“Beneath the paving stones — the beach!” went the rallying cry when artistic agitator Guy Debord and thousands of other leftist, avant-garde students took to the streets of Paris in 1968. Not only did they nearly take down the French government in their mop hair, loafers and form-fitting sweaters, but…
Read about Erik Osborn’s legal problems at westword.com/news. One Lincoln Park developer Erik Osborn has requested that the public defender’s office assign him a free attorney, despite the fact that he continues to live in a home that he and his wife, Angela Osborn, bought three years ago for $6.5…
Erik Osborn says he can’t afford a defense lawyer. Read about it here. Take a tour of his “villa” and judge for yourself, at westword.com/slideshow. At his latest hearing in Denver District Court, Erik Osborn stood to address the judge, alone. That’s a position in which the 41-year-old developer has…
Just got word that the SAME Cafe — the subject of last week’s Westword cover story — is going to be featured on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams tonight. Just turn to channel 9 tonight from 5:30 to 6pm. Here’s an article preview. UPDATE: Check out the video…
Ever since the Westword cover story on the SAME Café hit the stands last week, the non-profit restaurant reports that larger crowds of customers have been coming through the doors to pay what they want for food. So now is a great time to support Libby and Brad Birky’s feed-the-masses…
City officials announced a new program yesterday that will encourage artists to paint murals on walls across the city as a way to fight graffiti vandalism. Erin Trapp of the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs told members of the city council that $50,000 has been put into something they have…
The City of Denver budget has gone under the knife for 2009, but some sweet (and relatively secure) municipal jobs remain up for grabs. Currently, the city’s Career Services is listing several openings, ranging from golf course supervisors (salary: $44,989-$71,775) to marketing interns (salary: $0). There’s even a posting for…
If there was just one tenet of belief among the sneaky ranks of big-time criminal defense attorneys, it would be this: Thou shall not squeal on a client. Francis Pignatelli was a prominent defense attorney in Ohio until 2005, when federal agents learned that he had been helping clients launder…
Rice, stew, cornbread. Rice, stew, cornbread. There’s a comforting repetition to serving food at the Denver Rescue Mission. From behind the cafeteria window, I can see only the tops of the heads of the hungry as they pass in single file. Rice, stew, cornbread onto a metal tray and out…
To find out what recent customers paid for meals at the SAME Cafe, go to westword.com/slideshow. The first thing Brad Birky does is hand me an apron. “Would you mind starting on soup duty?” he asks, guiding me toward two large industrial cookers near the front counter. “This is tomato…
As you’ve probably heard, the mean ol’ IRS shut down the Anti-Gym earlier this month, forcing hundreds of self-hating exercise masochists out into the “fatty lazy” world. But while many media outlets have taken great joy in chipping away at the colossal ego known as Michael “No Chubbies” Karolchyk, no…
With the ongoing controversy over the the late Luis Jimenez’s deadly “Mustang” sculpture at Denver International Airport getting bluer and veiny-er with each passing day, we decided to call up another artist (a live one) who has also been on the receiving end of airport-art criticism: Denver artist Lawrence Argent…
As Joel Warner pointed out in “DIA’s Promo Photo Kicks Ass of All Other Airport Promo Photos, a blog published earlier today, the Facebook campaign to remove the Mustang sculpture from the grounds of Denver International Airport has garnered national media attention from the likes of the Wall Street Journal…
One of the best things about Marczyk Fine Foods, other than the fine foods, is that the shop, at 770 East 17th Avenue, has found a way around the out-dated Colorado blue law that keeps grocery stores from selling full-strength alcohol: the owners have simply opened a liquor store in an adjacent…
Well, I don’t know where the youth soccer teams in Northglenn are going to go to inhale second-hand smoke now that the Bingo Barn has gone into foreclosure. Documents filed with Adams County a few weeks ago show that the company that ran the operation is in the hole to…
I just stumbled upon this gem of mid-90s Denver rap, Give it Up 2 Da Mile High by the Black Hole Posse, and was transported back to a time of Fila sweatshirts, Alize and tall beanies. Clearly, the Black Hole Posse was all about “regulatin’ in this Colorado sunshine” with…
I was driving on Speer Boulevard near 12th Avenue when I spotted this tricked-out 2005 H2 Hummer with a very unadorned “FOR SALE” sign taped to the back. I just had to get a photo. Talk about a sign of the times. It reads: “Factory build-off truck. 1 of 2…
Ah, remember Denver in the ’80s? This television clip from November 1984 should jog your memory: Right-wing amendments, Ernie Bjorkman ruling the airways on Channel 2, college students favoring Reagan over Mondale, voters considering bringing casinos to Colorado, families eating corn on the cob at Wyatt’s Cafeterias, and car dealers…
As if all the Obama-related crap that was sold at the DNC in Denver wasn’t enough, we recently spotted Barackti Chai at the Whole Foods in Boulder. (Tyler Nemkov poured out the story here.) We knew that Obama’s face was the new Che, but the new Paul Newman, too?…
So a bunch of Denver prep school students are asking state legislators to pass a bill banning plastic bags in Colorado. Good for them! Plastic bags are insidious, earth-hating little contraptions that waste valuable petroleum and choke innocent sea turtles (or, in Colorado, what — prairie dogs?). Too bad plastic…
Oh, hell yes. It appears that Snarf’s, a veritable sandwich institution in Boulder, is opening a location at 11th and Ogden in Capitol Hill. It already has the ovens and counters installed inside, so hopefully it won’t be too long before we can get a hot dog, American cheese and…
Street artist Shepard Fairey, whose “HOPE” poster became an icon of the Obama campaign, did an interview with Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air earlier this week. Now that the Smithsonian recently purchased the original stenciled poster for its National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Fairey has officially gone from outsider…
