Erin Trapp to head Biennial of the Americas in artful move

If at first you don’t succeed, tri, tri again. The first Biennial of the Americas was a very ambitious, very confused celebration that brought international stars to Denver in July 2010. So confused, in fact, that when the time came for a second biennial, the event was pushed back to…

Rocky Flats land swap goes through: Pardon our dust!

When the dust finally settled on December 31, a complicated $10 million land swap involving the Colorado State Land Board, Boulder and Boulder County, Jefferson County and the Department of the Interior — which now owns Rocky Flats, the former nuclear weapons plant — had gone through. And that paves…

Tom Tancredo offers his own Colorado Compact on Immigration Fairness

“Does the GOP have a death wish?” That’s what former congressman, former gubernatorial candidate and longtime rabble-rouser Tom Tancredo asks, in the wake of a number of Republicans signing off last week on the Colorado Compact on Immigration. Tancredo, who left the Rrepublican Party to run for governor in 2010,…

PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

If the world doesn’t come to an end on December 21, it could be the start of very big things for PeaceJam. “We’re an overnight success story…seventeen years later,” says Ivan Suvanjieff. Actually, he got the idea for PeaceJam almost twenty years ago, during Denver’s so-called Summer of Violence, in…

Lowenstein complex on Colfax — let there be light!

The lights went on outside the Lowenstein yesterday — ten hours after we published a post about frustrated business owners who’d had been kept in the dark about the status of the “enhanced transit corridor”” project along East Colfax Avenue. But shortly after 6 p.m., we got the word from…