Opinion & Commentary

“I wonder how newspapers like Westword survived without weekly stories promoting gay, marijuana, and goth newslines! Patty, you should be ashamed!” So writes The Wilk in response to our current cover story, “Over the Rainbow,” which details efforts to stop the bullying of gay teenagers…

While the city contemplates what to do with Triangle Park, the sliver of land at Broadway and Park Avenue West that was officially renamed Eddie Maestas Park and is now a mess known as the Bumuda Triangle, the Stout Street Children’s Park just a few blocks away makes urban planning…

Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, returned to the Su Teatro stage last night, where eighteen months ago he’d discussed immigration with Tom Tancredo. Before that debate, Tancredo and Arellano had met across the street for dinner at El Noa Noa. And no matter how he feels about Mexicans,…

“Denver has the most gabacho gabachos in the United States,” Gustavo Arellano, author of Ask a Mexican, proclaimed yesterday, name-checking Tim Tebow (briefly), John Elway and Tom Tancredo, with whom he’d debated immigration eighteen months ago on the same Su Teatro stage…

The list of Colorado celebrities is short. John Elway. Don Cheadle. Jessica Biel. John Elway. Amy Adams. Judy Collins. John Elway. Tim Tebow didn’t last a season as a Broncos starter; John Denver has been dead more than a decade, even if he keeps getting added to local halls of…

Artist Richard Vincent was memorialized at a service Saturday at the Denver Arts Student League. His sculpture that once graced the 16th Street Mall is just a memory, too, as is the legendary landmark it was designed to complement. Both are consigned to the storehouse of history…

Urban camping is now banned in Denver. But the city’s controversial new ordinance designed to cut down on the unpleasant problem of the homeless sleeping on sidewalks and along the 16th Street Mall doesn’t solve the puzzle of Triangle Park — better known as the “Bumuda Triangle.” Back in the…

Parking at Smart meters can be stupid. After encountering two dumb problems in the space of a few hours downtown, we asked people to submit their most stupid parking story — for the chance of winning a $50 Smart card to the city’s meters. But anyone looking for parking on…

This is National Small Business Week, but local entrepreneurs should think big. “Better cities, better entrepreneurs…and vice versa,” proclaims [i4c], and the venture is putting its money where its mouth is, with a contest that will give three ventures not just investment money, but support that will galvanize the businesses…

The 500-space, three-month parking pilot project that’s installed sensors under many of the meters downtown may enable Denver to teach its Smart meters new tricks — including zeroing out any time left on a meter when a car pulls out. But those sensors weren’t smart enough to fix two dumb…

With the city facing a $94 million shortfall in its 2013 budget, every penny counts. As part of the pilot project that recently installed sensors in 500 parking places downtown, Denver is now zeroing out its Smart meter the moment a car pulls out. And keeping the change…

Aurora’s tourism efforts got a big boost Friday, when the state’s Economic Development Commission approved $81 million in Regional Tourism Act incentives for the hotel/resort/convention complex planned by Gaylord Entertainment Co. The project could open by 2016 — which means Aurora has a few years to roll out a real…

Today, the state’s Economic Development Commission will choose which, if any, of six projects that applied will get subsidies under the Regional Tourism Act. Eco devo chief Ken Lund has recommended that just one be granted incentives: Gaylord, which wants to build an Aurora hotel/resort complex…

While protesters gathered in front of City Hall Monday to protest the upcoming ban on urban camping, another group was gathering by the tiny triangular space at 23rd and Lawrence streets, a spot officially known as Eddie Maestas Park, but most often called the Bumuda Triangle…

The controversy that broke last fall over Rick Perry’s “Niggerhead” sign at a family hunting camp got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in 2011 that was still the official name…

The controversy over “Niggerhead,” the hand-painted label on a rock at the hunting camp leased by Texas governor Rick Perry’s family for decades, got Roger Baker, manager of Gilpin County, thinking that it was time — long past time, actually — to change the name of “Negro Hill.” Yes, in…

Always begin right where you are And work out from here: If adrift, feel the feel of the oar in the oarlock first,  If saddling a horse let your right knee slug The belly of the horse like an uppercut,  Then cinch his suck,  Then mount and ride away To…

It’s 2006 all over again. That was the year that Coloradans passed a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between one man and one woman. It was also the year when lieutenant governor candidate Janet Rowland, when discussing same-sex marriage, uttered this: “Do we allow a man to marry a…

Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it…really fast. Today’s Denver Post has a fascinating — if redundant — Associated Press story about a Houston lawyer who’s tracking down missing moon rocks. At least 180 are unaccounted for — but not Colorado’s…