Denverites will gather at the Denver Zoo from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, June 3, for a candlelight vigil in honor of Harambe, the seventeen-year-old gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo this week after a four-year-old boy slid into his enclosure. “This gorilla was a prisoner who spent his whole…
Denver is usually thought to be one of the more liberal communities in Colorado. But one area of the city in particular turns out to be a hotbed of love for presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee Donald Trump. The source of the information is the Wall Street Journal, which compiled…
In August 2015, an organization called Go Topless Fort Collins challenged that city to remove the line “the breast or breasts of a female” from its public-indecency ordinance. After controversy aplenty, the so-called Free the Nipple effort, spearheaded by Brittiany Hoagland, fell short. The following October, the Fort Collins city…
Governor John Hickenlooper was back where it all began last night, signing copies of The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics, as fans flooded the Wynkoop Brewing Company. This is where Hickenlooper’s public life began, at least. As the book he cowrote with Max Potter details — and…
Not many elected officials would swig a beer on national TV, but that’s exactly what Governor John Hickenlooper did Monday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers. On ostensibly to tout his book, The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics, Hickenlooper and Meyers talked everything from marijuana legalization…
Sonny Lawson Park, in the 2300 block between California and Welton streets, is home to Denver’s most famous ballpark: Sonny Lawson Field. Jack Kerouac watched baseball games here, and the Negro League played in the park before the game was integrated and the field was named after Sonny Lawson, the first…
For months, Denver has been engaged in a sustained crackdown on homeless encampments. Since the sweeps began along Park Avenue West on March 8, homeless individuals have described being chased around the city by police officers, who cite Denver’s urban-camping-ban ordinance when prohibiting them from sleeping under cover anywhere in…
Passing cars honked in support of Ditch the Ditch advocates who gathered Tuesday afternoon outside the Mile High United Way offices at 711 Park Avenue West. Inside the building, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was meeting with Mayor Michael Hancock and his team to hear Denver’s Smart City Challenge proposal. Denver…
Transportation issues could create a real traffic jam in Denver today. A coalition of local and national business, environmental and transportation groups are hosting the second annual Live.Ride.Share, a conference devoted to the growing technology-driven transportation trends, at the Colorado Convention Center. Meanwhile, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx will be…
Last week, we told you about an Anonymous video warning Denver mayor Michael Hancock that if he didn’t resign, the organization would expose his alleged ties to the Denver Players prostitution ring. This clip followed one in March that ripped Denver (and threatened doxxing) over the city’s homeless policies. Now,…
A former Trinidad district attorney has abruptly dropped out of the race to replace Frank Ruybalid, the embattled top prosecutor in Las Animas and Huerfano counties, saying that the office is so badly underfunded by state and county officials that “the safety of the citizens of this district is at…
After years of watching similar efforts crash and burn, advocates for 48 Colorado prisoners serving life without parole for crimes committed when they were juveniles finally saw some major reforms pass in this year’s legislative session. Two bills that could lead to a significant reduction in sentences of juvie lifers…
Back in March, we reported about threats of doxxing and more from Anonymous. The organization targeted Denver mayor Michael Hancock and others over the city’s homeless policies. Now, in a newly released video, Anonymous says it’s running out of patience with Hancock to do the right thing by Denver’s homeless…
Leaders representing Denver’s short-term rental industry who feel that their concerns have gone unheard held a roundtable discussion Wednesday morning to present new data and discuss a Denver City Council proposal that they say would significantly constrain STR owners, especially those renting out secondary properties. STRs have been a point of controversy…
The Colorado Department of Transportation held a public hearing on April 21 focusing on the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program, CDOT’s four-year plan that directs funds toward various projects. But testimony from speakers focused almost entirely on a proposed plan to lower the I-70 viaduct in north Denver, and the hearing was…
We’ve all seen shows like House of Cards, where D.C. politicians are lobbied by smooth operators in backroom meetings involving shady deals, offshore bank accounts and questionable campaign promises. But let’s say we move away from the realm of blackmail and briefcases of cash for a moment. How does a…
Boulder has been named the least obese city in America multiple times in recent years — and a local group would like to keep it that way. Healthy Boulder Kids is backing an initiative that calls for an excise tax placed on sugary beverages such as soda and other sweetened drinks…
After thousands were disappointed Saturday to hear about the rescheduling of the Annual 4/20 Rally and concert, the turnout at Civic Center Park on the actual holiday was still something to sniff at – only I’m not sure if I liked the smell. There was no free concert with Lil…
Matt Batrowny and his brother, Brian, were early supporters of Bernie Sanders. One day last summer, shortly after the senator from Vermont announced that he was running for president, recalls Matt, “We were walking down the street with a couple of buddies, and we had Bernie T-shirts on. A lot…
On March 23, Westword made a number of Colorado Open Records Act requests to the Denver Department of Human Services and the Mayor’s Office for internal documents related to the planning of the homeless sweeps that the city has been conducting over the past month. Westword did not receive responses…
Today, thousands of fans and revelers will flock to Denver’s Ballpark neighborhood as the Rockies play their first game of the season. But not everyone hanging around Coors Field will be there to celebrate. At 12:30p.m., Denver Homeless Out Loud is staging a protest at 20th and Blake streets against the…
When the Denver Police Department sent officers to raid an encampment of tiny homes at Sustainability Park last October, “something in me snapped,” says photographer Paula Bard. “I began walking those streets were the homeless are trying to survive, photographing the faces of those my city has abandoned.” The result is…
