This year, the prestigious “Best Roller Derby Nickname” award in our 2011 Best of Denver went to Frida Beater of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, who, in addition to having a kick-ass nickname, routinely kicks actual ass. But she’s not the only witty derby girl around. As such, we present the…
Theron and Teague Harrison, Manual High School’s top debaters and the subjects of our recent feature, “Say What?”, left Denver yesterday bound for New York City and the Urban Debate National Championship. Their coach, Charlie Smith, went with them, as did debaters Danite Reda and Talon Lousignont from Thomas Jefferson…
Update below: Denver Public School board president Nate Easley has survived an attempt to recall him. Supporters of the effort failed to collect enough valid signatures to place the recall question on an upcoming ballot. They needed 5,363. They collected 5,899. But of those, the Denver Elections Division found that…
For years, Denver Zoo orangutan Mias looked sad. “He was definitely lethargic and slower,” says Tiffany Barnhart, zoo spokeswoman. “We’d see him holding his head off in the corner and not participating in things with his mate.” But lately, things are looking up for Mias. Why? Because of fancy medical…
The first line of Carol Boigon’s new ad is this: “Whether you support medical marijuana or not, putting dispensaries everywhere is not a jobs plan.” Why did the mayoral hopeful, whose slogan is “Boigon Means Business,” mention pot? “There’s a number of my colleagues on the council — and one…
In July 2008, eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata of Greeley was beaten to death by a 32-year-old man she met online. In April 2009, a jury found that man guilty of murder. What’s more, they convicted him of a hate crime, finding that he had killed Angie because she was transgender. Tomorrow,…
We here at Effing Adorable Animal Baby Headquarters just got a super-important dispatch from the Denver Zoo: four new red ruffed lemur babies! Though not as effing adorable as the zoo’s four Amur tiger cubs — who won the prestigious Best Denver Zoo Animal Babies award in our2011 Best of…
Update below: As detailed in our feature, “Special Delivery,” a group of midwives, moms and home-birth advocates are pushing to expand the scope of what Colorado midwives can do. Among the proposed changes: allowing midwives to administer certain drugs and IVs, and making it legal for midwives to suture women…
Our recent feature, “Bug Bedlam,” dissected Denver’s struggle against the tiny, bloodsucking pests. And how do most people get rid of pests? With pesticides. But there are some who argue that’s the wrong approach — and dangerous. This weekend, they’ll gather in Aurora for the 29th annual National Pesticide Forum…
This past weekend, Carmelo Anthony — you know, that guy who used to be Denver’s best basketball player until the new Nuggets showed up and started kicking major ass (GAAAAAAALLO!) — did something in New York that he could have never, ever done in Denver: took just a few hours…
Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world’s hottest topics: human trafficking…
Supporters of the effort to recall Denver Public Schools president Nate Easley say they turned in more than 6,000 signatures yesterday to the Denver Elections Division. In order to place the recall question on an upcoming ballot, they need 5,363 valid signatures from voters. The Elections Division now has ten…
Update: Last night, the city council voted 10-0 to approve amendments to the city’s 1997 needle-exchange ordinance. The decision thrilled Lisa Raville, director of Denver’s Harm Reduction Action Center, whose mission is to empower and advocate for injection drug users…
Supporters of the effort to recall Denver Public Schools board president Nate Easley have until tomorrow at 5 p.m. to turn in 5,363 valid signatures from voters in Easley’s district of northeast Denver in order to put the recall question on an upcoming ballot. They’ve been at it for the…
The Denver Roller Dolls have a new home team: the blue-and-yellow Electrocuties, whose logo is a roller skate wheel with a lightning bolt trailing behind it. The Electrocuties have a superhero-ish vibe, says skater and team member Andrea “Kendra Blood” Hill…
A year ago, the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls launched a junior league, the Rocky Mountain Rollerpunks, for girls and boys who didn’t want to wait until they were eighteen to kick ass. The first year was phenomenal, reports Rollergirls spokeswoman PJ “Dangerous Leigh A’Zon” Shields — and now they’re gearing up…
Manual High School, home to top debaters Theron and Teague Harrison and a school with a long history of struggle, has picked a new principal: Brian Dale, who currently serves as assistant principal at Bruce Randolph School, another acclaimed “turnaround” story…
Theron and Teague Harrison, Manual High School’s all-star brother-sister debate team and Westword cover siblings, are going to the Urban Debate National Championship in New York City next month. The pair snagged second place at the Denver Urban Debate League City Championship this past Saturday, losing in the finals to…
This week’s cover story, “Say What?,” tells the story of the Manual High School debate team and specifically, brother-sister debaters Theron and Teague Harrison. Westword hung out with the team all year, watching as they practiced and competed, and won and lost. Why do the students participate in debate? Here…
More than one-hundred Denver high schoolers will spend all day Friday and Saturday talking about military spending, nuclear proliferation and dehumanization. It’s all part of the Denver Urban Debate League’s end-all, be-all tournament: the City Championship. Read about the league and two of its stars, Teague and Theron Harrison of…
B-Cycles are back! Yesterday was the first day the shiny red bikes with the spacious baskets were available for rentin’ and ridin’ in Denver. (Note to bad parents: The basket is not a baby seat. Your baby is not E.T. If your baby is, in fact, E.T., well, you’ve got…
Theron Harrison is frenetic today. Pacing back and forth in mismatched stocking feet — one black sock, one white — he glides on tiptoe across the wood floor in the neat living room of his family’s house in northeast Park Hill, thumping a mini-football against the wall as he dictates…
