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Gary Haney, killed by SWAT team, was sex-mag publisher, former Big Daddy of Denver nightlife

On August 26, Gary Haney, forty, was shot and killed at a Wheat Ridge Ramada Inn after a long standoff with a SWAT team. Afterward, accounts like this one noted his past criminal history, but not his previous self-created image as the "cunning but kindhearted Big Daddy of Denver's nightlife" -- a de ... More >>

SAME Cafe celebrates its fifth birthday with Hunger Free Colorado

​When Brad and Libby Birky started SAME Cafe five years ago, people thought they were nuts. So did the Birkys, really. Even before they opened the doors to the restaurant -- the name stands for So All May Eat, and they'd adopted a pay-what-you-can model that had been tried in a couple of spots ... More >>

Scottie Ewing gets 6 months home detention, can't kick reporter's ass until summer

Big pic below.​Scottie Ewing, ex-owner of a prostitution business dubbed Denver Players/Denver Sugar, has received six months home detention in a plea deal related to the tax evasion and racketeering case against another Denver Players/Denver Sugar principal, Brenda Stewart. Which means he can ... More >>

Brenda Stewart, indicted Denver Players/Sugar owner and former escort: Trial postponed

Denver Sugar pic.​The Denver blog posts are coming fast and furious. Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher notes that a tax-evasion trial scheduled next week for Brenda Stewart, owner of Denver Players/Sugar and a former escort, has been postponed until November. Still checking receipts? Color ... More >>

Security guard for Colorado Coalition for the Homeless busted for selling crack to rehab patients

Denver Police Department​It's your Monday edition of Denver Blogs, with a trio of interesting blog posts from around town. First up, a crack-dealer selling to the people he was hired to protect: Jared Jacang Maher of Face the State (and formerly Westword) brings us this story of Lee Wright, a ... More >>

Wellshire Inn concessionaires on the outs with city

The Wellshire Inn in happier days​Former Westword scribe Jared Jacang Maher has more good scoop on the city's deal -- or lack thereoff -- with the Wellshire Inn, the facility at a city-owned golf course that isn't bringing the city a penny. In fact, the concessionaries who have the contract ... More >>

Wellshire Inn is down for the count -- and a recount by the city auditor

The Wellshire Inn in happier days.​Diners who've lived in Denver for more than a decade all have tales of some meal they had at the Wellshire Inn, the elegant restaurant that Leo Goto ran out an old Tudor-style building on the park/golf course owned by the City and County of Denver, at 3333 So ... More >>

The Denver Diatribe: Why I helped start Denver's best only iTunes friendly podcast

​Lately I've been spending a good chunk of my minimal free time working with Jared Jacang Maher, a former Westword writer now at Face The State and John Dicker, founder of the Geeks Who Drink quiz night empire, to launch the Denver Diatribe, a weekly half-hour podcast on culture, politics and ... More >>

Colorado Rockies mathematically eliminated: Rocktober won't be the same without you!

Ubaldo Jimenez.​These three Denver blog posts are guaranteed fresh. Purple Row's Andrew T. Fisher writes the postmortem on the loss that officially buried the Rockies' 2010 season. It's a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher tallies up legislators' travel ... More >>

Thuggies: Are Snuggies going gangsta? Or just getting stupider?

​These Denver blog posts are late -- but better late than never. The latest trend the Denver Egotist hates? Thuggies. Wear this hood to the 'hood and see how quickly the haters come out to play. Mile High Report is the place to find an assortment of tributes to the late Kenny McKinley, inclu ... More >>

Hot babe has a lust for carrots -- and she'd like everyone to know about it

Healthy.​We've found three Denver blog posts, and linked them here. Denver Egotist reveals a Boulder ad firm's sexy new ad for carrots. And that's not all, folks! Colorado Pols sums up the latest fundraising totals for major Colorado candidates. John Hickenlooper is in the money! And Dan Mae ... More >>

Aurora police shake-up: Why have hiring practices triggered a federal investigation?

​Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State's Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices.

Scottie Ewing fiasco draws attention to "Carl Bernstein of the shady Denver nightclub beat"

Scottie Ewing and friend.​Local pro-skier-turned-swinger-magnate Scottie Ewing grabbed headlines after federal charges were filed against him last week for allegedly failing to pay taxes on the Denver Sugars and Denver Players Club, a high-end prostitution service he owned and sold in 2005. Al ... More >>

Best DIA conspiracy video ever now ready to terrify Germans, too

In 2008, we told you about the best DIA conspiracy video ever -- a loopy, logic-challenged compendium of strained theories debunked in Jared Jacang Maher's feature "DIA Conspiracies Take Off." Despite its many inaccuracies, however, the Zahra Malik-Chris Cheong opus continues to make the rounds -- ... More >>

SAME Cafe profile serves up a James Beard award

​When Brad and Libby Birky opened their restaurant, SAME Cafe, at 2023 East Colfax Avenue, people didn't give the venture much of a chance. After all, the name stood for "So All May Eat," and signaled the couple's willingness to serve everyone, regardless of how much money the diners had, reg ... More >>

SAME Cafe profile wins James Beard Foundation award

SAME Cafe serves all, regardless of what they can pay.​Jared Jacang Maher's February 2009 Westword cover story on SAME Cafe just won a prestigious James Beard Foundation Award for newspaper feature writing about restaurants and/or chefs. The name of Brad and Libby Birky's restaurant at 2023 E ... More >>

Jesse Ventura blows the lid off DIA conspiracy theories! Maybe!

Freemasons: Jesse's on your trail.​Denver International Airport has given rise to oodles of conspiracy theories involving Freemasons and the New World Order -- many of them documented in Jared Jacang Maher's 2007 feature "DIA Conspiracies Take Off." So it's only natural that Conspiracy Theory ... More >>

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Vandalism at the Colorado Democratic Party HQ: The story gets even dumber

A Colorado Democratic Party photo of damage at its Santa Fe headquarters.​"Is Alleged Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters Window-Smasher Maurice Schwenkler a LIBERAL Activist?," a Jared Jacang Maher blog published yesterday, pinpointed some contradictions in a story that was originally fram ... More >>

From the week of August 20, 2009

Tom Martino misidentifies writer in Westword "exposé"

Tom Martino: He's always good for a laugh. Apparently concerned about a recent Jared Jacang Maher article about connections between him and a multi-level marketing company he'd promoted on Martino TV and his KHOW radio show, the self-proclaimed Troubleshooter had an associate call in a phony tip i ... More >>

From the week of August 13, 2009

Score one for medical marijuana: Health board rejects restrictions

After 12-plus hours of testimony, the state health board on Monday rejected a key restriction on medical marijuana dispensaries -- a rule that would have limited them to five patients each. You have to imagine this was the most attention ever heaped on the health board, which played host to hundreds ... More >>

From the week of June 11, 2009

Mile Haiku: Video from the Blue Mustang poetry reading

Almost a hundred people piled into the Denver Public Library basement on Monday to write, read and hear poetry inspired by DIA's Blue Mustang. Organized by Westword, the event... happened. We think it was a success, but we don't plan many poetry slams, so it's hard to say. Anyway, a few of the po ... More >>

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SAME Cafe: How much do people pay?

J. KnightCustomer Jennifer had a slice of pizza, a small soup and a cookie. But how much did she pay? In this week's Westword, Jared Jacang Maher reports on SAME Cafe, the non-profit eatery on East Colfax that lets customers pay what they want (or can). In a related slide show, Maher, with help fro ... More >>

A time-lapse video of the 2008 Westword Music Showcase

Okay, so this might be the coolest Westword Music Showcase-related item we've ever come across. It's getting to be that time of year again where we start gearing up for another edition of the annual summertime local music extravaganza, which probably accounts for how our colleague Jared Jacang Maher ... More >>

From the week of January 22

Video: Beer Nutz geeks geek out in Denver

I never knew about the short-lived show Beer Nutz, mostly because I haven't had cable in ten years and it played on something called HDNet (is that the Hot Dog Network?). But I am very familiar with local microbrew establishments. And though the two hosts of Beer Nutz look and act like the guys fr ... More >>

More complaints about new Denver Police Department reporting system

In the February Message column "Denver Police Reports Harder to Get Under New System," representatives of the Denver Police Department insisted that the approach to digitizing incident reports, as opposed to making copies available in a press room, would be more useful and convenient for media and l ... More >>

The new math behind Denver Health response times

Time is of the essence at Denver Health. The Denver City Council's finance committee yesterday approved a one-year, $51.9 million operating agreement with the Denver Health and Hospital Authority -- with one significant change over the previous contract: Denver Health has agreed to peg ambulan ... More >>

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