It’s been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year — including a major restructuring and a new PeaceJam office — are nothing compared to what 2012…
The new issue of Rolling Stone has yet to hit the stands, but already the focus of Michael Hastings’s story, General Stanley McChrystal, has resigned after yesterday’s meeting with the head wimp among the “wimps in the White House” who were the general’s real enemy. As this saga unfolds, three…
5280 is out with its annual Top of the Town issue, and Michael Roberts — the powerhouse behind the Latest Word — has been named the town’s Top Blogger. He deserves the honor…and then some. He’s made this blog the talk of the town…
Industry insiders have predicted that Colorado’s new medical-marijuana laws might nearly halve the number of dispensaries in the state, and some of Denver’s dispensaries are on the hit list. But since new laws were instituted in Los Angeles, the reduction has been far more dramatic, with hundreds of dispensaries required…
Cafe Society served up just three Guess Where I’m Eating/Drinking contests last week, from the sliders at this still-unidentified steakhouse to the tacorito at Holly Inn West to the marrow bones at Brasserie Ten Ten. For correctly identifying that dish, Kelly wins a DINR deck. Kelly, send your contact info…
Graeme McDowell may have won the U.S. Open, but in a far more inexplicable Pebble Beach victory, Ken Ross, the CEO of Pinnacol Assurance, was named Business Person of the Year by the Colorado chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. The award cited his “communication skills.” And he…
Colorado candidates cowboyed up this week, riding into the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association annual convention in Pueblo to tout their ties to rural Colorado. And in the southeastern quadrant of the state, no topic causes more of a rural row than the proposed expansion of the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site. The…
Thanks to the Anubis statue now standing guard outside Denver International Airport, all those conspiracy theories about DIA have taken off again — and they’ve landed the airport smack-dab in today’s edition of USA Today. “Officials insist the 26-foot tall statue of the ancient Egyptian god Anubis now standing outside…
And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden — and was…
PETA isn’t chickening out on its push to put “McCruelty,” a 250-pound, bloody and bandaged chicken sculpture, on the 16th Street Mall — and today could be decision day for the City of Denver. PETA has filed all the required applications for the “temporary display of a sculpture…as part of…
While Facebook entries will come back to haunt college students of today, earlier generations get to hide their more humiliating chapters — unless, of course, they worked on their college papers, as Andrew Romanoff did. Not only do those papers mean hard copies of history exist, but so do the…
“Politics isn’t about left versus right,” says Jim Hightower. “It’s about top versus bottom.” The populist progressive will give the bottom line on cleaning up political campaigns tonight at the Hightower Lowdown Hoedown…
It’s been in the works for over a year, but it looks like Cellar Wine Bar, at 2556 15th Street, is finally ready to uncork and open its doors. The glasses are stocked, the flowers on the bar. Cellar is in the heart of the very hot LoHi neighforhood, just…
Colorado will close a lascivious loophole today when Governor Bill Ritter signs SB 128, a law making it illegal to videotape other people (say, two girls trying on clothes in a hotel room) without their permission (say, through a peephole in the wall of a neighboring hotel room). You’d think…
Denver International Airport has already inspired a planeload of conspiracy theories — that it’s built on an Indian graveyard, that aliens live in tunnels below the terminal, that it’s set up to become a concentration camp for Denver citizens. The long-delayed installation of Luis Jimenez’s red-eyed demon horse, “Mustang,” which…
“Now Open Under New Management,” says the beer banner installned by the now old-new management in the completely dark Jezebel’s Juke Joint & Brothel, the spot at 3862 High Street that was formerly the High Street Speakeasy and a host of other has-beens. The web site is only slightly more…
For a city that embraces reading, Denver has never really embraced the One Book, One Denver program — not even after last year’s votingpalooza for the fifth edition, tied to a secret National Endowment for the Arts grant from the Big Read program, which resulted in the pick of To…
The last time stunt-eater Adam Richman, star of Man V. Food, was seen chowing down in Denver, he was taking on the seven-pound burrito at Jack-n-Grill. And after many hours of prepping and filming and chatting and chewing, the burrito won. But that didn’t discourage Richman from making a secret,…
The Colorado Supreme Court does not care about my definition of a caregiver. This week, the court declined to consider the appeals court ruling that upheld the controversial conviction of Stacy Clendenin, a Longmont medical marijuana grower who was convicted of drug distribution because she did not qualify as a…
Today, President Barack Obama gets to enjoy the ultimate, inevitable result of tapping Janet Napolitano — Janet Napolitano, as though the governor of Arizona was the ideal person for the job! — to head the Homeland Security department: He’ll meet with Republican governor Jan “Jannie Get Her Gun” Brewer, who,…
The highway up Mount Evans opened at 8 a.m. last Friday, after a Colorado Department of Transportation crew had shoveled the last snow off the highest road in North America. Over the next three months, tens of thousands of cars will make the trip up State Highway 5, which starts…
During the 35 years that Lawrence Pierre owned Pierre’s Supper Club, a venue at 2157 Downing Street, it was one of the town’s most venerated watering holes — both for hooking some fried catfish and for hooking up with some nightlife action. But after he sold the place in 2003…
