The local media is making a big deal out of President Barack Obama endorsing Bill Ritter appointee Michael Bennet in the 2010 U.S. Senate race, even though the timing of his supportive statement — one day after Andrew Romanoff formally announced a challenge to MFB — was as predictable as…
The sexual connotations inherent in the Greeley Tribune headline “Charges Mount For UNC Prof” are creepily appropriate. After all, University of Northern Colorado drama instructor Vance Fulkerson, who once led a “Self-Defense Singing” class, had already been accused of secretly filming children in his bathroom. And now, he’s facing nine…
Trance, trance, trance. Today in Cafe Society: • Notiq Rupture wins Hpnotiq Bartender Competition. • Tonight: Harvest week wine dinner with monkeys at Avenue Grill. • Confusion reigns over Zaidy’s Fusion Grill. • Part two: Chef and Tell with Paul Reilly of Encore. • Ten breweries we can’t wait to…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. More reasons to punch Brandon Marshall in the face (as if you needed more). (Mile High Report) The Rockies are gonna have to try hard to fuck this up. (Purple Row) Where’s all the money going? (HuffPo Denver)…
The Denver Center Theater Company is reaching out to audiences with a new tool — YouTube. Using the interactive functions of the ubiquitous video-hosting service, which allow people to click on elements within a video to go to a link such as another video, the DCTC has created a choose-your-own-adventure…
It’ll be an early-season crossover spectacular this weekend at Boettcher Concert Hall, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hosts an American Festival with newgrass mandolinist (and founding member of Nickel Creek) Chris Thile, as part of its CSO Masterworks series. Thile, who seems to stray into as many musical genres as…
The economy is down and unemployment is high. Thankfully, there are tons of coffee shops and other spots around town with free WiFi access where you can sit for hours, unkempt or unshaven, and troll the Internet for jobs. But if you’re like my unemployed friends, you’ve come across some…
Like television outlets across the country, affiliated stations Channel 31 and The Deuce have had to make some tough choices in the current economic environment. Approximately thirty people were let go last year when the operations when initially combined; a handful of others lost their jobs in March; and several…
One of Ken Salazar’s first moves as Secretary of the Interior was to visit the Lakewood office of the Minerals Management Service, an obscure agency responsible for collecting billions in oil and gas royalties from companies drilling on federal lands, and vow to clean up the place. As detailed in…
When the Broncos began shopping Sweet Baby Jay Cutler earlier this year, one of his possible destinations was Cleveland, this weekend’s opponent, where he’d have been swapped for Brady Quinn. My twin high-school-age daughters, Lora and Ellie, weren’t very enthusiastic about that prospect from a football standpoint, since this particular…
How many of you have gotten rid of your old landline? Plenty, no doubt — and that’s created a pain in the pocketbook for Denver-based Qwest. Still, the firm’s CEO, Ed Mueller, isn’t ready to toss what was once a centerpiece of the firm’s success on the historical scrap heap…
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…
Representative Jared Polis has staged as many if not more healthcare town halls in recent weeks than any of his Colorado congressional colleagues. But the conservative CompleteColorado.com site questions his private investment in another healthcare-related enterprise: BridgeHealth International. The company’s approach is typically shorthanded as “medical tourism,” a term defined…
One of the most difficult tasks on any law enforcement agency’s agenda involves figuring out the best way to handle sexual offenders who’ve done their time and want to return home. That’s the chore before the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office regarding Timothy E. Schreiber, who has been formally designated a…
Most Rockies fans see Ubaldo Jiminez as the blossoming star of the squad’s pitching staff. But Jiminez got absolutely shelled Tuesday night against the San Francisco Giants, making last night’s series-ender against the SF crew the sort of must-win no one wanted to call a must-win — but it was…
On episode two of America’s Next Top Model’s thirteenth cycle, Louisville’s own Nicole Fox, who we introduced you to last Thursday, was seldom in the spotlight, but was in no real danger of getting the heave-ho, as happened to not one but two contestants, Rachel and Courtney. She lost a…
As Andrew Romanoff was announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday, Michael Bennet, the Bill Ritter appointee he’s challenging for the position, was in Washington, D.C., doing his best to talk about other things. Here, Bennet appears at a small rally organized by PICO National Network, an assemblage of…
During U.S. senatorial hopeful Andrew Romanoff’s first official campaign event in Denver yesterday afternoon, he told a story related by Ken Gordon, the man he succeeded in the Colorado House. One of Gordon’s constituents thought he was retiring from politics instead of moving to the Senate — and when he…
Channel 4’s Gloria Neal started out her 5:30 a.m. segment this morning talking about the terrorism raid on the Aurora apartment of DIA shuttle driver Najibbullah Zazi — but along the way, things got personal. In discussing the question of whether Zazi could ever be accepted by his neighbors again…
Suddenly, Denver is the center of the terrorism-investigation universe. Tuesday afternoon, word surfaced that a man linked to terrorism-related raids in Queens, New York who was originally said to be from “the midwest” actually lived in the Denver area. Mere hours later, the suspect was revealed to be Najibbullah Zazi,…
“Boulevard of Dreams,” Westword staff, September 3 Colorful Colorado I really enjoyed the interesting tidbits in “Boulevard of Dreams” and would like to add a few other “missing icons” from that stretch to the list. First of all, there was the majestic Cooper Theatre, located at 900 South Colorado Boulevard…
Denver is playing host to the Olympics of beer games this month — and it could be a historic one if the city’s fortieth annual Oktoberfest also turns out to be its last. The big ticket, of course, is the Great American Beer Festival, September 24-26, during which thousands of…
