For a moment, it seemed like the battle over Jefferson Parkway was entering a kumbaya era. Late last year, Golden, Boulder and Boulder County all announced they were considering deals to lift their longstanding opposition to the toll road in exchange for certain payoffs from Jefferson County. The proposed road…
One thing you can say about the Shadow Theatre Company: They sure know how to create the drama. After failing to pay rent for most of 2010, the bankrupt troupe was evicted from their Aurora space last month. Now, their former landlord has filed a report with Aurora police that…
Denver mayoral candidate Carol Boigon sent out a press release yesterday afternoon that included an announcement that her campaign had launched a new website at www.boigonmeansbusiness.com. But when folks plugged the address into their internet browser, they were instead redirected to the official website of rival candidate Chris Romer…
The University of Colorado at Boulder decided to shut down its journalism school and is looking to reboot the program, with President Bruce Benson seeking feedback from media-industry pros. It’s a peculiar question in the Westword office, since many past and present writers never went to any journalism school, let…
You might recall the hubbub back in 2009 when news broke that Duane “Dog” Chapman and his Dog the Bounty Hunter crew had apparently been shot at while attempting to apprehend a bail jumper in Colorado Springs. But now, the man arrested following the April 21, 2009 incident is suing…
The other night a pothead friend was complaining to me about the lack of any candidate he could support in the Denver mayor’s race. I noted that Doug Linkhart, the Denver city councilman who tried to extend reviews on MMJ grows but couldn’t muster the votes, has said he supports…
Today’s Denver blog roundup… State Bill Colorado says SEIU hopes to bring Wisconsin union fight to Colorado’s gold dome. Denver Daily News follows up on bloggers hit with Denver Post copyright lawsuit via “bottom-feeding legal outfit” Righthaven, with one site operator vowing to file counter-suit. Denver Direct says state animal…
The debate over Denver’s pit bull ban is typically characterized as a never-ending argument over whether the breed is inherently dangerous or unfairly maligned between stubborn, closed-minded politicians (who argue the former) and fanatical pit bull advocates (the latter). But the real issue is whether Denver should continue with an…
It’s a bit of cheeky coincidence that the man who co-founded Wild Oats Markets in Boulder twenty years ago has been accused of attempting to sow those oats with an underage prostitute in New Mexico. Turns out that one of the first stores Michael Gilliland purchased en route to building…
The number of foreclosed properties getting sold at auction has dropped significantly in Colorado. In Denver, just 186 were snagged at the auction block last month, a 25 percent drop from the 249 that were sold in January 2010. Could increased competition be an explanation for why the Denver Public…
In hopes of climbing out from beneath crushing debt, the Shadow Theatre Company formally declared bankruptcy earlier this month. Its biggest creditor: Seedco Financial. According to bankruptcy documents filed February 2, Shadow owes $220,924 to Seedco for a “Bank Loan.”…
A Denver-area woman who goes by the name Gabi Jones recently told the British newspaper Metro that eating to excess causes her to have orgasms. “Junk food makes woman have orgasms” was published last week, and the story has since been picked up by news outlets around the world. Jones…
Denver city officials are engaging in some interesting wordplay in an effort to keep a special budgetary task force’s meetings behind closed doors. The Structural Financial Task Force — comprised of 21 community, business and civic leaders — was recently convened by Mayor Bill Vidal to “address the structural deficit…
New foreclosure filings in Colorado are at an eight-month low and the number of foreclosed properties being sold at auction is down nearly 22 percent from this time last year, according to a report released today by the Colorado Division of Housing. “The past several months have certainly been positive,…
Poor, sad Denver International Airport. No matter how much money and effort officials expend trying to craft DIA’s image as an efficient, modern portal of global travel, its reputation is forever linked to wild accusations about underground bases and the New World Order…
You have no clue how close I was to having you put in the fucking hospital,” says Scottie Ewing. I’ve called Ewing to ask about the latest development in the federal tax-evasion case involving his onetime ownership of a high-end prostitution service known as Denver Players and Denver Sugar. A…
Interesting tidbit in the Post business section this morning about how local developer David Engleberg has decided to take a break from the real estate business by taking over a Denver cigar shop. But according to Penny Parker, the “former owner of the Capitol Cigar at 919 E. Colfax Ave…
This video by the folks over at Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies is a great hour-by-hour delineation on how the Falcon Heene/Balloon Boy saga went from a local news oddity to international media frenzy, and then to the kind of fast-spreading cultural virus known as a “meme.” Oh yeah, it’s…
Where did all of Erik Osborn’s money go? Documents filed in connection with more than $1.2 million in judgments against him suggest that a good portion of it went for improvements on the multimillion-dollar mansion that the Osborns bought at 7 Polo Club Lane in Denver’s exclusive Polo Club. Angela,…
Developer Erik Osborn and his wife, real-estate broker Angela Osborn, wowed investors a few years back with their vision of converting roughly six acres of parking lots flanking downtown’s financial district into a vertical neighborhood of luxury condos and upscale retail shops. But it wasn’t long before their arrangements with…
Here’s the best thing about living in Denver in the winter: Snowy and cold up in the mountains, sunny and warm down in the city. Snow/Sun … Wet/Dry … see how that works? Then, in 2007, Winter Park and the City of Denver’s parks department had to go and come…
We’ve all heard about suicide-bombers wearing woman’s burkas in Iraq and Afghanistan, but who knew dressing in drag would catch on with wannabe bombers in the U.S. as well? Frederick Purvis of Hamilton, Ohio, was sentenced to thirty months in prison yesterday for sending at least ten e-mails to federal…
