Eureka! There’s no Starbucks in Silver Plume. No Baby Gap. No Disneyfied vision of what the Olde West must have looked like. That’s because Silver Plume is still the real deal: a National Historic Landmark District largely unchanged from the way it looked when silver was dug out of the…
Dinner at Mel’s on Monday night for Gael Greene (see “Sex and the City”) and about fifty of her dearest admirers. Was it a good time? Tough to say. For starters, the median age in the room (not counting press) was ancient, and most of the diners were rushing the…
Dinner at Mel’s on Monday night for Gael Greene (see “Sex and the City”) and about fifty of her dearest admirers. Was it a good time? Tough to say. For starters, the median age in the room (not counting press) was ancient, and most of the diners were rushing the…
Some of the best scenes at the Colorado Theatre Guild’s Henry Awards Monday night: Donna Debreceni and her band tearing into the evening’s songs and musical commentaries. The creators of Assassins — a show that was put together by Next Stage with gum, safety pins and a treasure trove of…
As expected, this morning Jefferson County Sheriff Ted Mink announced that he’d decided not to release the basement tapes — the audio and videotapes seized from the homes of killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shortly after the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. Although many victims’ families had pressed…
Residents of Vail will be able to voice their opinions officially on the controversial Crossroads redevelopment, because the proposal is going to a public vote on July 11. For the last year, the legendary ski town has been divided over developer Peter Knobel’s vision for the $250 million Solaris project,…
On June 19, 1865, word finally reached slaves living in Galveston that they were free — almost two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation. They marked the date with a celebration they called Juneteenth. “As people started to leave the South with the…
The transport will be light — but the drinks will not — when Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel leads this evening’s Light Rail Pub Crawl. Conversation and liquor start flowing at 5 p.m. at the Buckhorn Exchange (park by the restaurant at 1000 Osage Street), and then crawlers will climb onto…
The wheels came off Marc Holtzman’s campaign for governor late yesterday afternoon, when Colorado Secretary of State Gigi Dennis threw out almost half the signatures Holtzman had submitted in an effort to petition his way onto the GOP primary ballot. But don’t rule him out yet. Holtzman, the former University…
Some historians have grave reservations about the stories that rapscallions wanted to steal the body of Buffalo Bill Cody. But then, there’s that mysterious photo of a tank guarding Buffalo Bill’s burial plot on Lookout Mountain back in the ’20s. And in the 1940s, when a major American Legion convention…
One of Denver’s most storied streets is starting a new chapter. In a few days, the cameras will roll on The Real World: Denver, the eighteenth installment of the show that made reality TV a reality, capturing the antics of seven pretty people who work together and live together in…
This afternoon, Rico Vecchiarelli stepped out of the sunlight and into the Denver City & County Building, where he was sentenced after pleading guilty to a Class 3 felony securities fraud. Vecchiarelli is the founder of American Championship Fighting (“The Fight Is On!”), a Denver-based mixed martial arts league that…
Back in 1994, Vernon Bellecourt and the national American Indian Movement asked the University of Colorado to investigate whether Ward Churchill obtained tenure through deception, “billing himself as an American Indian writer, scholar and artist,” Bellecourt told Westword. He added that the university should get rid of “this man whose…
Hurricane season is about to hit, but Washington, D.C., is still flooded with backwash from Hurricane Katrina. Last week, the Center for Public Integrity released 928 pages of e-mail messages to and from former FEMA head (and current Coloradan) Michael Brown. The e-mails, which the center received seven months after…
From zero to hero. Just a couple of weeks ago, Joe Nacchio’s lawyer was in federal court, arguing that his client’s upcoming trial must be moved, because the former Qwest CEO is one of “the most reviled figures in Denver history” and could never get a fair trial here. But…
Zacarias Moussaoui is heading for Supermax, the federal prison in Florence. At 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. today, Alan Prendergast will discuss Supermax with KCFR’s Ryan Warner on Colorado Matters. For a collection of Prendergast pieces on prison, see our “Crime and Punishment” archives…
Last week, Lawrence Argent was out scrubbing down his sculpture called “I See What You Mean,” but better known as the Big Blue Bear. Since the piece debuted last July outside the Colorado Convention Center, it’s quickly become the city’s most popular public artwork — although the piece’s popularity wasn’t…
On Thursday, the Arapahoe County District Attorney announced that she was sending the case of Aarone Thompson to a grand jury. The girl was first reported missing last November, but may have been killed up to eighteen months earlier, and her body hidden. Aarone was just a year old when…
The University of Colorado wants you to know that it “remains committed to promoting and maintaining an environment free from sexual harassment.” CU is so committed, in fact, that in 2004 it fired Igor Gamow, a controversial professor and inventor who’d been a fixture on the Boulder campus for nearly…
Sure, this city’s great at handling 75,000 protesters. But toss it a hundred kids on bikes, and things go to hell. Late in the afternoon on the last Friday of every month, bicyclists in 400 cities around the world gather for Critical Mass, a community bike ride that’s taken off…
Tourism boosters kick off the summer season at a rally today at the State Capitol. And what a season it should be: Come July 1, the state’s annual tourism budget will increase from $5 million to $20 million (pending final legislative approval). But at the same time those boosters tout…
You don’t find green chile in Mexico — but here in Denver, it’s the signature dish at most Mexican restaurants, a sauce/soup/stew of green chiles (always) and tomatoes (sometimes) and onions (sometimes) and pork (sometimes). Order green chile in Puerto Vallarta, or Phoenix, or Cheyenne, and you get a side…
