The proprietors of Snooze were surprised to find themselves at the center of the protest over the proposed urban camping ban after co-owner Brianna Borin spoke in favor of the ordinance at a Denver City Council hearing. Last weekend, members of Occupy Denver flocked to the original Snooze, at 23rd…
When Snooze co-owner Brianna Borin spoke out in support of the urban camping ban at a city council hearing two weeks ago, Occupy Denver members took offense and launched a morning-long rally against the restaurant spot — which employed four homeless individuals inside at that very moment. Days later, co-owner…
It’s crunch time. As the Denver City Council prepares for a final vote tonight on the proposed urban camping ban, opponents and proponents spent the weekend discussing the issue in meetings and on the streets. At the Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation, regional representatives hosted a panel to debate the ordinance, which could…
If a house falls into foreclosure and nobody is around to hear about it, does it make a difference? What about if an entire coalition is around? This week, volunteers at the Colorado Progressive Coalition tried the second option when they accompanied local homeowner Jim Erlsten to the downtown Broadway…
If the old cliche is right and one photo is really worth 1,000 words, then how much is a website full of videos worth? A lot, the creators of Audiovore would argue. So in November, two staunch Colorado music enthusiasts began to develop content for a digital archive of the…
When AM 760 dropped popular progressive host Mario Solis-Marich late last year, fans freaked. The loss, propelled by budget cuts, incited protests against the station and its host company, Clear Channel, fueled by fear that Denver’s Hispanic community had lost one of its voices in the media. And while Solis-Marich’s…
For those keeping track at home, the investigation of the April 2009 on-camera beating of Michael DeHerrera has lasted more than three years — and it’s not done yet: The Colorado Progressive Coalition announced today that the case had been delayed for five more months. Over the past three years,…
Debate over Denver’s potential urban camping ordinance has shined a spotlight on the homeless, but it has done little to put a face on them. Over the past few months, photographer Scott Russell photographed twenty faces, eleven of which will be on display in Cardboard & Concrete, an exhibit of…
Last night, roughly thirty parents watched detective Tony Garza and his fellow officers talk about sexting for an hour and a half. The trend is a rising one in Douglas County and the nation, Garza says, and it recently became the inspiration for renewed efforts to educate the community about…
Scott Russell expected to find stories, and he did. On bike rides between Denver’s alleys and street corners, he found twenty of them, eleven of which will be on display this weekend at Wazee Union at Cardboard & Concrete, the project that resulted. But there were a few surprising turns…
BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 05.08.12 If you decide to put all of your eggs in Anton Newcombe’s basket, they’re going to end up scrambled. The lead singer of early-’90s psychedelica group Brian Jonestown Massacre might be the group’s longest-running member, but he also seems to be the…
The members of the Say So have a lot to say — mostly about their faults and their past relationships, of which they remain firmly critical. “It’s not me,” lead singer Sean Palmer bleats on their latest album. “It’s you.” On The Romantic, the emotional foursome blurs the lines between…
Denver’s proposed urban camping ban has a lot of people talking — about legality, repercussions and enforcement, the last of which Police Chief Robert White promises will be “very passive.” But what about representation? This morning, Westword spoke to Charles Nadler, president of the Colorado chapter of the National Lawyers…
Breakfast and politics don’t always mix — but Occupy Denver waits for no muffin. After Brianna Borin, co-owner of downtown early-morning eatery Snooze, spoke in “strong favor” of the proposed (and preliminarily passed) urban camping ban at last Monday’s eight-hour City Council meeting, the local movement aimed its ire at…
Editor’s note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple’s ongoing series highlighting local political activists. For his first job, a preteen Julien Ross sold lemonade and lied about it. Or at the very least, he didn’t tell the whole truth about it. The juice came from freshly squeezed lemons,…
If you noticed that Sunday’s weather was particularly welcoming, you were not alone. But you probably didn’t appreciate it quite as much as the fifty people wandering around the grounds of the Zang Mansion. For the first time, the sun smiled on Denver’s celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day. Although…
PORTUGAL. THE MAN at OGDEN THEATRE | 5/2/12 Portugal. The Man really, really likes Denver — at least as much as the Portland-by-way-of-Alaska act appreciates band names with unwarranted punctuation and song titles with extra parentheses, it seems. “I know a lot of bands come out and say that every…
They did everything for each other — and for art. When Genesis P-Orridge, industrial-rock revolutionary and co-founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, moved to New York in the 1990s, he fell in love with a dominatrix almost twenty years his junior. So he married her, making her Mrs. Lady…
Yesterday’s May Day events brought together protesters across the world in support of workers’ rights, with Occupy Denver joining other activist communities on marches, teach-ins and direct actions. But while Seattle erupted in scenes of violence and New York witnessed more than thirty general strike arrests, Denver experienced relatively few…
To be a member of the newly changed lineup of Portugal. The Man (due tonight at the Ogden Theatre) is to be spontaneous, aggressively creative and relatively okay with placing a full stop in the middle of your band name. It also means maintaining a breakneck speed of records (one…
Christofer Drew is covered in tattoos. But that’s just the most visible way the freshly minted 21-year-old expresses himself. Since quitting high school to pursue Never Shout Never (due tonight at the Bluebird Theater), the intimate singer has kept personal life as open as his skin, changing his influences and…
Update, 3 p.m. May 1: Today, hundreds of protesters took the day off from work and school to spend it with Occupy Denver in Civic Center Park. For the local movement and its community partners — the Mercury Cafe included — May Day began at noon with a march and…
