Subject: Toyota Prius

• Contestant #12: Lisa Ramfjord Elstun

  April 10, 2007

• Contestant #11: Alec Smith

  March 30, 2007

• Contestant #10: Crystal Sharp

  March 29, 2007

• Contestant #8: Mona Lucero

  March 26, 2007

• Contestant #6: Nancy Sedar Sherman

  March 24, 2007

• Contestant #5: Deb Henriksen

  March 23, 2007

• Contestant #4: Jose Clark

  March 22, 2007

• Contestant #3: Kandyce Hudson

  March 21, 2007

• Contestant #1: Armando Thomas Guerra

  March 19, 2007

• Car Envy

  March 8, 2007

• Car Envy

  March 8, 2007

• Contestant #1: Armando Thomas Guerra

  March 19, 2007

• Contestant #2: Stephanie Ohnmacht

  March 20, 2007

• Contestant #3: Kandyce Hudson

  March 21, 2007

• Contestant #4: Jose Clark

  March 22, 2007

• Contestant #5: Deb Henriksen

  March 23, 2007

• Contestant #6: Nancy Sedar Sherman

  March 24, 2007

• Contestant #7: Gino Velardi

  March 26, 2007

• Contestant #8: Mona Lucero

  March 26, 2007

• Contestant #9: Tricia Hoke

  March 27, 2007

• Cat's Turn!

  March 28, 2007

• Contestant #10: Crystal Sharp

  March 29, 2007

• Contestant #11: Alec Smith

  March 30, 2007

• Contestant #12: Lisa Ramfjord Elstun

  April 10, 2007

• What song will play for Obama's acceptance speech? The 10 (or so) best guesses

  August 20, 2008

• What song will play for Obama's acceptance speech? The 10 (or so) best guesses

  August 20, 2008

• These Crocs were made for walking...if nothing more.

  August 29, 2008

• Milking It: Froot Loops Marshmallow

  September 2, 2008

• An ode to two-meal days. Or: Making you hungry on a Monday morning

  November 10, 2008

• Diana DeGette's "chattering class"

  Diana DeGette wants to be Colorado's first female Senator - maybe - but Denver's U.S. Representative has gone about making that known in a strangely blunt and abrasive way, namely by calling out Governor Bill Ritter, who will choose a a new one, and by bashing the "chattering class." In a video posted in various places on the Internet, DeGette says, "Colorado has never had a woman senator or a woman governor, and so, in a way, this is the perfect time... And the other thing I will say is I don

  December 24, 2008

• Q&A with Christian Lander, author of Stuff White People Like

  Christian Lander is a true Internet-generation success story. Just over a year ago, he launched a website called called Stuff White People Like, and in short order, he became a media sensation -- an unexpected turn on which he's wisely trying to capitalize. He penned a book entitled Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions that shot up the New York Times bestsellers list with lightning speed. As he reveals in the following Q&A, conducted in advance of his app

  February 2, 2009

• Thomas Friedman greenspeaks in Boulder

  Thomas Friedman doing the pontification version of the Full Monty. He came, he saw, he said a lot of no-shit stuff. Thomas Friedman, three-time Pulitzer Prize winning author and caustic foreign affairs mouthpiece for the New York Times, dropped by the Republic of Boulder last night to pimp for his latest and greatest, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America. The book outlines Friedman's vision for how and why this country should get back to the busin

  February 17, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, February 24 edition

  Deborah Leebove, cook-off competitor. Hungry? Today in Cafe Society: • Manischewitz! Denverite competes in national cook-off. • Cafe Bites bites into Mardi Gras. • The List: Eating good in the neighborhood. • AJ's Super Bowl run through LoDo. • Organixx is greener than a Prius -- let's hope the food tastes good. Today in Backbeat Online: • Morrissey top seller at Twist & Shout. • T.I. grabs top spot at Independent Records. • How to record: Tyler Ward's video mash-up. Today in

  February 24, 2009

• Win a Prius by loving a burger

  Ted's Montana Grill wants you to prove how much you love its burgers. The company, which is running a decent meal promotion right now, has also started a contest to find its biggest burger fan. Ted's Burger FANatic contest has simple rules: You find a way to show your undying love for its burgers, and Ted's awards you with a 2009 Toyota Prius if your display is the best. You can take a picture, make a video, write a sonnet or haiku -- do anything that you feel will best everyone else in the nati

  March 3, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 3 edition

  "My burger tis of thee..." Juicy... Today in Cafe Society: • Win a Prius by loving a burger. • Infinite Monkey Theorem Winery creates order from chaos. • Tonight, find a patio, a party -- or both. • The List: On Broadway. • A few words with Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg. Today in Backbeat Online: • Fertility in fallow fields, part one. • Dialed In: This week's local-music radio playlists. Today in The Latest Word: • It's not local news -- but it is a cat in a bong. • Brandon Mar

  March 3, 2009

• Spire: The Toyota Prius of downtown living?

  Nichols Partnership Inc.Talk about bad timing. In May 2007, local real estate developer Nichols Partnership Inc. broke ground on Spire, its ambitious 42-story Denver condominium project (the tallest residential tower built in this region in decades). Two months later, the mortgage crisis sent world's financial markets into freefall. To make matters worse, a month after that Nichols' lender, Hypo Real Estate Capital Corp., backed out on its promised $160 million loan for the $175 million project

  March 27, 2009

• V.G. Burgers on the move

  For those of you in Boulder who enjoy a big, hearty burger without meat, this is for you. V.G. Burgers, an all-plant-based, quick-service restaurant, is moving a few miles away from its current location at 3267 28th Street to 1650 Broadway -- which is already the address listed on its website even though that spot won't open until the first or second week of April."We are working really hard to make the move," says manager John Scarlata,  "It's a better location. It should reduce our ov

  March 27, 2009

• The Westword.com blog shortcut, March 27 edition

  Photo by Jon SolomonThe Five Peace Band. Don't make your weekend a weak end. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Five Peace Band at the Paramount Theatre. • Phish at Red Rocks sells out in minutes; fans call bullshit. • Q&A with David Frederickson of the Prids. • Freaky Friday: "The Force" Swinging robodisco of the '70s. Today in Cafe Society: • Free wine and cheese, and other sweet deals. • Tony's Market seeking serious foodies. • Veggie Girl: City, O' City. • How sweet it is for

  March 27, 2009

• The Market Report, April 11

  Now, this is what I'd been waiting for...for months. Hordes of people talking about the proper time to snip lettuce, kids helping their parents put onions into their (always reusable!) bags, militant environmentalists scolding those not like them...ah, the Boulder Farmers' Market. At about 11 a.m. on this past, overcast Saturday, I struggled to find parking, then finally abandoned my car and ducked into the market, which was marking its second week of the season. My very own reusable bag in han

  April 13, 2009

• Stunt Boy

  Meet the chairman of the board.

  May 1, 2008

• Fashion with Passion

  April 3, 2008

• The Prius can take owners on a wild ride

  April 23, 2009

• Why I'm Ready to Kiss 2007 Goodbye

  December 13, 2007

• Blood for Oil

  Brilliant, confounding Syriana digs for a necessary truth.

  December 8, 2005

• The Alternative Voter’s Guide

  The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

  October 21, 2004

• A Gopher in Your Pocket?

  Douglas County's very own gopher is the latest endangered-species hopeful.

  March 20, 2003

• Letters from the week of April 30, 2009

  April 30, 2009

• Wake-Up Call: FU, Senator Brophy

  According to state senator Greg Brophy's blog, "he's been called one of the most conservative members of the legislature and a Prius driving, bicycle riding, eco freak. You decide." But first read this, and you might come up with a couple of other descriptors. On April 24, he recounted the tale of the vegan in Parker whose request for a special vanity plate reading ILVTOFU was rejected by the Colorado Department of Revenue because dirty minds might think she loved to fuck, rather than loved t

  May 8, 2009

• Michael Dean Damron

  July 2, 2009

• Skip the Blue Moon, Crowley, and tap one of these other Colorado beers for the political slurp heard 'round the world

  Blue Moon: Not the best beer for solving a national crisis.​If the pundits are to be believed, the entirety of our country's centuries-old racial upheaval will be solved today with the cracking open of a couple cold ones. After President Barack Obama ignited a fiery national debate on race relations last week by weighing in on the controversial arrest of distinguished Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his own home by police Sergeant James Crowley, the big man decided to make thin

  July 30, 2009