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Kitty's South: Has classic theater turned shuttered stroke palace run out of lives?

Yesterday on our Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies said goodbye to Kitty's East, an East Colfax landmark that was shuttered in recent days after being declared a public nuisance; in addition to offering up orgasm helpers, it seems the joint served as the setting for crack-cocaine dealing. The closure ... More >>

Photos: First Friday on Santa Fe Drive brings out Denver's artsy side

First Friday in March was filled with pictures as Month of Photography 2013 kicked off at museums and galleries all over town, but the night was also all about food trucks and hip-hop dancers, street musicians, Anthony Camera's junkie photo booth and folks strolling in the streets. Our photographer ... More >>

Hip-hop 101: Preview the poetry of Jalon Martin, Adam Bradley's Montbello rap student

This week's cover story, "Hip-hop 101," describes a new venture by CU-Boulder English Professor and Anthology of Rap co-editor Adam Bradley: A "Hip-Hop in the Classroom" program based at Montbello High School, the far northeast Denver school in the midst of a drastic turnaround plan. The story focus ... More >>

Fetuses-aren't-people lawsuit: Bishops to review Catholic hospital's argument

Colorado's Catholic bishops say they will "undertake a full review" of a lawsuit in which Catholic Health Initiatives, an Englewood-based operator of 78 Catholic hospitals in seventeen states, has argued that it can't be held liable for the deaths of two unborn babies because fetuses are not people. ... More >>

Homelessness: Report recommends partial redesign of Denver's emergency shelter system

In "Bed Check," this week's feature, we take a close look at the challenges homeless women face when trying to find safe places to sleep in Denver. Incidentally, Denver's Road Home, the agency that oversees homeless issues, has just released an assessment of the city's shelter programs -- a report w ... More >>

Homeless women in Denver: Struggles of an undocumented immigrant seeking shelter

In September, Erica Guzman, twenty, and Stefanie Cardwell, 23, spent nights sleeping in their car. The two women, who have been dating for four years, say they had nowhere else to go. The search for shelter is especially difficult for Guzman, an undocumented Canadian immigrant. We spoke to the coupl ... More >>

Photos: Chanda Hinton Leichtle is out to change how Medicaid treats spinal cord injuries

The fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally shot nine-year-old Chanda Hinton Leichtle in 1991 thought the rifle was unloaded. It wasn't, and the bullet severed her spinal cord and left her paralyzed below the chest. This week's feature, "Body Movin'," tells how Hinton Leichtle became an advocate for ... More >>

Boulder judge rejects restraining order against city's most annoying critic

Update: Today, Judge David Archuleta rejected Boulder's request for a permanent restraining order against Seth Brigham, a vocal critic whom a workplace-violence expert deemed dangerous without having met him and sans any actual attacks or explicit threats; see our previous coverage below. Brigham is ... More >>

Boulder's defense of restraining order against annoying critic a joke, says David Lane

In May, Boulder officials filed a restraining order against Seth Brigham, the city's most annoying critic, arguing that he was a threat. Brigham, who won a hefty judgement against Boulder two years ago (more on that below), responded by contacting attorney David Lane and taking the city to court. Ye ... More >>

Your 2012 Westword Music Showcase winners, party with us Thursday at the Bluebird

See Also: - Photos: Locals only! 2012 Westword Music Showcase - Set recaps by Westword music writers - Photos: The people of Westword Music Showcase The votes have been been tallied for the 2012 Westword Music Showcase ballot, and we're doing things a little bit differently this year. Rather than ... More >>

Seth Brigham, Boulder critic, rejects city's offer over restraining order

The legal battle arising from a restraining order filed by the City of Boulder against Seth Brigham, its most annoying critic. has gotten more complex. According to attorney David Lane, Brigham has rejected a settlement offer from Boulder, whose reps are expected to participate in a conference call ... More >>

Boulder files restraining order against its most annoying critic

Update below: Boulder has filed a temporary restraining order against Seth Brigham, a local known for irritating officials in public places -- once by stripping to his boxers at a city council meeting (more on that below). A city spokeswoman cites an expert on workplace violence who sees Brigham as ... More >>

Vertigo's show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, transfers street art to the gallery

The name for Vertigo's new show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, seems like a commentary on the stratification of rural culture, but it's not. "The designer who put together the card advertisement put the photo of the cowboy on the left, and she thought that was the perfect name for the show," says featu ... More >>

Denver's ten best new restaurants

At the end of last year, we published our list of the ten best restaurants that had opened in 2011 -- as we saw them at the time. Over the next few months, though, as we prepared for the Best of Denver 2012, we had a chance to really digest what the 300 new restaurants had brought to the city, and o ... More >>

Life Skills Center, last-chance school, to close due to state board vote

Life Skills Center lost its appeal yesterday before the State Board of Education, which sided with Denver Public Schools' decision to close the school. The last-chance high, which Westword profiled in 2007, will shut its doors after eight years of educating all who showed up on its doorstep, no matt ... More >>

Police brutality: Denver provides eight years of complaints in James Moore case

When I spoke to attorney David Lane about the Adams County's $20,000 payout to prisoner Mario Ybarra, who was thumped by deputies after he gave them grief over a troublesome fingerprint device, I asked about his demand for every document related to excessive force complaints against Denver cops and ... More >>

Alex Landau and the Colorado Progressive Coalition promote racial profiling hotline

​Three years ago on Sunday, police officers pulled over Alex Landau,then nineteen, for taking an illegal left turn onto Emerson. They then beat him bloody. Although Landau received one of the city's largest police brutality settlements in May -- $795,000 -- his story remains a chilling example ... More >>

Photos: Cafe|Bar, the focus of this week's review

This week's review took me to the area just north of West Washington Park, where Dale Huguley created Cafe|Bar in the former home of Pho Pasta. With the help of chef Eric Rivera, he married European cafe culture to sustainable sourcing and excellent design. The result is a versatile neighborhood res ... More >>

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Colorado Snowboard History Museum: The Westword exhibit

​This week's cover story on the new Colorado Snowboard Archive collection at the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum, and the history of the effort by snowboarders to get respect alongside skiing, sent us digging through our online archives dating back fifteen years as we covered the subject from ... More >>

Five First Friday photography fetes

Norman Broomhall​ Tonight's First Friday? It's off the clock. Galleries all over town are spilling over with shows worth celebrating in Denver Arts Week style. But it also marks what might be the best collection of photography shows and events to come out at once since last March's Month of Ph ... More >>

8 Rivers will dry up in LoDo this weekend

Anthony CameraScott Durrah and one of his favorite ingredients.​At the end of service on Saturday, October 29, 8 Rivers Modern Caribbean Restaurant will close the doors for good at 1550 Blake Street, its third location -- but not its last. After opening their first restaurant, the Jamaican C ... More >>

Elitch Theatre's Bilingual Barrio Shakespeare: It's not your mom and pop Shakespeare!

​Jose Mercado has been a man with a mission when it comes to turning inner-city kids into accomplished thespians for years now, and his ardor for what seems an impossible task never seems to diminish. It's just that he's so good at it. Mercado came from his own barrio roots; his own love of cu ... More >>

What is an X-Treme Pancake Breakfast without Earl Grey butter, Kimchi and Lil Smokies?

Anthony Camera​Culture collector Andrew Novick has been throwing his annual summer "BreakfastBQ" -- an outdoor barbeque-style pancake party -- for his friends in Denver for over a decade now. But this year, he's going big. Coined the "Andrew Novick's X-treme Pancake Breakfast!" by Denver Count ... More >>

Tonight: Dana Cain and Anthony Camera talk collecting photography

Courtesy of Anthony Camera​For anyone who missed the opening salvo of Denver's Month of Photography on First Friday, there's yet time (a lot of time, actually) to check out the more than one hundred venues dedicated this month to showcasing one of the more underappreciated fine arts, and tonig ... More >>

Girls Gone Wild

The year in features: a handy link guide to all local interviews/profiles in Westword in 2010

Jim J NarcySnake Rattle Rattle Snake, profiled in June 2010​Whatever the measure of success -- whether its defined by artists making music on their own or having someone else doing their bidding -- a music scene is only as interesting as, well, the music being made there, of course, and the pe ... More >>

Denver Public Schools' get-along retreat for board members: "People think we're nuts"

Anthony CameraAndrea Merida.​ Last month, the DPS school board held a day-long retreat at the district's Balarat Outdoor Education Center. The seven-member board is divided on many issues, with four members in the majority and three -- including Andrea Merida, the subject of this week's featur ... More >>

Andrea Merida: Behind the scenes with Denver Public Schools' controversial board member

Anthony CameraAndrea Merida.​Our latest feature story, "Andrea Merida's Classroom Behavior Has Earned Her a Seat Apart on the Denver School Board," profiles Merida, the controversial DPS board member who, in ten months on the board, has butted heads with administrators, stood up for teachers w ... More >>

Andrea Merida, rule breaker: Profile of Denver Public Schools' controversial board member

Anthony CameraAndrea Merida.​ Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida has shaken things up at DPS. In ten months, she's butted heads with administrators, stood up for teachers when no one else would, and survived two recall attempts. Some think she's too abrasive and divisive, and aft ... More >>

Prayer One: Behind the scenes with Jeff Puckett and Denver's holiest helicopter

Jeff Puckett, pilot.​ Our latest Westword feature article, "A Wing and a Prayer: Jeff Puckett's Helicopter Gets Denver Closer to God," tells the story of Prayer One, a helicopter ministry started by local businessman Jeff Puckett and his friends five years ago. Now, in this blog post, we bring ... More >>

Warlock Pinchers: An extensive oral history straight from the jokers' mouth

​Few bands in the annals of underground music in Denver have garnered as much notoriety as Warlock Pinchers. Beginning in 1987, the Pinchers made a name for themselves early on as a charmingly obnoxious outfit of musical pranksters whose legacy of creative mischief is as memorable as its shows ... More >>

Holly Square, up from the ashes: More memories of trials & triumphs in Park Hill

Anthony CameraTerrance Roberts.​In this week's feature, "Crips Burned Down the Holly in Bloods Territory, But Can Peace Emerge from the Ashes in Northeast Park Hill?," we recount the story of the Holly Square shopping center, burned to the ground in a 2008 gang attack and now poised for rehabi ... More >>

Feral cat problem: An update about fixing it

Photo by Anthony CameraKristen Des Marais, on the prowl. ​The last time I saw Kristen Des Marais, she was trying to track dozens of feral cats that had set up a fast-breeding colony in the crawl spaces under a Denver apartment complex. Des Marais and volunteer Carol Tudor were trapping the cat ... More >>

Lacrosse world championship coming to Denver in 2014

Photo by Anthony CameraLacrossers Joanne and Jaden Franklin.​As Joel Warner reports in this week's cover story, Denver has become a lacrosse hotbed for reasons ranging from the growing reputation of DU's squad, coached by six-time national champ Bill Tierney, to the rise of City Lax, the city' ... More >>

Marijuana legalization in Nederland: Q&A with "Michigan" Mike Torpie, the man behind the initiative

Photo by Anthony Camera"Michigan" Mike Torpie circa 2004, when marijuana legalization was only a dream.​Yesterday, we told you about Nederland's passage of a marijuana decriminalization initiative -- making it the third city in Colorado (after Denver and Breckenridge) to take this step. The e ... More >>

Colorado Public Radio: Max Wycisk is positive even though ratings outlook for bonds is negative

Photo by Anthony CameraMax Wycisk sees CPR's financial outlook improving.​Like many nonprofits, Colorado Public Radio has suffered financial bumps and bruises in recent years. Back in 2008, Standard & Poor's lowered the rating on CPR's 2002 series bonds -- the ones used to fund its two-channe ... More >>

Dino Costa: Sorry, haters, but he's kicking ass in New York -- and leaving Denver behind

Photo by Anthony CameraDino Costa loves you, Denver. Why didn't enough of you love him back?​Dino Costa may have been the most divisive sports-media personality in Denver over the past several years. As we documented in a 2006 profile, he loves to stir things up, be it with his argument-genera ... More >>

Colorado Media Matters' Bill Menezes lands on his feet

Photo by Anthony CameraBill Menezes.​The demise of Colorado Media Matters in March silenced a progressive organization that tirelessly attacked what it described as conservative misinformation in the media. But there's life after left-leaning advocacy for CMM frontman Bill Menezes. The former ... More >>

Colorado Public Radio announces pay cuts, salary freeze despite successful fund drive

Photo by Anthony CameraMax Wycisk, in a 2002 photo. Colorado Public Radio met its $1.6 million goal at the (blessed) end of its recent Drive to Thrive campaign. But that doesn't mean the organization is done with cutbacks. The network has just issued a press release announcing 3 percent pay reducti ... More >>