There are some memories from elementary school that just seem to stick in your mind: The time Tanya broke her arm on the tire swing… the gym teacher singing “Wind Beneath My Wings” at the school talent show… all that hilarious farting. But after watching the video after the jump,…
Looks like yet another art print on a temporary display at the Denver Art Museum has been sliced out and stolen by some sneaky sneak. This brings the count to four. Whereas all of the previous thefts were rock art posters from the museum’s Psychedelic Experience show, the latest print…
So being the financial masochist that I am, I decided to renew my car’s delinquent registration at 8 a.m. this morning, on the exact day that new fees and fines went into effect. The cost in March when my registration ran out: $87. The cost today: $283. But Jared, you…
Activists with the radical environmentalist outfit EarthFirst! have apparently taken a hiatus from monkeywrenching logging trucks and boiling pine cones for sustenance during three-month tree-sits to run a campaign in urban Denver against the various proposals to widen or reroute Interstate 70. So far, “High Country EarthFirst!” — a recently…
Yesterday, a woman who works as a hair stylist in LoDo complained to me about a rash of recent bike thefts in the area. Indeed, a quick check of Denver Police reports since Tuesday shows that at least six people who locked up their bikes near 17th and Wynkoop, and…
This summer, the Denver Police Department is planning on moving its mobile HALO surveillance cameras to a high-crime neighborhood near you. Read about our trip inside the HALO control center and click here to check out a slideshow of some of the cameras in their natural environment…
Nothing about Denver Police Department headquarters at 1331 Cherokee Street screams high-tech. The conference room where I meet Lieutenant Ernie Martinez has torn-fabric chairs that look like Chief Gerry Whitman fished them from a dumpster; Martinez leads me down a hallway lined with tile that might have been fresh in…
I got a call a few weeks ago from Jolt, local graffiti OG and head of the graffiti advocacy group Guerilla Garden. “Hey, man,” said Jolt, aka Jeremy Ulibarri. The background was noisy, like a freight train or an… indoor swimming pool? “We’re doing that project I was telling you…
See more Showcase photos at westword.com/slideshow. Arby’s, 6:30 p.m. The most insane, out-of-control venue at the Westword Music Showcase? No, it wasn’t Broadway’s with the metal bands or The Garage for the punkers. It was at the fucking Arby’s. Never before have I witnessed a fast food restaurant in a…
The entity that owns Coors Field is pursuing a view-plane ordinance that would prevent the construction of buildings that might block the view of the mountains from stadium seats — and not for the first time. A similar proposal in 2007 was dropped after controversy arose over property rights. Ray…
I thought I saw a vision of Jesus in my latte, but it was actually the guy who’s bigger than Jesus, John Lennon. In this video, local latte artist Michael Keen of Studio 6 Coffee in the Santa Fe Arts District shows how to do one of his many foamy…
Some people decorate their yards with garden gnomes, others use happy frog sculptures. Gertrude Cox has gargoyles. Four of the winged statues have the faces of cats; two feature the snouts of dogs. All of them guard the front walkway of her home in Athmar Park. “People love them,” Cox…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby,…
In May, we wrote about local auto pitchman “Dealin’ Doug” Moreland’s nasty dispute with Erik Osborn, the developer of über-fancy, über-troubled residential tower called One Lincoln Park. Osborn is currently awaiting trial on charges that he funneled money from his many construction projects to pay for his lavish Polo Club…
We thought we’d said our last goodbye of the Ski Train as it pulled out of Denver for the final time last month. But it looks like some hardcore rail lovers are chasing the famous orange Denver Rio Grande & Western Ski Train through Illinois as it heads to its…
In hopes of revamping its image as an industrial hellhole, Commerce City has hired an economic development consultancy to recast the berg as a diverse, forward-thinking municipality. The $80,000 the city is paying Texas-based AngelouEconomics should buy plenty of dreamy PowerPoint presentations. But one video they probably won’t be using…
It takes a special kind of bastard to commit such a crude, poorly planned crime as grabbing a lady’s purse on the street and running like hell. At least with a mugging or a carjacking, there’s some type of criminal/victim exchange like, Now I am going to rob you; please…
View Larger Map Some dirty dogs tried to blow up the Fat Cat Sports Bar (aka, Fat Cat Pub, Fat Cat Inn) Sunday morning between the hours of 1 and 6:15 a.m. According to a police report about the incident at 5060 North Federal, “unknown persons started a fire involving…
One advantage of traveling through Denver’s offbeat locations while reporting for Westword is that you sometimes get a first peek at some fresh graffiti pieces or notice little random blips of street art. Here’s a slideshow of some of the fine works I’ve spotted and snapped over the last month…
I’m slowly making my way through a detailed report just released by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy that evaluates smart-growth policies in the United States. It analyzes states that have smart-growth programs, such as Florida, Maryland, New Jersey and Oregon. Then it looks at states without legislation aimed at…
No, not Chris Andersen, you fairweather, bandwagon Nuggets fans. I’m talking about the original Birdman, Tony Hawk. It’s not every day that the most famous skateboarder in the world shows up at a mellow, hippie enclave like Nederland. Hawk and and members of his Birdhouse skateboarding team will be doing…
Last night, the Edgewater Inn was the only bar I could find on the westside that wasn’t crammed ass to elbow for the Nugs game. I ordered a beer and the lady working the bar asked if I would like it sooner. Of course I would like it sooner, I…
