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Billy Canu, tech firm CEO, claims United rep in Denver called him and partner "faggots"

Note to homophobes: If you aim a gay slur at an Internet expert, the whole world is going to hear about it. That's one of many lessons in the story of Billy Canu, a tech-firm CEO who used social media to accuse a United Airlines employee in Denver of calling him and his partner "faggots."

El Chile Rojo will be replaced by a sushi spot on Santa Fe Drive

​Talk about a sign of the times: El Chile Rojo has closed at 801 Santa Fe Drive, with a sign in the window announcing "Japanese sushi restaurant coming soon." Back in December 2008, when United Airlines' Hemispheres magazine devoted its "Three Perfect Days" feature to Denver, most of the rest ... More >>

Frontier pilot booting quadriplegic John Morris (& choice colleagues) earn Shmuck dishonors

​Denver's homegrown airline, Frontier, was once a local darling. Its local ties, funny animals and scrappy attitude gave people the alternative they needed a decade ago to United Airlines, which dominated the gates at Denver International Airport for a long time and pissed off just about ever ... 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 >>

United-Continental merger shouldn't push back already delayed contract talks, says union rep

Photo courtesy Association of Flight Attendants-CWAUnited employees protesting stalled contract talks at DIA last month.​The merger of United and Continental is potentially blockbuster news, admits Ken Kyle, local counsel president for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA -- but only poten ... More >>

Part two: Chef and Tell with Virgilio Urbano from Virgilio's

Lori Midson ​This is part two of my interview with Virgilio Urbano. To read part one of the interview, click here. Culinary inspirations: My mama, who I've always called, "ma-MAH," did all of the cooking for our family -- that's what she lives for -- and I've learned pretty much everything I ... More >>

Chef and Tell with Virgilio Urbano of Virgilio's

Lori MidsonVirgilio Urbano and Gabriel Monge​Virgilio Urbano, the pie-slinger behind his namesake pizzeria in Lakewood, tosses his hands up in the air -- an automatic reflex, no doubt, from spinning pizza dough for the past four years -- and shakes his head. "Look, I can't make everyone happy. ... More >>

Three possible futures for Denver International Airport

​Republic Airways Holdings' victory over Dallas-based Southwest Airlines in the Frontier sweepstakes raises more questions than it answers, as Dallas Morning News airline blogger Eric Torbenson makes clear in "What Will Denver Look Like in Two Years?," an analysis published earlier today. In T ... More >>

Is Chile Rojo ready to take off?

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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 >>

Traveling Turns South by Southwest

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 >>

There and (Not) Back Again: By Frontier

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 >>

Dear United Airlines: It's Over!

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 >>

Ted, RIP

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 >>

United: When Turkeys Fly

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 >>

Come Fly With Me

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Tour de Farce

You'll have the crime of your life in the Mile High City.

Drunk of the Week

Pearl Street Grill

Second-Best Description of Denver by a National Writer -- Current

Linda Hayes, Hemispheres Magazine

Pop Quiz

Heaven and Helluloid
February 26, 2004

Pop Quiz

Fly Our Fiendly Skies

January 22, 2004

Year in Review: Strange But True

From kitty cut-ups to an airline named Ted, this was one oddball year.

You Must Remember This

Holy smokes! Only those with burning ambition will survive the 2002 Year in Review quiz.

Embracing the Future

Traveling out of DIA continues to be a frisky business.

Follow That Story

The Gropes of Wrath

Off Limits

Is that a tuba in your pocket?

Cash Landing

Looking for Mr. Goodwin, United Airlines' three-million-dollar man.

Hall of Shame

The people and places that made 2000 what it was. Blame them.

Where's My Gyrocopter?

Whatever happened to the future?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of August 17

United We Strand

You may not have a flight, but you could be a winner!

Letters to the Editor

From the week of July 27

Off Limits

Fellow travelers

Off Limits

Heaving on a jet plane

What's Fare Is Fair

Denver and United Airlines are in a dogfight over who gets the loot.

Flight Diversions

Rumors won't fly with those who lost their loved ones in a Colorado Springs plane crash.

Off Limits

Rumors won't fly with those who lost their loved ones in a Colorado Springs plane crash.

An Airport Divided

United Airlines and BAE get personal in a lawsuit over DIA's bungled baggage system.

Roll On

United Airlines and BAE get personal in a lawsuit over DIA's bungled baggage system.

THE DIA UNDERGROUND

TUNNELING INTO THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF THE AIRPORT'S CURSED BAGGAGE SYSTEM.

CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF'95 YEAR IN REVIEW PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES IN YOUR AIR-SICKNESS BAG AND SMILE, SMILE, SMILE--1995 IS OVER.

TUNNELING INTO THE DEEPEST SECRETS OF THE AIRPORT'S CURSED BAGGAGE SYSTEM.

STRANGE BUT TRUE

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

LETTERS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

OFF LIMITS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

BLANK CHECK

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

OFF LIMITS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

AN EMBARRASSMENT OF GLITCHES

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

FOLD YOUR TENTS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

OFF LIMITS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.

LOAN SHARKS

THINGS YOU DID IN DENVER WHILE YOU WERE STOPPED DEAD IN TRAFFIC ON THE WAY TO DIA.