Oh, ’80s prime-time soap opera: Where are you when we need you most? First there was Dallas, the story of scheming oilman J.R. Ewing and his family in Texas. Then there came Dynasty, about oil tycoon Blake Carrington and his clan, which was set in Denver but filmed in California…

Like so many others around the world, I was awed by the spectacle of President Bush ducking to avoid a pair of shoes hucked by Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi at a news conference yesterday. Apparently, flashing footwear at someone is one of the worst insults a person can give…

Should the family of a man who died after a fall at the long-vacant Gates Rubber factory be awarded damages? Or, to put it another way: Are property owners liable if unauthorized persons injure themselves while trespassing on their grounds? Both questions will have to be answered by a jury…

Don’t let the headline mislead you. The two-part Youtube vid “The Mysteries of the Denver Airport” still contains the blatant factual inaccuracies and staggering leaps of logic that bedevil all the theories on the internet that seek to link the Denver International Airport to a massive international conspiracy involving the…

I knew there had to be a reason why my hangover was magically cured Monday morning — Benny Hinn was in town! The mega-televangelist brought his  Benny Hinn Ministries healing sideshow to the Pepsi Center for the first time in three years, drawing thousands of believers for the 2008 Denver Holy Spirit…

Last week, the fine folks at the Denver Police Department sent us some handy-dandy shopping tips for us to pass along to readers to “assure their personal safety and an enjoyable holiday season.” But while things like locking the car and avoiding secluded areas seem like they might work well…

You know the greatest thing about Greeley mayor Ed Clark? He really knows how to relate to the young people of America. Like in June, Clark spotted a fifteen-year-old boy riding his motorbike down a neighborhood street, and somehow the former cop just knew that what the boy really wanted…

The Daily Telegraph in the UK recently compiled a list of “History’s Greatest Conspiracy Theories” – and the contributors have put the murals at Denver International Airport at number five! The DIA conspiracy is beaten out only by NASA moon landings, Roswell, JFK and 9/11. The paper notes how the…

Breaking it down at Broken Bread. Ask Edward Vazquez how he came up with the name Broken Bread for his recently opened graffiti art gallery and supply shop – the first store of its kind to exist in Colorado — and he begins by deconstructing bread as a metaphor for…

An image from Intimidad. The first measure of any non-fiction narrative, whether written or visual, is how close it gets to the real lives of its subjects. As its title suggests, Intimidad, which screened at the Starz FilmCenter last night as part of the Denver Film Festival, seeks a level…

Regas Christou puts a dome on it. If he can get past the liquor license board on December 3, nightclub magnate Regas Christou is hoping City Hall , his new outdoor venue at 1144 Broadway, will serve a more elite, upper-crust crowd than the grind-happy scenesters who frequent his other…

Key lyric from the Prince song “Controversy”: “Am I straight or gay?” In the latest issue of the New Yorker, writer Claire Hoffman checks up on the Artist-Currently-Known-As-Prince in his new Los Angeles mansion and finds that the flamboyantly androgynous musician (who was one pelted with garbage when he appeared…

In 2006, veteran Denver Health paramedic Robert Loop unmasked serial paramedic impersonator Brett Andrews at the scene of a rollover car crash (“The Impersonator,” August 31, 2006). “I knew that something wasn’t right, because he was wearing our uniform, but I didn’t recognize him,” Loop said then. Two years later,…

UPDATED BELOW The Colorado department that oversees EMT certification in the state is investigating a veteran paramedic for forging documents and working for six months without proper authorization at Denver Health Medical Center. Westword has learned that Robert Loop, who began working as a paramedic at Denver Health thirteen years…

The $140,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino was not paid to the City of Denver Treasurer’s office by the Friday, October 31 deadline. How do we know? The debt on the nineteen parcels along Welton Street near Five Points has been posted…

No human feces spotted here — yet. After several days of stepping over piles of human feces at the properties owned by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino — the subject of “Welcome to Hotel Martino: The Homeless Love It, the Neighbors Hate It, an October 30 Westword feature…

For a visual tour of Hotel Martino, go to westword.com/slideshow. Every night after the 8 p.m. free meal at the Denver Rescue Mission, 18-year-old Shantrell and 24-year-old A.K. walk six blocks to claim their spot on the porch of a vacant building at the edge of Five Points. Their home-away-from-homeless…

Jason Gomez was shot and killed during an altercation with a Denver officer in December. Jason T. Gomez was shot and killed last December after officials say he pulled what looked like a gun on a Denver Police Officer. It turned out that the only thing in the 33-year-old’s hand…

On Monday, when Sarah Palin arrived for a speech in Grand Junction, protesters tried to stop her motorcade as it rolled down North Avenue, the town’s main drag — and they got to eat some asphalt for their trouble. Witness the mayhem below…