Occupy protesters kept occupied over Thanksgiving week. While Occupy Wall Street crews prepared to descend on Black Friday shoppers, Thunderdome supporters greeted Governor John Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock at the Denver Rescue Mission…and Boulder cops had their own welcoming committee for the Occupy Boulder demonstrators, rousting them for their…
Roller derby isn’t just a very entertaining spectacle, it’s a real athletic endeavor — as anyone who saw the national WFTDA championships earlier this month at the 1stBank Center could tell you. Or just listen to Pet Scoop: Despite the crazy names and eccentric themes, roller derby is definitely a…
No trains are pulling up to Union Station these days, but there are still trains chugging along inside the station — in the basement, where two clubs will be showing off their layouts at Model Railroad Open Houses tonight. The 76-year-old Colorado Midland Railway is operated by the Denver Society…
Colorado Inside Out, the public-affairs roundtable that Colorado Public Television (then KBDI) launched twenty years ago, takes a look at current events every week. And once a year, it takes a very long look back at far-from-current events, in a program that sends the panelists into the past. These annual…
Scene and herd: “Most women would rather be photographed as works of art than pinups,” says Sherry Whitney, explaining the origins of BodyPhotage, the company she started with husband Darrell Pierson eighteen years ago. And what works of art: For Colorado Uncovered, the new book of Pierson’s photographs, models stripped…
Denver is the coolest city in the country, according to William Frey of the Brookings Institute, who parsed three years of stats — from 2008 through 2010 — to determine that more young adults are moving to the Denver metro area than any other city. Because we’re cool. Find Westword’s…
Joe Miklosi came out early as a Democratic willing to take on incumbent Mike Coffman in the sixth congressional district — whatever that might look like when redistricting is done. But party insiders are saying that Miklosi — despite his Best New Legislator win in the Best of Denver 2009…
The two groups vying to win the contract to redevelop Union Station are both missing the boat, says one reader. Instead of building off the concepts of the past, they need to look to the future, to the “one-off-thinking of today’s youth and young adults.”…
Fans of Voodoo Doughnuts would be very thankful if the Portland, Oregon-based chain opened an outlet here — and recent rumors suggest one could be coming our way. Not fast enough to satisfy Brains76, though:…
Like the Little Engine that Could, the come-from-behind proposal by the Union Station Alliance to redevelop Union Station just keeps chugging along. And at yesterday’s executive session of the RTD board, it pulled ahead of its competitor, Union Station Neighborhood Co., which had been out in front early. The race…
Susan Froyd rounded up some of the season’s best homegrown shopping opportunities in her “Buy Local Week” post, prompting this from Marie (yes, one of the local artists whose creations Froyd singles out): Bravo! Thanks for supporting the little guys Susan!! We love you!! I love the way you put…
It’s been a long fall for the businesses along Tennyson Street, already bumping along in a bad economy — and then suffering through a major construction project that had the road in front of their addresses completely ripped up. But today, there’s reason to celebrate on this street: The Mile…
It’s been a wild ride for Wild Catch, the new fishhouse that saw its chef/partner and most of its staff (above) walk out this weekend, leaving the place high and dry. Justin Brunson, an owner of Masterpiece Deli who joined with Taste owner Daniel Kulhman on the restaurant, told Lori…
Molly Midyette seemed to have everything: a law degree, a husband who was part of a very prominent Boulder family, a new baby. But one day in 2006, when husband Alex was watching him, baby Jason fell ill. He died in a hospital days later. Today Molly has no child,…
Some art is timeless. And so it goes with “White People With Dreads: A field guide,” which Jef Otte created over a year ago, but keeps attracting comments from dreadlock enthusiasts. Creditcard hippie is just the latest to discover the post, and weighs in with this critical review of one…
Denver has narrowly escaped destruction numerous times. When the railroads crossing the country in the 1860s threatened to skip the infant city altogether, leaving it high and dry on the plains, boosters worked fast to secure a line — and a future for Denver (and a fortune for themselves). A…
At a release party this weekend for the Denver County Fair’s cookbook, Andrew Novick, the fair’s new entertainment director (who hosted the X-Treme Pancake Breakfast at the inaugural fair last summer), served up his own creation: Thanksgiving on a Stick. In case you missed the party, the book is available…
Cafe Society served up five Guess where contests last week, ranging from the bread at Coohills, which just opened at the start of the month, to a sandwich at the Porch, to craft-brewed beer and a cone of fries. For correctly identifying them as coming from Mannekin Frites, Jill5009 wins…
In honor of Steak ‘n Shake finally opening an outpost in metro Denver, Laura Shunk revisited her list of Denver’s best hamburgers, and added a few more to come up with “Denver’s ten best burgers.” And predictably, some critics pounded this list flatter than a patty at My Brother’s Bar:…
The e-mails were flying before last Wednesday’s Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs meeting, which had one agenda item: the dismissal of executive secretary Carol Harvey, who’d been on the job since March 2010 and was let go in early November. But during that conference-call meeting, two Colorado tribal leaders agreed…
Jef Otte wrote “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood” as a celebration of his own neighborhood — one that counts several other Westword writers as residents. Some of their neighbors appreciated Otte’s ode; others did not. Denver School Board member Andrea Merida is just the latest to…
Yesterday was not a good time to tour downtown. As city officials jumped in pedicabs to check out the newly refurbished 14th Street, which runs along the edge of downtown starting at Market Street, quite a welcoming committee was waiting at the other end of what’s also oddly dubbed “Ambassador…
