It could have been worse: The University of Denver could have been stuck with the Exterminators instead of the Pioneers. “Exterminator” is the label that Major Edward Wynkoop slapped on then-territorial governor John Evans after he endorsed “the destruction and killing” of “all hostile Indians” — an endorsement acted on…
Will Guy didn’t set out to minor in civics when he transferred to the University of Denver. He just wanted a good education in design. “On my first tour,” he recalls, “I just out of curiosity asked what the mascot was. The tour guide gave me a puzzled look and…
“I’m a welder and a family man, and I tell you, that feels pretty great,” says Seth Lee. It sounded pretty great, too, as this welder/family man stood before a crowd gathered today in the Capitol to talk about how far he’s come since that day in 1998 when he…
Don’t haul out the peanuts and Cracker Jack just yet: The opening of Sonny Lawson Field has been delayed from today to let the new sod take hold — and that means the first game of the Homeless Diamond’s third season has also been pushed back, to 9 a.m. Tuesday,…
Baseball has always been big in Five Points; in On the Road, Jack Kerouac described going to a game on Welton Street one night among “all humanity, the lot.” That game was on a field renamed Sonny Lawson Park in 1972, and it’s still home to one of the most…
The half-life of plutonium is 20,000 years — and it looks like books about plutonium have a long shelf-life, too. When Kristen Iversen decided to write about growing up in the shadow of Rocky Flats, she “wasn’t sure it would get published,” she says, even though she’d had earlier success…
Judge Herbert Stern will decide on Friday whether the city’s swap of eleven acres by Hentzell Park to Denver Public Schools in exchange for a DPS facility at 1330 Fox Street can go through — or will instead go to a vote of Denver residents on the November ballot. Meanwhile,…
While History Colorado and tribal representatives consult on Collision, an exhibit dedicated to the Sand Creek Massacre, and the political and cultural issues that continue to reverberate, other groups are gearing up to mark next year’s 150th anniversary of this sad chapter in Colorado history. Local filmmaker Aaron Sears, for…
Seven months after the Northern Cheyenne tribe sent its last letter to History Colorado demanding that Collision: The Sand Creek Massacre 1860s to Today be closed; fourteen months after History Colorado opened its new building with that exhibit in place, despite earlier protests; and almost 149 years after the Sand…
Jamie Laurie makes music — and also political and social change. A founder of the Flobots, he was raised in Denver, where he grew from a comic-loving kid to an East High teacher sharing rap with students. Although still based here, Laurie promotes global issues through the nonprofit flobots.org. And…
“This new nonstop flight will be a gateway into Colorado for Japan and other Asian countries,” said Governor John Hickenlooper at yesterday’s send-off for the inaugural United flight direct from Denver International Airport to Japan. And then, after a sake toast, a dream team of Denver boosters (who’s running the…
With seventy of this state’s movers and shakers headed to Japan this week for an economic mission that includes a side trip to Denver’s sister city of Takayama, there should be lots of sibling revelry. But up in Boulder, the sister-city program founded by President Dwight Eisenhower more than fifty…
Tired DIA travelers were doing double-takes as they boarded the escalator heading down out of Concourse B last night, their eyes drawn to the right by the bright sign on a new restaurant — and then riveted by the sight of who was standing under that sign: John Elway. “There…
Stake your claim in the latest residential hotspot,” urges the story in Saturday’s New Homes section in the Denver Post touting an open house at Century Communities at Candelas. A really hot spot: the half-life for plutonium is 24,000 years. Century isn’t the only home builder developing Candelas, a 2,000-acre…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” said George Santayana, who condensed his moral code into The Life of Reason in 1951 — the same year the feds announced they was building a facility dedicated to fighting the Cold War sixteen miles northwest of Denver. The…
Is it bye-bye for Boone? The once-official, now unofficial University of Denver mascot was all over the news at the end of May, when DU’s lacrosse team made it to the semi-finals in Philadelphia and ESPN2 showed many closeups of the Disney-designed character adopted by the school in 1968, booted…
Denver may be landlocked, but Lower Highlands had lots of liquid assets last night. And we’re not talking about all the new bars popping up in the hot LoHi area. A water main break at West 29th Avenue and Zuni Street sent torrents of water cascading through the neighborhood –…
Westword’s comics issue is on the street, the first in what we hope will be an annual series. Noah Van Sciver, the creator of our weekly 4 Questions cartoon (and the artist shown at right), had approached us with the idea of a comics contest before last year’s Denver Comic…
Last week, Union Station Alliance announced the first three restaurant tenants that will be in the rehabbed station for its summer 2012 opening — local projects all. But while a Snooze, the Kitchen Next Door and a new market/restaurant concept from Fruition’s Alex Seidel have signed on, it’s still unknown…
By now, just about everyone admits that the Fox31 story of the cab driver fingering an Italian businessman with the Perazzi gun company as a terrorist was a fake, including the station, grudgingly. We know how it happened (9News has done a good job of dissecting the original story), but…
Last week’s meeting of the Denver Board of Education was a mess of complicated math problems, including: Question 1) If Denver Public Schools is planning to release 220 teachers, how long will the public-comment period — seven-and-a-half hours, filled with complaints — extend the meeting? Answer: Until after 3 a.m…
Last week, Mayor Michael Hancock was at the CELL to announce the expansion of Transportation on Patrol, a program that empowers Denver’s cabbies, limo drivers, truckers and even pedal-cab operators to alert law enforcement of suspicious behavior. Days later, a taxi driver reportedly called the cops because a supposed gun…
