Shortly after sunrise on Thanksgiving morning, we spot the eagles a few miles from the site of the Sand Creek Massacre, standing sentinel over the rolling prairie where more than 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho — most of them women, children or elderly men — were slaughtered by volunteer troops led…
Dear Mexican: I find myself at odds with my peers because I don’t like coffee or coffee drinks. I need to find a substitute beverage that will be tasty yet somehow hip. I’ve heard that Mexicans have magical chocolate drinks called atole, champurrado and chocolate, but I don’t know what…
In 1980, Manny Salzman and his wife, Joanne, moved to LoDo from Hilltop before lower downtown had even been nicknamed LoDo, much less turned into a hot entertainment/residential area. They took over a four-story warehouse on Wynkoop Street, turning the 3,500 top-floor space into their home and even installing a…
“This place is full of Indians!” said one of them on Thanksgiving morning at the Comfort Inn in Limon, base camp for the Sand Creek Healing Run. From there, the caravan headed south past Hugo, through Cheyenne County — which just voted to secede from Colorado — and on to…
Dear Mexican: My father and mother were able to come to the United States because once the “yellow scare” was over, no one seemed to mind that Chinese were coming here by the boatload. Since my parents were given visas and green cards pretty easily, my father was able to…
State senator Evie Hudak will resign, as Fox 31’s Eli Stokels first reported this morning. In the process, she will save her district the cost of a recall election, save Colorado Democrats from losing their Senate majority, and save Coloradans a week more of the rancorous actitivites that have bedeviled…
History Colorado opened its phase two exhibit, Living West, this past weekend. It’s right across the hall from the phase one exhibits that debuted with the museum in April 2012: Colorado Stories, or what’s left of them. The sections devoted to Bent’s Fort, Camp Amache, Steamboat skiing, mining and Lincoln…
Dear Mexican: Long time reader, first-time writer about this noble Aztlán. I watched the Brown Pride marches of the early 1970s and heard the shouts of La Raza and how it was going to be different now that the “Chicano” had arrived. The Mexicans were going to change things for…
Central City is used to making history. The Rush to the Rockies got its start in May 1859, when John Gregory made the first lode discovery on Clear Creek. The town sprang up right above that find and grew so fast that it almost became the state capitol; today it’s…
We’re now number two! It was big, big news in November 2011 when the Denver metro area suddenly topped the list of the country’s “cool cities.”That was according to William Frey, a demographer with the Brookings Institution, who studied the numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and…
The Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant has been out of the business of producing plutonium-triggers for atomic bombs for two decades now; after a $7 billion cleanup, it was transferred to the Department of Fish & Wildlife, which one day will reopen the property sixteen miles upwind of Denver as…
The Colorado Republican Party wants Denver to host the 2016 GOP convention, ideally with a Republican governor in the State Capitol. But to do that, the party will have to do a lot better in next year’s election than it did in 2010, when, after a bruising primary, candidate Dan…
On the last Saturday before Daylight Savings Time ended, a motley crew was sitting around the bar at the Lakeview Lounge, watching the sun rise over Sloan’s Lake and lamenting how the sun has set on too many Denver watering holes. Only a handful of true dives remain in this…
Dear Mexican: Could it really be possible for a terrorist to sneak into the U.S. through the southern border, or is that just more fear-mongering from the conservatives? Not Crazy about Quds Dear Gabacho: Of course it’s possible, but we’re really not going to know until we find out, right?…
Developer and urban preservationist Dana Crawford is a landmark in this city, so it’s not surprising that a landmark would be named after her. But two? Next week, the Crawford Building will be dedicated in Larimer Square, the Victorian-era block she saved from the wrecking ball. And today, Sage Hospitality…
Was it “Mustang” that killed the competition — just as the sculpture killed its creator, Luis Jimenez? Maybe it was Terry Allen’s bronze gargoyles by baggage claim that had victory in the bag. Or perhaps it was part of some New World order conspiracy, as presaged in the murals by…
When Aaron Harber started planning an episode of the Aaron Harber Show that would feature the Republican candidates for Colorado governor, there were only three: ex-congressman Tom Tancredo, who got more than 36 percent of the vote running for governor on the 2010 American Constitution Party ticket; onetime state senator…
From its humble beginnings in Denver almost twenty years ago, PeaceJam has gone global, with a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, thirteen Nobel laureates on its board and meetings around the world. But founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff haven’t forgotten PeaceJam’s local roots, and today, Nobel Peace Laureate Betty Williams…
Dear Mexican: I’m a pocha immigration attorney. I have so many questions for you that I’m thinking I should just hire you as a consultant. Why do Mexicans seem to want me to lie to them, steal their money, and tell them they can become residents even when it’s hopeless?…
Nicole Millman, aka Nicole Sisneros, aka the Crazy Jesus Lady, has come back from the dead. Two years ago, when Occupy Denver was a couple of months into occupying Denver, a rumor spread that an occupier had died, succumbing to hypothermia while camped out in Civic Center Park. The rumor…
The University of Colorado is not the only school to take a scary interest in what its students will be wearing for Halloween. Although CU’s memo urging students to avoid “inaccurate and hurtful portrayals of other people’s cultures” — including any hillbilly or ghetto outfits — has been roundly mocked…
Dear Mexican: My home town of El Paso is getting a new AAA baseball team. The owning group just announced the name: The El Paso Chihuahuas. Reasons given? The origins of the dog and the city’s location in the Chihuahua desert, and that it was family-friendly. Many in this city…
