Denverites love a scrappy underdog and a parade — but sadly, time and circumstances don’t always permit a joyous combination of the two. The ideal Grand Marshal of the 2010 Parade of Lights would be underdog Ward Churchill, but there are not enough snow-making machines in hell to make that…
The enhanced security screenings at DIA provide an excellent opportunity for Coloradans to get used to more aggressive pat-downs. Should state Republicans get their wish, searches to prove citizenship would start tomorrow. As citizens withdraw more into their cyber-selves, they’ll welcome the protracted crotch caress as Uncle Sam’s handshake of…
For wildlife, Interstate 70 is the forage-lined kill zone that bisects Colorado. Last June, the ARC-International Wildlife Crossing Infrastructure Design Competition invited architects, engineers and ecologists to create the next generation of animal overpass for the top of West Vail Pass. The five finalists of the competition will on display…
The color scheme of the Harvey Park logo shown above pays homage to the colorful, nationally renowned jazz-age orchestra leader and his sprawling Black and White Ranch, on which the southwest Denver neighborhood was built…..
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn ornaments… The unhappy face of the little black doggy seen in the picture above hints that the epic front-yard parallel universe created by his porch-swinging overlord may be a bit of a disappointment, if not an epic fail…..
In spite of the best efforts of neighborhood activists, the Denver Public School Board has unveiled plans, shown in the photo above, to sell the abandoned Byers Junior High School building to a successful Detroit-based developer of high-end dog malls…..
The turkey-carcass sled comic seen above advises that the leftover skeleton from the Thanksgiving dinner can double as an inexpensive toboggan. It sounds like a ridiculous idea, but it is based on a true-life childhood experience of a Westword co-worker…..
From the Kenny Be vault. Originally published on November 18, 2004. The U.S. Department of Energy’s refusal to provide funds for a Cold War museum at Rocky Flats is a true blessing. What is needed at the site is a tourist-friendly attraction that is completely funded by corporate dollars…..
Birdman Chris Andersen has used his colorful plumage to become the city’s most beloved Turkey McNugget. But he is not the only bird in town. Denver is full of turkeys, and Thanksgiving is the time to honor them for their efforts by roasting them… We present Denver’s Tastiest Turkeys. All…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn ornaments… In Douglas County, the imprisoned pilgrim pictured above might actually have constituted a political statement about our founding fathers and the current state of American freedom. However, in the Country Club neighborhood of Denver, this goose probably belongs to a cohabiting…
Artists in Denver are a dime a dozen, but art collectors are worth their weight in gold. The University Hills home pictured above proves how an art collector can turn an ordinary ranch-style house into an inside-out art gallery. The partially exposed banner featuring an image created by artist Rene…
Five years into Mayor Hickenlooper’s ten-year plan to end homelessness, the Road Home program has been honored for its success by the El Pomar Foundation. Hick’s a penny-pinching genius and found that by doing something rather than nothing, he could reduce Denver’s annual cost per homeless person from $40,000 to…
The bent railing on the fence, the leaning street sign and the tire tracks marking the sidewalk in the picture above are all tell-tale signs of an auto accident. The location of the accident scene — at the base of a hill — combined with the trace of snow on…
A spear dissects the logo pictured above like Speer Blvd. dissects the neighborhood that takes its name…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration… Yale Avenue is the dividing line between liberal Harvey Park and conservative Harvey Park South. South of Yale, the faith in conventional values can instantly be seen in the Disneyfication of neighborhood yard art. The Minnie and Mickey Mouse yard art…
The West Highland neighborhood is the home of the (former) Elitch Gardens Amusement park and hotbed of Denver Democratic politics. So it’s only fitting that the icon shown above would include a reference to a historic carousel. The rotating rides may have left the streetcar suburb when Elitch’s was relocated…
Speaker Designee Frank McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, thinks Republican candidates are selling like hot-cakes, so he has jacked the the House and created a huge flap by renaming committees to better represent the priorities of the Republican Party…
Rep. Doug Lamborn, the grouch in the trash can to the right in the picture above, represents Colorado Congressional District 5. His bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio is getting a lot of attention and support over at Fox News, and is leading to…
Taggers usually use words or images to convey personal messages when defacing park signs with little or no regard for the public message that they are obliterating. The sign pictured above is unusual because spray paint was used as an editing tool to actually modify the message of an existing…
Yard Arteology: The study of neighbors through lawn decoration… The picture above suggests that before the current economic crisis, credit was so easy to obtain that children were securing no-interest tree-home loans in order to buy swimming pools and hot tubs for their tree houses…
The joy of living in Denver is that every moment of every day is exciting enough to be a Hollywood movie. Whether it’s politics, sports or the arts, the weird, wonderful and wacky people of Denver — and their pursuits — would make for a fantastic full-slate at the Denver…
Colorado First Lady Jeannie Ritter gives Denver First Lady Helen Thorpe a firsthand tour of the Colorado governor’s mansion…..
