While scalpers weren’t hawking The Princess Bride tickets for three or four times their $10 box office price – as they did on Craigslist for the Hangover last week – the Film on the Rocks movie did sell out Tuesday night. It was the second consecutive sellout for Film on…
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of Louisiana is currently called a “disaster,” but that will change with time. Because Americans love petroleum more than life itself, they will no doubt find a way to turn this catastrophe into cash. Imagine Carnival’s pirate-themed cruises through flaming seas and…
Note: This story cartoon will appear in this week’s issue of Westword. Politicians and tarot decks are amazingly similar. Both were created for trick-taking games, and both are largely used by the foolhardy to foretell the future. The personalities of Colorado’s most widely known politicians correspond remarkably well to the…
The naming of a former prosecutor to head the scandal-plagued Minerals Management Service, coupled with President Barack Obama’s lackluster but occasionally pugnacious speech about making British Petroleum “pay” for the oil-slick disaster in the Gulf, suggests the administration is finally starting to look at poor regulation of oil-and-gas drilling in…
Murders, forgers, tax evaders. They’re all scumbags to varying degrees, but none is as scummy as the sex offender. And while you’d never know if you had a multiple murderer living next to you, sex offenders have to register. A lot of them don’t, which has a lot to do…
As aggregated news and poorly sourced blogs permeate an industry once driven by a dying breed of scrappy local journalists, the little guys at the heart of the big story are often forgotten — or worse, just plain robbed. But Rick Carroll, managing editor at The Aspen Times and one…
At the beginning of May, Reyna Von Vett’s burlesque company (which won a Best Of award for Best Burlesque Comeback this year under the umbrella Black Box Burlesque before changing its name to BurlyCute) took up residency at the Crossroads Theatre, a stage located in the heart of Five Points…
The rehabilitation of Denver’s historic Union Station into a modern transit hub is one of the most complicated and ambitious projects ever attempted around here: a convoluted labyrinth of rail lines, bus infrastructure, pedestrian walkways and private development crammed into a crowded, historic corner of LoDo plagued with underground utility…
The latest and greatest from today’s Denver Blogs. The Denver Egotist sets the wayback machine to 1990, when Walkmans (Walkmen?) were the rage for portable music, and people wore six neon watches for style. Note the Westword shout-out. Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams was pulling for Sue Lowden to win…
A documentary film about dolphin hunting in Japan directed by Boulder resident Louie Psihoyos has come under fire in — where else? — Japan. According to the website for The Cove, a right-wing nationalist group has raised enough ruckus that three Japanese theaters have canceled screenings of the Oscar-winning doc…
Colorado’s reputation as a breeding ground for gun-toting xenophobes and religious fanatics got a nice boost today when a Greeley man — armed with a pistol, a forty-inch sword and some hashish — was detained in northern Pakistan after he tried to cross over into Afghanistan and avenge the 9/11…
If you haven’t yet voted for your choice for the next round of One Book, One Denver, then start panicking. Today is the last day to help choose the book that Mayor John Hickenlooper will command everybody to read this fall, in order that we may be “stimulated to read”…
Erik Osborn, the One Lincoln Park developer convicted of felony theft, didn’t just rip off his business partners and residents, according to Face the State. He also ripped off the city’s affordable housing program, to the tune of $1.2 million. Here’s how, according to FTS reporter and Westword alum Jared…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decorations… Figure 65. Northglenn: Tree-generated animation of Boo Boo ad Yogi Bear leafs out the pic-a-nic basket. The tornadoes and hailstorms that plague Denver’s northern suburbs often leave gardeners of the area wondering how to decorate the stumps and twigs that are left…
Friend, do you consider yourself both gifted and green? Do coworkers refer to you, without a hint of mockery, as some kind of ecogenius? Do you spend time wondering not why the doe crosses the road, but how the hell she doesn’t get eviscerated doing it? Are you the Da…
Jeff Peckman, the creator of a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver, has promised that the measure would not cost the city anything — and by moving the proposal from the August ballot to the November election, the Denver Elections Division has made good on at…
On Sunday, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank weighed in on his “prickly” former editor at the Yale Daily News: one Andrew Romanoff. Romanoff, who’s challenging incumbent Michael Bennet for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, may have left journalism behind, but he still knows how to edit an upstart…
The City of Denver will decide today whether PETA can install a 250-pound, bloody and butchered chicken sculpture — dubbed “McCruelty,” but really looking like a worse-for-the-wear Foghorn Leghorn — on the 16th Street Mall. This isn’t PETA’s first stunt, of course. Last year, Jason Sheehan catalogued the animal- (and…
Denver officials are scrambling to fix zoning-code loopholes that could let dispensaries open up shop in previously closed-off parts of town. The city has spent years crafting a new-and-improved version of the zoning code, the blueprint that will guide Denver’s future growth and development after it heads to Denver City…
Colorado State University professor John Straayer, an expert on state government, says Colorado’s recent decision to allow universities to hike tuition by unprecedented amounts further threatens to put higher education out of reach for thousands of residents. “Tuition flexibility” is just the latest in the state’s attempt to offset drastic…
Evangelical pastor Pat Robinson believed God was punishing the United States for its abortion laws with Hurricane Katrina. He also said that the earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people in Haiti was the result of “a pact” that the country with the devil made to free iself from the…
The latest from the blogs of Denver ColoradoPols theorizes Scott McInnis tried to best Josh Penry on Pinon Canyon. But now Penry’s out of the race, and the locals are liking Hickenlooper’s views on the matter. Back in the day, kids used to ride bikes to school. Now, they mostly…
