This sordid story is brought to you by the letter “S.” Today, the Denver District Attorney’s office charged Ernie Lee Calbert with nine counts of aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree kidnapping. Authorities believe Calbert to be the so-called “‘S’ Bandit,” so named because most of the seven Denver-area…
Picture this. Today in Backbeat Online: • Flier of the Week: Lipgloss. • Heavy Rotation, our top spins for the week of September 14, 2009. Today in Cafe Society: • Amnesia wins the Mix Master Bartender contest, appropriately enough. • Hosea Rosenberg hosts Colorado harvest dinner at Jax Boulder. •…
Our daily round-up of local blogs. A Denver-born iPhone app is on fire. Literally! (Actually, figuratively!) (Denver Egotist) How Denver will rebound from the recession. (5280) The Broncos aren’t as bad as you think. According to this guy. We’ll see. (HuffPo Denver)…
While ignorant outsiders are busy slandering Twitter as a place to talk about what you ate for lunch, the social networking service is quickly becoming the place to organize informal fundraisers. These aren’t fancy nonprofits, with their fancy high overhead and administration costs. Instead, they’re just regular folks using technology…
We’ve got a downtown — so why don’t you use it? Here’s an opportunity in the making: A true big city vibe flavors the evening at the Denver Theatre District Art Salon: Reflections of a World of Art, a monthly occurrence pairing complementary arts disciplines and themed snacks and cocktails…
This week’s cover story, “Going Viral,” looks into how one drug-seeking hospital worker probably infected dozens of Colorado surgery patients with hepatitis C — and the emotional fallout of Kristen Parker’s recklessness for the patients, several of whom are speaking out here for the first time. Just confronting the fact…
In this week’s Westword, reporter Alan Prendergast investigates the gnarly addiction and spotty oversight that led to dozens of patients at Rose Medical Center being infected with hepatitis C. The offending junkie, Kristen Parker (right), has earned the contempt of all of Denver. But she’s not alone. Here, the five…
The Four Seasons Private Residences Denver, the 45-story luxury condo building and hotel that’s been under construction since September 2007, is set to be topped off this Thursday at 10:30 a.m. with the ceremonial hoisting into place of the 75-foot mast that will crown the structure. With the spire, the…
“Saving the News: Denver and the Future of Journalism,” which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. tonight at the Colorado History Museum, 1300 Broadway, takes place just over six months after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News, and speakers include former Rocky editor, publisher and president John Temple and one…
Yesterday, Representative Jared Polis joined colleagues Jerrold Nadler and Tammy Baldwin, Dems from New York and Wisconsin, respectively, at a press conference boosting the Respect for Marriage Act. During his microphone time, viewable above, Plis referred derisively to the “thirteen-year-old, so-called Defense of Marriage Act,” which would be wiped off…
So much for psychology. The Rockies were crushed 9-1 by the San Francisco Giants on Monday to begin an important three-game series — and I hoped the size and scope of the humiliation, coupled with the return of ace pitcher Ubaldo Jiminez to the mound, would result in a Colorado…
“Andrew Romanoff in the Starting Blocks,” published yesterday, pointed out that his long dormant personal website sported a one-line addition: “New Website Coming Soon.” Make that now. Even before the start of his scheduled 10 a.m. senatorial campaign announcement in Pueblo, the updated AndrewRomanoff.com was live. The picture on its…
View Larger Map Let’s hope murder-suicides don’t come in threes. Just yesterday, we told you about a likely murder-suicide in Broomfield involving Darryl Stricklin, 45, and Jodi Samuels, 36. Shortly thereafter, the Denver Coroner’s Office identified Filadelfo Mazariego and Alba Rodriguez-Ruiz as a couple found dead on the 4700 block…
The first specific cut listed by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in a letter to the citizens of the city about his budget-cut proposal involves reducing the programming on Denver’s Channel 8 to “public-meeting coverage and select programming.” The latter apparently includes a newly posted video of Hickenlooper himself trying to…
The “send” key: It’s so easy to push — and so dangerous when it’s pressed prematurely. Witness the chain of events that followed an unwise forward inadvertently shared with assorted reporters by a member of Senator Michael Bennet’s staff as information about a Colorado connection to terrorism-related raids in Queens,…
Yesterday, following raids on a number of residences in Queens, New York, word surfaced that an Aurora man was the focus of a federal terrorism probe. No one would have been surprised if the suspect, Najibbullah Zazi, a cab driver based in Aurora, had gone to ground — but instead,…
How do you know that Jane Norton, who announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday, is the first Republican in the race feared by Democrats? Because she’s already under attack by ProgressNow Colorado, the most effective and aggressive liberal-oriented media strike force in these parts. This week, multiple mailings…
Earlier this week, ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo said former Colorado Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, then on the cusp of formally announcing her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, wasn’t “ready for prime time” and was only running because she’d been urged to do so by Arizona Senator John McCain. Since the last…
A blog yesterday documented complaints from listeners about Mario Solis-Marich, a Los Angeles-based host for AM 760 who regularly refers to the CU Buffs as the “Boofs” — a term whose first definition in the Urban Dictionary is: “Short for buttfuck.” These gripes were shared with me personally, as well…
It’s about that time. Today in Cafe Society: • Behind the Bar with Holly Hartnett of Venue. • Under Fire: Caramel Groundhog Day. • Guess where I’m eating? • Denver’s newest road trip: Interstate Kitchen & Bar. • Oktoberfest is for sale. Will someone buy it a drink? Today in…
Editor’s note: This blog marks the debut of Five Cool Things, a new feature by Susan Froyd. Once a week, she’ll muse on five Denver happenings worth celebrating. Don’t let them slip through the cracks. • Local actor Mare Trevathan on body image in Eve Ensler’s one-woman show The Good…
Our daily slog through the local blogosphere. Polis: If the healthcare debate is a DeLorean, and universal health care is 1985, then Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst was just the plutonium we needed. (Colorado Independent) Also in the Polisphere, the congressman takes on detention reform for the new Huffington Post Denver…
