Mile High Murder, No. 40: Fatal stabbing near Hinkley High School

View Larger MapA fight took place around midnight near Hinkley High School, located on the 1200 block of North Chambers Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Upon their arrival, Aurora Police found a man suffering from stab…

Zazi learns media spins only goes so far

A blog last Wednesday noted that Aurora-based Najibullah Zazi had taken an unusual tack in dealing with allegations of complicity in a New York-based terror plot, lawyering up and making himself available to limited media interviews. But while this may have seemed canny from a PR perspective (the Denver Post’s…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, September 18 edition

Boy, oh, boy. Today in Cafe Society: • Top ten ways America ruined pizza. • Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill opens today in Park Meadows. • The gang’s all beer! • Strings serves up an unbeatable beet recipe. • Oooh la la! Cliff Young is back, and opening a steakhouse at the…

Denver Blogs: I need fuel!

We read local blogs so you don’t have to, although you should, ’cause many of them don’t suck. Turning trash into electricity: Yet another way that life imitates Back to the Future. (Colorado Independent) Malcom Glenn doesn’t think you should be surprised by Obama’s endorsement of Michael Bennet. (Which you…

Running the government? There’s an app for that…

Government 2.0 is just around the corner. This week, the White House announced the launch of the government’s very own app store, a place for various arms of the fedeal government to get their assorted IT needs met. It’s an effort to streamline and lower the cost of said IT…

Channel 7 reporting Zazi to admit Al-Qaeda ties

According to Channel 7, Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin won’t suffer another sleepless night worrying that federal-investigation subject Najibullah Zazi might have no involvement whatsoever in activities related to terrorism. Moments ago, the station posted a story asserting that Zazi “has admitted he has ties to al-Qaeda and is in…

Shmuck of the Week: Professor Mouthy

The world doesn’t hand us many absolutes. Don’t stare directly into the massive fireball in the sky. Make babies. Never buy fewer than eight Washington apples at one time. And, of course, if you happen to know enough about rocks to teach geology at a large institution of higher learning,…

Where the media can (and can’t) gather at Denver federal facilities

“Channel 4 to Fight Citation Against Cameraman Covering Zazi Terror-Investigation Story” looks into the case of Glenn McReynolds, who was handcuffed and cited for failure to obey an order yesterday after asking why he couldn’t wait in the lobby of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse until terror-probe subject Najibbullah…

Fort Carson: Those aren’t our black helicopters!

A recent blog item featured several photos of the black helicopters of Yoder, which have been buzzing Shellie Kirby’s ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County for the past three years. Kirby has filed several complaints with Fort Carson, the National Guard, Peterson Air Force Base and other…

Five ways Nigerian scammers can improve operations

My fiancee and I are looking for a place to live in Denver. Nothing fancy, just a one- or two-bedroom rental, hopefully with a dishwasher and a closet big enough for her shoes, which is to say a closet the size of a Chrysler minivan. Yesterday, she stumbled on an…

Station loves response to skanky-anchors magazine cover

One more thing from our conversation with Channel 31/The Deuce general manager Dennis Leonard, who previously weighed in on furloughs at the outlets that went into effect around the time executives sailed off on a Caribbean cruise, as well as a frightening MRSA infection that required a biological cleaning crew…

Infection scare at Channel 31

Yesterday, we told you about furloughs at affiliated stations Channel 31 and The Deuce, which began kicking in right about the time general manager Dennis Leonard and two fellow execs took more than thirty clients on a week-long Caribbean cruise. (Leonard, by the way, says the August junket had been…

Broncos vs. Browns: An orgy of cynicism

No cities in America — okay, maybe Buffalo, but nowhere else — have achieved the same level of football-related pessimism as Denver and Cleveland. (OK, maybe Detroit, too, but that’s it!). So with the Broncos and Browns set to throw down on Sunday, I channeled all the dismay I could…

Dave Schultheis tries to grow ACORN scandal in Colorado

Senator Dave Schultheis doesn’t do anything by half measures — which is why he’s a multiple-time Shmuck of the Week, as opposed to being a single termer. (Watch out, Brandon Marshall.) Still, he’s a sharp enough operator to understand that national stories can still be used to damage local politicians…

Michelle Malkin’s gift to Michael Huttner

ProgressNow Colorado’s Michael Huttner really, really wants to sell loads of 50 Ways You Can Help Obama Change America, a new book he’s co-written with Jason Salzman, even subjecting himself to a session with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto in the name of publicity. And now, he’s gotten an assist from…

Basebrawl: Giant-size trash talking

Earlier today, Westword’s sister paper, the San Francisco Weekly, published “Basebrawl — So Those Denver Boys Want to Talk Some Trash, Eh? Well, Two Can Play At That Game,” in which staffer Joe Eskenazi wrote about checking “the pneumatic tube connecting all the Village Voice Media newspapers” and finding “what…

The Zazi terror investigation keeps Mike Littwin awake

Najibullah Zazi, the Aurora man at the center of an investigation into an alleged terror plot, may have to start using the local FBI headquarters as his permanent address. He’s scheduled to begin a third day of questioning there today, meaning, presumably, that someone else will be manning the shuttle…