Okay, you and me, and most of the local media, and all of the national media — everyone, really, except this guy. We read his age, and we heard the lip-smacking and the no-commenting, and we saw all the former Patriots showing up in Dove Valley, and we decided: This…
“A toast to City Councilman Rick Garcia for being chosen as a finalist to the post of Regional Director of the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development! And may he bring affordable housing to the nation with the same success that he did in the West Highland neighborhood!”…
The murder at Chopsticks & Sushi Restaurant, which caused hours’ worth of traffic closures yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of the 16th Street Mall, was startling enough. But try on this development for size: The Denver Police Department has announced that Chopsticks’ owner, Yan De Yang, 40, has been arrested…
Last week, former Denver Post columnist Jim Spencer left his position as communications director for the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in favor of a return to journalism at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune; while a CU spokeswoman said she thought he’d taken an editor-type gig, he’s actually been placed…
Yesterday, in the wake of a negotiating breakdown between Safeway and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, King Soopers employees were given a letter attributed to Dave Savage, vice president of retail operations for the firm. The document accuses the union of “recklessly pursuing a course that will lead…
Sorry, Kyle Orton. Even if the Broncos go undefeated this season, you probably still won’t get any respect from NFL media wise guys. Latest example: Fox Sports’ Tim Ryan, who was asked in a “5 Questions” piece if the Bears made the right move giving up so much to get…
The text block accompanying the video above, which was posted earlier this morning, asks, “Surely the first song ever to be written and recorded about Balloon Boy?” Hell to the no. The number of parodies about young Falcon Heene’s non-flight has exploded like overinflated Mylar, littering YouTube with tunes whose…
When does the media give big play to a murder of an unknown individual? Like real estate, it’s all about location, location, location — but timing is a factor, too, as proven by the coverage of yesterday afternoon’s shooting at Chopsticks & Sushi Restaurant, 1630 Welton Street, on the 16th…
One week ago today, shots rang out at 1150 North Syracuse Street, an apartment complex — and shortly thereafter, Keyru Mustafa Lolo, 24, was dead. Given that Lolo was a recent immigrant from Ethiopia, his case might not have ordinarily been treated as a high priority — but Lolo’s large…
I’m a proud native of the Western Slope, and when I grew up in Grand Junction, the main substance we had to worry about was uranium. Those were the days. Now, reports about meth busts are the opposite of unusual — although few can compare to the feds’ roundup of…
This morning’s Denver Post features an angry (in a good way) article about Stephanie Villafuerte, a former deputy district attorney and Bill Ritter associate nominated by President Barack Obama as U.S. Attorney. Villafuerte appears to have had a significant level of involvement in a campaign against former U.S. Immigration and…
This week’s feature, “The Forgotten,” explores an option for cutting prison costs that Governor Bill Ritter hasn’t tried — clemency for prisoners who may have received excessively long sentences and pose little risk to public safety. The article explores some of the more obvious kinds of sentencing inequities — nonviolent…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every Thursday as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job, as posted online: Part-time trampler in Capitol Hill Pay: $10 to $100 per hour depending…
All too often, people get so hung up on the fantastic future we didn’t get that they can’t focus on the even-crazier one we did. You know the complaints: “Where’s my flying car? Why can’t I live forever? When do I get to visit the moon?” But flying cars are…
Your on-stop shopping place for good local bloggery. Joe Dunman at Mile High Hockey thinks Ryan O’Reilly has been more consistent offensively than fellow young stud Matt Duchene. Let the good-natured rivalry begin. Bob Moore says in a Colorado Pols post that the National Republican Congressional Committee’s latest attack on…
We’ve all been told that the H1N1 virus, aka swine flu, is no longer contagious 24 hours after a person’s fever has broken. But hold up a minute. A new study overseen by Air Force Academy doctor Catherine Witkop and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine focuses on…
Again this week, we’ve updated our directory of medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, featuring a new, user-friendlier format. To check it out, click here…
This dispensary has closed. 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…
On October 20, negotiators for grocery workers and Safeway, one of three giant chains whose contracts with union employees in Colorado have expired, sat down for the first time in ages to try and hammer out an agreement. But very little hammering actually took place. “The workers said, ‘Here’s our…
In response to the Balloon Boy hoax, The Cell reopens its, “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere — Understanding the Threat of Terrorism exhibit as… Upon entering the exhibit, each visitor will receive a card with the biography of someone whose life has been forever ruined by an act of hoaxsterism. A short…
Many observers were shocked by the bargain prosecutors struck with Ricky Lee Harnish, who has confessed to killing teenager Holly Andrews in 1976 — ten to 24 years in exchange for a second-degree murder plea. Even Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger admitted to “mixed emotions” about the length of the…
A new Associated Press-Petside.com poll reveals that 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners surveyed would be at least “somewhat likely” to perform CPR on their pets in the event of an emergency. But undoubtedly the number of people who’d actually know how to do it…
