Subject: Lisa Rab

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, August 15 edition

  August 15, 2008

• Obama in LoDo: Party for the masses

  August 29, 2008

• No thinking allowed at the Denver parking office

  September 12, 2008

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, October 29 edition

  October 29, 2008

• The rise of the great, red beet

    Notice something red in your greens lately? Beets have been showing up on lots of Denver menus, mostly in salads, decorated with goat cheese and nuts. Gelman's Restaurant serves a version with green beans and onions, Jonesy's Eat Bar lets the red and gold beets shine without too much dressing, and Lala's Wine Bar and Pizzeria adds tangerines for an even sweeter taste. This is great news for fans of the highly underrated root veggie, which is enjoying a sort of renaissance in foodie circ

  November 28, 2008

• Giving thanks for that drunk guy on the plane

  My flight back to DIA last night from an extended Thanksgiving vacation was remarkably stress-free. I was flying United, which always makes me nervous (This is the airline, after all,  that once stranded me in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with a $15 meal voucher and a Best Western room with no hot water. Westword has documented plenty of other horror stories, too). But last night, I was pleasantly surprised to find my flight on time, the airline attendants cheerful, and the ride smoot

  December 2, 2008

• Wells Fargo recruits Somali bankers in Greeley

  Now is a great time to enter the banking industry, wouldn't you say? As our economy collapses, some unlucky schmuck still has to make cold calls from the vacant desks at the newly merged WaMu Chase Wachovias of America, asking customers to entrust their savings to the corporate titans who so recently, and royally, screwed them. That's why Wells Fargo is looking to hire personal bankers in Greeley. And who better to fill the post than a group of people for whom banking is a step up the economic

  December 5, 2008

• West Wash Park rezoning fight gains steam

  In October, we introduced you to  the battle over monster duplexes and neighborhood character in West Washington Park. Now, as a December 15 City Council hearing approaches, the controversy is exploding into a debate over the future of development in Denver's older neighborhoods. Some residents in West Washington Park want to rezone a portion of their neighborhood to allow only single-family homes. They're tired of watching small bungalows get scraped and replaced by monstrous duplexes, w

  December 5, 2008

• Obama supporters keep "change" alive this weekend in Denver

  The Obamamania that ruled Denver this summer has died down in the last couple of months. Maybe it's the economy. Maybe it's because we stopped getting weekly visits from The Man once he actually won the election. Maybe the shine wore off when "the change we need" translated into a gaggle of Clintonites in the Cabinet.Whatever the case, local Dems are trying to reignite some of the Obama fire this weekend with a slew of house meetings. These gatherings are the Obama campaign's way of getting sup

  December 12, 2008

• Yoga meets wine; yuppie spirits rejoice

  For devotees of yoga, the practice is all about cleansing and strengthening the body, searching for a higher purpose by standing on your head, and twisting your ankles behind your ears. Hardcore yogis don't smoke, or eat burgers after class, or pour too much Splenda in their organic, free-trade tea.But many yogis are also yuppies, and the Universe knows that yuppies love their wine. Savvy businesses have tried to capitalize on this coincidence -- there is even a Namaste Vineyards in Oregon whos

  December 17, 2008

• Happy Holidays, Colorado! Here's some prison furniture

    The holidays are nearly over, but your state government remembered to renew its annual gift to Colorado taxpayers: furniture made by prisoners. By law, all state agencies, from the Community College of Denver to the unemployment department, are required to buy office furniture from Colorado's homegrown sweatshops, otherwise known as the prisons. Inmates at Colorado Correctional Industries (the fancy name for the prison work program) earn $1 to $7 a day assembling wooden desks, metal

  December 29, 2008

• The YMCA's In and Out List

  The New Depression thriftiness is forcing ad execs to get creative. Car commercials brag about how much money their tiny hatchbacks will save on gas. Banks insist they're the only trusted sources of financial wisdom left. Weird late-night TV ads urge you to stick your gold jewelry in a plastic bag, mail it to some unseen pawn company, and wait for a stack of cash in return. Now the YMCA of Metro Denver is getting into the act. Their latest mailer to potential gym members features a particularly

  December 31, 2008

• Layoffs strike Westword

  In the December 18 blog "Westword: All About Us," publisher and Village Voice Media Chief Operating Officer Scott Tobias offered a relatively sunny assessment of the paper's health, particularly in comparison with daily newspapers in major metropolitian areas. But today, the forecast is far less positive. At a meeting that concluded moments ago, Westword editor Patricia Calhoun announced three editorial layoffs: assistant calendar editor Amber Taufen and staff writers Adam Cayton-Holland and

  January 5, 2009

• From the week of February 12

  February 12, 2009

• From the week of February 5

  February 5, 2009

• From the week of December 4, 2008

  December 4, 2008

• War is heck in the battleground state of Colorado

  November 6, 2008

• From the week of October 23, 2008

  October 23, 2008

• Letters to the Editor

  From the week of September 25, 2008

  September 25, 2008

• Developer Craig Nassi gets $1 million parking ticket

  Craig Nassi. This week, the Denver Post reports, a Denver District Court judge ruled that developer Craig Nassi is "personally liable for $1,046,250 in damages for fraudulent misrepresentation as he negotiated how many parking spaces would be available for Club Matrix, a high-end fitness gym and spa in the Beauvallon building at East Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Street." The decision, which Nassi promises to appeal, probably didn't come as much of a surprise to readers of former Westword staffer Li

  June 15, 2009

• Ride Safe Spoke Cards will keep cyclists on the right path

  June 18, 2009

• Read the judgment against developer Craig Nassi, recipient of a $1 million parking ticket

  Craig Nassi. Last week, we told you about a Denver District Court finding against developer Craig Nassi, who was judged to be liable for more than $1 million in damages for fradulently misrepresenting the availability of parking spaces in the Beauvallon, on East Ninth Avenue and Lincoln Street, to a building tenant, the Club Matrix gym and spa. Now, we offer a look at the ruling itself, a 33-page scolding that repeatedly takes Nassi to task in language that occasionally dispenses with polite le

  June 26, 2009