It seems our fair city partied its collective ass off this weekend, and we managed to sneak into some of the festivities. See photos from Rockbar’s three-year anniversary party (above), Double Daughter’s, Sutra, and other booze factories at westword.com/slideshow. You’ll also find reviews and photos from the weekend in local…
Got a call moments ago from Sean Duffy, spokesman for Scott McInnis’ gubernatorial campaign, responding to a post about what I consider to be the candidate’s two latest mistakes: complaining in writing about an impending Republican Party straw poll that he could well lose and then declining to attend the…
Wish I hadn’t seen it coming, but I did. In a Friday blog, I wrote that there was a very real prospect of the Colorado Rockies getting swept by the San Francisco Giants following their two consecutive Coors Field losses against the Los Angeles Dodgers. And so it came to…
The Broncos’ 27-17 loss to the Chicago Bears last night didn’t start out so badly thanks to a crowd whose berserker rage fired up the defense throughout the first quarter. Once the throng’s energy level eased up, however, members of the Denver D suddenly remembered that they suck balls –…
The Republicans seem to be in complete disarray when it comes to finding a U.S. Senate candidate for 2010. But that doesn’t mean the Democrats will be able to cruise to victory. Although current office-holder Michael Bennet handled his latest healthcare summit well, he’s been underwhelming during his first months…
Just because Bob Beauprez has decided against seeking for the governership doesn’t mean Republican loyalists will be spared the spectacle of another hilariously inept campaign — not with Scott McInnis still the de facto frontrunner. Big Mac has made one gaffe after another since leaping into the fray, from putting…
Senator Michael Bennet’s brief stint as a United States Senator hasn’t proven scintillating to date — hence former Colorado House speaker Andrew Romanoff’s reported eagerness to make a run for Ken Salazar’s old seat himself. But at least his staff made a smart decision about promoting his Friday appearance in…
Pity those fools. Today in Backbeat Online: • Freaky Friday: “Treat Your Mother Right.” • Q&A with John Osborne of KingBilly. • Last Night: Desolation Wilderness at Rhinoceropolis. • The Denver Boot: Lion Sized at the Larimer Lounge — 08/02/09. • Five movie hippies who make us wish we lived…
Links. Click them. And enjoy your weekend. The Salazar Bros. are not on the same page on climate change. Also, Johnny didn’t clean his room, so why should Kenny have to? (5280) Is it me, or is this like a trail guide for cougar hunters? (Mile High Mamas) The fans…
The Denver Business Journal reported today that the University of Northern Colorado has received a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a nationwide effort to add and keep female faculty in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math. The money will fund a four-year project…
“Monday ain’t a fun day/Tuesday’s a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday’s the worst day/Friday is great/’Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend.” Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn’t much changed. So pop those rocked-out…
We don’t like to repeat shmucks around here. There are plenty of multiple offenders, sure, but there’s lots of new blood every week, too, and this week was no different. We could have shmucked the kid who bashed in the DNC offices, if only for unleashing the right’s loony pack…
The death of the joint-operating agreement that was supposed to sustain a business partnership between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News for a half-century but didn’t survive for even one decade can’t help seeming anticlimactic. After all, the Rocky’s been gone for six months now, as John Temple,…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Hit-leader Garrett Atkins scores big in this Indian-inspired chiffon wrap skirt and asymmetrical cropped top made of silk brocade by Kandyce Hudson……
Just over an hour ago, we told you about a federal grand jury indictment leveled against Xcel Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating and two individuals over an October 2007 incident at Cabin Creek Hydro Plant near Georgetown in which five workers died. Since then, Public Service Company…
Poor Brandon Marshall. The Broncos didn’t renegotiate his contract and shower him with the millions he thinks he deserves, likely because of his iffy hip and a history of off-the-field incidents capable of making any woman in his vicinity scream in terror and sprint in the opposite direction. But instead…
In an August 24 blog, I noted that commentators had been hyping the Colorado Rockies’ homestand against the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers as the most important in team history. I questioned that hyperbole at the time, and given that this particular stretch sputtered out with two…
Being civic-minded and all, you’ve probably already spent a great deal of time on the City of Denver’s spiffy new zoning code website, absorbing all the new terminology and figuring out exactly how it’s going to affect your neighbor’s plans to build an enormous treehouse that will blot out the…
In October 2007, five employees of RPI Coating Inc. were killed by carbon monoxide generated by a fire at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant outside Georgetown that’s operated by Xcel Energy and Public Service Company of Colorado. Now, a federal grand jury has issued indictments against RPI, Xcel, Public Service…
Republic Airways chief executive Bryan Bedford is in town again today, meeting with employees of Frontier Airlines, which Republic purchased after unexpectedly besting Southwest Airlines at auction. He’s also been chatting with city officials who are understandably desperate to convince Republic to keep Frontier’s operations base here, as opposed to…
Last week, we passed along the Aurora Police Department’s invitation to roll over on Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos, an accused child molester. No luck finding the suspect thus far, but the APD has located a much better photo, seen here. As for the reasons why you may want to consider dropping a…
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democratic National Convention, an event that made Denver the center of the media universe for several unforgettable days. To mark the occasion, we’ve been offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today’s item: Former staffer Jessica Centers’ account of her epic trek into…
