ELEVATED VOICES
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...
7:41 pm, May 11, 2012
Even if you're not a big hip-hop fan, you've likely heard of Drake. The Canadian rapper has been on near-constant radio repeat for the past few years thanks to hits like "Headlines" and "Fancy." His unique combination of smooth R&B and hard-hitting, emotive rap lyrics—not to mention pairings with hip-hop all-stars like Nicki Minaj (who will be in Denver on August 2) and Lil Wayne—have...
3:20 pm, May 10, 2012
Urban development too often means that historic buildings are torn down and forgotten. Not so with Downtown's Holy Cross Catholic Church (1900 California Street). Since the 1920s, the house of worship has remained as Denver's business center grew up around it. When 1999 California Street—a skyscraper with more than 40 stories—was developed in the 1980s on the same plot, the church survived. In...
9:45 am, May 9, 2012
The walls are covered in colorful posters bursting with words like "Sportmanship," "Dance," and "Work Hard." It's a typical elementary school gym—except that I'm here to watch a fifth-grade yoga class. As a kid, my PE time consisted of basketball, soccer, and climbing ropes. But I didn't go to a school like Colfax Elementary, where 97 percent of the students receive a free or reduced lunch....
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