Utah

Little Anita's New Mexican Cafe is firmly entenched in red and green

I had one of my first real New Mexican meals in New Mexico, at the Little Anita's location in Albuquerque...and I hated it. I was astounded that people would dump alternating layers of boiling hot green pepper sauce and equally steaming, nose-running-hot red pepper sauce on everything, and suck this ... More >>

HuffPo idiot: Colorado is fifth most overrated travel destination, Denver is "weirdly bland"

At Westword, we're all about hometown/home-state pride -- hence, posts such as "50 reasons we're glad we live in Denver and not the United States" and "Happy Colorado Day: Here are 50 reasons you should be glad you live here." So you can imagine our befuddlement over a Huffington Post article calli ... More >>

Photos: Top twelve least religious communities in America -- and where Boulder falls on the list

Gallup has released a new poll that measures the most religious communities -- a list topped by the Provo-Orem, Utah area, where 77 percent of respondents described themselves as "very religious." What about the least religious places? Gallup calculated that, too, with none other than Boulder finis ... More >>

Plenty on tap outside of #GABF on the calendar this week

The Great American Beer Fest will fill the Colorado Convention Center this Thursday through Saturday. Tickets to the seminal celebration of craft beer sold out in record time this year, and Cafe Society will be offering up comprehensive and "professional" coverage throughout the week -- as well as a ... More >>

Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski Film Festival

Denver-based ski porn purveyors Level 1 Productions won big at the IF3 International Freeski Film Festival over the weekend in Montreal, with director Josh Berman and his team taking the top prize -- Best North American Film -- for their 2012 film Sunny, as well as Best Editing and Best Male Perform ... More >>

Ethan Hearty, Denver toddler, dies after finding gun in grandparents' Utah home

Denver's Tiffany Hearty is currently keeping most of the information she's posted on her Facebook page private. But she made an exception when it came to expressing her appreciation for the condolences she's received in the wake of a horrific tragedy -- the accidental shooting death of her son, Eth ... More >>

Forge Motion Pictures and NRS Films premiere Of Souls Water: The Mother online

Carbondale-based filmmaker Skip Armstrong's short film The Mother premiered online this week, the second of five films in his series Of Souls Water for Forge Motion Pictures. The Mother, presented online in partnership with NRS Films and New Belgium Brewing, is a meditative profile of 67-year-old ... More >>

Weekend's best dance music bets: Sub.mission anniversary, Connie, Ana Sia and more

Another full dance card this weekend: Sub.mission celebrates its fifth anniversary with a big blowout at City Hall on Saturday, Connie (in her first-ever Denver set) and Ana Sia are both bringing the girl power in different genres this weekend, and they're balanced out by duo Thugfucker in that act' ... More >>

Boulder is America's happiest city, Colorado 5th happiest state, says Gallup Well-Being survey

More pics below.​The Daily Beast recently dubbed Denver America's angriest city -- but there's a lot of happiness nearby. Last year, Boulder was dubbed the happiest U.S. city in a Gallup Well-Being Index survey, and the community has repeated the feat. But that's not all. Look below to see oth ... More >>

A crash course in MacArthur-winning journalist Peter Hessler, as suggested by Peter Hessler

​Ridgway-based journalist and recent MacArthur "genius" grant winner Peter Hessler's work spans China, small towns in southwestern Colorado and back to Nepal. Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation which was announced its 22 winners yesterday, as well as a Q&A ... More >>

Aaron Million: Flaming Gorge foes send a big message about costly pipe dream

​Last week, we reported on the mounting criticism of Aaron Million's proposed 550-mile pipeline to deliver water to the Front Range. The opponents' campaign is just beginning, though -- as new billboards take that message to the public and to water officials considering the Flaming Gorge pipel ... More >>

Glenwood Springs ups its game to become "Most Fun Town in America"

Glenwood Hot Springs.​Most lists of the country's cutest, prettiest, drunkest, most livable/affordable/promiscuous places and/or people are, well, about as stupid as they sound. Standard response: "Sez who?" But there's reason to believe that Glenwood Springs earned being singled out as the " ... More >>

Comment of the day: Who's absurd? Not the BYU Honor Code

You're absurd.​While Ben Roethlisberger apparently gets a get-out-of-jail-free card for his numerous rapes on the well known "Bro, I was Wasted" defense, over in Utah, they do things a little different; BYU forward Brandon Davies was dismissed from the Mormon University's basketball team last ... More >>

Krispy Kreme Challenge and five other ways to get fat while exercising

Nothing says "fitness" like a dozen doughnuts. ​The eighth annual Krispy Kreme Challenge took place in North Carolina last weekend. The four-mile race is notable because it generates more than $100,000 for the North Carolina Children's Hospital -- but also because it has 2,400 calories of doug ... More >>

Copper Goes for the Gold

Three questions with Denver DJ Narky Stares

Ken Salazar: Did he blow the call on Utah energy leases?

Mike McKee.​Utah County Commissioner Mike McKee wants Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to release an internal report that concludes there was nothing improper about dozens of oil and gas leases in eastern Utah. Salazar canceled those leases in the early weeks of the Obama administration.

Perky Jerky is banking on caffeinated meat to pay the bills

Perky Jerky's "Meating Man" fights evil with beef jerky.​Unfortunately, the website for "Jerk and Go" was already taken (har), so Brian Levin settled on naming his company "Perky Jerky." While the name is a step down on the Crude-O-Meter, it's a step up in the accurate names department. Per ... More >>

Ethan Stacy: The Denver connection to the four-year old's brutal murder

The late Ethan Stacy.​Among the year's most horrific tales of child abuse involves Ethan Stacy, a four-year old found buried near Utah's Powder Mountain Ski Resort -- the victim of what an affidavit in the case describes as a "systematic and progressively more violent pattern of abuse" that in ... More >>

You've heard about the boycott; now try the buycott

The guys who called Coloradans' d*cks small: Shmucks of the Week

"I'm small, but I'm powerful."​So ...I love city and state rankings. I even wrote a whole ode to them once. I'm fully aware that they're complete bullshit, just bait for us desperate blogger-types to suck down and spit out in the form of free publicity for whichever company pulled the alleged ... More >>

Gary Coleman busts into our Busted Former Child Star Mug Shot Hall of Fame

"Top this, Brian Bonsall!"​Last month, we created our Busted Former Child Star Mug Shot Hall of Fame in honor of onetime Family Ties cast member Brian Bonsall, who was arrested in Boulder for allegedly smacking a pal in the face with a stool back in 2007. Little did we know, another candidate ... More >>

There's a water war on the Colorado-Wyoming border, and Aaron Million is quick on the draw

Salazar moves forward -- and backward -- on oil shale leases

​For decades, energy companies and the federal government have tinkered with ways of trying to extract the vast hydrocarbon fuel reserves buried in rock in western Colorado and eastern Utah. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar still has lots of questions about the process -- whether the curr ... More >>

Gambling with Homer: The Broncos are Super Bowl-bound

​Homer Duggins is the biggest sports fan in Denver and Westword's gambling, uh, "expert." Read his dispatches every Friday in the Latest Word sports section. What's that noise? It's a little whisper I keep hearing, a whisper becoming louder and louder, blowing on the wind until it becomes a r ... More >>

CNBC: Colorado No. 3 for doing business

A business here? Cheap. A loft, on the other hand ...  We're not that well educated, our transportation is West Virginia-esque, and you really want that much for that Highlands loft? But Colorado still ranks among the best states to do business in, according to a new study-type thing by CNBC.co ... More >>

"Sheriff" Salazar rounds up some artifact rustlers

In his first few weeks as Secretary of the Interior, former Colorado Senator Ken Salazar was fond of sporting his cowboy hat and declaring that there's a new sheriff in town -- even though the work at hand didn't lend itself to quick draws, as explained in my feature "The Zen of Ken." But now t ... More >>

Partin g Glances

Jean Arnold rushes back to Plus Gallery.

Our March Madness predictions: The men's Sweet Sixteen is looking pretty sweet

Toney Douglas, in a photo from Florida State's website. The headline on "Our March Madness picks: A prelude to humiliation...," a March 18 blog in which I shared the NCAA brackets filled out by my daughter Lora and me, may prove to be prescient very soon -- but at this point, we're still hanging i ... More >>

SAME Cafe: The restaurant where you pay what you can

Denver Music’s Media Onslaught

Pictureplane gets a shout-out on Pitchfork and Nathaniel Rateliff gets written up in Billboard, while DeVotchKa kills it on Conan and Flobots throw down on Carson Daly.

Best of Westword Winners From 1986

Day Four: Wherein I Get a New Roommate/Serial Killer

Critic's Choice

The Things They Carry

Street Wise

Robert Duran got jacked up. Then he grew up.

Beam Me Up

World flicks light up the Moondance Film Festival.

The Hard Sell

Local filmmaker Shane Carruth won Sundance's top honor. So...now what?

Dead Last

Redford and Lurie wave the flag but fail to earn their stripes.

The Bite

The yolk's on us.

Bad Guys, Legal Guns

Gangs steal firearms to build their arsenals -- and gun laws don't stop them.

Off Limits

See you in Telluride.

Q-Tip

Amplified
(Arista)

Mad All Over

This family of killer diseases hits close to home. Too close.

Insight Unseen

Thrills for the week

Rush to Judgment

Commerce City lets a private company issue speeding tickets--and causes a pileup.

Getting Cosy

Rough Waters

The Animas-La Plata project is supposed to fulfill the government's promise to Colorado Utes. But tribal opponents worry it will leave the reservations high and dry.

A MUNLY MAN

DEAD BALL ERA