It must’ve seemed like such a good idea at the time. Let senior University of Colorado cornerback Ben Burney blog about the Buffaloes’ 2009 season on the CU’s athletic department’s website. It would show fans what it’s really like to be one of those heroes in black and gold, the…
Don’t you go around saying there’s never anything new happening in town. You can get a shock of the new tonight, in fact, when Paragon Theatre hosts an edition of The Trench, the company’s ongoing new play reading series, which offers a first look at works by locals. A talented…
Related story: “A Human in Fur-land: What I learned at the Rocky Mountain Fur Convention” Furries — members of the strange but strangely endearing “furry fandom” — gathered in Denver over the weekend for one of the dozens of furry conventions that take place throughout the world each year, at…
An increasing number of aviation-industry experts believe that Southwest Airlines’ interest in obtaining Denver-based Frontier is motivated by the desire to eliminate a competitor that’s kicking its ass, at least here. And that theory has just gotten a boost via the size of Southwest’s bid for the carrier, which was…
On Friday, we told you about Victoria Beckham’s stealth visit to Denver to participate in American Idol callbacks. Now, the early reviews are in — the kind shared by anonymous whisperers — and they’re not very good. RadarOnline reports that while the once-and-future Posh Spice looked quite fetching, her personality…
In a post today, Allan D. Mutter, a nationally respected press critics who shares his views on a blog dubbed Reflections of a Newsosaur, takes notice of the Rocky Mountain News website — which not many other folks have done lately, and for good reason. In the piece, headlined “How…
On Friday, we shared a video in which folks protesting healthcare reform in Pueblo compared Obamacare to Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler — and this brand of overheated rhetoric is hardly isolated to that community. Over the weekend at an event in Brighton, pro-healthcare reform rep Ed Perlmutter was greeted…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 30. Marston: Pot-bellied Confederate fire plug Marston is a thin slip of neighborhood that juts deeply into Jefferson County and is cut off from the rest of the city of Denver by Marston Reservoir, and the residents couldn’t be happier. The…
Cougars: They’re all too common these days, and they must be stopped. Especially the four-legged kind. Yesterday, members of the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office received a call about a female mountain lion in the vicinity of 26900 East Colfax Avenue, and home owner Francisco Guerriero made capturing it easy –…
In its Sunday print edition, and on its website, the Denver Post is going through a torturous annual ritual — polling readers about which comics they like, dislike or ignore. Unfortunately, the results of such surveys frequently fail to predict the ire of those whose faves are low vote-getters. Note…
No question that the fiscal downturn in these United States has battered Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association, or PERA — and so have critics like the Denver Post’s Vince Carroll, who’s taken on the topic in column after column. As a result, plenty of folks who depend upon PERA are…
On the heels of hosting some of hip-hop’s favorite sons on Thursday, Red Rocks welcomed indie rock’s on Sunday: Kings of Leon. See photos at westword.com/slideshow…
The deal that finally got Knowshon Moreno, the Broncos’ first draft pick, into camp includes almost a nearly $13 million guarantee — a big chunk of change, particularly considering how prone running backs are to getting hurt. Fortunately, Moreno has what WalterFootball.com’s pre-draft report described as a “minimal injury history…
On Friday, the Colorado Department of Education unveiled SchoolVIEW.org, a new website that aims to make it easier than ever for parents to check on the standardized-testing achievements of a specific school and district — and it does just that. For instance, I clicked on the “Colorado Growth Model” icon…
Despite this week’s Westword cover story detailing Sonia Sotomayor’s clear judicial bias against “numchuck sticks,” the Senate still voted to confirm the wise-Latina-loving nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court on August 6. (Apparently the powerful pro-nunchaku lobby was too busy watching ass-kicking Bruce Lee clips on YouTube to mount serious…
The Snowboard Bandits, who we wrote about last year, terrorized Front Range banks in 2007 and 2008. They were clever enough to disguise themselves in full-body snowboarder gear, but made a slip-up or two once the heists were over — like, for example, trying to launder the money by actually…
Over the weekend, Mary Marvin, wife of AM 760 morning-host Jay Marvin, who’s been off the air since late winter due to a series of serious medical issues, sent a note to friends about Jay’s surgery, slated for today. Her account updates information she provided Westword last week, offering new…
Firefighters are supposed to save kids, not endanger them. But if accusations against Shane Hayden, 33, are accurate, he reversed the order of this mission in an especially vile way. Last month, according to the Parker Police Department, Hayden contacted an underage girl online and eventually set up a meeting…
Shall we rap? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Rock the Bells at Red Rocks. • MP3 Freeloader: Rockie making a splash on the club scene. • Zebra Junction closes up shop this evening. • Q&A with Jared Piccone of Innerpartysystem. • Q&A with Brandon Whalen of My Body…
Yesterday, the Lakewood Police Department announced that it was investigating a house fire last week on West 20th Avenue as a homicide; Bonni Bergin, 49, who’d been renting the home, was found dead inside. Now, the LPD has made an arrest. Brit Allan Cox, 40, has been formally accused of…
It may yet prove to be the case that being able to throw a football really hard does not make you a good NFL quarterback. In fact, it may require intelligence and grace and a good offensive line, and Jay Cutler does not have any of those things. His most…
View Larger Map On Wednesday, we told you about a murder in the alley between the 1400 blocks of Ogden and Emerson, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Denver Police subsequently arrested Charles Garlick, 26, in relation to…
