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Artist Karl Christian Krumpholz speaks with a reporter at a Capitol Hill coffeeshop, March 20, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

A Denver tale of homelessness and hope, told in comics

Capitol Hill artist Karl Christian Krumpholz's “Nothing but Suitcases” will be unveiled today as part of a citywide multimedia storytelling project.

Artist's rendering of Mission Ballroom at the North Wynkoop Development. (Works Progress Architecture)

Mission Ballroom, Denver’s fancy new North Wynkoop venue from AEG, will open Aug. 7

AEG is also taking a shot at making buying tickets less demoralizing.

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A display of newspaper clippings and flyers from Denver's Chicano movement, arranged by Emanuel Martinez and on display in his Morrison studio, March 15, 2019. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

50 years since the Denver West High Blowouts, the school and the Chicano movement have come a long way

“It was like a wildfire that just started to consume, travel across the states saying, ‘We have a right to stand up, we have a right to live a life that we have justice and equality and it’s not going to happen because someone feels sorry for us.’ It’s going to happen when we stand up, when we say ‘¡Ya basta! No more. We’re not doing this anymore.’”