U.S. Secret Service

True Romance and other overlooked '90s action films

The '90s don't get a lot of cinematic respect. Apart from a handful of acknowledged classics, film fans tend to overlook work from the rest of the decade. And that's a shame, because while the '90s might not be on the radar for a lot of cinemaphiles, there are plenty of good, ass-kicking crime and a ... More >>

Mitt Romney Twitter death threats

Tonight, Mitt Romney is scheduled to headline Red Rocks, joined by vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan and Kid Rock (really). But while most observers feel Romney lost last night's third and final presidential debate, his performance apparently concerned a number of folks on Twitter enough to inspir ... More >>

Debate 2012: Ten signs the presidential debate is coming to Denver

Let the hyperbole fly: Depending on whom you ask, the presidential debate coming to town this Wednesday is either the biggest event of the election season, the biggest-ever boon to the University of Denver's place in the national spotlight, or the biggest political anything to happen in Denver since ... More >>

Video: Mitt Romney supporter handcuffed, cited at rally blasts Jeffco Sheriff's office

Regan Benson is a supporter of Mitt Romney, but she's not a big fan of the law enforcement officials in charge at the candidate's recent Colorado rally. Benson says that when she was trying to get to her car after the Sunday night campaign event ended, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office refused t ... More >>

Steve Howards-Dick Cheney case: 8-0 Supreme Court rejection bizarre, says David Lane

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-0 against Steve Howards, who claimed his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney circa 2006. Hence, Howards can't sue the Secret Service. However, his attorney, David Lane, believes the ... More >>

Obama vs. the Nuge at Red Rocks

Last month, rocker Ted Nugent drew Secret Service scrutiny when he said, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," at an NRA convention in St. Louis. That was on April 18, ancient history in the news cycle, but as roving he ... More >>

It's ridiculous to take Ted Nugent seriously

Video: Kolbi Zerbest stars in hard-hitting Today investigation of CU-Boulder Obama yogurt spill

Here's a nutty post-script regarding President Barack Obama's speech at CU-Boulder -- a Today show chat with CU frosh Kolbi Zerbest, whose yogurt spilled on Obama during his visit to The Sink. How important was this story, on view below? Important enough for anchors Matt Lauer and Ann Curry to spend ... More >>

Obama's Secret Service gets a burger fix at the Cherry Cricket

President Obama may have made the biggest splash during his two-day trip to Colorado at The Sink in Boulder, but Secret Service staffers knew where to go in Cherry Creek North for a late-night snack during the darker hours -- no, not that kind of snack.

Wazee Supper Club will close Friday for a three-week overhaul

The Wazee Supper Club has been serving cold beer and hot Colorado-style pizza since it was founded 38 years ago by the Karagas brothers, Jim and Angelo, who'd opened My Brother's Bar a few years earlier at 2376 15th Street. From the start, the Wazee was lower downtown's go-to neighborhood bar -- lon ... More >>

Dick Cheney-Steve Howards case goes before the Supreme Court

Last December, we noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal by Steve Howards, who claimed that his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney in Colorado circa 2006. Yesterday, the case reached the nation's hig ... More >>

Dick Cheney-Secret Service case goes to Supreme Court: Speech vs. safety?

Dick Cheney.​While his fight on behalf of Occupy Denver's claims against the city may be over, attorney David Lane has another big case before him, on the biggest legal stage in the country. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear the tale of Steven Howards, a Lane client who says his freed ... More >>

Imeme Nouis & Angela Martin: Leaving kids in hot cars or handcuffing them = Shmuck

​It seems like bad dads have a way of ending up as shmucks on a regular basis. But moms have their fair share of problems, too. Just ask the two who were cited this week for making the rest of the moms out there look like saints.

A rearview look at the year in food

Top ten Strange But True stories of the decade in Colorado

Bush to use near your bush -- or at least in the vicinity.​Next week, Westword will be capping off 2009 with a blizzard of blogs leading up to our annual Year in Review issue: Look for them in this space. But before long, we'll be ending a decade, too. And with that in mind -- and to whet you ... More >>

How America's favorite crime dramas will tackle Balloon Boy

What will happen when David Caruso gets his hands on Balloon Boy?​It'll happen any day now: You'll come home from work, sink into your couch and flip on your TV, hoping for a Real World-Road Rules marathon or something equally vapid, and there it will be: that damn balloon, flying through the ... More >>

Janet Napolitano gives terrorism a hard CELL

Obama burger watch

At this point, it's safe to say that I could commit myself to a full-time position of doing nothing but reporting on where the President (or VP) decides to eat his lunch every day. I mean, we've already had the Grey Poupon controversy (and the resulting, tongue-in-cheek marketing push by Grey Poupon ... More >>

Presidential flashback, 1978: Jimmy Carter promotes solar energy in Denver

Jimmy Carter as he looked during the era when he promoted solar energy in Denver. The hoopla yesterday over President Barack Obama's appearance in Denver, when he used the signing of a $787 billion economic-stimulus bill to hype solar energy, spurred memories in one reader, who recalled another chi ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: The week ahead, February 16-21

The big news: Barack Obama is coming back to Denver, the town where he accepted the Democratic nomination on August 28, and where now, as president, he will now sign the $787 billion stimulus bill on Tuesday, February 17 at the Museum of Nature & Science (conveniently vetted by the Secret Service ... More >>

November is a thin but amusing satire that gives hell to the chief executive

Shmuck: Boulder sheriff's deputies arrest one

Tacos Jalisco serves Southern comfort, Mexican style -- and free chips

Don't Fence Me In

Bottleneck blues

Live from the MySpace Café, DNC headquarters for ass-kissing and flesh-pressing

Jason Sheehan, live from the MySpace Cafe at the Corner Office

Elitch Gardens: A Celebration with Altitude brings out the attitude

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

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

At the Pepsi Center: Tents and Unions

Yippies Attack Pepsi Center with Peace Bats

A New Movement

Why can't we all just get along? Oh, and stop throwing poo and pee at one another.

Some Notable Facts from the DNC Security Trial

Elitch Tower May Be Used as Security Watch Post

Climbing Higher Mountains: Mother's Day With Hillary Clinton in West Virginia

ACLU Files DNC Lawsuit Against Feds

Politics Be DAM

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Lost in Translation

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Drunk of the Week

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Teen Angles

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Money Machine

Scott Zuviceh made money the old-fashioned way: He faked it.

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