Mighty Fudge Studios, the Boulder-based animation studio, is best known for its graphic hijinks, from cartoons attacking Jay Leno to boner ditties that are too risqué for YouTube. But it also dabbles in non-animated capers, such as its guerrilla No Clipboard Campaign that takes on the many well-meaning activists who…
A while ago, we profiled NetDevil, a Louisville game developer hard at work on LEGO Universe, a massively multiplayer online game based on LEGO bricks. LEGO Universe was a critical hit on its release late last year, but since then NetDevil’s collapsed, leaving just a bare-bones LEGO Universe team in…
It’s good to know that Focus on the Family is still around to provide unintentional comedy when that organization’s narrow-minded rhetoric slams head-first into reality. Case in point: On Wednesday during a Senate same-sex marriage hearing, Focus on the Family, represented by senior lobbyist Thomas Minnery, referenced a federal study…
Unless you’ve been living under a poorly-designed rock for months, you know that IKEA Centennial opens on July 27, at which point everyone within a four-state area will charge through its doors, frothing at the mouth for low-priced, assembly-required home décor. For those who can’t wait, here’s the takeaway from…
Freaky weather shut down Film on the Rocks last week. But before being driven off by rains and lightning, at least the crowd got to see one spectacle: local stand-up comic and Westword alum Adam Cayton-Holland getting down on one knee and proposing to his beloved Lizzy. As shown in…
Operation Fortune Cookie, a 2008 raid netting 24,000 marijuana plants, was the largest weed bust in state history — but it imploded among claims of police snitches, paid-off politicians and a secret DEA investigation. Last March, two Fortune Cookie investigators, Daniel Joyce and Robert Lopez, filed a lawsuit alleging they…
As described in the cover story “The Nutty Professor,” Boulder professor Peter McGraw, with the help of his Humor Research Lab (HuRL), has come up with a universal theory of comedy they call the Benign Violation Theory (BVT). Last week, McGraw and theory co-creator Caleb Warren showed off the BVT…
Folks who have tried to start taxi companies in Denver — an industry fraught with controversy — often butt heads with the Public Utilities Commission. Lately, PUC officials seem to swing back and forth as to whether the city needs more taxis, and many of decisions appear to benefit the…
The new status report from Independent Monitor and Westword profile subject Richard Rosenthal contains a real whopper: He says off-duty Denver officers caught driving drunk in Denver may be scoring get-out-of-jail free cards. Since 2005, ten off-duty Denver officers have been busted for drunk driving outside of Denver, but within…
“Well, it ain’t as good as Anna’s Taqueria.” My hometown Boston friends repeated this ad nauseam when they’d come to visit and I’d take them for a bite at Illegal Pete’s, Chipotle or one of Colorado’s other burrito joints. Anna’s Taqueria is Boston’s version of a taqueria, a longtime local…
Real-life superheroes, those brave (and some would say foolhardy) folks who strap on costumes and battle evil wherever they can find it, are reaching media saturation. They’ve become a staple of nightly news stations, scored a lengthy shout-out in Rolling Stone, and one of them, a lone soul who goes…
“During my tenure as Auditor, I have never had to write a transmittal letter as detailed and scalding as this one,” Denver City Auditor Dennis Gallagher wrote in the cover letter to his office’s recent audit of the Career Service Authority, the agency that provides human resources for 8,500 Denver…
The trouble started not long after Troy Bettinger was hired in June 2008 as a supervisor for the Recruiting Section of Denver’s Career Service Authority, the agency that handles human resources for most city employees. Former employees say Bettinger didn’t inspire professional confidence when he used a pocket knife to…
Boutique roaster Novo Coffee recently got a batch of Esmeralda Geisha, one of the most lauded coffees in the world and the subject of the Westword feature “Pot of Gold.” If you stop by Novo’s retail location at the Museum Residences, 1200 Acoma Street, you can grab a cup for…
As Denver’s boutique coffee scene continues to develop, establishments are offering up an ever-increasing variety of Joe, from the essence of Tanzanian peaberries extracted through a French press to Sumatran varietals processed through beakers and tubes straight out of a mad scientist’s laboratory. But none of these options are as…
Yesterday the Colorado Public Utilities Commission reversed PUC Judge Paul Gomez’s March ruling to allow 300 more cabs in Denver streets. Gomez’s ruling was divisive because he had earlier denied a politically fraught attempt by local drivers to start Mile High Cab, saying Denver didn’t need more taxis — and…
What should pharmacists do about medical marijuana? Because it’s a criminalized substance under federal law, pharmacists, like other health-care workers, aren’t supposed to have anything to do with it. On the other hand, pharmacists want to meet the needs of their patients, many of whom have medical marijuana IDs. The…
This afternoon, the full-scale model of a rail car that will run to DIA is scheduled to depart from Union Station, where it’s been displayed for five weeks to gather feedback. But unlike the real DIA train cars of the future, this one won’t be departing on rails. The 10,700-pound…
Do you believe in marijuana miracles? Jim Hagedorn, CEO of Scotts Miracle-Gro, certainly does. The multi-national plant-food company, which is based in Ohio, is eying a product line targeted to the medical pot business. It could be a sign that mainstream industry is finally ready to embrace the blossoming MMJ…
Update: At a status hearing today, Boulder District Judge Lael Montgomery denied requests by Alex and J. Nold Midyette to participate in Molly Midyette’s fight for a new trial. That means Molly’s former husband and father-in-law won’t get to take the stand during a one-week hearing on the matter now…
Allegations of Denver police brutality, from Michael DeHerrera’s beating in LoDo to Alex Landau getting pummeled after allegedly making an illegal left turn, continue to make headlines. But how bad is Denver’s police misconduct problem? Here’s one point of comparison: While Denver has spent more than $10 million settling police…
Leeroy Jenkins is back! The World of Warcraftvideo game character (and the local gamer behind him Ben Schulz) shot to international super-stardom thanks to a 2005 viral video. While the psycho-warrior has been quiet for a few years, he’ll be charging into the limelight tomorrow, June 18, from 5 to…
