It’s been a big year for John Denver, even though he’s been dead since 1997. Last April, the mop-topped troubadour who was born Henry John Deutschendorf was one of the first inductees in the Colorado Music Hall of Fame; the other, Red Rocks, wasn’t available for comment, either. Last month,…
Dear Mexican: Why do Hispanics deny that George Zimmerman is Hispanic? He did nothing wrong and has been crucified in the media. La Raza cannot bow down to the race-baiters and race traitors who call themselves African-American leaders! Brown and Down Dear Wab: This column is ¡Ask a Mexican!, not…
We’d just driven two hours through the dry, dry landscape when we spotted a fire on the side of the road just south of I-70. A small fire — but then, the Lower North Fork fire was once small. I dialed 911, whose dispatchers are still feeling the heat over…
Long before Buford — the tiny Wyoming town with its own zip code but a population of exactly one — became an international sensation, it was a road-trip must-stop for my family. We’d discovered it one morning when we’d zipped past Cheyenne and realized we might need gas before Laramie…
Colorado tourism got an injection of life with its smart new “Come to Life” campaign. And while it had looked like the Colorado Tourism Office’s budget might be headed for life-support, it just got an injection of of new/old money…
Can we talk? After years of state tourism efforts that ranged from embarrassing to abysmal — including the cringe-inducing “Let’s Talk Colorado” — the Colorado Tourism Office has finally come to life with its new “Come to Life” campaign…
Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night…not even the wet stuff that finally started falling an hour ago…keeps these public servants from their rounds. Yes, today marks the start of Denver’s street-sweeping program. The service is free, but the tickets that inevitably follow the sweepers are not…
Dear Readers: Talk about a lazy Mexican. Nearly four years after promising ustedes that I was going to write a book about the history of Mexican food in the United States, my Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America is getting released on April 10. Three hundred-plus pages of astounding…
There must be days when Ken Salazar wished he’d stayed in the U.S. Senate, rather than joining the Obama administration as Secretary of the Interior. There must be entire months like that. March, for example, when Mitt Romney called for Salazar to be fired…
Amnesty International USA is holding its 51st annual meeting in Denver this weekend, when a thousand activists will gather for a call to action to think globally and act locally. Colorado’s the perfect spot for that: Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Network for the U.S. was based here for more than…
LoDo is one of Denver’s great success stories. While other historic parts of downtown were literally wiped off the map by urban “renewal” in the ’70s — which turned Victorian-era buildings into parking lots — lower downtown is full of turn-of-the-last-century warehouses, all now repurposed for this century. Now you…
Number 18, you’re not in Indiana anymore. You may be Denver’s most famous newcomer, but you’re a newcomer, nonetheless — and there are certain things that every newcomer needs to know. Over the last 28 years, the Best of Denver has celebrated what makes this city special — and in…
While Denver Broncos execs at the annual NFL meetings in Florida are collecting kudos for intercepting Peyton Manning, the new quarterback catch is being toasted in Colorado with a Peyton’s Pitcher & Pie Special (pepperoni pizza and a pitcher of Coors Light for $18, Mondays only) not from Papa John’s,…
Dear Mexican: Stop using Spanish in your column. I like reading your column, but when every other word is in Spanish, I don’t know what the hell is going on. It makes you sound like that nerdy kid who uses big words to try and sound impressive. Don’t be lazy, and…
In June 1989, the FBI led a spectacular dawn raid on Rocky Flats, then an operating nuclear weapons plant sixteen miles northwest of Denver, to collect evidence of alleged environmental crimes. A special grand jury wanted to indict eight individuals. But instead, the government cut a deal with Rockwell International,…
Mondo Guerra won it all last night, when he was named the winner of Project Runway All Stars. But this Denver designer has always shown that he was a cut above — generous to other designers and supportive of causes close to his heart, including Colorado AIDS Project, the beneficiary…
This first spring weekend, as you plan yard projects, skip the outdoor fireplace: Its use is banned in Denver. And that ban extends to those hot-hot fire pits and chimineas that stores will be pushing — without telling you that firing one up can get you a visit from the…
Denver’s dining scene isn’t all salumi and sunshine. Alerted that something was going down at Roam, Cafe Society editor Lori Midson hurried to 17th Avenue, arriving just in time to see owner Daniel Kuhlman shoving former employees — and grab for her camera. Before this souffle fell, the cops had…
The RTD Board FasTracks monitoring committee will announce its pick of the three options for the Northwest Rail Line at 5:30 p.m. today, with a final board vote on March 27. You can watch the announcement live — as well as public comment that promises to be lively, since all…
Dear Mexican: I was born in Los Estados Unidos, my father is from Tamaulipas, and my mother is a third-generation Chicana. I’m married to a Mexicano, and we recently vacationed in his home town of Apatzingan, Michoacán. It was my first time meeting my in-laws and everyone from his colonia…
This past Saturday, Colorado Representative Cory Gardner, a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, was tapped to offer the Weekly Republican Address on skyrocketing energy costs. But at the same time, a CBS report showed that he’s been expending lots of gas on another topic…
The country’s third-largest political party, the Libertarian Party, got its start here in Colorado 41 years ago. And this morning, the Libertarian Party of Colorado will fire up its state convention at the Double Tree in Aurora (a new convention hotspot), with a schedule that includes a presidential debate Sunday…
