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May 17, 2012
Ken Salazar wants more drilling, but industry won't oblige?
See, it's like this. Far from being the obstructionist tree-hugger his critics accuse him of being, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar really, really wants to drill, baby, drill, for oil and gas on federal lands and offshore. He wants to drill the hell out of the place. But the energy companies a ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2012
Reader: Denver Post changes are like Exxon watering down gas
Our item sharing a memo from editor Greg Moore about impending cuts in the Denver Post copy-editing department, which sources tell us could result in two-thirds of the staff being laid off, prompted plenty of discussion about the state of journalism today. Here's a comment from a reader who thinks s ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2012
Pierced Arrows at Hi-Dive, 4/21/12
PIERCED ARROWS @ HI-DIVE | 4/21/12As the last notes of "The Wait" ended, they blended into the Toody Cole's familiar bass pulse that introduced Pierced Arrows' epic, and much beloved, "Paranoia." Fred Cole tapped the Bigsby on his Guild Polara to modulate the feedback before heading into one of the ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2012
Big Oil making big profits on declining production
It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That's a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produc ... More >>
News
January 19, 2012
Drilled, Baby, Drilled: The strange battle to keep Big Oil from cheating
It's official: 2011 was a record-busting year in the oil industry, with the five largest companies -- BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and Royal Dutch Shell -- reporting all-time-high profits of $137 billion. That's a 75 percent jump from the year before, even though the giants produc ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Restaurant Roll Call for 2011
Close to 300 new restaurants opened in the metro area last year -- and with that much action, perhaps it's not surprising that two of them are named Cebiche, and two of them are named Chinook. But the local dining scene also lost a surprising number of mainstays: the 29-year-old Pearl Street Grill, ... More >>
Blogs
December 20, 2011
Encana blasts EPA report linking fracking to Wyoming water pollution
Encana WY drill rig. In a telephone conference with journalists this morning, officials of the Canadian energy giant Encana sharply disputed an EPA draft report that linked the company's gas drilling operations in Wyoming to contamination of residents' drinking water, calling the report badly ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
"Don't rock out with ur shox out" and three other signs you'll see driving in Denver
Among all of this negativity generated by bad drivers, confusing intersections, construction and the monotony of seeing the same buildings every day, there are some humorous bright spots Denver drivers can look forward to, courtesy of a few local businesses signs. This one was posted on the Circle ... More >>
Blogs
September 21, 2011
Tom Strickland exits Interior, chased by big bucks
Tom Strickland.The news that "lobbyist lawyer" Tom Strickland, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar's chief of staff for a hectic two years, is now taking a job with British Petroleum's law firm in its battles with his former boss over the Deepwater Horizon mess made a big splash in the Denver Post ... More >>
Blogs
June 22, 2011
Ken Salazar's salary at center of David Vitter ethics complaint, CREW tells Keith Olbermann
Ken Salazar.During last night's sophomore edition of Countdown on Current TV, Keith Olbermann featured an extended segment about Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filing an ethics complaint against Louisiana Senator David Vitter. But the man in the middle of the cont ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2011
Ask the bartender: Meet Rory Donovan of Peach Street Distillers
Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders Guild-certified Spirits Professional and a BAR Ready graduate of the prestigious Beverage Alcohol Resource ... More >>
Blogs
June 13, 2011
Oil-shale plans could be derailed by ruling on Graham's penstemon, an endangered plant
Susan MeyerWilliam Blake saw heaven in a wildflower. The energy industry sees nothing but trouble. Last week, a federal judge in Denver ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's decision not to declare an obscure plant as endangered was "arbitrary and capricious" -- a ruling that could ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2011
Harrold Wright: The unsung whistleblower behind a big settlement with Big Oil
John JohnstonBobby MaxwellThe Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue recently announced that Shell Oil and related companies have agreed to pay the goverment $2.2 million to resolve claims that the companies underpaid royalties from natural gas wells on federal and I ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2011
4/20: A day that will really live in infamy
Deepwater Horizon.Does any other day carry as heavy a load as April 20? The day's fate was sealed in 1889, when Adolf Hitler was born in a small village in Austria. In the early '70s, April 20 also became an underground stoner holiday, now so aboveground that it's celebrated across the countr ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
Restaurant roll call for February
Lori MidsonMark Dym opened his second Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria in February.February saw a handful of high-profile openings, including a second Marco's Coal-Fired Pizzeria in the upscale Vallagio project. But Denver also lost a couple of longtime restaurants, including the Rocky Mountain Di ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2011
La Choza serves up tacos, tortas and breakfast burritos from a gas station in Boulder
Lori MidsonIn the past two weeks, our culinary escapades have taken us to two gas stations: first, to Pho Bowl, which recently opened in a Conoco in Denver. Then, this past weekend, we checked out La Choza, a taco trailer that's practically attached to a Sinclair on the Diagonal Highway in Bo ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2011
Get gassed: Pho Bowl opens...inside a Conoco station!
Loir MidsonGas up on pho inside a South Broadway Conoco stationWhile Denver lays claim to dozens of pho joints, Pho Bowl is the first to reside in a Conoco station. Yes, that's correct: Inside the Conoco station at 3298 South Broadway, there sits a tiny cafeteria-like parlor of pho, just adj ... More >>
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Gas-drilling oversight bill killed by the House: What's the fracking point?
Gas well pads.A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2011
BP oil-spill report identifies a failure of management -- and regulators
A chronic whine from oil and gas interests has to do with the glacial, foot-dragging pace of government. But a presidential commission report on the British Petroleum offshore well explosion that killed eleven people blasts the now-extinct Minerals Management Service for moving too quickly to ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Jarrett Berlin unarmed when SWAT team shot him, cohort Tara Salazar says he was massacred
Large pics below.Update: On Friday, the Lakewood Police Department confirmed that Jarrett Berlin, shot and killed by a SWAT team after a standoff at the Bentley Apartments, was unarmed at the time of his death. Now, Tara Salazar, the woman who was allegedly in the car he used to get away from ... More >>
Blogs
November 5, 2010
Social studies: Education officials debate adding it to state tests, as Americans get dumber
Recognize this fella? Do you know from which country the U.S. of A. declared its independence in 1776? If so, consider yourself among the 74 percent of Americans who do. If not, consider yourself dumber than a first grader, which is when everyone learns about George Washington and how he comm ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2010
Ken Salazar: Democrats holding Senate might've been easier if he hadn't taken Obama's job offer
Ken Salazar.Tired of the endless Ken Buck/Michael Bennet attack ads that have made it unsafe to turn on your television for the past month? Blame Barack Obama, who pulled Ken Salazar from his spot in the U.S. Senate and put him in the cabinet as the Secretary of the Interior. How's that worki ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Rocky Mountain Arsenal's transition from Superfund site to wildlife refuge is complete
Fifteen years after Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the Army is getting ready to hand over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ... More >>
Culture
July 15, 2010
Three important Biennial art exhibits bring the Western world to Denver
Fifteen years after Shell Oil Company and the U.S. Army began a massive, $2.1 billion cleanup at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, one of the most contaminated Superfund sites in the United States, the Army is getting ready to hand over the last of its cleaned parcels to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv ... More >>
Blogs
July 9, 2010
Wild horse "truce" stampeded by latest roundup
Photo by Elyse GardnerA few weeks ago, after an unusual public workshop in downtown Denver that allowed wild-horse advocates to air their concerns about alleged government mismanagement of dwindling herds, activists were feeling so encouraged that they called off a planned protest of the even ... More >>
News
July 8, 2010
The solution for cleaning up the Gulf is out of this world
Photo by Elyse GardnerA few weeks ago, after an unusual public workshop in downtown Denver that allowed wild-horse advocates to air their concerns about alleged government mismanagement of dwindling herds, activists were feeling so encouraged that they called off a planned protest of the even ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2010
Hip-hop hearsay: Xperiment joins Humble Beast, new track from SP Double, F.O.E. and Whygee's Dispensary Music, DJEarAttent's new mixtape and more
Xperiment Colorado hip-hop is serious right now, and there's a bunch of cats making moves. Hot on the heels of his runner-up finish to back-to-back winner Boonie Mayfield in the recent Red Bull Big Tune battle, Xperiment is the latest addition to the Humble Beast roster. Based in Portland, O ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
Tonight: Drink beer to help the Gulf Coast Spill Relief Fund
A Flickr photo. So that oil spill in the Gulf -- bummer, right? And it's still spewing, and apparently doesn't intent to stop anytime soon. We might be landlocked here in this state, but that doesn't mean no one here cares about the BP disaster; to prove it, Bull & Bush Pub & Brewery, 4700 Ch ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2010
British Petroleum fined by feds in Colorado case -- three years later
Tony Hayward.Under fire for its lax supervision of British Petroleum and other offshore drillers, the embattled federal agency formerly known as the Minerals Management Service has fined BP $5.2 million for filing "false, inaccurate, or misleading" reports about its energy production in Color ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
Xcel milks bill to bilk customers, fill coffers
aflcio / flickr The best of today's Denver blogs Is Xcel using green sentiment to justify hiking its rates for "dirty" power? Face the State makes the case that the legislature is writing the power utility a "giant blank check." 5280 congratulates Colorado schools for getting 29 schools on ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
Gary Faulkner displays Colorado's can-do spirit
And here we thought Ryan Snodgrass and Justin Lariscy, the rafting guides who rescued a thirteen-year-old girl from Clear Creek and got arrested as thanks, were take-charge guys. Now comes news of Gary Faulkner, the Greeley man who made it his mission to kill Osama Bin Laden -- and was pack ... More >>
Blogs
June 16, 2010
Ken Salazar getting tough with BP: Too little too late?
New MMS head Michael Bromwich.The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama's lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum "pay" for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests th ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2010
ET, phone home: UFO initiative moves to Denver's November ballot
Jeff PeckmanJeff Peckman, the creator of a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, has promised that the measure would not cost the city anything -- and by moving the proposal from the August ballot to the November election, the Denver Elections Division ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Westword Music Knowcase: We sucked. Big time.
After all our hype, all our shit-talking and all of our preparation (okay, preparation consisted solely of previously mentioned hype and shit talking, we admit it), we came, we played and we got our ever-loving asses kicked at our own music Knowcase. Yeah, we came in a desultory sixth place. Si ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Ken Salazar finds oil spilling from Gulf into Colorado
The Deepwater Horizon disaster keeps spilling into my inbox, more than 1,300 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, where there's "oil for miles and miles," Attorney General Eric Holder lamented yesterday in New Orleans. Denver is more than 1,300 miles from the Big Easy, but the disaster has spilled ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2010
Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company
"Bring me the head of Tony Heyward." Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the falte ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2010
Ken Salazar under fire: Can he survive the spill?
All systems go, but which way? Out the door?It was fairly predictable that Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar would emerge as the whipping-boy of conservative pundits over the Deepwater Horizon spill. What better symbol of the alleged impotence of the Obama administration than a cowboy-ha ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
BP spill flow much worse than we estimated, says United States Geological Survey director
Marcia McNutt calls the spill a "significant environmental disaster." It's official: Even with the corrective measures British Petroleum is undertaking to try to contain the oil leak flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the massive spill has been flowing at a rate two to four times greater than o ... More >>
Blogs
May 25, 2010
Ken Salazar fumes, hair booms nixed: Gulf spill update
Department of the InteriorSituation hairy: The Deepwater Horizon rig, before it sank. As oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster begins to stain shorelines along the Gulf Coast, beauticians across the nation are learning that one of the more feel-good (and dubious) solutions proposed in recen ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Ken Salazar: Lessons on the Gulf spill from Denver's own "toxic horror"
Photo by Alan PrendergastWhite-tailed deer cross a road at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horiz ... More >>
News
May 13, 2010
Ken Salazar is spinning the Deepwater Horizon debacle
Photo by Alan PrendergastWhite-tailed deer cross a road at the Rocky Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horiz ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Ken Salazar's role in BP disaster: More spin than reform?
Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>
Calendar
November 19, 2009
Say Yes to the Yes Men
Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>
Calendar
October 15, 2009
Flick Pick
Department of the InteriorThe explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon rig still hasn't been explained.The finger-pointing over the massive oil slick threatening the Gulf Coast is spreading almost as fast as the spill itself. While critics on the right chortle over Department of the Interior c ... More >>
Music
May 15, 2008
Juggalos Band Together at Primos
Meet the Insane fans who united Denver's hatchet-wielding, Faygo-loving family.
Calendar
June 7, 2007
Sacrificial Slope
Meet the Insane fans who united Denver's hatchet-wielding, Faygo-loving family.
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December 21, 2006
KwanZoo
Pick your favorite Kwanzaa celebration and run with it.
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April 29, 2004
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Pick your favorite Kwanzaa celebration and run with it.
Dining
December 6, 2001
Star Struck
The Broadmoor has a heavenly reputation, but the food falls flat.
Dining
March 16, 2000
Check, Please!
Readers give our food critic something to chew on.
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