UPDATE: After spending most of December 2014 down while the city completed an update to it, Denver’s liquor license public hearings page is up and running again. For years, nosy neighborhood groups, restaurant-industry insiders and food-and-beverage reporters have relied on the Denver Department of Excise & Licenses website, which features…
While the Nichols Partnership is looking to the future, turning the former Hotel VQ, right next to Sports Authority Field at Mile High, into 179 micro-apartments, we’ve been looking to the past of that building, whose circular design was once considered so cutting-edge. Out-of- this world, in fact, particularly when…
Baby, it’s cold outside — but a good plate of green chile could warm you up fast. Mark Antonation has been spooning up green chile all over town in this month’s Ethniche series, which most recently saw him at La Fuente, which makes a good green. By Colorado standards, at…
Almost every Friday for two decades, I’ve driven up Welton Street on my way to the Colorado Public Television studios. Welton Street cuts right through Five Points — in fact, it’s one of the streets that creates the actual points. The story of this historic neighborhood stretches back more than…
Just a few weeks ago, the most controversial thing about The Interview was actor/creator Seth Rogen’s invitation to come smoke pot with him at a special December 8 showing of the movie in Denver: “We are going to do a screening of #TheInterviewMovie in Colorado where I get baked with…
Sit, Guinness. Roll over, Merlot. As our news blog reported yesterday, a website called rover.com, which bills itself as “the nation’s Airbnb for dogs,” has released a survey of the most popular dog names in 2014, and Denver ranks in the top spot as the city with the most alcohol-related…
At dawn on November 29, on the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, more than 500 descendants of massacre survivors and other tribal members gathered on Monument Hill for private ceremonies commemorating their fallen ancestors. Meanwhile, down below at the headquarters of the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site,…
The runners gathered just after dawn Sunday on Monument Hill. The day before, on the 150th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre, more than 500 descendents of the massacre and other tribal members had gathered here for private ceremonies on an unusually warm November morning; the good weather continued through…
I spent the weekend driving across the plains of Colorado, and it’s impossible to travel over that terrain without thinking of Kent Haruf, the author who captured both the land and the people who live there so well in his books, including Plainsong and Eventide. Now comes word from his…
Travel back in time tonight on Colorado Public Television, which will be reprising four of the Emmy Award-winning Time Machine shows that the crew behind Colorado Inside Out, the Friday night public affairs program, creates every year. The weekly, Friday night CIO usually focuses on current events; these Time Machine…
When you’re trying to right a 150-year-old wrong, you do not want to make another mistake. You do not want to add insult to grievous injury. That’s why the members of the University of Denver’s John Evans Study Committee took such care with their investigation of the connection between John…
The Colorado gubernatorial debate hosted by the Free & Equal Elections Foundation on October 8 at Infinity Park Events Center in Glendale wasn’t all that equal. While the organizers were bemoaning the current two-major-party system and decrying the failure of incumbent governor John Hickenlooper (Democrat) and two-time gubernatorial candidate Bob…
The stunning avalanche of action set in motion by the U.S. Supreme Court’s inaction on same-sex marriage last week shows just how quickly this country can change. So why, nearly fifty years after Colorado became the first state in the union to legalize abortion, have we not put this equally…
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts transformed this city’s cultural scene. But the DCPA, and arts in general, sustained two major blows last week: Randy Weeks, DCPA president, who would have been responsible for much of the future direction of the organization, passed away in London at the age…
References to the Sand Creek Massacre are everywhere these days, including page 55 of the new AP United States History course, one of the most controversial — if unread — documents in Colorado and the focus of the proposed curriculum review committee that a few members of the Jefferson County…
When the Jeffco Public Schools Board of Education meets on Thursday, October 2, it will pick up the hot-potato topic — the Curriculum Review Committee — that has inspired student walk-outs across the district, creating an unofficial crash course in civil disobedience in the process. But when new boardmember Julie…
The deadline is fast approaching for My Favorite Place in Denver, a program created by the Denver Department of Community Planning and Development that’s currently soliciting nominations for favorite places in town from residents and visitors alike. We’ve already weighed in on our least favorite places and my personal favorite:…
On Wednesday, September 24, members of the Sand Creek Massacre Commemoration Commission will head northeast from Eads along Chief White Antelope Way to the banks of Sand Creek, where 150 members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes were killed by volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington on November 29, 1864…
Joseph Hutchison didn’t set out to write a poem about Silas Soule. But he’d been thinking for a while about the Sand Creek Massacre — a dark chapter in Colorado’s past that he’d never learned about when he was a student at Skinner Junior High, writing his first poem. He’d…
A hundred miles east of Denver is a rise that, at around 5,900 feet, is the highest point between Denver and Kansas City — or between Denver and Chicago, or between Denver and New York, depending on who’s doing the measuring and who’s doing the bragging. This rise marks what…
The dog days of summer are behind us — but every dog can still have its day on a local patio. That’s because on July 1, new regulations took effect in Denver for restaurants that want to turn over at least part of their patios to pooches, and Racines, which…
Sean Azzariti spent six years in the Marines and was deployed to Iraq twice. Today he’s fighting for the right to use medical marijuana. “When I first got out of the military, in October 2006, I was diagnosed with severe PTSD,” he recalls. The doctors prescribed heavy prescription drugs, but…
