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Oxford's urinals top our list of alternative Denver tour stops: What tops yours?

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., May 1 2013 at 11:14 AM

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To pee or not to pee?

Civic boosters love to travel to other cities to see how they do business -- and maybe engage in some monkey business themselves. The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce's City-to-City Leadership Exchange (LEX) will make its 24th annual trip in October -- this one to Pittsburgh (last year was Austin). And this week, the Greater Richmond Chamber's InterCity program has brought 150 Virginians to Denver to learn about "downtown redevelopment, fostering creativity and entrepreneurism, retaining young professionals and promoting active lifestyles." In the snow.

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Union Station-booted model-railroad club will make a stop at History Colorado

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Apr. 30 2013 at 12:03 PM

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Caution: railroad crossing.

The Platte Valley & Western Railroad club started packing up its thirty-year-old model-train layout in the basement of Union Station last weekend, with no idea where the 2,000-square-foot display will eventually land.

Union Station Alliance, the developer of Union Station, says it's "offered the basement of the Sage Building on 16th & Welton downtown" -- although club spokesman Tarry Harrison says he hasn't heard about that offer from any source other than Westword.

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Union Station: Model-train club packs up, new-home option isn't free

By Patricia Calhoun Mon., Apr. 29 2013 at 12:15 PM

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On Saturday, while thousands of freeloaders hopped on board the new West Line to ride light rail from downtown to Golden and back, members of the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad club gathered in the dark basement of the shuttered Union Station and started dismantling the layout they'd initially constructed there three decades ago, a model railroad designed to commemorate the heyday of railroading in the '50s, when people really would "Travel by Train" -- not just across town, but across the country.

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Photos: Union Station's historic model trains still homeless -- but fans are stepping up

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Apr. 24 2013 at 12:07 PM

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Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades -- eight decades, in one case -- will not be there when Union Station reopens in 2014, fans have been hopping on board to help find them a new home. And in the meantime, to help fund the clubs that operate the layouts: The Riverfront Park Community Foundation just donated $25,000 to the cause, split between the two groups.

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Union Station developers give beloved model train layout the boot

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Apr. 23 2013 at 12:01 PM

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A segment of the O Scale.

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised there would always be a spot for the model trains -- and the clubs that ran them. And when those rail buffs held one last public open house in November 2011 before shrouding their layouts until the redevelopment was done, they had no doubt that their trains would be back on track in 2014. But now that plan has been derailed.

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4/20 shooting at Civic Center Park: What I saw and heard

By Patricia Calhoun Sun., Apr. 21 2013 at 9:05 AM

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Civic Center is quiet this morning: the grass raked, the trash collected...and the crime scene tape down. The Denver Police Department had used it to cordone off the southeast corner of the park after after multiple shots rang out -- stampeding the crowds and leaving three 4/20 celebrants with bullet wounds. The shootings happened just over half an hour after 4:20 p.m., when tens of thousands of pot partiers lit up in a collective puff to celebrate the legalization of recreational marijuana use in Colorado. But all those high spirits soon evaporated.

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Ludlow Massacre centennial will be commemorated by state commission

By Patricia Calhoun Thu., Apr. 18 2013 at 1:28 PM

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After the massacre.

The Sand Creek Massacre isn't the only grim chapter in Colorado history that will mark a major anniversary in 2014. Next year is also the hundredth anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, the darkest moment in the Great Coalfield War. On April 20, 1914, a skirmish broke out between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners -- who'd been booted from their company-owned homes by Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and were living in the Ludlow Tent Colony with their families.

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Denver Boone: DU's original mascot cracks the whip on calls for a replacement

By Patricia Calhoun Wed., Apr. 17 2013 at 11:08 AM

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The University of Denver has been meeting with members of the DU community to discuss the "mascot development" process. Doug Hirsh has been following the process with particular interest: He was the first human Denver Boone, chosen to portray the caricature that Walt Disney donated to DU to serve as the embodiment of the Pioneer spirit. In 1968, when the school held a try-out for a student to play Boone, Hirsh showed up wearing a fake beard and a coonskin cap he'd found at his frat, the Beta House, and carrying a bullwhip. One crack of that whip, and he had the gig.

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Sand Creek Massacre to be re-created on film in Soul of Silas

By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Apr. 16 2013 at 10:51 AM

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Silas Soule.

While the University of Denver explores the role that John Evans, its founder, had to the Sand Creek Massacre, some people have moved beyond study to action. Aaron Sears, for example, has written a script for a movie he plans to direct: The Soul of Silas. The film is far from a big-budget affair -- in fact, Sears admits it's an "amateur" effort -- but it has big intentions. "I want to change the name of streets down here," he says. "It makes me disgusted to have names like Evans and Downing. I want to create a movie to bring awareness to what's going on."

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Smiley's, the world's largest laundromat (and Visit Denver's biggest embarrassment) is gone

By Patricia Calhoun Thu., Apr. 11 2013 at 11:28 AM

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In the late '80s, after a Broncos Super Bowl loss, a CBS report said Denver had never been number one in anything besides air pollution. But that wasn't true: At the time, Denver had Smiley's, the world's largest laundromat. And this modern marvel's existence had been shared a few years earlier, when the Today show came to town to explain why Denver had just been named one of the country's most liveable cities, using Westword writers as guides. Visit Denver's Rich Grant has never forgiven me for that.

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