• Vail has cancelled the residency of Native American artist Danielle SeeWalker because one of her unrelated paintings, “G is for Genocide,” commented on the war in Gaza.
• Two young Black girls spoke during the public comment session of a Denver City Council meeting to ask for financial support for their elementary school, but they were quickly cut off by an anonymous voice on the Zoom livestream who shouted “go back to f–king Africa,” followed by a series of even worse racial slurs.
• Online dating app Bumble has removed ads that featured the tagline “A vow of celibacy is not the answer” after a backlash from users.
• It was quite a week in the sports world:
  • Novak Djokovic, the world’s No. 1 ranked tennis player, was hit in the head by a metal water bottle that slipped out of the backpack of a fan leaning over the stands seeking an autograph. Djokovic jokingly wore a bicycle helmet when he returned to the stadium.
  • Meanwhile, Scottie Scheffler, the world’s No. 1 ranked golfer, was arrested outside the PGA Championship golf tournament after trying to drive through a police barricade in an effort to make his tee time.
  • Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin has been suspended six months and re-entered the NHL‘s Player Assistance Program. It is the second year in a row that Nichushkin has left the team in the middle of the playoffs due to personal issues.
  • Being a Denver Nuggets fan is a roller coaster ride right now. The team lost its first two games in its playoff series with the Minnesota Timberwolves and looked like they were finished. Then the Nuggets won three straight games and looked unbeatable. And last night they were blown out again, forcing a winner-take-all seventh game Sunday to determine who goes to the Western Conference finals.
  • Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker gave a commencement speech that went viral for all the wrong reasons. Even the NFL issued a statement distancing itself from his comments that Pride Month is a “deadly sin” and that women would be more fulfilled at home raising children than in the workplace.
  • The NFL released its 2024 schedule, and The Denver Post expects the Denver Broncos to win only six or seven of their 17 games.
  • If you want to watch Christmas Day NFL games this year, you’ll need to sign up for Netflix.
• Denver civil rights attorney Mari Newman acted unethically and must reduce the fee she is trying to collect from Elijah McClain’s family by more than $2 million, a Colorado appeals court ruled.
• Climatologists are predicting a potentially record-breaking hurricane season this year due to record high temperatures in the North Atlantic waters.
• Actors Sharon Stone and Liam Neeson are publicly supporting their colleague Kevin Spacey as he attempts to return to acting following numerous accusations of sexual misconduct. Stone and Neeson may want to ask Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis what the downsides of publicly supporting an alleged sexual predator are.
• 1,500 applicants to Georgia State University mistakenly received acceptance emails.
• Astronomers say infrared heat signatures from about 60 stars obtained from newly developed detection technologies could point to signs of advanced alien civilizations. You can stream “Independence Day” to see how that turns out.
• Looking for a silver lining to the whole “aliens are going to destroy earth” thing? It could be that the scientists are wrong. It turns out that a wave of retracted articles in academic journals is roiling the scientific community.
• A presumably white Superior Court judge In Indiana ruled that tacos and burritos are “Mexican-style sandwiches.”
• 9News mountain reporter Matt Renoux is recovering from surgery for thyroid cancer.
• Former Denver Post police reporter Marilyn Robinson passed away.

Who won the week?

• Former Denver Post reporter Sara Hindi has been named senior communications manager at the Colorado Trust.
• I’m not sure what got into the woeful Colorado Rockies, but the team that had won only eight games all season suddenly went on a seven-game winning streak. They are now 15-28 and in last place in the NL West.
• The Colorado Springs Independent has officially relaunched.
• Women now lead 45.8% of global offices of the world’s biggest PR firms, according to a survey by PR Week. That is a 3.6% increase over the prior year.
• The 150-year-old Colorado School for the Deaf has hired its first deaf superintendent.
• Skateboarders at the Denver Skate Park downtown were surprised to see the legendary Tony Hawk drop in. He apparently was in town for his son’s graduation from the University of Colorado Boulder, and he spent a couple of hours signing autographs and giving tips to young skateboarders.
• The Dow Jones Industrial Average topped 40,000 for the first time.