Don’t know if Anthony Bryant’s business cards list him as a “Sexually Violent Predator” — but that’s how the Denver Police Department refers to him in a release that asks for help from the public in tracking him down. Seems Bryant, who has a couple of stranger-on-stranger assaults under his…
Those reports we told you about earlier this morning suggesting that authorities would seek to transfer terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi to New York have proven accurate. The Justice Department confirms that Zazi has been indicted in New York’s Eastern District “on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass…
Ernie Duran Jr., president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, is in a fight for job survival. Although his re-election campaign was unsuccessful, he and his supporters (many of them family members with prominent UFCW jobs) are challenging the results of the vote, claiming, among many other…
Louisville’s Nicole Fox, a contestant on cycle thirteen of America’s Next Top Model, is in absolutely zero danger of being eliminated from the competition anytime soon. Last week, guest judge Lauren Conrad declared Nicole’s photo to be her favorite, and this time around, she finished number two in the best-pic…
Last week, an e-mail string inadvertently sent to the press by a member of Michael Bennet’s staff suggested that the senate appointee sees fellow Democrat Mark Udall as something of a rival. But that didn’t stop him from joining Udall and a group of eight other freshman senators to deliver…
At 9 a.m. this morning, terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi will be back in federal court, and feds will reportedly ask to transport him to New York, where his alleged co-conspirators in a bombing plot are located. If that happens, he won’t need his Aurora apartment anymore, and that’s fortunate, since…
Flipped over to KHOW en route to the office this morning, arriving at the dial spot just in time to catch ten minutes of the most incomprehensible radio I’ve ever heard in my life. Host Peter Boyles noted that he’d posted a video on his page of the outlet’s website…
Some stories could be set anywhere — but not this one. Okay, there’s this joint in Severance called Bruce’s Bar, and for more than a quarter century, it’s sponsored an annual bash called the Nut Run — so named because the main attractions are Rocky Mountain oysters. Men and women…
Kevin O’Connell was away on business when he got a call from a Denver animal-control officer: His dog, a Presa Canario, had mauled a Chihuahua. O’Connell, a civil engineer who lives in Thornton, had left his two dogs with a friend who lives in Denver; he gave the officer his…
On Fear Factor, host Joe Rogan usually begins with the following statement: “The stunts you are about to see were all designed and supervised by trained professionals. They are extremely dangerous and should not be attempted by anyone, anywhere, anytime.” Since Rogan himself just moved to Denver — he’s been…
“Going Viral,” Alan Prendergast, September 17 Get the Point? Kristen Parker should be tried for the intentional spread of the virus. Even if there were a slim possibility of infection, common sense as a health-care worker should have kept her from redistributing the needles she had already used, and potentially…
Matthew James adopted Major, an American Pit Bull Terrier, from a Los Angeles shelter in 2006. When he moved to Denver later that year, he knew very little about the city’s pit bull ban. “I wasn’t sure how strict it was,” he says. “Then I got here and learned they…
Wye not? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Scout Niblett and Wye Oak at the hi-dive. • Fiery Furnaces, Nitzer Ebb, 3OH!3 shows announced. • Win tix to see Mayer Hawthorne at the Larimer Lounge tonight. • Q&A with Bryan Adams. • Tonight at La Rumba: I fought the…
Our daily hike up Blog Mountain. Is Aspen really as shitty as Ski Magazine things? (Huffington Post Denver) In case you were getting too optimistic, Pols tells us Colorado’s budget is hosed till 2011. (Colorado Pols) Welcome back Huston Street and Aaron Cook! But how welcome are they? (Purple Row)…
Earlier today, I posted a blog about an NPR appearance by Centennial’s Dr. Michael Kurtz, during which he talked about the thirty-to-fifty likely swine flu victims who are coming into his office every day. His account made his waiting room sound like “a petri dish,” I wrote. Then, a few…
In this week’s Westword, Jared Jacang Maher investigates whether twenty years of outlawing pit bulls in Denver has made the city safer. (You can also read more about the numbers of dogs killed in “Pit Bull Row”). Here, a photo tour of the city’s “pit bull row,” the home of…
It doesn’t get the same kind of attention hot social-media darlings such as Twitter and Facebook garner these days, but Craigslist is still a pretty decent social network — especially if you enjoy the WTF side of life, as I do. Everyone knows about the classic “Best of Craigslist” section,…
We see stories every day about how grief can be transformative, leading folks caught up in the pain of loss down paths of public service. But in the case of Judy Shepard, whose gay son Matthew was murdered in what’s been characterized as a hate crime, that cruel twist in…
David Milstead, a Rocky Mountain News business writer who got involved in the online INDenver Times and Rocky Mountain Independent projects after the tabloid folded in February, is heading north, taking a business reporting position with The Globe and Mail in Toronto. When he does so, he’ll become, by his…
Timothy Chase McCartney bears a striking resemblance to his father. He’s bigger and has a stronger arm, but otherwise it’s “like seeing his ghost,” LSU football coach Les Miles tells ESPN.com in a story about McCartney and his late father, Sal Aunese. Miles should know. More than two decades before…
A baseball card collection featuring Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Shortstop Chris Nelson rocks a miniskirt by Haley Mariah, while pitcher Samuel Deduno covers the mound in an apron by Margo Cory…..
Kudos to Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett for boldly going where few elected officials are willing go these days: into the politically thorny issue of marijuana. Most politicians these days are staying as far away from the subject as possible. This summer, the state health department tried to limit the…
