ELEVATED VOICES
10:10 am, May 18, 2012
Rant: Downtown pedestrian lightsDid we miss something? One year ago, Denver supposedly eliminated the “Barnes Dance” crosswalks—the four-way stoppages that let pedestrians traverse intersections diagonally—when the city realized that almost no one was taking advantage of them. So why isn’t it any easier to escape from LoDo by car? Plenty of downtown streets, particularly along 17th and 18th...
3:59 pm, May 17, 2012
For true baseball fans, a game doesn't require athletes with multi-million dollar paychecks. Really, a good game can come down to a pair of little league teams squaring off for neighborhood bragging rights. In Colorado, there's an option between the tots and the Tulos: The Colorado Rockies Triple-A affiliate Colorado Springs Sky Sox. The team plays at Security Service Field in Colorado...
11:45 am, May 17, 2012
Thirty years ago, Larry Mizel, his wife Carol, and rabbi Stanley Wagner had the idea to start a Jewish museum in Colorado. That one-room, synagogue-housed space eventually turned into the Mizel Museum, a nationally regarded "portal to the contemporary Jewish experience." Exhibits like 4,000 Year Road Trip: Gathering Sparks (a permanent show that opened in February) exemplify the museum's inspired...
1:47 pm, May 16, 2012
As a single mother of three in California 20 years ago, Judy Zerafa began researching the formation of positive habits and how to instill them in children. She began with her own kids, and soon their principal was calling for tips and parents were flocking to her living room to learn her methods. She then began interviewing ultra-successful Americans, many of whom had achieved notable...
1:28 pm, May 16, 2012
Feel like you’re losing your competitive edge at work? Takes you twice as long to read and understand a document as it did 10 years ago? Are your kids performing beneath their grade level at school? This past January, we stumbled upon a place that offered help for these problems. We ran a story about LearningRx, which we referred to as Denver’s only so-called brain-training center. Update: As it...
10:57 am, May 16, 2012
How fitting that this week’s political gamesmanship—better known as the backroom bullshit that makes voters yearn for term limits and recall elections—has devolved into a feckless round of he said/he said. On one side of the debate over the civil unions bill is Speaker of the House Frank McNulty. On the other is Governor Hickenlooper. One of them either steamrolled or stonewalled the other one,...
10:13 am, May 16, 2012
To say that Representative Don Coram cast the deciding vote to kill a bill that would have allowed civil unions for same-sex couples in Colorado is a bit shortsighted—after all, he was one of five Republican lawmakers on Monday who voted against the measure in a special state House subcommittee. But what made Coram's vote so interesting was his personal life: His son, Dee, is gay. Coram, who...
2:30 pm, May 15, 2012
The Denver Nuggets' impressive playoff run against the Los Angeles Lakers ended this past weekend, a loss that leaves our city with only one major professional team to get us through the summer. So, um, how about those Colorado Rockies? Well, for starters, the team is below .500 at both home and on the road this season, much of the starting pitching has imploded, and the team still hasn't...
11:51 am, May 15, 2012
Why we love it: It is smack dab in the middle of Denver, but doesn't have the heavy traffic of the Cherry Creek Trail. When to go: Because much of the trail is shaded, you can venture out all day. We like to hop on the path in Aurora (corner of East Exposition Avenue and South Havana Street) so we can stop for brunch at nearby Pho 79.Coloradans seems obsessed with the extreme. How...
11:05 am, May 14, 2012
We're often so busy sampling our state's brews—big, floral IPA's and fruity sours, to name a few—we forget to recognize the impact our precious suds have on Colorado's economy. The Centennial State's beer industry creates thousands of jobs and generates millions of dollars in revenue for the state. Thanks to a recent study conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder Business...
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