For many years, the regional Planned Parenthood headquarters was Westword’s neighbor, and we had a front-row seat for the picketers who harassed employees of an organization that does so much more than providing abortion services…
The Colorado Legislature is once again tackling the issue of tuition for the children of illegal immigrants, and yesterday, CU’s Board of Regents voted 5-4 to support Colorado ASSET, with Republican Regent Tillie Bishop joining the Democrats. The vote came after much passionate discussion — because with every issue involving…
Christo’s “Over the River” will soon have another bridge to cross. Even as a public hearing that could secure Fremont County’s approval of the project along the Arkansas River gets under way this morning in Canon City, a group of University of Denver students will be filing suit to stop…
As today’s appearances by Ron Paul and Rick Santorum make clear, Colorado’s caucus is a week away for Republicans, one of three major political parties in this state. That’s right: Because Tom Tancredo did so well in the last gubernatorial election, the American Constitution Party qualifies as a major political…
Unlike so many Western towns, Denver has a wealth of wonderful neighborhoods close to the heart of the city. But with that wealth of neighborhoods comes a surfeit of NIMBY issues that often spill out of their immediate area and into City Hall — as the fight over a new…
Have something you want to ask Alex Martinez, Denver’s new Manager of Safety? This is your chance: Westword writers will be meeting with the former Colorado Supreme Court justice this morning, to get an overview of the office and ask about some specific issues, including the recent rulings overturning police…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
