Think the wheels of justice turn slowly? Today Denver Public Schools will dedicate the Joe Shoemaker School, an elementary school that opened last month as the Hampden Heights Expeditionary School at 3333 South Havana Street, at the edge of southeast Denver. Meanwhile, a request to return nine acres of land…
In the beginning, there was the taco…and it was good. Very good. So good that a century after the first recipe for tacos appeared in an American cookbook, sixty years after the first Taco Bell rang in California, tacos are still providing plenty of culinary inspiration in this country, for…
Gambling was supposed to create a historic jackpot in Colorado. In 1990, Coloradans approved a constitutional amendment allowing “limited-stakes gaming” in Cripple Creek, Black Hawk and Central City, a proposal pushed as a historic-preservation measure designed not just to save those crumbling mining towns by allowing gambling in their old buildings, and…
Jerry Chubbuck would certainly recognize Jim Bishop’s obsession with looking up. In 1967, he purchased the Wonder View Tower, a roadside attraction that Charles W. Gregory and his partner, Myrtle LeBow, had built in 1926 outside the old railroad/ranching town of Genoa on the eastern plains, on the highest spot…
Forget Hatch chiles. It’s time to celebrate the Pueblo chile — and this is the weekend to do it, since September 5 is Pueblo Chile Day, a new event at the Colorado State Fair. “The Pueblo Chile has been a centerpiece of popular fair foods at the Colorado State Fair, making…
In Colorado, it’s hard to avoid looking up. But building up? And up? Jim Bishop was just fifteen in 1959 when he paid $450 for a two-and-a-half-acre parcel of land at 9,000 feet on the edge of the San Isabel National Forest, outside the tiny town of Wetmore. “It was…
A week after History Colorado CEO Ed Nichols announced that he was retiring, History Colorado yesterday announced the transition leadership that will guide the organization as its board of directors — a new board appointed by Governor John Hickenlooper in July — hunts for a new CEO. Robert E. Musgraves, the…
Since it opened over six years ago in downtown Denver, Cafe Options has taught people a lot. And those are just the people who have stopped into the breakfast/lunch spot and gotten a taste of this ground-breaking operation run by Work Options for Women; hundreds of women have also gotten hands-on…
The bus stops here…and here…and here. The 16th Street Mall shuttle is one of those features that’s both loved and loathed. Many Denverites (and even more visitors to the city) appreciate the free ride along the mall; others says they don’t like the endless interruptions and noise and would prefer…
On August 1, thousands of people followed the urging of the banner outside the History Colorado Center to “step into the story” and went inside for a celebration of Colorado Day complete with cowboy tricks, rare artifact displays from the museum’s usually off-limits treasure trove, and cake. But the revelers,…
The 16th Street Mall is about to get several new restaurants — Henry’s will open in the Denver Pavilions on September 6, Melt will open a block away this fall. Meanwhile, two tourists from California who were dining outside at the Rock Bottom two weeks ago wound up beaten by roving…
How do you feel about the 16th Street Mall? That’s been a big topic of discussion over the past two weeks. The day I posted this piece about ten reasons to love the mall, But even before that dismaying beating outside the Rock Bottom Brewery — and the even more…
Today starts a new era at the Emily Griffith Technical College, which will welcome students to a new campus at 1205 Osage Street. The facility has cutting-edge training spaces for Emily Griffith’s College of Trades and Industry and ever-expanding Continuing Education Division — a stark contrast to the three continuing…
There are many storied blocks in Denver, but none has more stories than the1400 block of Larimer Street. This stretch is only a few steps from where Denver got its start in1858 on the banks of Cherry Creek, just down from the confluence of the South Platte River, where gold…
High noon on Saturday, August 8: the busiest time of the day on the busiest day of the week in the busiest month for the 16th Street Mall, one of the top visitor attractions in Denver, a city that set new tourism records last year. How do you top that?…
Griff’s Burger Bar is an old-fashioned drive-thru where you can still get a great burger, a greasy bag of fries and a drink for a five-spot ($6.99, if you want to go for a double cheeseburger, and it’s worth a little more to add a skull-splittingly thick milkshake). The first…
Last week our brunch expert, Lauren Monitz, visited Lala’s Pizzeria & Wine Bar, which has teamed up with nearby Turin Bikes to offer a brunch special every Saturday in August, with a chance to win a bike that will be raffled off on August 29. Sounds like a good deal,…
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Yesterday, we reported on the Denver Civil Service Commission ruling that Officer James Medina should get his Denver Police Department job back, despite having been fired for use of excessive force. Alex Landau could tell you just how difficult it is to hold DPD officers accountable for such actions: He’s…
Transgender talk is all around these days, with I Am Cait, the reality series that debuted Sunday on E!, showing the former men’s decathlon Olympic gold-medal winner as the woman she always knew she was. But the first episode didn’t cause much fuss in Trinidad, despite the fact that for…
Our comments section has been smoking over the past week, ever since Gretchen Kurtz’s review of Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que and Mark Antonation’s piece on GQue, a new barbecue joint, inspired some lip-smacking — and smack-talking — discussion of the scene. Says Robert Mitton: Denver is a GREAT food city. One…
Barbecue is hot in the summer, and it also inspires plenty of heated conversations. Gretchen Kurtz just reviewed Roaming Buffalo Bar-B-Que, a new place in the University of Denver neighborhood that specializes in “Colorado craft” barbecue, a concept that definitely got discussions going. And then Mark Antonation revealed that St…
