Exploring Denver’s shops and restaurants, neighborhoods and people (including myself)
A little girl foots her scooter across the Platte River bridge. “Don’t get too far ahead,” her mother calls, as the scooter swings toward the edge of the sidewalk. The girl’s driving leg beats a steady rhythm as trucks rumble by, the river flows below, bottle-brown over white shreds of trash. There are no fish.
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American moments:
Navajo code talkers carrying the flag into the convention at 3 pm, Monday, August 25. See this article.
Abortion protesters whizzing into the middle of Michelle Obama’s speech at the Convention Center and being escorted out just as quickly. My camera is so slow I couldn’t get a good picture.
And here at [...]
It’s after midnight, but it’s not the DNC that’s keeping me awake; I’m pretty sure it’s the two Aleve I took right before bed at 10 pm.
I watched Hillary’s August 26 speech at the Democratic National Convention for the second time tonight, and I felt that sense of resignation that women sometimes feel when they’re [...]
I encountered two kinds of youth culture in Denver the past two days: the anarchists and those who are participating in the process in one form or another. The first group is not nearly as clean and polished as the second, but their rough edges appeal to me. Maybe because no matter how clean and [...]
Monday night, about 100 protesters were arrested in Civic Center Park as they attempted to reach the 16th Street Mall. Police suspected they wanted to reach some downtown Denver hotels and disrupt convention activity there. Sue Cobb, a spokesperson for the Denver mayor’s office, said, “It is hard to avoid arresting people who are bound [...]
As I sit in Common Grounds coffeehouse at 17th and Wazee, the Democratic National Convention hardly intrudes. One patron in a bright white shirt at the counter said the police were doing a good job of containing the demonstrators who wanted to make trouble, but the dyed-blond guy behind the counter was noncommittal.
It’s about 1 [...]
I’ll start posting about Denver on August 25, the first day of the Democratic National Convention.
I’ll be investigating how easy it is to get around Denver with the DNC in town. Stay tuned.
Factoids from the city’s website:
The last time Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention was exactly 100 years ago.
“The Democratic National Convention 2008 is [...]