“You all wasted our time,” proclaimed community activist Alvertis Simmons at a public forum held July 27 by the Colorado Division of Civil Rights. “This was not a waste of your time,” replied Rico Munn, the cool-headed director of the Department of Regulatory Affairs, which includes the Division of Civil…
For twenty years, Women’s Bean Project has been helping women get back on their feet — and the good work it’s done over that time amounts to much more than a hill of beans. The Project got its start back in 1989, when Jossy Eyre was volunteering at a Denver…
Every year, a friend and I make jalapeno jelly that we give to other friends (what they do with it, we have no idea), and we thought we’d perfected our formula. But this recipe for Rocky Mountain Jalapeno Jelly, created by Jason Morse, chef at Valley Country Club in Aurora…
Tennyson Street north of 38th Avenue is one of the city’s five Denver Neighborhood Marketplace Initiative corridors, part of a Denver Office of Economic Development pilot program pushing business in these areas. And from 5 to 7:30 p.m. tonight, the OED will hold a reception at House, 4363 Tennyson Street,…
On Friday night, staffers from over a dozen street newspapers — papers created by and for not just the poor and homeless, but the public that should care about the poor and homeless — gathered for the North American Street Newspaper Association Awards ceremony. The event was downtown at Marlowe’s,…
The sky’s the limit this week. Or is it? From a discussion of the view at Coors Field to consideration of a proposed DIA expansion to conventions including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the fortieth annual international UFO Symposium, things are looking up — way up –…
Great balls of fire! Angela’s Meatballs, the winning entry in an all-firefighter meatball contest cooked up by North Metro Fire Rescue District’s Lieutenant Don Wiercinksi and Matthew Gintzler, will be added to added to the menu at both Denver Maggiano’s restaurants as of today. And anytime a customer orders the…
It’s been a bad year for newspapers, with cities acorss the country losing important institutions like the Rocky Mountain News. But it’s been a very good year for homeless newspapers, judging from the entries in the first annual North American Street Newspaper Association Newspaper Awards. I was lucky enough to…
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of porta-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then you’ve got the white boy reply, “Here I sit, flexing a…” You should know the rest. Original Schreck in Houston…
Sometime this morning, right after the full House votes on the Food Safety Enhancement Act (the discussion starts at 8:30 a.m. MST), Representative Diana DeGette and other members of the working group that pushed the measure will hold a press conference to discuss its ramifications. In anticipation of this day,…
On January 22, new President Barack Obama signed an executive order promising that Guantanamo would go — within a year. But closing the prison in Cuba — and figuring out where to put the 229 suspected terrorists now held there — has proved complicated. Moving at least some of them…
No boss could refuse you a coffee break this morning — not when dozens of downtown establishments will be offering all comers a free cup of joe between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. Who’ll be pouring it on (and out)? The three homegrown Ink! outposts, as well as the thirteen Starbucks…
On my way home from the Colorado Civil Rights Forum last night, I stopped by Lola, which was hosting the first of the Denver Five dinners. (More on that coming later today from Nancy Levine, who was at the dinner from the start.) And, inevitably, I spotted a restaurateur in…
The Colorado Civil Rights Commission took its show on the road last night, hosting an evening forum at the Blair-Caldwell Library. And if the conversation didn’t seem to go exactly where Colorado Civil Rights Division director Steve Chavez wanted it to go — after an active initial discussion of racial…
When I last spoke with Tom Botelho, he was in an airport lounge, looking at Gerard Depardieu (foreshadowing!), heading to Europe on a family vacation, and not talking about anything but that. He was certainly not talking about the rumor that he was about to be named the new executive…
Spam is enjoying unprecedented popularity in these trying economic times, which means that the 2009 Great American SPAM Championship, a recipe competition that includes a qualifier at the Colorado State Fair, could be the toughest contest on record. Last year, a Colorado man, Ron Pearman, took the national prize with…
Yes, the University of Colorado has big budget troubles — so, of course, school officials have done the only thing they could do: issued a $780,000 contract to an international branding company, Landor, to design a new logo that will unite all branches of the CU system under one common…
Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves played the tough guy last week when he issued his ruling in the Ward Churchill case — not only refusing to give the controversial former University of Colorado prof his job back, but also tossing the entire lawsuit, determining that the CU Board of…
Gustavo Arelleno, author of Ask a Mexican, is getting ready to travel around Estados Unidos to do research for his upcoming book on the history of Mexican food in the U.S.– and he could use your help. He’s looking for favorite Mexican restaurants, and is running a contest for the…
Dear Mexican: The mainstream media is making a big noise over Sonia Sotomayor likely being the first Latina Supreme Court justice, and that all Latinos should be proud. But Puerto Rican ain’t Mexican! The Supreme Court won’t have a shade of brown until a Mexican is sitting with Roberts and…
The original casket of Emmett Till was among the missing items uncovered in the Alsip, Illinois, cemetery scandal. After the body of the fourteen-year-old civil rights martyr was exhumed in 2005 for an investigation into Till’s lynching back in 1955, when the Chicago boy dared to talk to a white…
