The open matchbook that is pictured above is my contribution to twelve-year-old Augusta Dexheimer’s Wedding Pillow Project. Gus and I go way back: Her parents are former Westword staff writers Eric Dexheimer and Robin Chotzinoff. So when Gus called and told me that she was celebrating her bat mitzvah year…
A liquor license official just issued a resounding “Fuck you” to the City of Golden and a handful of condo owners by deciding that the venerable Buffalo Rose bar and co-owner Murray Martinez didn’t violate state liquor laws this past August when Martinez sang “Fuck the condo people” to the…
Colorado is the latest state to join Secure Communities, a federal program that checks fingerprints of people booked into local jails against a national database of illegal immigrants…
The Colorado Lottery’s Mega Millions jackpot rose to $330 million on Tuesday. That’s a lot of green, and while we all like to fantasize about what we’d do with our winnings — pay the mortgage? – can we all agree to donate that money to the Broncos and the Rockies?…
Move over, Sarah Palin, there’s a new grassroots movement afoot: the Teapot Party, a legalization movement founded after everybody’s favorite midnight rider, Willie Nelson, was busted in Texas in November for pot possession. In an interview after the arrest, the songwriter noted, “There’s the Tea Party. How about the Teapot…
Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! Last year at this time, state senator Chris Romer was gearing up to push a measure through the Colorado Legislature that would get Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry under control — and as thanks, our readers have just voted him Shmuck of the Year (the…
Editor’s note: We broke this story on our Latest Word blog before this issue went to print. Read the whole story by Jonathan Shikes: “The ‘condo people’ get f*cked; Golden’s Buffalo Rose won’t be punished for telling them off”…
“O Scum All Ye Faithful,” Josiah Hesse, December 23 We’ve Got You Covered I picked up a copy of Westword at a Greenwood Village coffee shop near my office after seeing the punk-rock Jesus on the cover. I’m a member of Cherry Hills Community Church in Highlands Ranch and was…
The admonition greets visitors as they arrive for MATTER’s eleventh annual print sale and party. High on a wall of the design studio’s cavernous warehouse space on Market Street, the two-color screen-print poster warns in severely modified Helvetica Bold: “You may not steal the font library here, nor may you…
It’s your Monday edition of Denver Blogs, with a trio of interesting blog posts from around town. First up, a crack dealer selling to the people he was hired to protect: Jared Jacang Maher of Face the State (and formerly Westword) brings us this story of Lee Wright, a security…
All he had to do was not say something stupid and it’s possible that we would now be getting ready to inaugurate Scott McInnis Colorado’s next governor. After all, the Republican surge — led by the anti-Obama Tea Party segment — turned the elections into a near-bloodbath for Democratic candidates…
Is Denver’s new Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse all wet? The five-story, 310,000-square-foot building, the third and final structure in the Downtown Denver Justice Center campus that was authorized by Denverites in a 2005 ballot measure, was finished on time and on budget last July — but seems to have sprung a leak…
Nugget Kenyon Martin’s birthday was surely better than his April Fool’s Day, when teammate J.R. Smith’s driver filled K-Mart’s SUV with buttered popcorn. The power forward’s December 30 birthday appears to have been a happier affair, though it, too, involved some Nuggets hazing: Rookie guard Gary Forbes was elected to…
Broncos? What Broncos? Colorado Rockies season officially begins today, on the day after the pathetic (yet strangely exciting — near the end, anyway) Denver Broncos closed out their worst year in history with a 4-12 record, no coach and a huge number of problems…
Most people start the New Year off by making resolutions. Some people vow to exercise more or smoke less. Others opt to look for news jobs, new loves or even new clothes. The two men pictured below, however, had something else in mind. They chose to shoplift more. And they…
You may have seen it already, but if not, it’s worth a few minutes. On December 30, a man in Colorado Springs narrates an outrageous situation in Colorado Springs in which nearly every vehicle that tried to make it up the street ends up sliding back down and smashing into…
The neighborhood icon pictured above was inspired by the original logo used by Perl-Mack Homes Inc. to market its newest housing development in 1966. After the success of building Northglenn and Southglenn (now Centennial), Perl-Mack developed a suburban-style housing development east of then-Stapleton International Airport. Cut off from the city…
Because most of us can only stand the talking heads of the NFL pre- and post-game shows in two- or three-minute increments, we asked Broncos fans leaving the 33-28 loss to San Diego on Sunday at Invesco what they thought of the season. In three words or less. Photos and…
Note: This story has been updated with comments from Steve Saunders. Former 7News correspondent Steve Saunders announced on Facebook on Saturday that he plans to run for the Denver City Council seat being vacated by Marcia Johnson. Saunders, whose father is longtime entertainment writer and broadcasting critic Dusty Saunders, was…
Back at work this morning but not quite ready for it? Perhaps you’re mourning the Broncos’ season. At least you’re not a Rams fan; last night’s collapse was much worse than an entire season of abject failure. Anyway, kill some time by checking out our weekend coverage…
Crocs, the Niwot-based maker of brightly hued, comfy-ugly clown shoes, has had more than its share of PR disasters, from the hysterical reports of Crocs-shod kids getting toes nipped in escalators to the savage reviews from fashionistas to a wacky endorsement from Donald Trump. But all of that’s nothing, compared…
Our hat’s off to Denver attorney Michael Sawaya, whose law firm offered free taxi rides through the holiday season — for the fourth year running! — to drinkers who realize they shouldn’t drive. There’s just one roadblock to the project, as reveler blizzardo points out:…
