What do you get when you mix penguins at the Denver Zoo, a beam of light reflected off someone’s watch and Labor Day weekend boredom? Hours and hours of wholesome, family entertainment, that’s what!…
Editor’s note: A few comments have been removed from this thread, in accordance with Westword’s policy against identifying the victims or alleged victims of sexual crimes. Denver hair stylist Ty Tomlinson, owner of Blanc salon in the Golden Triangle, was arrested Monday on charges of sexual assault and domestic violence…
City officials get lots of cranky e-mails from residents. How cranky, you ask? Last Friday, the Denver Post reported that Jude O’Connor, a top official in the Denver Parks and Recreation Department, obtained a temporary restraining order against Andrew Wallach for sending e-mails “with a threatening undertone.” But while his…
Running through the Burger King parking lot at 2:30 a.m. on May 29, Shala Parker managed to catch the license plate of the green Cadillac DeVille as it zoomed onto Sixth Avenue and took a hard left onto Lincoln. To remember it, she screamed “727RUG! 727RUG!” as she ran back…
When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had…
The windows of the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters at 777 North Santa Fe Drive were smashed around 2:20 am this morning. As we reported earlier, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler was arrested for the crime. Apparently, an officer just happened to be driving by when he spotted two males whacking away at…
UPDATE8-29: Was this hit-and-run death a hate crime? “Let’s just run them over.” That’s the last thing Shala Parker says she heard from the three strangers in the Burger King parking lot before a green Cadillac DeVille plowed over her mother, 49-year-old Lilian Verdonkschot. Parker rushed to her mother’s side…
At first I thought it was the Hamburglar in his new role as a Fox News correspondent. But, no, on closer inspection it was The Troubleshooter himself, Tom Martino, chasing after my car with a camera man in tow. Apparently, Martino has some concerns about an article I penned last…
Despite this week’s Westword cover story detailing Sonia Sotomayor’s clear judicial bias against “numchuck sticks,” the Senate still voted to confirm the wise-Latina-loving nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 6. (Apparently the powerful pro-nunchaku lobby was too busy watching ass-kicking Bruce Lee clips on YouTube to mount serious…
Sergeant Kevin Orcutt stands over me: “Give me your arm, please.” He says it the way stereotypical cops talk, in a monotone demand with just enough polite formality to seem like a request. I know his goal is to handcuff me, so I’ve clenched my body into a ball. Face…
Writing can be painful sometimes. This is particularly true while putting together a feature article about a little-known weapon used by police departments across the country called an Orcutt Police Nunchaku. Nearly thirty years ago, a Thornton police officer named Kevin Orcutt became inspired by the flailing martial arts weapon…
If you somehow don’t get enough Jason Sheehan from chewing on the novela’s-worth of words he spews each week in the food section of Westword and on this very blog, or from digesting his new memoir Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen, then…
For Lindsey Kuhn, graphic design has nothing to do with computers. When the Denver artist started creating rock posters more than a dozen years ago, the process involved the use of real film, hand-cut images, silkscreen presses and lots of bright, bold colors. “When there was splatter, there was real…
Cheesman Park: It’s not just for weddings and Frisbee. As the onetime Mount Prospect Cemetery, it’s also apparently a good place to pick up bones of Denver’s former “villains, robbers and those that had a lot of malfeasance in their character,” according to this presentation by a guy who says…
One day, in the future, robots will do our farting for us. At least, that’s the impression left by this Whoopie Cushion sound sculpture at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, by local genius Jim Green. It runs through August 30…
On the June 23 episode of Martino TV, the paid-programming/news-magazine-style hybrid that debuted last month on KDVR/Fox 31 and KWGN/Channel 2, Tom Martino was hyping Efusjon, an energy drink made with the acai berry and other vitamins that also comes with “a business opportunity,” he told his audience. Martino’s guest…
Sometimes Westword stories will veer together. Whether through randomness or fate, the act of completely dissimilar topics or profile subjects colliding can either result in beautiful synergy — i.e., marijuana and Chinese food — or in a twisted wreckage of irony and pain. Case in point: Tom “The Troubleshooter” Martino…
The June 9 Westword feature “Down the Drain” examined how Denver officials are using funds designated for the improvement and maintenance of the city’s storm-water drainage system to pay for various non-storm expenses. The investigation found that more than $80 million dollars in “storm drainage fees” collected from property owners…
Shepard Fairey, creator of the iconic Obama “HOPE” poster, was sentenced to two years probation and a $2,000 fine Friday in Boston after pleading guilty to several vandalism charges of posting art on public and private property. He had been arrested in February before entering an art show. The bust…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cBurka Banthedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorEconomic Crisis Last night, Comedy Central aired a repeat of the July 1 Daily Show that included a segment with comedian Kristen Schaal (whom you might recognize from her role as obsessive fan Mel on…
Big news in the Post yesterday: Out of the ten busiest airports in the country, Denver International Airport had the fewest flier complaints about security screeners. But don’t tell mysterious blogger Dark Damian, who just posted “An Open Letter to the TSA Agents at DIA.” The self-described “black intelligentleman” lays…
I must have driven past this old set of row-homes just off Speer Boulevard in the Highland neighborhood a thousand times before I happened to notice the odd little symbol embedded in the brickwork: a swastika. I knew the upper Highlands was getting more white, but not this white! But…
