4/20 shooting at Civic Center Park: What I saw and heard

Civic Center is quiet this morning: the grass raked, the trash collected…and the crime scene tape down. The Denver Police Department had used it to cordone off the southeast corner of the park after after multiple shots rang out — stampeding the crowds and leaving three 4/20 celebrants with bullet…

Snooze no longer supports city’s urban camping ban

Even as Coors Field was filling up last Friday, fans were learning Ballpark neighborhood mainstay Snooze would no longer support the city’s May 2012 ban on camping because it hadn’t helped the homeless community. Snooze had initially supported that proposal — a stance that inspired Occupy Denver to boycott the…

Crisanta Duran hosts town hall on homelessness tonight

As the weather heats up, so do concerns that the camping ban Denver City Council approved a year ago has not worked as envisioned. Last week, Denver Homeless Out Loud released the results of its survey of 500 homeless people on the impact of the ban, which took effect on…

Photos: Top ten things that make Colorado Colorado

What makes Colorado Colorado? That’s what “Making Colorado,” the state’s new branding mission announced yesterday, wants to determine — and it’s set up a website where you can offer your own suggestions that will help determine the state’s new brand. This DIY approach drew the attention of the New York…

Denver Boone is dead. Long live Denver Boone!

The University of Denver was founded in 1864, only five years after Denver got its start and the same year a flood threatened to wipe the tiny town off the map. But DU has always had a fighting spirit — and today, both students and alumni are fighting mad over…

Denver takes on Portland in the 2013 Cycling City Showdown

It’s coming down to the wire. Everyone knows that Denver beats Portland when it comes to beer and weather — but how do the two rate as bike cities? REI recently rolled out its 2013 Cycling City Showdown, and Denver has already beaten Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — now it…

What makes Colorado Colorado? New state branding effort wants to know

Endless vistas of the mountains and plains? Endless pours of craft beers? Endless protests about gun-control laws? What makes Colorado Colorado? That’s what the state plans to find out with Making Colorado, an ambitious branding effort being announced today by Governor John Hickenlooper and Aaron Kennedy, Colorado’s chief marketing officer,…