Decades of Progress Toward Liberation and Fair Treatment will be Celebrated During this Year’s Pride Month
By Natalie Kerr, Special to The Denver North Star
In 1976, Christi Layne, the stage name of renowned drag performer Christopher Sloane, stood with one of their best friends at the head of the very first Pride March in Denver, after having gone through some back-and-forth with the city and the state to get a permit.
They had...
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By London Lyle
Wheat Ridge resident Blake holds St. Bernard Hugo’s collar at Berkeley Dog Park as he is greeted by a friend. Photo by London Lyle
Berkeley Dog Park, a popular spot among Denver’s canine community, often receives mixed reviews.
Visit on any given afternoon and you might hear it described as “a depressing litter box” by regulars. One local labeled it a “post-apocalyptic wasteland” on the r/Denver subreddit. Harsh, but...
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By Erika Taylor
Sherrie, played by Alicia Leyba-Valdez, and Drew, played by Tate Dewhurst, sing “Waiting for a Girl Like You” as “Rock of Ages’” Hollywood star-crossed lovers. Photo by Richard Saxon
Cast, understudies, set construction, stage crew, lighting and sound crews, vocal direction, dance, choreography, direction, technical direction, music student directors, stage management, sponsor relations, fundraising… 125 moving...
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By Kathryn White
Denver Elks Lodge No. 17 is currently surrounded by construction projects, but still enjoys an exceptional view of downtown. The lodge rents a level of the building’s north wing, and some of its parking and perimeter, to a construction company working nearby. Photo by Lexi Lehman
Springtime brings change to Colorado’s estimated 300,000 elk.
Where the fall rut (mating season) brought the grunts and high-pitched...
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Current and former employees of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema picketed Jan. 2 in pursuit of a more worker-friendly environment. Photo courtesy of CWA Local 7777
As dusk settled in, commuters headed down Colfax Avenue on the first workday of the new year caught a glimpse of a picket line at perhaps one of the last places they might have expected to see one.
Westbound traffic saw a sidewalk demonstration made up of about a dozen current and...
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By Kathryn White
It was a chilly 23 degrees when the sun rose Jan. 3 at the encampment of largely refugees and migrants that had grown to over 300 people. People lived in tents along W. 27th and along nearby streets surrounding the former Quality Inn, where recently arrived migrant families are being housed by the city. Photo by Kathryn White
Before the sun rose at 27th and Zuni the morning of Jan. 3, a multi-department city operation...
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By Cassis Tingley
Hundreds have taken up camp along West 27th Avenue between Zuni and Alcott. Photo by Kathryn White
The corner of Zuni and Speer has become a microcosm of the intensifying Venezuelan humanitarian crisis, the American immigration system fiasco, and local politics here in Denver. Over 200 refugees and migrants, primarily from Venezuela, have set up camp outdoors along West 27th Avenue.
Inside the neighboring Quality...
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By Kathryn White
When the Mile High Fife and Drum Corps wrapped up its music performance the morning of Nov. 9, a full schedule of commemorative Veterans Day activities was just getting underway at The Gardens at St. Elizabeth retirement community.
Event organizer Rick Wohlers (U.S. Navy) walked Denver North H.S. Army Junior ROTC cadets through a tabletop display that covered over 200 years of military history. Photo by Kathryn White...
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By Basha Cohen
The Halloween season is in full swing with ghoulishly good times. Festivities run the gamut from family friendly, sweet trick-or-treat events where candy and costumes collide, to pooches on parade and pumpkin carving taken to a new art form.
Highland House Haunt. Photo courtesy of Amy Berglund
The Santa Fe Arts District will celebrate its first Día de los Muertos parade, and other bewitching Day of the Dead...
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By Kathryn White
Voters in a C-shaped swath of the city making up Denver Public Schools (DPS) District 5 will cast votes starting this week through Nov. 7 deciding between incumbent Charmaine Lindsay and two challengers, Marlene De La Rosa and Adam Slutzker.
Lindsay was appointed by the DPS board in June 2022 to serve the remaining 17 months of Rev. Brad Laurvick’s term when he moved out of the district.
The Denver North Star...
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