http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest blog posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5What's in a name? Are 'Puffers' an extremely rare species of bird under protection by Colorado Department of Wildlife, a slang term for those groups of lonely and desperate people who stand outside of office buildings in a cloud of smoke, devious gang members selling a totally new kind of recrea...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~422074.aspx1/30/2008 2:30:36 PMdavid drew The first weeks of a new year should be optimistic and flavored with the anticipation of fresh vigor, yet for me it has not only been a struggle to reorient my life but also an unexpected vision of past historical events affecting the present. Before the year arrived I was forced to vacate my po...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~421656.aspx1/29/2008 10:19:35 PMdavid drew "Nothing is real and nothing to get hungaaaa-bout... ...Strawberry fields foreveeeeer... John Lennon , 1966 The amuse-bouche; it was another one of those days when my mind was on automatic-melodic and the mournful John Lennon was in my head with a fruity song as I deposited myself in a furr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~420524.aspx1/27/2008 4:25:14 PMdavid drew Life is like a pack of cards; much of the time we have to play with the hand we are dealt and make do. Life is like the inheritance that my grandmother Fletcher left me, it could have been a million dollars or a few pennies but in fact it was about $200 and that was that. I'm not grumbling about ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~418452.aspx1/23/2008 9:48:19 AMdavid drew Woody Allen was on my mind. A huge gaping hole emerged on our MLK day that desperately needed filling with a fruitful leisure activity. Being a life-long admirer of the acerbic and witty director we set off in search of Cassandra's Dream (his latest production with Ewan McGregor ), but ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Film/Blog~418389.aspx1/22/2008 11:14:28 PMdavid drew Coyote Poets of the Universe (or CPU) are a Denver based 'jammin' band with world influences; they know no boundaries and work under the motto Unity in Diversity. Originally formed by Gary Hoover, Coyote Bill and Andy O'Leary their eclectic and inventive visionary style has made them favorit...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Music/Blog~415617.aspx1/15/2008 10:29:24 PMdavid drew "The eagle soars into turquoise and indigo, catching gold on white tipped feathers in cadence of wind and stillness, singing and swooping with currents and storms alone, the far seer, sky dancer..." - Josie Tamarin. I can hear the slow steady rhythm of a drummer, it evokes the sound of my m...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Recreational/Blog~411413.aspx1/5/2008 1:57:34 PMdavid drew "You do not die because you are created or because you have a body, you die because you are the face of the future..." - Ali Ahmad Said. Diary of the Siege of Beirut 1982. Saturday. I open the Rocky Mountain News and see the face of Major Andrew Olmsted on the front page. He was killed i...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~411391.aspx1/5/2008 12:36:05 PMdavid drew I must admit my ignorance of all things Peruvian; although I am aware of the Mid-Summer Solstice festival at Machhu Pichu called 'Inti Raimi,' and the ever growing interest in Andean shamanism. I also once had a sous-chef from Lima called Victor, a terrible cook with a bad attitude and a sever i...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~410468.aspx1/2/2008 9:23:28 PMdavid drew As an Englishman in America, I'm not so sure where Nebraska is, and the only 'Omaha' that I know of is the name given to the beach in Normandy where, in June 1944, thousands of honorable American soldiers began their assault on the despicable Nazi German third Reich. Yet only last week my at...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~402428.aspx12/10/2007 11:19:49 AMdavid drew One morning in a very ordinary life ... I awoke with a terrible hangover from a party last night, the familiar case of Chardonnay over-indulgence. Yet I seemed to recall a familiar journalist talking of lay-offs in the local press, misdirected editorials, the sudden rise in importance of blogger...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~402287.aspx12/9/2007 10:13:36 PMdavid drew The two years (and some) that I have been working at Colorado State Veterans Home in Fitzsimmons has been amazing; though I might only be the chef that cooks the food it has always meant more to me. The veterans at Fitzsimmons can all tell a riveting story because they were all part of history an...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Promotions/Blog~393421.aspx11/17/2007 2:11:52 PMdavid drew Much like an passionate artist Glenn Morris of the American Indian Movement poured out a bucket of red liquid containing the dismembered parts of broken dolls, in a highly charged and symbolic act of angry protest. Such a dramatic action awarded him arrest by the Denver police in the Columbus Da...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Blog~374176.aspx10/8/2007 3:00:32 PMdavid drew "If you cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least warriors... Careless, mocking, forceful - so does wisdom wish us: she is a woman, and never loves any one but a warrior. - 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' by Frederick Nietzsche. You are invited to carefully peruse and gaze into...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Film/Blog~373627.aspx10/7/2007 3:18:33 PMdavid drew "School is good to learn a lot of the classics, To a point, it gave me a good understanding of how things are done and why." - Bryan Moscatello, missing Chef. I awoke suddenly at 3.00am in a feverish sweat, sat bolt upright and heard a scrambled irritating sound in my ear; a witchy voice sa...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~373496.aspx10/6/2007 4:15:22 PMdavid drew A friend once told me that the best tribal music he had ever heard was in a hijacked London warehouse, converted into a 'rave-club' for the night, listening to aimless thumping rhythms until 5.am; he was still clearly suffering from the after-affects of an excessive consumption of acid pills com...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Music/Blog~372645.aspx10/4/2007 4:50:07 PMdavid drew I found the Buddha staring at me while shopping at Target. An almost unbelievable epiphany, striking me like a thunderbolt amidst the clutter of gluttonous consumerism. Now the venerable saint sits on my temporary altar/bookshelf at home, gazing in resinous exaltation at my humble attempts to ac...http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~370071.aspx9/30/2007 2:25:02 PMdavid drew I found the Buddha staring at me while shopping at Target. An almost unbelievable epiphany, striking me like a thunderbolt amidst the clutter of gluttonous consumerism. Now the venerable saint sits on my temporary altar/bookshelf at home, gazing in resinous exaltation at my humble attempts to ac...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~370060.aspx9/30/2007 1:30:10 PMdavid drew Communism has triumphed! Or at least the Chinese version of it, in a rudimentary mass-produced sort of fashion. There is a vicious rumor that if you were to examine the small print on the back of a dollar bill with a magnifying glass, you might see in tiny letters: "MADE IN HONG KONG.' Recently ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Local-Business/Blog~349968.aspx8/19/2007 12:42:41 PMdavid drew "'Sco-aoise mise do'n daraig, Bha nafhallain ann sa choinnicli, 'S ioma linn a chuir ini romham, 'S gur mi comhachag bhochd na sroine." (Ancient-ness upon me is that of the oak . . . whose mossy roots spread wide: many a race have I seen come and go: and still I am the lonely Owl...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Outdoors/Blog~349628.aspx8/18/2007 12:28:51 PMdavid drew In the movie 'Bend it like Beckham' the heroine battles against all social odds to achieve her dream of becoming a professional soccer player. This inspiring story truly evokes the power of sports-people as cultural icons capable of manifesting their athletic power in mystical form within th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Recreational/Blog~349337.aspx8/17/2007 2:38:52 PMdavid drew On a recent and enjoyable trip to Salida Colorado the inevitable question of sustenance reared its hungry head. Often on a journey the choices of where and how to dine are either multifarious and confusing or threadbare and debilitating. Here we were directed to a small restaurant of noble reput...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Food-and-Drink/Blog~349269.aspx8/17/2007 1:03:16 PMdavid drew My three daughters (aged 4, 7 and 9) possess the sort of demanding and delicate taste buds that would put a renowned chef like Gordon Ramsey to shame. The sort of young ladies that put the fire and frustration into 'Hell's Kitchen.' There was a time when I would assess the worth of a restaurant ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Restaurants/Blog~343778.aspx8/5/2007 11:14:18 AMdavid drew "There is really no such thing as art. There are only artists... men and women, favored with the wonderful gift of balancing shapes and colors..." - Ernst Gombrich. For most people modern art is represented by the alcoholic dribbling of Jackson Pollock. For others it was the 'cow parade' ext...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Art/Blog~343706.aspx8/4/2007 4:31:16 PMdavid drew " New York is not, on the whole, the best place to enjoy the downright miraculous nature of the planet" - Loren Eiseley 'The Immense Journey.' Nature had for me been a mysterious myth. Like a divine feminine spirit, carefully described in ancient tomes, a secret whisper. I am the product...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Outdoors/Blog~339625.aspx7/26/2007 11:39:08 AMdavid drew "Non ignara mali , miseris succurrere disco"...(No stranger to misfortunes myself, I have learned to relieve the suffering of others). - Virgil. Slogan seen on a police-recovery workers t-shirt. On September 11 2001, I was in London, working as the Head chef in the Deep Blue café in...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~337856.aspx7/22/2007 4:37:23 PMdavid drew "The world is full of glorious light and magestic mystery, yet many decide to block it all out with their hands." I came to Colorado as an emigrant. Four years ago I arrived here with my wife, 3 daughters and memories of a past life. I was born in Northumberland, North-East Britain (near th...http://denver.yourhub.com/Aurora/Blogs/Archive/Blog~334706.aspx7/14/2007 9:33:00 PMdavid drew