Longtime listeners of Changing Denver will be interested to hear about Range & Slope, a new podcast featuring sounds and stories from prairie to peak.
Range & Slope is a product of the R & S Collective, of which Changing Denver host Paul Karolyi is a proud member.
Subscribe wherever you listen to Changing Denver and learn more at rangeandslope.com.
Our Rocky Flats series concludes with a look into the future. What does this summer's litigation mean for the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge? And what about the Rocky Flats of our collective imagination, has anything changed?
Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats is presented in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. The theme song for Unclear Danger is “Title Screen” by Aethernaut. Other music in this episode is by Lee Rosevere, Chris Zabriskie, and Aethernaut.
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The photo that serves as the basis of the Unclear Danger logo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by a user called AlbertHerring. We are using it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. The Colorado Independent’s Kelsey Ray designed the logo.
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The reactions to the most recent episode of Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats have been overwhelming. In the form of two interviews about health impact studies of communities surrounding Rocky Flats, this is our response.
Unclear Danger is being produced in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library.
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Unclear Danger 4: Is it safe?
In this fourth chapter of our Rocky Flats series, we set out to answer the central question in the recent controversy over the site: Will the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge be safe for visitors when it opens to the public?
Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats is presented in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. The theme song for Unclear Danger is “Title Screen” by Aethernaut. Other music in this episode is by Soft & Furious, Chris Zabriskie, and Aethernaut.
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The photo that serves as the basis of the Unclear Danger logo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by a user called AlbertHerring. We are using it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License. The Colorado Independent’s Kelsey Ray designed the logo.
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In this third chapter of our Rocky Flats series, we dive deep into the last few years of conflict between the government agencies responsible for the lands of the former nuclear weapons plant and the activists who want to keep it closed forever.
Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats is presented in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. The theme song for Unclear Danger is “Title Screen” by Aethernaut.
Soft and Loathing and Lee Rosevere created the other music heard in this episode.
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The photo that serves as a basis for the Unclear Danger logo was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by a user called AlbertHerring. We are using it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
The Colorado Independent’s Kelsey Ray designed the logo.
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Our story of Rocky Flats continues. In this second chapter, we share the people’s history of the site, from humble beginnings in the early 1970s to a resurgence of activism today.
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Recommended Reading:
You can learn more about Kristen Iversen’s book Full Body Burden at her website.
Follow along with the activists at Rocky Flats Downwinders, Candelas Glows, and Rocky Flats Right to Know, as well as the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center.
Here’s a few links to documents mentioned in the episode: Rocky Flats Interagency Agreement of 1991, Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement of 1996, and the Citizens Advisory Board’s legacy report.
This episode includes extensive clips from several oral histories on file at the Boulder Public Library’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program. You can find each of the oral histories we excerpted here: Robert Card, Daniel Ellsberg, and Pam Solo.
If you are a subscriber to Harper’s Magazine, you can read all of the Edward Abbey piece excerpted in this episode here. Nonsubscribers can find it in the published collection of Abbey’s work, Down the River.
“One Man’s Nuclear War,” Edward Abbey. Copyright © 1979 Harper’s Magazine. All Rights reserved. Reproduced from the March issue by special permission.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” be Felix Fast4ward.
Denver’s premier chiptunes artists Aethernaut and Michael Zucker provided the score for this episode and all of Unclear Danger.
Also heard in this episode are a few songs by a group called Soft and Furious and a couple of old Rocky Flats protest songs. Those were performed by Jesse Wooten. You can find more of his music under the names Black Balsam and New Hill.
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Welcome to the fourth season of Changing Denver. It’s going to be a season-long series all on one topic. We’re calling it Unclear Danger: The Colorado Story of Rocky Flats.
We’re proud to present this whole season in partnership with the Colorado Independent and the Denver Public Library.
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Next Week:
We are hosting a panel, titled “Remembering Rocky Flats,” at the Denver Public Library on April 7. Three Rocky Flats historians—Len Ackland, Dorothy Ciarlo, and Murph Widdowfield—will be sharing their stories and unique perspectives on the Rocky Flats story. Find us on the 7th floor of the library’s central branch at 2 pm.
Recording this kind of thing can be hit-or-miss, so come out on the 7th to make sure you hear what these three have to say.
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Recommended Reading:
Len Ackland’s Making a Real Killing should be available at your local bookshop. Len will also be appearing at our April 7 event if you have questions for him.
The Ambushed Grand Jury is available online as a free PDF.
So is the full text of the Lamm-Wirth Task Force’s final report.
For more on the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s plans for Rocky Flats, check out their website here.
This episode includes extensive clips from several oral histories on file at the Boulder Public Library’s Maria Rogers Oral History Program. You can find each of the oral histories we excerpted here: Ken Freiberg, Dick Lamm, Tim Wirth, William Cohen, and Jacque Brever.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” be Felix Fast4ward.
Denver’s premier chiptunes artists Aethernaut and Michael Zucker provided the score for this episode and all of Unclear Danger. Also heard in this episode are a few songs by a group called Soft and Furious. Those are in the public domain.
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On this episode of Changing Denver – the finale of season three! – we share the story of Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, a local artist and writer.
You can follow Lauri on Twitter at @Lynnxe and learn more on her website.
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Recommended reading:
Meow Wolf in Denver: Santa Fe's deliriously popular art collective lands with permanent installation
Artspace lands site for affordable artist housing in RiNo
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
Also heard in this episode is a selection of songs of Madeline Johnston’s album “Like Author, Like Daughter,” as well as the track “The Split” by Howard Hello and “Civil War” by Bear and the Beasts.
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Our third agent of change is a group of people, the newcomers and the transplants. It comprises two interviews, one with Helen Thorpe, author of a new book about refugee and immigrant teenagers at South High School, and the other with Zena Ballas, creator of a new digital archive of transplant profiles.
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You can learn more about Helen's book, The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom, here.
And you can find Zena's project here.
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Music for this episode provided by D.A. Evosirch. He's @noirguitarsuperstar on Instagram.
Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
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Our second “Agent of Change” is Tay Anderson, the 19-year-old running for the Denver Public School Board. What does his Trump Era campaign mean for us and for our schools?
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Further reading:
You can read all about Tay’s platform on his website: www.tayanderson.org
And here’s a recent piece Melanie Asmar wrote about the District 4 race: Inside the three-candidate battle for northeast Denver’s school board seat
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
Also heard in this episode: “When I See You” and “If You Got the Blues” by Dragondeer; “Love Isn’t Enough” by Pink Hawks; and “Just Look at My Habits,” “This is the Girl,” and “Cobraskin Wallet” by Man Mantis. Huge thanks to all three for the use of their music.
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On this episode of Changing Denver, we tell the story of Jane West, “ganja-preneur” and advocate, and explore the role of women in the cannabis industry.
This episode marks the start of season 3, a mini-season highlighting people we’re calling “agents of change,” instead of neighborhoods or other made spaces.
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Further reading:
We highly recommend reading John Schroyer’s extensive report on Women Grow. You can find it here.
Also from Marijuana Business Daily, here are the results of their surveys of women in the cannabis industry: 2015 is here and 2017 is here.
You can learn more about Jane and her new line of products at her website: www.janewest.com
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
Thanks to Safe Boating is No Accident for the use of their songs “Never Change” and “Day Planner,” which can be found on the album Bonus Features. Thanks also to Chella & the Charm for the use of their tracks “Queen City of the Plains” and “What of Dreams” from the album Denver Delay.
Leighton of Safe Boating and Chella are co-hosts of Discover Weakly, our partner show at the Denver Podcast Network.
Also heard in this episode was a selection of tracks we found on the Free Music Archive. All were used under a creative commons license.
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On this episode of Changing Denver -- the finale of season 2! -- we venture into the animal kingdom (as far into it as we can get without leaving the city, that is). This is a story about societal norms surrounding animal exhibitions, and it only begins at the Denver Zoo.
Thanks for another successful season, everyone. Your continued support means the world to us. We'll be back in a few months with new episodes, and we may have a few surprises in store before then.
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Make sure to watch one of the slick promo videos on the Wild Animal Sanctuary's site here.
Here's where you can find Marc Bekoff's new book, The Animals' Agenda.
You don't need me to give you this link to the Denver Zoo.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
Also heard in this episode were the songs "Goodbye Graveyard" by Shark Dreams;
"Riverside" and "Greyhound" by The Milk Blossoms, "Baby Seal" by Weird al Qaida, "Tweak a Bit" by Dr. Zilog, and a selection of tracks off the album Container Ship by The Kevin Costner Suicide Pact.
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On Changing Denver this month, we bring you the story of Stapleton, the would-be New Urbanist paradise, and its upsetting connection to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Recommended Reading
If you want to learn more about the business side of Stapleton, Paul has covered related subjects a couple times for Crain's Denver:
From the Block: Thriving neighborhood rises from grounded Stapleton
Stanley Marketplace readies for takeoff in Aurora
For another take on Stapleton and New Urbanism, here's a worthy article from CityLab about street design.
And here's a link to the Green Book and one to Forest City's Stapleton website.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
The other songs heard in this episode are "Storm" by Sam Glover and a selection of tracks by Kai Engel that we found on WFMU's Free Music Archive.
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On Changing Denver this month, we explore the history of Denver's Civic Center with our favorite historian, Phil Goodstein.
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You can hear DJ Deep Rawk on KGNU's hip-hop show Eclipse. It airs every Sunday night at 7 pm.
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On Changing Denver this month, we explore the convergence of two trends -- Denver's explosive economic growth and the increasing persecution of our homeless community -- in a neighborhood you may never have heard of. It's called Arapahoe Square.
This episode was produced in partnership with the Denver VOICE. For further reading on Arapahoe Square, check out their February issue.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
The other music heard in this episode includes the songs "Evil Eye" and "Versus" off Snake Rattle Rattle Snake's 2014 album "Totem," which is available on Bandcamp; a selection of tracks by Lee Rosevere that we are using under a Creative Commons license; and an original rendition of "This Land is Your Land" by Jackie Zubryzcki, with additional vocals by Laura Hartenberger. Jackie performs around town under the moniker Five Mile Woods. Her work is also available on Bandcamp.
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On Changing Denver this month, we head northwest to Lakeside Amusement Park. For more than a century, Lakeside has been a popular destination for people of all ages, but only between May and September. What happens during the park's off-season? Where do the people of Lakeside go? And who are they?
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Here's more information on David Forsyth's book, Denver's Lakeside Amusement Park: From the White City Beautiful to a Century of Fun.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
Elk Minister and Chimney Choir generously allowed us to use their music in this episode. "Into the Void of Emptiness" was the first single of Elk Minister's upcoming album, "There's a System of Control," which will be available through iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, CDBaby and other distributors, like Elk Minister’s website, bandcamp, and Soundcloud on January 13. The tracks "In this Light," "I Know the Way," and "In the Underworld" all appear on Chimney Choir's album "Boomtown". Their new album "(dream)" is available now.
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Rebecca Aronauer is a fiction writer who organizes Making the Mountain, a quarterly event series featuring local artists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.
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You can peruse crime data for Lakeside at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation's website.
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On Changing Denver this month, we bring you the story of our city's 15th mayor, Richard Sopris. From humble beginnings, he rose through the social and political ranks of early Denver and eventually helped our young city overcome some of its first major challenges. He also signed the order creating City Park, giving Denver its largest green space and securing his legacy for generations.
Our guide this month is Linda Bjorklund, the author of Richard Sopris in Early Denver: Captain, Mayor & Colorado Fifty-Niner.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
The other music you heard in this episode was performed by Randy Arent. For the past five years, he has performed at the charity 5K run through City Park on St. Patrick’s day. He is available for bookings through his website Denverbagpiper.com.
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Welcome to SEASON 2 of Changing Denver!
On this premier episode, we pose a simple question: what gets to be art on the Cherry Creek Trail? Our search for an answer takes us into the archives of defunct Instagram accounts, the shadows of mixed-use developments, and up and down the Cherry Creek Trail more times than we can count.
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Adam Lichty's Denver Street Heart project is still online at Instagram.
Here's a link to the Westword article about him that we mention in the episode.
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You can listen to (and purchase) Olivia Blu's album The Rebirth Bug on her Bandcamp page, and you can find out about her upcoming live performances on Facebook.
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Our theme song is "Minnow" by Felix Fast4ward.
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On this episode of Changing Denver – the finale of season 1! – we figure out the connection between Denver’s old Chinatown and a new Chinese restaurant in River North. It turns out they have more in common than the name Hop Alley.
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We are taking a couple months off after this episode to give some ongoing projects the time they deserve. All complaints about this will be interpreted as expressions of grief, so bring 'em on! You can also tell us how you feel in a review on iTunes. Just make sure all profanity-laced tirades are preceded by five gold stars.
Thanks to everyone who made this first season happen. All the support and love has been so important.
See you in season 2!
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You can learn more about William Wei’s new book, Asians in Colorado: A History of Persecution and Perseverance in the Centennial State, here.
CU Denver professor of History Tom Noel’s home page, including a full list of his Colorado-related publications, can be found here.
You can read Jarod Ballentine’s review of Hop Alley here (he gave it a 7.5 out of 10), and find more of his reviews at The Infatuation.
If you are as curious about Hop Alley’s food as we are, you can make a reservation here.
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Our theme song is “Minnow” by FelixFast4ward. You can find more of his music on Soundcloud.
Local bluegrass band Meadow Mountain provided two songs for this episode, “Homestead” and “Central,” which both appear on their new Homestead EP. You can hear them perform every Tuesday night at Cerebral Brewing. It’s called Bluegrass Tuesdays, and it seems like fun. Their website is http://meadowmountain.wix.com/meadowmountainmusic.
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On Changing Denver this month, we have the story of Hungarian Freedom Park. What is the connection between Hungary, landscape architecture, and our Queen City of the Plains? More generally, how does a people forge a lasting connection to a place? You can hear the answers to these questions and much more in this, our most ambitious and personal episode to date.
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Materials Referenced in this Episode:
Here are some links to S.R. DeBoer’s plans for Alamo Placita Park (1927) and what became Hungarian Freedom Park (1925)
Here is a copy of the Hungarian Club of Colorado’s founding charter from 1963.
Here is a copy of the ordnance that officially changed the park’s name.
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Extras:
This is the Denver Parks and Recreation Dept.’s current policy on naming and renaming parks.
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Music:
Our theme song is “Minnow” by Felix Fast4ward. You can find more of his music on Soundcloud.
The song we played under the end credits is “Hatcher Creek” by Strawberry Runners. You can find more about them on their website or Facebook. They are headlining a show at the Larimer Lounge on 1 April, and you may see some of the Changing Denver team there, if you’d like to say hi or talk to us about Hungarian Freedom Park.
We found the other music for this episode on WFMU’s Free Music Archive. The tracks were “Gagool” and “Trio for Piano Violin and Viola” by Kevin MacLeod, and “Peace Within” and “Snowing” by Peter Rudenko.
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