josh Lee, the group’s violinist, vocalist and electric guitarist. And then they received a call. From inside the Immigration…
Throughout nine months navigating the shifting landscape of public perception, Occupy Denver has attracted attention, praise and criticism. And for the past two, occupiers have gathered stories in all three categories, which they will funnel this weekend into a two-hour performance light on props and heavy on perspective. In Stories…
Opponents huffed and puffed, but the Colorado Supreme Court did not allow the Colorado Bankers Association and the Independent Bankers of Colorado to blow the house down on Initiative 84’s official language. In a ruling made public yesterday, the court decided to allow the proposed foreclosure amendment to move ahead…
Our recent cover feature, “Peak Performance,” tells the story of local humanitarian Shannon Galpin, who in 2006 founded Mountain2Mountain, an international outreach effort targeted toward working with women in crisis zones. That year, the rape survivor and single mother left her job as a Pilates instructor to make her first…
In April, the Colorado Division of Housing reported the state features twice as many low-income families as there is affordable rental housing for those families. This morning, at the dedication ceremony for Bluff Lake Apartments, the area’s newest affordable housing community, Mayor Michael Hancock confirmed plans to change that: “My…
The Boulder County ACLU has come out in firm opposition to a proposed ordinance that would require approval from the city manager to allow protesters to gather in city parks. Although the topic is still in the brainstorming stages and won’t merit a decision for months, its opponents fear it…
Update, 9 a.m. June 16: This event has been canceled. Original post: Although the protesters are expecting a showdown, the results could be more like a meltdown: Tomorrow, members of the Young Americans for Freedom (conservative and libertarian youth) and Denver’s South Suburban Freedom Fighters (formerly the South Suburban Young…
Today brings big news, high hopes and timid reservations about immigration. The Obama administration has announced it will halt the deportation of undocumented youth who immigrated to the country as children and don’t pose threats to national security, and will offer work permits to eligible students. The news follows years…
In the almost three months since the Colorado Progressive Coalition began a fight for Initiative 84, organizers have collected more than three dozen stories about Colorado foreclosures. In the near future, they will be part of a story map on the group’s website documenting personal horror stories while the CPC…
This week’s cover story, “Peak Performance,” describes how the pull of past history and the power of publishing inspired Shannon Galpin to create Mountain2Mountain, an international nonprofit dedicated to educating women in conflict zones. Although Galpin was influenced most strongly by the fact that both she and her sister had…
Over his many years as a public (and bespectacled) face, 54-year-old funny man Drew Carey has paid his dues as a Marine, a stand-up comic, a sitcom star, an improv guru and, in his most recent incarnation, the on-air host of The Price Is Right. And on his current tour,…
Veteran comedian Drew Carey is well known for his off-the-cuff improv, but he still feels like a relative newcomer to sketch comedy. So when the 54-year-old host of The Price Is Right felt the urge to return to his standup roots, he took a left turn. “I wanted to start…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. For anyone who’s ever seen Rushmore, Steve Fenberg’s college experience makes him sound like a much better-adjusted Max Fischer. “I started a lot of clubs and stuff,” he says modestly of his experience at…
Lindsay Meredith drinks a lot of coffee, and last month, she decided to put that fact to good use. During one of her frequent trips to the Wooden Spoon Cafe & Bakery, the Highlands-area singer-songwriter gathered a notebook, a pen and a large coffee together to brainstorm ways to promote…
When Shannon Galpin is on a bicycle, she knows where she is going — and how she is going to get there. This is a luxury she does not often have. So on a sunny Monday in late spring, Galpin is determined to ride. At the start of one of…
Catch Bees is one Philip Waggoner, a Fort Collins resident and multi-instrumentalist, but on his new release, Newman’s Open Choir, his dreamy chamber pop is strained through roughly ten other players. No instrument was denied entrance at the door: Throughout thirteen tracks, the songbird and his sound team rotate through…
If you’ve kept abreast with the Latest Word’s Occupy Denver coverage, the following protester needs no introduction — but we’ll give one to him anyway. Through the Thunderdome, the local movement’s early anarchist kitchen, Justin “Crunchy” Gwin and its other chefs focused on the politics of food, feeding activists for…
Justin “Crunchy” Gwin is best known as a loud-talking, dick joke-telling, action-packing chef at Occupy Denver’s free (and now former) kitchen, the Thunderdome. And while he might be the Thunderdome’s only chef to have avoided arrest, Gwin still managed to blend food politics with anarchist politics while he supported the…
