As soon as I saw that Chris Simms was starting under center for the Broncos against the Chargers yesterday, I expected a loss — a bad one. But even in my worst nightmares, I didn’t expect the resulting 32-3 drubbing, which was made worse by the ingredients that went into…
View Larger Map Unless I’m very much mistaken, people go to clubs to have fun, not die — yet the latter’s happened several times since we started our Mile High Murder project in late May. No. 5: Security Guard Alfredo Gonzalez-Ramos was slain at the El Chapparal late that month…
Last Thursday, Tom Tancredo confirmed in this space that he was part of a group coming up with a unity platform Republican Scott McInnis could use against Bill Ritter in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign — and that if all went well, an announcement about it could be made on Monday…
This morning, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pled guilty to one count of money laundering for his role in what investigators labeled the “Dan Tang Drug Trafficking Organization.” When authorities took down the drug ring in February 2008, they came away with 24,000 marijuana plants growing in 25 suburban…
This video by the folks over at Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies is a great hour-by-hour delineation on how the Falcon Heene/Balloon Boy saga went from a local news oddity to international media frenzy, and then to the kind of fast-spreading cultural virus known as a “meme.” Oh yeah, it’s…
Still no official response from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 about this week’s “last, best and final” contract proposals from King Soopers and Safeway. But several employees posting on the Facebook page linked to the union’s AlwaysHereForColorado.com site don’t seem to have been won over by the most…
Editor’s note: This year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Brit Withey to highlight some worthy selections off the beaten screening-room path. Look for Brit’s Picks each weekday through the extravaganza’s close…
What writer wouldn’t want to cover the Olympics? The glitz, the glamor and the high-profile nature of the gig are just about irresistible, regardless of your feelings about winter sports. I mean, I’d jump at the opportunity, and I couldn’t care less about skiing, skating and curling. Well, curling’s kind…
Here are some local sites you might enjoy visiting. A thread on DenverRadio.net’s Comments & Rumors board begins with questions about why no local stations have started playing wall-to-wall Christmas music yet — and ends with news that KOSI has begun the yuletide frenzy. Somewhere Der Bingle is counting his…
While some officials seem to see the ongoing medical-marijuana boom as a threat to all that’s good and strong and true about our fair state, Denver city councilman Chris Nevitt is focusing on the practical questions that arise from the issue. Earlier this month, Nevitt talked about regulating dispensary food…
You don’t expect much from your daily-newspaper sports columnists these days. Sentences that make sense, some well-placed punctuation, maybe a bad pun or two. But while our expectations have been lowered over the years by the likes of Woody Paige and Skip Bayless and whoever else shows up in the…
If moral victories mattered at this point (which they don’t), CU’s 31-28 loss to Oklahoma State last night would definitely qualify. Yes, I know: OSU was without starting quarterback (and Chatfield High School alum) Zac Robinson, and the squad’s been mildly overrated all season long, making its ranking as the…
Blue Sky Collective artists Lori Clayton and Kathy Nutt join Jessica Noonan at Hootenanny Candies and Tea… “Lori, Kathy, the bad news is that the artist collective must vacate the premises by December 1. The good news is that it still gives you two plenty of time to unload your…
Today marks the debut of another new medical-marijuana critic, William Breathes. In the meantime, we’re continuing to regularly update our directory of dispensaries, which is growing longer and larger all the time. To peruse the latest list, click here…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
ESPN Sports Guy and Broncos bandwagon driver Bill Simmons is in Denver tonight, for the last stop on his fall book-signing tour. If you have or want a copy of his new tome, The Book of Basketball, get to the LoDo Tattered Cover sometime before 5 p.m. and stand in…
So… whaddya think? Is this billboard, on display outside Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, a bold (and legitimate) statement of displeasure with the Obama administration that has the guts to link the shootings in Fort Hood, Texas, with Islamoterrorism? Or is it an offensive…
On Wednesday night, Louisville’s own Nicole Fox was named the winner of America’s Next Top Model. (Relive the season by visiting our recap archive.) That meant a day spent yesterday meeting the press — and while she was open about sharing her social ineptitude on camera, she’s anything but awkward…
The nomination as U.S.Attorney of Stephanie Villafuerte hasn’t gone nearly as smoothly as the Obama administration would like, due largely to accusations that she was involved in the political accessing of a federal database during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign — the very act for which former ICE agent Cory Voorhis…
Political observers have spent a lot of time har-dee-har-ing at Scott McInnis over the years — and indeed, he’s made plenty of errors and gaffes during his time in the public eye. Note his prediction that fellow Republican Bob Schaffer would lose the 2008 Senate race to Mark Udall –…
The explosion of violence that took place in Westminster yesterday harks back to the days when the law rode horses and gunmen died young ‘n’ purty. As the Westminster Police Department tells it, a thus-far-unidentified man and woman stuck up the First Bank on 120th Avenue, then tried to make…
The Job, as posted online: Santa Claus Qualifications: You must look the part and have a jovial personality to thrill the kids. Responsibilities: Being Santa Fri, Sat & Sun evenings from 12/4 through 12/20 and the 21st, 22nd & 23rd in downtown Denver. Costume furnished. Pay: N/A, but a contract…
