The White House

An open letter to Politico's Donovan Slack about your misinterpretation of Jay-Z's "Open Letter"

Hey, Ms. Slack, I couldn't help but notice the mini shit storm you caused yesterday at the White House press briefing when you misunderstood and misrepresented the lyrics of Jay-Z's "Open Letter." Real talk, that shit ain't cool. Have we learned nothing from the Nicki Minaj Romney-gate last summer? ... More >>

Reader touts petition to let liquor stores that stop selling booze peddle marijuana instead

Comments continue to pile up on our posts about Project SAM, a Patrick Kennedy-led organization that opposes marijuana legalization. Among the latest finds a reader hyping a White House petition encouraging liquor stores to switch from booze to pot. At this writing, it's got nine signatures; look be ... More >>

Try President Obama's two White House honey beers today at Arvada Beer Company

The presidential election is coming up quickly, and Arvada Beer Company is offering another way to judge one of the candidates: by his homebrew. The brewery, which is celebrating its one-year anniversary by tapping a brand-new beer each day through Saturday, will release White House Honey Ale and W ... More >>

Photos: Ten funniest Michelle Obama movin' and shakin' moments

Michelle Obama, who is making two campaign stops in Denver's suburbs this morning, backs "Let's Move," an anti-obesity program with the lofty goal of solving the "epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation." Her glowing physique and enviable shoulders dressed to perfection, she's often pictur ... More >>

Mr. President, meet Amanda Jamitinya: Roller derby champs want White House welcome

Seven of Colorado's most colorful sports personalities could be headed for the White House if representatives of Team USA Roller Derby -- the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup champions -- get their way. Over the weekend Team USA issued a call to action asking President Obama to honor the team's achieveme ... More >>

Reggie Love, Obama's former "body man" says his bag's still packed for the prez

It sits on the couch of his Washington, D.C. apartment: A black bag, still filled with supplies that could help President Barack Obama in a pinch: Tide stain remover, newspapers, papers, medicine. And even though thirty-year-old Reggie Love is Obama's former "body man," not his current minder, he co ... More >>

Emergency Alert System test conspiracy theories cite Comet Elenin, 9/11 (VIDEOS)

​Another day, another doomsday scenario. Hot on the heels of theories that Comet Elenin would destroy life as we know it, followed by former Boulderite Harold Camping's latest failed end-of-the-world prediction come fears of catastrophe associated with today's nationwide test of the Emergency ... More >>

Extraterrestrial life: White House claim that it has no proof clearly false, says Jeff Peckman

Jeff Peckman.​As conspiracy theorists wonder if the federal government is being forthright about today's nationwide Emergency Alert System test, the White House is under fire from UFOlogists after formally declaring that it possesses no evidence of extraterrestrial life. Jeff Peckman, the man ... More >>

Moth gets stuck in local 12-year-old boy's ear -- and other icky bug-in-ear tales (VIDEO)

Video below.​This quote, from a 9News story about a twelve-year-old who had a moth stuck inside his ear, will now haunt my dreams: "We tried drowning it in water. Didn't work. We tried irrigating it out of my ear, it didn't work." So the doctors, says reporter Corey Rose, pulled it out with tw ... More >>

Colorado Rapids saluted at White House by Barack Obama, soccer dad (VIDEO)

Video below.​Want more evidence of soccer's growing popularity in this country? Look no further than yesterday's White House ceremony honoring your Colorado Rapids, winner of the MLS Cup. Owner Stan Kroenke and the whole crew were on hand as President Barack Obama, self-declared "soccer dad," ... More >>

Drug war: An unhappy 40th birthday party

​On June 17, 1971, President Richard Milhous Nixon announced that the United States of America would commits its vast resources to armed conflict against a hostile enemy known as "drugs." Yes, that's right. Next week, the War on Drugs officially turns forty years old, and it's showing every bi ... More >>

Steaming music illegally could be felonious if IP Enforcement's recommendations are enacted

​The White House has publically stated it's going to start cracking down on piracy and enforcing IP law, but other than some crackdowns last year, we haven't seen much in the way of a cohesive strategy. Well, until Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel delivered this t ... More >>

Elvis meets Nixon to fight drugs: 40 years ago today

Sellout.​On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley sealed his fate as the first rock and roller who got too old and joined the Man. The White House meeting between The King and Richard Nixon was the former's idea -- he'd written a six-page letter proposing the visit and asking to be made a Federal A ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff job offers focus of House inquiry resolution

​It's getting to be a full-time job tracing the fall-out from the job offers dangled by the White House for Andrew Romanoff. According to Roll Call, House Republicans issued a resolution of inquiry last night demanding documents from the Justice Department on the White House's role in making ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff can't win primary, says Dick Wadhams, and Michael Bennet needs to fess up

Dick Wadhams, scorching Dem earth.​According to Colorado GOP boss Dick Wadhams, there's a very simple reason why Republicans like Jane Norton have concentrated more on Michael Bennet and less on Andrew Romanoff in relation to the White House job offer scandal. Wadhams sees no scenario in whic ... More >>

Andrew Romanoff gets boost from White House job controversy

"It's nice to feel wanted."​In recent weeks, senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff has been under increasing pressure to talk about alleged job offers from the White House if he wouldn't challenge Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet in November, especially in light of similar claims made by Penns ... More >>

Tom Tancredo: Joe Sestak job offer could lead to impeachment even though Obama's black

Photo by John JohnstonIs impeachment a black-and-white issue?​The idea that a White House job offer to Pennsylvania's Joe Sestak -- one allegedly designed to convince him not to challenge Senator Arlen Specter -- might be an impeachable defense has been popular in Republican circles of late. ... More >>

Joe Sestak job offer echoes Andrew Romanoff story

​For someone who talks a lot -- to Meet the Press Sunday, to CNN yesterday -- Pennsylvania representative Joe Sestak doesn't say a lot. Especially when he's pressed for specifics about who at the White House offered him a job if he skipped the Pennsylvania Senate primary, where he trounced Arl ... More >>

Busted: Food Network cops to filming fake White House veggies

​It was a highly anticipated episode: Mario, Bobby, Emeril, and the White House executive chef, Cristeta Cornerford would all be there. The secret ingredient? Any vegetable from the White House vegetable garden. And the 7.6 million viewers that tuned in to Iron Chef America on January 3 also ... More >>

Cafe Society: Week in review

​What you may have missed this week on Cafe Society while you were getting your morning groove on at the new Rise & Shine Biscuit Kitchen and Cafe, which opened right around the same time as the Denver Biscuit Company. Cupcakes: out; biscuits: in. After hyping and hyping and hyping the two- ... More >>

How does Michelle Obama's garden grow? Find out on Iron Chef America

Photo: Courtesy of Getty Images​First, Michelle Obama caught the attention of carrot stalkers when she corralled a group of Washington, D.C., schoolkids to help her garden grow on the White House's South Lawn; she also pimped her garden on Sesame Street. Then Spike Mendelsohn, burger wizard, forme ... More >>

George H.W. Bush's speech to schoolchildren: There's no room for drugs in space

George H.W. Bush.​As noted in our blog about a Douglas County school allowing parents to opt out of letting their kids watch President Barack Obama's speech to children on Tuesday, we pointed out that other Commanders-in-Chief have directly addressed younglings -- among them President George W ... More >>

Beers and Brewhahas: Italian Americans vs. Columbus Day protestors

This Associated Press photo made brewers around the nation weep for joy.​No big deal: Just four guys having a beer and settling a brewhaha. That's what Barry, Joe, Hank and Jim did last week (with Colorado's Blue Moon in a starring role). It's something that happens all over the world, million ... More >>

The Westword.com blog shortcut, July 29 edition

estheraseNo amount of tickling will bring him back to us. ​ Why isn't my dad Obama's adviser? Today in The Latest Word: -The sad, graphic world of roadkill. -What standards? -Michael Vick really shouldn't ever be a Bronco. -Trapeze in Westminster. -Denver is OK for singles. Today in Cafe ... More >>

Obama says he "loves" Jared Polis's reality show. Really, prez?

CNN.comPolis (and his nostrils) at the White House. President Obama and I disagree... about the awesomeness of CNN's YouTube-y reality show Freshman Year, starring Colorado's own freshman congressman, Jared Polis of Boulder. According to Polis, Obama "loves" his show. Me, not so much. (Although I d ... More >>

Tonight: Find a patio, a party -- or both

Restaurants and bars all over town opened their patios Sunday -- on the first of March! -- to take advantage of the unseasonable temperatures. You can enjoy both the unbelievably balmy weather and incredible views from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight, March 3, at the Vistas at Park Meadows, where La Sandia will ... More >>

Fidel's opens in former Metro Kitchen/Fat Daddy's

Fat Daddy's -- the restaurant at 12 East 11th Avenue where Daniel Young, the almost-White House chef, was the cook -- was done in by the blizzard of March 2003. It was replaced by Metro Kitchen Bar, which was done in by -- well, who knows what.But now the space is back in business, with a big "now ... More >>

Another Coloradan who won't be going to D.C.

When I ran into Daniel Young on New Year's Day, it sounded like the chef who'd brought us Diced Onions (its former home at 609 Corona Street is now occupied by Table 6), ran the Denver Press Club kitchen and also worked for Carmelo Anthony was still in the running to become the new White House execu ... More >>

Q&A with Denver's Leo Perino, father of the White House spokeswoman

While White House Press Secretary and former Colorado resident Dana Perino (for Michael Roberts's profile, see "New Forecast") fields hundreds of questions from a ravenous Washington press corps every day on subjects that span the globe, her father, Leo Perino, took questions from Westword during a ... More >>

Five celebrities who would make great Obama press secretaries

Mr. President

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Fair Game

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Why I'm Ready to Kiss 2007 Goodbye

New Forecast

With Tony Snow out, Colorado-reared Dana Perino steps into one of the most thankless posts ever: White House press secretary.

Ghetto Handbook, August 31

True Blue

America's Spinning

Silver City and Colorado stand out in this season of political intrigue.

Egg Roll to Go

Easter hops into northwest Denver.

Surf's Up

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Off Limits

Spin city

Low Voltage in D.C.

Offal Office

Close Encounter of the Special-Effects Kind

A DREAMY PRESIDENT

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