Wouldn’t it be great if you could just negotiate-away your overdue library fines? If you could stroll into the Denver Public Library, offer them $1 and have your borrower status upgraded from “terribly horrible” to “awesomely awesome”? Well, you can’t, despite what the New York Times says. Yesterday, the Times…
Everybody loves a good, home-grown sex scandal. Especially scandals that involve Evangelical Christians, bestiality, horny moms and naughty schoolteachers. (Not all at once, sadly.) Colorado has played host to its fair share of salaciousness this past decade. Here, we look back at the sex acts that made us say “Hmmmmm.”…
Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony took his two-year-old son, Kiyan, to get up-close-and-personal with some wild beasts at the Denver Zoo last month, prompting his fiance, former MTV VJ La La Vasquez, to wonder if Melo was having a Michael-Jackson-dangling-Blanket-off-the-balcony moment…
Attention literary scofflaws, Anne of Green Gables hoarders and people-who-lose-shit-in-the-backseats-of-their cars! The Denver Public Library is out to teach you a lesson in 2010, and the lesson goes a little something like this: Borrowing library books is a privilege, not a right — and if you eff with that privilege,…
Denver Public Schools’ high school graduation rate is rising — but so far, it’s only risen to a mediocre 52.7 percent. That was the news yesterday from Superintendent Tom Boasberg, who announced the numbers at a press conference at North High School. North, on the other hand, saw its graduation…
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (known affectionately as “hick-puff”) didn’t win any popularity contests this past summer when it unveiled changes in the way Medicaid payments would be doled out to adults with disabilities who live at home — a conflict profiled in the Westword feature…
On the evening of August 12, Jeremy Hartman was in his dorm room at the University of Colorado assembling collages for four bulletin boards he was supposed to put together as part of his new job as a resident advisor. RA training had started a few days earlier, two weeks…
Say hello to the hunkiest construction-safety sign ever. It’s the kind of sign that makes you proud to be an American, and it’s hanging on the fence that surrounds the dirt hole at 12th Avenue and Broadway that will one day be the new History Colorado Center…
There’s something awesome at Arby’s. And it’s not the Arby-Q sandwich, believe it or not. It’s a set of three collectible Chris “Birdman” Andersen cartoon glasses, which sell for $2.49 each if you don’t order a $5.01 roast beef combo, and $1.89 if you do. The glasses are high-quality: They’re…
For two-and-a-half glorious hours on Sunday, the Nuggets’ Birdman will become Cherry Creek North’s Santaman. From 3 to 5:30 p.m., Chris “Birdman” Andersen will (in our imaginations) cover up his miles of tats with a fluffy red Santa suit and tuck his signature mohawk under a puffball-tipped stocking hat and…
Tonight’s Denver Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting at 6 p.m. at La Alma Recreation Center, 1325 West 11th Avenue, has nothing to do with La Alma itself, at least according to the agenda. No, it’s just the board’s regular monthly meeting, at which members are slated to hear public…
The debate over how to serve the state’s neediest citizens, including abused children, has come to a head in the weeks since a governor-appointed committee recommended that the state should take over county responsibilities for child welfare and services such as Medicaid and food stamps — an idea that the…
Parting gifts sure can be nice. Ernest Duran Jr., the outgoing president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 union (whose recent messy election was the subject of this week’s feature, “Can a Mild-Mannered Bakery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers’ Labor Strife?”), is scheduled to get one at…
If you’re thinking of renewing your city rec center pass, now is the time. Now, I say! Come January 1, the cost of belonging to one of the city’s (soon-to-be) 25 rec centers will be among the many Denver Parks and Recreation-related fees that are scheduled to increase. Instead of…
Crisanta Duran recently lost one election — a bid for secretary-treasurer of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. But she’s got her eye on another office. The 29-year-old currently works there as personal counsel to her father, union boss Ernest Duran Jr., who also lost a bid for…
Plenty of folks, including members of the Denver Post editorial board, have been pretty disapproving of new Denver Public Schools board member Andrea Merida in the days since she had herself secretly sworn in hours before a Monday-night board meeting so she could vote on controversial school reforms at the…
It’s over — and with nary a lawyer uttering this phrase: “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I give you Exhibit A, ‘The Butt Socket!'” The feud between the creators of two different iPhone fart apps — Loveland-based InfoMedia, Inc.’s iFart Mobile and Florida-based Air-O-Matic, Inc.’s Pull My Finger –…
From the other side of the counter, the top of Kim Cordova’s head is barely visible above stacks of bright-red boxes of holiday cookies that decorate the bakery department at the Safeway at Sixth Avenue and Corona Street. When the dark-haired clerk emerges from behind it, she’s clutching the tops…
The elephants are coming! The big, giant, hulking male elephants are coming. To Denver, that is. The Denver Zoo broke ground today on Asian Tropics — a ten-acre, $50 million partially publicly funded exhibit that could one day be home to the largest herd of Asian bull elephants in the…
Anyone who Googled anything today knows that it’s World AIDS Day. And anyone who drove by the intersection of Colfax and Broadway this afternoon knows select folks in Denver think clean needles are part of the solution to stopping the spread of the disease. For three hours, employees and friends…
Last night’s Denver Public Schools board meeting had its fair share of hateration. And plenty of people turned out to witness it. By 4:25 p.m., signs on the boardroom door at the DPS administration building at 900 Grant Street declared the room full and directed meeting-goers to the fourth-floor cafeteria,…
It’s Cyber Monday, a date that sounds as if it should be associated with discounted internet porn and not Christmas shopping — but so be it. And just in time for the holiday shopping season, the happy elves at the U.S. Public Research Interest Group — whose Colorado chapter, COPIRG,…
