Back in April, no one expected the Colorado Rockies to make the playoffs — least of all ESPN columnist Rick Reilly, who declared on KOA radio that he would “tongue bathe the Capitol dome if the Rockies make the playoffs.” Yes, Reilly promised to lick the Colorado state capitol dome…
Every presidency has its own biases about the kind of education that makes for good leaders. JFK stacked the deck with Harvard grads; Bush I and Bush II leaned toward Yalies, of course. Snobbery, Eastern elitism, Ivy Leaguism–it’s been expected of the White House since the days of Woodrow Wilson,…
Westword profile subject Dino Costa places first among controversial radio sports yakkers in Denver — and probably in the same position when it comes to the person his colleagues would most like to see flop. No wonder so few tears fell after he parted under much-debated circumstances from the now-defunct…
Another week, another five days of cruising the local blogosphere for decent reading. Today’s edition: Purple Row makes an excellent observation: Not only did the Rockies threaten to win the division, but that division was much less sucky than predicted this season. Fellow 45-and-unders: Dick Lamm, the former Governor, is…
Today’s Denver Post quotes relief pitcher Franklin Morales as saying he’s “ready” for the Philadelphia Phillies — and the use of quotes in the headline suggests some appropriate editorializing on the part of the Post sports staff. On Saturday night, Morales was horrendous while inadvertently helping the L.A. Dodgers secure…
Just because the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled against the City of Englewood in its effort to get rid of an Alice In Wonderland-inspired mural featuring a hookah-puffing insect doesn’t mean Headed West owner Mike Mahaney, the man who commissioned it in the first place, can rest easy. “The city…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 36. North Denver: Welcome to the Broncomania District There are days when it seems that every resident in the city of Denver only owns four different shirts — one for each of the town’s professional sports teams — and they choose…
Most of Attorney General Eric Holder’s prepared remarks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Conference today are of the attaboy variety: At one point, he says, “I have come to Denver today with one simple message from Washington: ‘We got your back.'” But there are also plenty…
Yeah, I predicted that the Broncos would win four games this season — out of sixteen, not out of four. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be eating crow after yesterday’s game. My top ten reasons why: 10. When the Cowboys took an early 10-0 lead, I expected the Broncos…
Pretty Lights lit up the Ogden on Saturday, and you can read about it on the Backbeat blog. As far as we can tell, everyone who wasn’t there was spread throughout the city, looking prettier than us and trying drink Denver dry. (Or fighting breast cancer!) See their efforts at…
Give peace a chance? Not in much of Capitol Hill today. Over the weekend, a graffiti practitioner and/or crew with, presumably, a keen sense of irony, tossed up hastily scrawled peace signs on businesses, government buildings and even some private residences, much to the chagrin of those whose property was…
Each year, the positivity of Race For the Cure, the subject of a huge slideshow today (complete with a shot of a friendly furry!), is disrupted by anti-abortion protesters, who scream at walkers as if they’re all guilty of committing womb homicide. Their hook: They claim that abortions increase the…
Yesterday, the Race for the Cure took over the area near the Pepsi Center, with the total participants estimated at well over 50,000. The Race may be growing more commercial as time goes by, but it remains one of the most positive community events in Denver each year — and…
Today, the hoi polloi of American law enforcement — Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli — will be in Denver to address the International Association of…
Homer Duggins is the biggest sports fan in Denver and Westword’s gambling, uh, “expert.” Read his dispatches every Friday in the Latest Word sports section. What an incredible week it was for Denver sports! Good thing it’s chilly now too, because it get really hot wearing my Sakic jersey on…
The dysfunctional high-security federal penitentiary in Florence has been the scene of all sorts of gang-related mayhem, from the grisly 1999 disembowelment of inmate Joey Estrella to the 2008 racial uprising in the yard, in which guards fired on brawling prisoners and killed two (as reported in “Life in the…
At first glance, the Internet and booze may not seem all that similar. One is a powerful psychoactive drug and delightful beverage, the other is an information superhighway. One comes in a bottle; the other a series of tubes. And I am pretty sure the Internet doesn’t give you hangovers…
Years don’t get much rougher than the one Steve Foster is living through. After the Rocky Mountain News shut down in February, Foster and a batch of fellow Rocky journalists started an online news site, INDenver Times, with the help of three investors. When that project faltered because a goal…
Happy Friday. Celebrate by wasting time with these local links. Colorado Independent’s John Tomasic tracked down the above video — of Michael Bennet talking about health care — and did a nice distillation to boot. (Via Colorado Pols) Are bank robbers keeping the West wild? Over at HuffPo Denver, Lise…
Ryan Van Duzer thought it’d be a lot of fun to bring back the Boulder Mall Crawl — so he and a friend, Jonathan Sackheim, put up a Facebook page a year ago urging people to gather on the Pearl Street Mall on Halloween and get into the spirit of…
The Facebook campaign to resurrect the Boulder Mall Crawl, a Halloween tradition that was put down in 1991 because crowds in the tens of thousands got a wee bit too rowdy, is dead — if it was ever alive. On Wednesday, Ryan Van Duzer, who put up the Boulder Mall…
DenverSportsRadio.com, an ambitious attempt to create an online sports-talk-radio station that launched in April, has gone the way of all too many online projects — into the trash bin of Internet history. A knowledgeable source says owner Dave Kaiser sent out an e-mail during the wee hours of Thursday morning…
