“Cut Off,” Melanie Asmar, August 20 The Unkindest Cut Melanie Asmar recently wrote an outstanding piece on Denver’s Underground Syringe Exchange, and now, in “Cut Off,” she details the impact that cuts in Medicaid funding will have on adults with disabilities and their families. Speaking as someone who grew up…
James Dean lived fast and died young, and the same will soon be true of a mural of the Rebel Without a Cause actor, which has graced the side of the Video One building at 1301 East Colfax Avenue since 1995. Created by artist Jae Choe, the huge, illuminated mural…
This week’s feature is a cartoon by Kenny Be. See it on the Latest Word blog…
Chew on this. Today in Cafe Society: • The 10 manliest candies ever. • Chopsticks China Bistro won’t move until September. • Our Weekly Bread: Gourmet Corner. • Chef and Tell: Troy Guard from TAG. • Hot dog! Biker Jim’s Wednesday and weekly specials. • Sam Taylor’s gets to the…
When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had…
Our daily dose of worthy bloggage. Use as directed. GQ names CU among the country’s douchiest colleges. Which is funny, because when your magazine reeks of bad cologne and man-bags, you’re probably not a great judge of douchiness. (5280) The moron who smashed up the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters did…
Left-leaning political websites such as the Colorado Independent and Colorado Media Matters haven’t had much to celebrate since the progressive gains made in last November’s election. The former’s been hit with significant layoffs, and the latter pulled the plug in March, although its archives continue to linger online. In contrast,…
In a groundbreaking story printed yesterday, one of USA Today’s crack investigative journalists broke the story that people who hate Twitter don’t see the point of using Twitter! And in related developments, people who find marriage pointless rarely marry, vegetarians don’t like meat, and water is wet. Here’s the lead…
Longtime observers of local media will recall the name Melissa Klinzing. She was the Channel 7 news director circa the mid-’90s who launched “Real Life, Real News,” a format that attempted to freshen standard newscasts with infotainment-related show-biz glitz and an anchor, Natalie Pujo, who had a fondness for short…
Remember those five dreamy days last August when the 2008 Democratic National Convention made every Denver moment seem like magic? It’s all such a daze. My, how things have changed…. 2008 DNC Dream Daze: With 15,000 members of the media in town, journalists could be seen standing every ten feet…
There’s always some authority figure just waiting to crush a brilliant plan…. The folks at Wrigley’s Chicago Bar & Grille, at 18200 W. Colfax Avenue in Golden, wanted to mark Jay Cutler’s return to Denver for a preseason game this weekend against the Broncos with his new team, the Chicago…
Who even knew there was such a thing as National Dog Day? Not that I’m surprised, there being a day for just about anything you can think of — and boy, we sure love our dogs. It was apparently founded five years ago by pet expert Colleen Paige with the…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. That late-night downtown roar is for Ryan Spilborghs and his 14th-inning casual glam slam in the hippest chic of Mona Lucero…..
No one can accuse us at Westword of not doing old-fashioned, shoe-leather reporting. Moments ago, I left our offices and walked across the street to the Broadway Sports Authority — once known to one and all as the Gart Sports Palace — to check out the first tent set up…
As we noted last week, there appears to have been zero measurable progress made in resolving the long-running contract dispute between unionized grocery workers and the big three local chains: King Soopers, Safeway and Albertsons. But the latter triumvirate may have just gained a public-relations advantage with the announcement that…
It’s happening again. Just as in 2007, when the Colorado Rockies’ World Series run coaxed people who would usually rather shave their body with a rotary lawnmower than watch a baseball game to plant themselves in front of their set, viewers are clicking on FSN Rocky Mountain’s coverage of the…
So, you were thinking: Maybe execs at Channel 31 didn’t know that anchors Natalie Tysdal and Libby Weaver would pose for the September cover of Denver Magazine looking like Penthouse playmates eager to lubricate each others’ happy places. Perhaps the two news hotties went rogue, keeping their superiors out of…
“Is Alleged Colorado Democratic Party Headquarters Window-Smasher Maurice Schwenkler a LIBERAL Activist?,” a Jared Jacang Maher blog published yesterday, pinpointed some contradictions in a story that was originally framed as an example of anti-healthcare-reform loonies on a spree. Schwenkler, it seems, had received payment last November for election work on…
Back in March, at the height of Jay Cutler’s bitchfest, I laid out the five teams to which I hoped Culter would get traded — places I was sure he would hate, and places where I hoped he would fail. I’m a sadistic, juvenile little man like that. The fallout,…
KHOW and Channel 31 personality Tom Martino’s botched ambush of Westword staffer Jared Jacang Maher in the wake of a feature article detailing the Troubleshooter’s connections to a multi-level marketing company is the gift that keeps on giving. Martino posted footage of his shenanigans in which he repeatedly used a…
The folks at Denver Magazine call their September edition “The Men’s Issue,” and no wonder. The two women on the cover are literally busting out of their flirtatious attire, with the girliest of the two wearing a breast-boosting garment that turns her wiggle rack into an awesome blossom. Meanwhile, her…
Ted Kennedy died a year to the day after what was arguably his last big spotlight day on the American political stage — his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver mere months after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Rewatching his address, it’s clear that an unexpectedly robust Kennedy…
