We begin a new week of Denver blog roundups with these three contestants… Roundball Mining Company’s Jeremy tries to explain the contradictions in the latest Carmelo Anthony rumors. His conclusion: Melo wants out, but he’s laying low to avoid coming across like a puppet master. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna weighs…
CU-Boulder’s distinguished alumni list includes the likes of politicians Hank Brown and Ralph Carr, sportscaster Chris Fowler, South Park co-creator Trey Parker and attorney Glenn Porzak, whose entry notes that he “led the first American team to climb two peaks over 26,000 feet on the same trip: Mt. Everest and…
Last month, we told you about Joseph Lightfoot, a man accused of child abuse simply because he grows marijuana in his home — something he’s authorized to do thanks to his caregiver status. Tomorrow, Lightfoot will appear at a preliminary hearing in Denver County Court — and attorney Dan Murphy…
Why is this woman smiling? Because she’s pouring a glass from the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery for Westword editor Patricia Calhoun, one of many who showed up at a secret Justice League of Street Food party documented by photog Coleen Whitfield. And that was hardly the only images our…
The middle building pictured above is not the tallest home in Denver, but it sits at the highest elevation in the city. It’s located in a West Highland neighborhood that is being overtaken by pop-tops and scrape-offs that reach ever-upward for the view of the Rampart and Central Front Ranges…
Kyle Orton has been praised up one side and down the other for his play in this weekend’s loss to the Detroit Lions. Why? Presumably because Broncos fans, and journalists covering the team, are so desperate to find something positive to write about a team seemingly on the fast track…
Al Stults Jr. swears that when he told a Safeway deli clerk that he likes large breasts, he was talking about chicken breasts — not anything attached to her. Which explains why he’s so upset about receiving a trespassing notice from the Lakewood Police Department banning him from the supermarket…
Radio personality Reggie McDaniel, who died Friday at age sixty, divided audiences simply by being himself. Some listeners loved his “Everyday People’s Entertainment Guide” because of the way it rejected critical pretension, while others saw him as a throwback to an earlier generation of African-American showmanship — one they were…
Today, Fort Collins Police will reportedly review video footage from rioting that broke out early Sunday morning following Bohemian Nights at NewWestFest in Old Town. The incident sparked multiple arrests and the burning of at least one vendor tent, presumably in honor of an element in the name of headliner…
Matt Joe Weber has been in trouble before; back in 2007, he reportedly was busted on charges of felony vehicular eluding and DUI. But that’s nothing compared to what’s facing him now. Weber was arrested yesterday in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man early that morning at Broomfield’s…
With the deadline for printing Colorado’s ballot fast approaching, Tom Tancredo will have to move fast if he wants to replace Doug “Dayhorse” Campbell, the American Constitution Party lieutenant governor candidate he inherited when he took the top spot. The name of conservative columnist Michelle Malkin stirred interest — and…
And now for your final blog roundup of the week: Roundball Trading Company gives us its speculations on the all-but-impending Carmelo Anthony trade. Gilbert Arenas, really? Purple Row has a breakdown of the Rockies’ weekend series with the “venomless” Arizona Diamondbacks. And the Denver Egotist shows you how to propose…
Clear the Bench’s Matt Arnold says an overwhelming majority of Colorado voters will not be reelecting four Colorado Supreme Court Justices this fall, and he has the poll numbers to prove it. A phone survey of roughly 900 Colorado voters — relatively evenly balanced between age, sex and political party…
Alan Prendergast’s August 19, 2010 Westword cover story, “Asphalt jungle: For years, Denver police thought this parking lot was the most dangerous spot in LoDo. What’s changed?” explains the violence in the Lower Downtown neighborhood of Denver after last call, when the streets are full of people…
Hundreds of medical marijuana clinics have opened across the metro area — it’s hard to throw rock and miss one. And while some would argue there too many, one benefit has been that once-vacant storefronts and buildings have been given a new lease on life as a pot shop. Some…
On Thursday, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that it plans to transform the 1885 Emerson School in the Capitol Hill neighborhood into a model for greening historical buildings…
Denver Public Schools is launching a radio series aimed at teaching English to Spanish-speaking parents and families. Called Maestro en Casa (Teacher at Home), the series will debut on September 15 on MARIA 1090 AM. At a press conference at Kepner Middle School this morning, Superintendent Tom Boasberg said the…
Republican gubernatorial “nominee” Dan Maes brought a lot of attention to Denver’s B-cycle bike-sharing program earlier this month when he theorized that the program was really some sort of hidden propaganda for a secretive United Nations plot. (“This is bigger than it looks on the surface!”)…
As we suspected last week, more charges have been filed against alleged pedophile Benjamin Janicki. The nineteen-year-old Janicki had already been arrested and accused with sexual assault on three little girls at the Park Hill United Methodist Church Children’s Center, and today the DA’s office says they have evidence of…
Just when you thought the story of the iPad thief who caused his victim to lose a finger couldn’t get any weirder, the alleged genius, Brandon Darnell Smith, 21, has been accused of trying to have the man killed so he couldn’t testify against him in court. Is there an…
Denver Moves will roll out a floor-sized aerial photograph of the city tonight at Bates & Hobart Park in an attempt to get community input on bike and pedestrian paths. Subsequently, everyone involved will have the chance to live out Godzilla-like fantasies of stomping around a miniature version of Denver…
In addition to taking the primary election away from his Republican challenger, gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes would be wise to grab on to the remaining “Scott McInnis for Governor” billboards that are still up around town and reuse them for a cost-efficient campaign. The cornball message of the Scott McInnis…
