In an August 20 blog, our own Joel Warner told us about the Shaggy Bandit, a scofflaw wanted for numerous bank heists. Shaggy’s memorable name came courtesy of the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, whose members understand that reporters tends to pay more attention to thieves with catchy…
Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department’s valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view below, a woman identified by the…
As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn’t exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. House. An internal memo apparently written by…
It’s not faux. It’s Pho. Today in Cafe Society: • Up Close: Pho 95. • What’s Cooking? Getting corny in the kitchen with Pete Marczyk. • Spike It: Top six things that could be improved by caffeine. • Guess where I’m eating? • Candy Girls: Twilight Sweethearts, Forbidden Fruits. Today…
The blogosphere is our sanctuary. The Denver housing market is rebounding like Jessica Simpson. (That is, if you consider Colt Brennan a solid rebound). (5280) This is sort of meta, but: Melanie Asmar hits the radio to talk about last week’s cover story on Medicaid cuts. Go, girl! (Colorado Pols)…
You ever wonder how the Internet sees you? Googling yourself is one way to find out, but what if you’ve always yearned to see yourself as a cross between a bar graph and abstract art? Well, now thanks to the MIT’s Sociable Media Lab and Aaron Zinman, you can find…
It isn’t everyday a teen, particularly one who’s considered at-risk, gets to create a billboard. But that’s just what’s happened this summer at PlatteForum, where twelve youths enrolled in the gallery’s ArtLab program teamed up with student mentors from Metro State College of Denver’s Communication Design Department to create six…
The instant it became clear that Maurice Schwenkler, busted for smashing windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters earlier this week, was a far-left radical, not a right-wing healthcare-reform opponent, Republicans began to salivate, and that makes perfect sense. After all, Schwenkler, also known as Ariel Attack, unwittingly handed conservatives a…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Powerful left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales will get more ground ball outs in this top-of-the-rotation starter party dress by Armando Guerra……
Chicago remains giddy at the thought that former Broncos QB Jay Cutler will return the Bears to the promised land. But fans might not be too thrilled to hang out with the petulant passer, as indicated by excerpts from a Cutler profile set to run in ESPN The Magazine’s September…
Last night, I attended back-to-school night at Chatfield High School (home of the evacuation-prompting mystery smell — which turned out to be mace). Amid a presentation by the teachers of the journalism class my twin daughters are taking, a parent said his son loved newspapers so much that he hoped…
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’ll be offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today’s entry: a Pepsi Center celebrity roundup. In the few minutes before…
Author Dominick Dunne, who died yesterday at 83, is best known for covering the nation’s most sensational crimes and trials. But he never showed much interest in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, to the frustration of some folks obsessed with the mystery over the Boulder girl’s 1996 death. However, he…
KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles has spent many, many mornings during the past year or so talking about President Barack Obama’s U.S. birth certificate, and whether it’s the genuine item. But this morning, his latest variation on the topic — the prospect of putting up a station-sanctioned billboard asking the…
Ferris is a dachshund. A cute dachshund, no doubt, not only because dachshunds are, by their nature, cute, but because the thought of a dachshund named Ferris is even cuter. And some people stole him. Bad people who folks at the Boulder Police Department want to catch and then punish…
As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder’s Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks after the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. (Following Tiller’s death, Hern,…
In today’s Denver Post, media writer Joanne Ostrow takes on the September cover of Denver Magazine, in which Channel 31 stars Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal are transformed from anchors to shank-ers. After spotlighting quotes from Weaver and station exec Carolyn Kane shrugging off any scent of controversy over the…
A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it’s hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in that area. In July, the West…
Arguments continue about just how grassroots protests against healthcare reform like a recent shoutfest at an Ed Perlmutter event really are. But such displays of disaffection are positively organic in comparison with the rally about climate legislation that took place yesterday in Greeley. The Greeley Tribune reports that hundreds of…
Zoning disputes: Not an inherently fascinating subject for folks not involved with them — and often not even then. But the interest level perks up when wholesale horse assassination is thrown into the mix. According to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Trenton Parker recently received a ninety-day sentence for contempt…
Running through the Burger King parking lot at 2:30 a.m. on May 29, Shala Parker managed to catch the license plate of the green Cadillac DeVille as it zoomed onto Sixth Avenue and took a hard left onto Lincoln. To remember it, she screamed “727RUG! 727RUG!” as she ran back…
Mistakes happen. Just ask Tom Martino. On a post titled “Westword Cowards” that Martino originally published August 17 on the Channel 31/Fox blog, he included a photo of a man identified as “Jared Jacang Maher,” the author of “The Martino Matrix,” an article in the July 23 Westword. Just one…
