Ok, lets have a funtest: “Name This Chapter”. I need chapter titles for a book I am writing – to be listed as song titles. I will post a synopsis of a chapter for ten …
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Chapter Naming Contest
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Forward by Scott Montgomery Professor of Art History at DU
The Denver Dog began as something of a psychedelic outpost – a pioneering extension of the San Francisco Haight-Ashbury scene. It fell on fertile ground with Denver’s burgeoning counterculture. Like the Avalon Ballroom, the Family …
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Leon Russel shirt by Valerie McCreay
Valerie worked for 11 months, 8 hours a day to create this masterpiece.
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Paonia
Nestled in the idyllic North Fork of the Gunnison River valley not far from the pristine West Elk Wilderness, the tiny town of Paonia is a cosmopolitan and internationally connected, progressive center that is often the summer home of New Yorkers, Chicagoans and Europeans.
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The Good Old Days in Denver, Part One
Used to be, in my home state’s capital, you could be arrested for walking around in public under the influence of long hair.
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Arthur Allen Fletcher, “The Father of Affirmative Action”
October 30th, 2011: Arthur Allen Fletcher is known to many as the father of affirmative action. In the following account historian David Hamilton Golland describes the career of Fletcher, a Republican civil rights activist during the last half of the 20th Century.
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Little Dove (by The Rascals)
How Marcello met Abby
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The Rossonian Hotel
The most prominent building at the Five Points intersection in Denver, the Rossonian Hotel opened in 1912 as the Baxter Hotel. Renamed the Rossonian in 1929, its lounge acquired a reputation as the best jazz …
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Man Gets 27 Years in Botched Plot to Bomb Colorado Police Station
DENVER (Reuters) - A man who pleaded guilty to planting a bomb outside a Colorado police station to avenge the killing of his friend almost a half-century ago was sentenced on Friday to 27 years in prison, federal prosecutors said.David Michael Ansberry, 66, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Denver for the botched bombing of the Nederland police station in 2016, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said.
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College basketball’s trap: How agents and shoe companies team up to exploit athletes
Full story athttps://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2018/02/25/college-basketball-recruiting-scandal-system-traps-players/370215002/
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