“Where is the change?” asks a letter outlining a series of disappointing, business-as-usual moves by new Denver Police Chief Robert White. It was signed by “Men and Women of the Denver Police Department” and sent yesterday to Mayor Michael Hancock’s office, which was scrambling last night to find a copy…
Hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created a musical about a cannibal when they were University of Colorado film students, have an even more unlikely hit on their hands with The Book of Mormon. The boffo Broadway musical will start its tour here in August — and tickets…
A blizzard of snow business is about to hit Denver with the start of this week’s Snow Snowconvention, and it’s now snowing in the high country. But it’s too little, too late to keep the Junior Freeskiing Tour on schedule…
Dear Mexican: It’s so sad to see your wimpy answers. Your replies scream self-hatred and self-shame for your raza. You’re pathetic! No plan or desire to fix Mexico’s problems. You’re a puto with no huevos. My DREAM Act would be that you Mexicans would stop groveling to gringos, and scream…
Yesterday, we parked our car off Packinghouse Road, outside the Stockyards Inn, tucked in back of the historic Livestock Exchange Building — which got its start in 1898, then was expanded in 1916 and 1919 — and walked into another world. The world of the National Western Stock Show…
It turned out to be tempest in a teepee. Two months after Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia removed Carol Harvey as executive secretary of the Colorado Commission or Indian Affairs, which his office oversees, Ernest House Jr. has been ratified as the new executive secretary. And he hit the ground running:…
Polly Sullivan kept lighthouses in her window, miniature beacons that illuminated the old military dorm at Lowry that had become Crooked Tree, a shelter for the once-homeless. Tenants saw it as comforting. But on Christmas Day 1998, someone walked into Polly’s second-floor apartment and turned off the lights…
Late Friday, the Department of Fish and Wildlife referred queries about a proposed land swap (which would add a 617-acre parcel to the southwest side of Rocky Flats in exchange for a 300-foot right-of-way on the eastern border going to the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority) to the Justice Department…
Although they may disagree with his definition of pasties, readers appreciated the Chef and Tell interview with Ryan Leinonen, the chef who opened Trillium, a Scandinavian restaurant, last month. And Leinonen appreciates chefs, particularly Escoffier. “Le Guide Culinaire was the first book I read when I decided to take my…
Last week, if all had gone according to plan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would have been finalizing the exchange of a 300-foot right-of-way comprising approximately 100 acres on the eastern border of the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge for a 617-acre parcel on the southwestern corner of the…
Dear Readers: I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but given the ascendancy of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, one issue must be addressed — namely, that he’s half-Mexican. The lamestream media is treating this as a…
Latest Word is off to mark Martin Luther King Day, but will be back on duty early tomorrow morning. The Martin Luther King Marade (that’s march/parade) gets under way this morning at 9 a.m. The Colorado Progressive Coalition will be holding its own rally before the marade, asking for police…
Cafe Society is off celebrating Martin Luther King Day, and will be back on duty early tomorrow. If you’re hungry for food news in the meantime, try a second helping of some of these entrees from last week: — Denver Restaurant Week is less than six weeks away, and the…
John Hickenlooper might not like wearing a tie, but he has a thing about hats these days. He donned a giant cowboy hat for his speech at the Citizens of the West dinner Monday night (scary photo at right and below); he modeled a Denver Broncos cap during his State…
Denver International Airport has always been sadly lacking a real taste of Colorado cuisine (witness the cup of Nobel Sysco green chile I downed on Concourse A last Friday). And that makes the presentation before Denver City Council’s Business, Workforce and Sustainability Committee yesterday particularly heartening: Seven new vendors have…
The signs started popping up late last fall: No high rises in West Highland. But the residents fighting a massive, three-building complex proposed for the heart of Highland Square didn’t stop at signs. They also pushed city officials, including Susan Shepherd, the new Denver City Council representative for District 1,…
The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago, on January 10, 1952, with a “Salute to Soil.” We didn’t see starlet June Haver, the star of that show, during our afternoon at the National Western Stock Show yesterday, but we did spot at least one down-and-dirty move by the city…
Dear Mexican: How come Mexicans don’t perform in the Winter Olympics? What, no talent? Or are Mexicans afraid of snow? I’m thinking both. Also, Mexicans don’t do too well in the Summer Olympics, either — they even suck in soccer. There is plenty of snow in Mexico, so don’t use…
The Denver Coliseum was dedicated sixty years ago today, at a celebration dubbed “Salute to Soil.” Today, the onetime showplace has become the poor relative of Denver’s venues. Poor in amenities, perhaps, but rich in history…
Last month it looked like the last roadblocks would be removed to a Rocky Flats land swap that would make 600 acres currently owned by the State Land Board on the southwest corner of the former plutonium-processing plant part of what’s now a federal wildlife refuge — and the U.S…
A year ago, no one was betting that Michael Hancock would win the crowded race to become Denver’s next mayor. But the gamble paid off, and today, when Mayor Hancock celebrates Dress Western Day — the one day that Denver doesn’t apologize for being a cowtown — he’ll be wearing…
While Colorado skiers keep watching the skies and the weather reports, hoping to see some of the white stuff, other states aren’t sitting idly by on their snowboards. Montana’s Big Sky, for example is trying to rustle Colorado skiers…by honoring the Epic Pass issued by Vail Resorts…
