Samantha Hill knew it was going to happen.Her cellmate was leering at her and acting strangely. Although Hill had only been housed with him for a few days at the U.S. penitentiary in Florence, she’d been in prison long enough to recognize the warning signs. But when her cellmate began…
Dear Mexican: I’m writing about an epiphany I had recently about government-sponsored clamors for crackdowns on immigration, especially against members of a certain race/creed/color/ethnic group. It seems that whenever there is a cacophony of support for deportation and closing our borders, there’s also a war going on that’s going rather…
Everyone in the country’s talking about Donald Trump, including local comic/entrepreneur Andy Juett, who shared this letter he wrote to the Republican presidential candidate: Dear Donald Trump, I am a nobody. A single father who has delivered mediocre sex to a spectrum of women. Some you’d marry and some you’d…
“OMG I got recognized on the street!” Fort Collins’ Brittiany Hoagland posted on Facebook in recent days. “A mother out for a walk with her dog and kiddo stopped her phone conversation to ask, ‘Are you The Topless Girl?!. “‘…Yeah.’ *prepares for verbal attack* “;’Right on!’ And she keeps walking…
Dear Mexican: Some time back, you discussed the Chivas soccer team. This reminded me of my time in San Francisco’s Mission District, when the traficantes would whisper, “Chiva…chiva” as I walked down 16th Street. When I asked someone what it meant, they said, “Stuff.” Now it’s baby goats? I know…
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…
Dear Mexican: I wasn’t born in this country, but I got here as quickly as I could at the age of ten. I was born in Mexico and live in Houston, a city that is bursting at the seams with Mexicans and Latinos from every country south of the border…
Last November, we introduced you to Gordon Klingenschmitt, who we described as an “exorcism-doing, gay-slamming just-elected State Representative” — from the Colorado Springs area, naturally. Since then, Klingenschmitt, a preacher who delivers regular YouTube sermons for his ministry, PrayInJesusName.com, has provided plenty of fodder for critics, claiming, for instance, that…
These days, the Confederate flag doesn’t have a lot of defenders. Yet Manitou Springs activist Patricia Cameron has been arrested for burning one — and the circumstances of the bust have resulted in national headlines. Turns out Cameron was cited late at night about three weeks after the well-publicized torching…
Dear Mexican: Why is it so easy to escape from Mexican prisons, and why is it always accomplished the day before execution? And why have the proper authorities not figured it out yet? See Madero, Pancho Villa, Luis Terrazas Jr., etc. Fuga Frank Dear Jailbreak Fred: Don’t forget El Chapo!…
It ended as it began, with the heavy wood doors of the First Unitarian Society of Denver swinging open to make way for Arturo Hernandez Garcia. But instead of going in to the church, today he and his family walked out. Hernandez Garcia announced that he is leaving the church…
Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle didn’t start PeaceJam so they could see their names on the big screen, or hobnob with royalty in Monaco — although they’ve definitely done both. And they certainly didn’t start the Denver-based organization so that they could win the Nobel Peace Prize. But now, two…
Dear Mexican: I’ve been on sex-offender registry websites a couple of times, and it seems there are a lot of names ending with -ez. Is there an elevated rate of sexual deviancy amongst Mexicans? If so, why? El Güero Guapísimo Dear Readers: This is the first time in ¡Ask a…
Need a job? The position of sheriff for the City and County of Denver is open, and the job description was just posted yesterday on the site of the national company leading the search. “Hillard Heintze is uniquely positioned to ensure the candidate pool reflects the characteristics Denver desires in its next…
Fifty years of bloody conflict in Colombia — thousands of deaths from firefights, sniper attacks, bombings, assassinations and mass executions — and it all comes down to this: a group of government negotiators and rebel leaders sitting around a big table, talking about land reform and crop subsidies and what…
Katherine Archuleta has had a long, distinguished career in public service — much of it in Colorado — and it came to the end of a tough chapter on Friday, when she resigned as director of the Office of Personnel Management, where she’d been given a warm welcome just twenty…
Dear Mexican: I live in New York, where taco trucks are a fairly recent addition to the urban landscape. I’ve noticed that they always serve their tacos with double tortillas. Why? I’m a longtime lover of Mexican food and own several Mexican cookbooks, but their recipes never call for this…
Dear Mexican: Your column about Chicanos loving the Aztecs had me both cracking up and intellectually fortified. In the end, you wrote: “But, hey: If you want to change your name from José González to Nezahualcoyotl Moctezuma and go to sweat lodges on weekends even though you’re lighter-skinned than a…
Dear Mexican: Where is my America? I’m half-Hispanic and half-Italian. I was born in Coney Island to a drug-addicted father and was raised by my mom, who had to work. We were very poor. I’ve always had to struggle for basic possessions. Spanish was not spoken in my house, so…
Sex, blackmail and Republican politics make for a potent brew, which explains why a story involving an alleged attempt by Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (and former Congressman Tom Tancredo) to force Colorado GOP chair Steve House to resign or else face exposure over a supposed affair continues to gather…
At tonight’s Denver City Council meeting, members will be reviewing an unusual cluster of big-ticket development projects, amounting to several hundred million dollars of proposed public expenditures and “in kind” giveaways of revenue and property. All of them have profound implications for Denver’s north side, and all are dear to…
Dear Mexican: I’m not sure if this is solely an Orange County thing, but as a high-school student in SanTana, I can’t help but realize that the great majority of rockabilly kids are Mexican. Why is this? Weren’t the ’40s and ’50s kind of a bad time for Mexicans? Chicana…
