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Urban camping ban: Denver Police outline enforcement protocol
May 22, 2012 in The Latest Word
Robert White.The Denver Police Department has released the training bulletin that details how officers should approach violations of the city's new urban camping ban. Before the ordinance goes into effect...
Two Music Fans Attend Creed Concert (Sober) to Raise Money For MS
May 22, 2012 in RFTmusic
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Photos: Occupy Denver marches to support 25 peers at NATO Summit
May 21, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photos below.The mass protest against the weekend's North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit might be 1,000 miles from Denver, but its ties to the city are represented by at least...
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St. Louis Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura Wins his Third U.S. Chess Championship
May 21, 2012 in Daily RFT
Courtesy of Studio 314To know what it feels like to win the United States Chess Championship, earn $40,000 and reconfirm your status as the No. 1 chess player in the...
Tower Groove Records: The Story Behind the Collective's Art, Plus Free Posters
May 21, 2012 in RFTmusic
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Creed at the Paramount Theatre, 5/19/12
May 20, 2012 in Backbeat
Eric GruneisenCreed last night at the Paramount Theatre. Slide show: Creed in Denver. CREED @ PARAMOUNT THEATRE | 5/19/12 There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who can be...
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Albus Brooks regrets Facebooking, tweeting urban camping ban critics
May 18, 2012 in The Latest Word
Albus Brooks.On Monday, Denver City Council voted 9-4 to pass an urban camping ordinance, and the meeting wasn't pretty: Opponents shouted "Shame!" at the councilmembers, turned their backs on the...
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Tower Groove Records: The Bands Discuss their First Double-LP Compilation
May 18, 2012 in RFTmusic
Photo by Dana Smith A backyard is as good a place as any to start a movement. That's where, in two separate neighborhoods over roughly nine months, 22 bands outlined the...
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Shit Justin Halpern says: The Twitter phenom dishes on his dad, his wife and his latest book
May 18, 2012 in Show and Tell
As it turns out, a good Twitter account doesn't necessarily make a good television show. Nonfiction funny man Justin Halpern learned that lesson the nationally televised way when real-life anecdotes...
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Civic Center in the running to become a national historic landmark
May 17, 2012 in The Latest Word
Within the next three to nine months, Denver's Civic Center could become the city's first national historic landmark. Earlier this week, Mayor Michael Hancock testified at a National Park System...
Street People: Newly homeless Kim Atencio sleeps in Civic Center Park despite curfew
May 16, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Creed's Scott Stapp on "how I used to be before the world got ahold of me."
May 16, 2012 in Backbeat
The story of Creed (due this Saturday, May 19, at the Paramount Theatre) begins in the mid-'90s, when the band changed its name to Creed from Naked Toddler and embarked...
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Photos: Cries of "Shame!" as camping ban passes at tense council meeting
May 15, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photos below.The mood was charged from the beginning. Even before City Council voted nine to four to approve Denver's new urban camping ordinance, one audience member made a point...
Occupy Denver pickets Snooze -- and co-owner Jon Schlegel responds
May 14, 2012 in Cafe Society
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Snooze protest: Owner talks homeless workers, Nazi allegations
May 14, 2012 in The Latest Word
When Snooze co-owner Brianna Borin spoke out in support of the urban camping ban at a city council hearing two weeks ago, Occupy Denver members took offense and launched a...
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Urban camping: Occupy Denver protests precede council vote on ban
May 14, 2012 in The Latest Word
Big photos below.It's crunch time. As the Denver City Council prepares for a final vote tonight on the proposed urban camping ban, opponents and proponents spent the weekend discussing the...
Colorado Progressive Coalition uses protest, PR to prevent foreclosure
May 11, 2012 in The Latest Word
Audiovore.us digitally documents Colorado music with audio, video and concert series
May 11, 2012 in Backbeat
AM 760 show Weekend Wisdom centers on progressive Hispanic voices
May 11, 2012 in The Latest Word
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Appeals hearing for Michael DeHerrera officers delayed (again) until October
May 10, 2012 in The Latest Word
Michael DeHerrera.For those keeping track at home, the investigation of the April 2009 on-camera beating of Michael DeHerrera has lasted more than three years -- and it's not done yet:...
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Sexting classes for parents: Sheriffs answer some uncomfortable questions
May 09, 2012 in The Latest Word
Last night, roughly thirty parents watched detective Tony Garza and his fellow officers talk about sexting for an hour and a half. The trend is a rising one in Douglas...
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Cardboard & Concrete exhibit puts faces on Denver's homeless
May 09, 2012 in Show and Tell
Scott RussellScott Russell expected to find stories, and he did. On bike rides between Denver's alleys and street corners, he found twenty of them, eleven of which will be on...
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre at the Bluebird Theater, 5/8/12
May 09, 2012 in Backbeat
The Brian Jonestown Massacre last night at the Bluebird Theater. BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 05.08.12 If you decide to put all of your eggs in Anton Newcombe's basket, they're...
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Urban camping ban: Lawyers make plans for pro bono defense of offenders
May 08, 2012 in The Latest Word
Denver's proposed urban camping ban has a lot of people talking -- about legality, repercussions and enforcement, the last of which Police Chief Robert White promises will be "very passive."...
Photos: Occupy Denver protests Snooze, plans Downtown Denver Partnership sleep-in
May 07, 2012 in The Latest Word
