A while back — as in the previous millennium — an announcement about the launch of a newspaper wouldn’t qualify as unusual. Times have a-changed, though, making the decision by the Boulder Daily Camera to publish the Longmont Weekly beginning about a month from now seem like either a remarkably…
Representative Mike Coffman is usually a pretty cool customer — but he’s made little effort to mask his anger at Colorado Ethics Watch’s Chantell Taylor, who he’s accused of her own ethical violations in a letter to the state Supreme Court. Back in April, after members of the Independent Ethics…
I’ve been waiting for the deluded denizens at SF Weekly, our sister paper, to start crowing about the Rockies’ dispiriting performance over the past couple days, when they dropped two at home to the friggin’ San Diego Padres. (Note: From this point on, Franklin Morales’ pitch count should be one…
Denver may not be the nationwide leader in homicides, thank goodness. But as demonstrated by our Mile High Murder archive, which has documented forty murders since the project was launched in late May, there’s plenty of violence to go around in these parts. Witness the story of 49-year-old Lilian Verdonkschot,…
Channel 4’s report that Kristen Parker will plead guilty to charges against her won’t go down as the shock of the century. Back in July, after all, she confessed to swiping drugs while working as a surgery tech at Rose Medical Center, where she’s said to have infected more than…
Yesterday, Representative Jared Polis turned to Twitter to let his followers know about the latest episode of his CNN series Freshman Year, “featuring our new puppy Gia!” However, he didn’t mention another addition to the family — a swank condo at 1655 Walnut Street in Boulder, which turned up in…
Although the film version of No Impact Man, starring author Colin Beavan, subject of a Q&A published earlier today, takes place in New York City and a handful of other nearby locales, there’s a piece of Colorado on Beavan’s NoImpactProject.org website. The welcome video seen above, which encourages people to…
Author and self-proclaimed No Impact Man Colin Beavan is loved and hated with equal passion. In 2006, the New York City resident came up with an idea for a new book: He and his family, consisting of wife (and BusinessWeek writer) Michelle Conlin and toddler Isabella, would spend a year…
Earlier this week, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy griped that a new survey showing Josh Penry leading SM in the gubernatorial race was unscientific (which the folks behind it acknowledged) and dismissible because it was conducted by a Penry supporter (which they disputed). Now, the complaint’s in the other mouth…
The pdf of the detention file released by the Justice Department in relation to the case against terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi was sent upside-down — but the evidence against Zazi looks ugly from any direction. As such, expect him to be officially sent packing to New York following a perfunctory…
Make ours a double. Today in Cafe Society: • Denver’s Hottest Service Employees: An update. • Great American Beer Festival Q&A: Sprecher Brewing Company. • Jing chef Jay Spickelmier wins the Mile High Chef Competition by a lamb’s nose. • Up Close: The dishes of Menu Affair. • Part Two:…
We search local blogs for decent reading. Here’s today’s selection: Your hot European ski instructor is about to get way less European (and thus way less hot) thanks to Obama. Further proof he’s not American! Let’s see that birth certificate, chief! (Colorado Independent) Former Governor Lamm wants to ration your…
You want to know what the next social media service that will be eating all of your time will be? All of them. Or rather, all of them that you want, in whatever proportions you like. Recently, Twitter announced a couple of big integrations — one with MySpace and another…
They say we have a beautiful weekend approaching, and there are few places in the state more gorgeous this time of year than the environs of Delta County, where the wine grapes and orchards are peaking. And Colorado Art Ranch, the rootless organization that hosts “Artposiums” twice yearly at changing…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Westword every Thursday in Jobbed on the Latest Word blog as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of online job ads has to offer. The job: Undercover Operative Pay: $50 an hour; All…
“Ernie Duran Takes on Channel 7 in PR War,” published earlier today, shares a letter sent out by supporters of embattled United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 president Ernie Duran Jr.; it disputes a recent Channel 7 report accusing Duran of nepotism and questionable practices in regard to expenses…
Another season, another Broncos-Raiders game, another five YouTube reminders that you shouldn’t make the trip to Oakland to root on your Broncos. 5. “I Will Kick Your Powder Blue Ass” Look below for more mayhem:…
Stitch and pitch: Happy hooker Greg Smith throws some curves in a cocktail dress by Tran Wills, while sinker-baller Greg Reynolds works the stitches of a power suit by Kotomi Yoshida……
E-mail blasts are a great way to reach a lot of people quickly — but it’s important that they actually include some content. A message sent out earlier today to folks who signed up for entertainment updates from the Denver Post shows why. As you can see by the image…
Among the more intriguing and/or disturbing features on the City of Boulder’s web site is a crime map feature that allows residents and other curious Internet surfers to see precisely where a variety of offenses have occurred throughout the community in a given week — in today’s case, the one…
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…
The ScienceDaily.com site reveals: “Denver released the largest amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Barcelona the smallest amount in a new study documenting how differences in climate, population density and other factors affect GHG emissions in global cities.” And according to the survey, to be published in the October 1…
