Every morning I sit down at my laptop and read numerous news websites. I know I am not alone in that ritual. But after reading and reading and reading, there is only one piece that has stuck in my mind today -- even above the stories on the run-off election in Denver. That would be …
Yesterday began with the promise of hope and change. After all, there was an election in Denver that offered so many possibilities. It would have been a natural to post about that today. That didn't happen because of what occurred around 2 p.m. yesterday. The day became about death and injuries – another school shooting …
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My first trip to Aspen was in 1986, to interview a superb singer who was going to perform at a royal wedding. She was part of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Sitting in the music tent and soaking in her performance, walking around the campus seeing students everywhere, being struck by the beauty of …
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Yesterday’s New York Times ran an online story pegged to the swearing in of Jared Polis – Colorado’s new governor. The headline: “Colorado’s Got a Gay Governor: Who Cares?” Indeed. I read the story a couple of hours before I watched some of today’s State-of-the-State speech by Polis, and I thought, all I want is …
On the final day of the year, I thought about something positive to post to help redeem what has been a punishing 2018 (in my estimation). It’s about the arts, and how important it is that people spread the word and support organizations both large and small. And it is not just about the economic …
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First off: The aerial photo above does not capture any place in Colorado. It is a photograph by Edward Burtynsky, whose work is in “Anthropocene,” an exhibition about mankind’s impact on the planet, now on view at the Art Gallery of Toronto, in Ontario. But this photograph – Highway #8, Santa Ana Freeway, Los Angeles, …
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One of the first things I posted on this blog back in October was a piece by Aaron Betsky, a writer and president of the School of Architecture at Taliesin. That piece was about the spreading-like-wildfire scourge of five-story apartment blocks going up throughout our country and in our back yard. But recently Betsky took …
Actually, I do. It is one of the slogans used by Colorado Gives Day, which is today. I made my donations this morning, and always am thrilled that this day raises so much money for solid causes. It also always makes me wish I were a bazillionaire. But, then, suddenly, by midnight, organizations stop sending …
The Denver Post this morning published an extensive account of where things stand in terms of Denver making a bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics in Colorado. So did The Colorado Independent. I’m sure I wasn’t the only person curious about the status of the work being done by the Olympic exploratory committee set up …
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The dockless scooters from five different companies have made themselves at home in Denver. Wwhere do we go from here? They are all over my neighborhood, and in other areas near Denver’s urban core (but honestly, everywhere). I am assuming a lot of people like them, and they do offer a way to get around …
Chandler in Denver 