A tip for newbie skateboarders: Start making stickers of the letter G, so that when you encounter one of the gazillion signs that proclaim “No Skateboarding,” you can change the “No” to “Go.” “But, officer,” you can say, “I was just obeying the sign.” Then push like mad down to…
The folks at the Denver Zoo have found a great manipulative slogan to get crowds through the turnstiles this summer: “Every time you visit you help animals.” I spotted this ad on an RTD bus on Colfax this morning, and managed to snap this pic from my passenger-side window. Although…
After watching the above YouTube video, I’m not sure if I should be angry at Jim or feel sorry for Jim. He’s the Downtown Ambassador flack in the yellow polo shirt who told a group of 9-11 Truth conspiracy theorists they couldn’t hand out DVDs on the 16th Street Mall…
For the first and probably last time, a select group of citizens, politicians and members of the media got a chance this afternoon to get up close and personal with what is quite possibly the nation’s most terrifying piece of public art, “Mustang,” by Luis Jimenez. Since the 32-foot-tall fiberglass…
Groups hoping to organize marches during the Democratic National Convention got a better idea today of what route they’ll be allowed to take. The Mayor’s office has released what will be the only designated parade route through the city from August 25 to 28. Marches will only be allowed to…
For 45 months, and as recently as last week, Denver Health and Hospital Authority administrators told anyone who asked — paramedics, union representatives, Channel 7, Westword — that they were correctly calculating the ambulance response times that they provide yearly to the city. Then, on Tuesday evening, as our story…
Thinking of checking out Colorado’s gorgeous scenery this summer? Maybe some mountain lakes? Elk? A raging river or three? Go ahead. Have fun. That’s exactly the type of thing THEY want you to do. They being the pleasant little folk known as the CIA, the Illuminati, the corporate/alien overlords and/or…
Thinking of checking out Colorado’s gorgeous scenery this summer? Maybe some mountain lakes? Elk? A raging river or three? Go ahead. Have fun. That’s exactly the type of thing THEY want you to do. They being the pleasant little folk known as the CIA, the Illuminati, the corporate/alien overlords and/or…
Once again, allow Westword to clarify: Jeff Peckman and Stan Romanek have not released the full video of their peeping tom alien. Peckman merely showed it to the media at a Denver press conference in late May, but would only allow still photos. So if you’ve seen a two minute…
Denver has traditionally looked up to Seattle the way a sixth-grader stares in awe at the cool high school neighbor from down the street. Unlike rock star cities like New York or London, Seattle is roughly similar in size and status to Denver, but has still managed to reach a…
On Wednesday, June 4, administrators at the Denver Health and Hospital Authority admitted that they have been miscalculating the ambulance-response times of their paramedic division for the past four years. This admission came in the wake of a Westword investigation which revealed that Denver Health’s ambulance system was failing to…
Michael Hancock got the call at 6:30 a.m.: His sister had been shot. Hancock lived less than five minutes away, and when he screeched to a halt on a quiet neighborhood street in Montbello, he saw his sister, 41-year-old Karen West, in the driver’s seat of her SUV. “I walked…
Frontier Airlines reached an agreement with the Teamsters Union on Tuesday for a wage and benefit cut that will last through the summer. Meanwhile, many of the employees who are seeing as much as a 10 percent slash in hourly pay are wondering if the DIA-based carrier will be around…
Special Agent Peter Miles Regenold Bergman of the Institute of Sociometry relayed this official memo concerning a recent experi-stunt involving those stacks of Qwest phone books that Dex routinely abandons in lobbies of offices and apartments across the city. This marks the first action the Institute has undertaken downtown since…
The term “urban contemporary art” has gone from vague title to official category over the past five years. But when Aaron Rose first opened Alleged Gallery in New York City in 1992, the new style of art barely had an identity. “I met all of these young artists who didn’t…
Attention, all snooty contemporary art nerds and starving painters/taggers/sculptors/illustrators/photographers/designers of Denver! Want to check out the screening of Beautiful Losers at the Mayan next Thursday? For free? Test your skills at identifying the artists behind the works shown after the jump. The first three people to send a correct list…
Art geeks will recall the Beautiful Losers exhibition that toured American museums from 2004 to 2006 (it featured Colorado native Evan Hecox) and the subsequent book of the same name that profiled the emerging aesthetic category now known as Urban Contemporary. Well, the man behind both of those projects, Aaron…
A 20-year-old Denver man was arrested Saturday after leaving a toddler in a locked car while he watched dancers at Shotgun Willie’s strip club. According to a police incident report, a Glendale officer was flagged down at 6:46pm on May 10 by a Fascinations adult superstore manager who was concerned…
Check out the trailer for the new graffiti documentary Bomb It, screening tonight at the Starz Film Center to kick off three days of graffiti events organized by Kim Owens over at www.kaffinebuzz.com. Directed by Jon Reiss – who will be on hand afterward to answer questions – the film…
Apart from issues such as illegal immigration and eminent domain, there’s nothing that gets middle-class property owners as blindly furious as graffiti. Kim Owens, of the online magazine Kaffeine Buzz, has taken to calling it the “G-word” while planning Street-2-Screen, which is shaping up to be one of the most…
The fact that the Denver District Attorney’s Office actually filed aggravated assault charges and arrested Denver Police Officer Chuck Porter on May 8 shows how serious the allegations against him are. The incident on April 18, which occurred in the lower Highland neighborhood near Chubbies on 38th Avenue, sent sixteen-year-old…
Are you in the market for an automobile with plenty of room for kids as well as cadavers? Need a comfortable sedan that will strike terror in the hearts of elderly neighbors? Are you tired of that new-car smell because you’d really rather impress friends with the old-corpse smell? Does…
