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...
Roberta’s Chocolates, Candies, and Nuts (the website is pretty slow) 4840 W 29th Avenue (take Speer to 29th and then drive 18 blocks or so) 303-824-2069 (call for hours) Bus directions: the 51 (from...
Le Chocolatier 3718 West 32nd Avenue (between Meade and Newton in Highlands) 303-455-3431 Closed Monday; see website for other hours Will deliver in the metro Denver area Bus directions: the 32 stops...
Bristlecone pines twist for strength at the top. Micro-landscapes shifting every few feet, spongy grasses to willow carr to scatterings of violet flowers, smaller than my thumbnail, the tallest of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...