Now that I feel sufficiently bad about myself, I figure I’ll share the self-loathing: Last night was the second installment of the Riverfront Park Fashion Series, in which a bunch of really skinny people get together and, judging from Aaron Thackeray’s pictures, snicker at me and my extra ten pounds…
If you hear any loud screams today: Worry not. It is (probably) not one of your favorite Westwordians falling from the roof of the Fainting Goat. It is, more likely, the sound of someone who just donated $1,000 to rappel down the face of a very tall building and is…
It’s been a long time between films for director Jennifer Lynch, whose latest offering, Surveillance, unspools today at the Chez Artiste. Her debut, 1993’s Boxing Helena, about a surgeon (Julian Sands) who prevents the woman he loves (Sherilynn Fenn) from leaving him by amputating her limbs, received some of the…
Broncos fans on the team’s season-tickets wait list get their annual consolation prize today: a chance to buy two-game packages (one of which has to be to a pre-season game) before the rest of the sweaty, beer-stained, orange-bleeding general public. Beginning at 10 a.m., wait-listers in Colorado, Wyoming and New…
It began with Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero slapping attorney Mark Brennan with two contempt citations. It ended with Brennan leaning into opposing counsel Kim Ikeler, moving him bodily away from the podium and calling him “a little piece of shit.” In a little-used courtroom in the Denver City and…
The NFL Network invited estranged Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall into the studio on Thursday, and proceeded to wet themselves laughing at his jokes and soaking up the spin he was spitting. Marshall — who declared that he “play(s) for the love of the game” — said he’ll be at training…
This shortcut is a stripped-down version. Today in Cafe Society: • Jonesy’s EatBar staff bears their cleavage for a good cause. • Tonight: Twenty bucks, twenty wines at the Table Mountain Inn. • Mulberries to pack up on South Pearl. • Westword.com’s Map of the Bars. • Whoa! Big Hoss…
Our daily search for worth local blogs and other web content. Got a link we should share? Email it. When it comes to federal stimulus money, foreclosures are at the back of the line in Colorado. (Face the State) Brandon Marshall says he’ll be at training camp. Do you want…
Mashable, probably the Internet’s premier website covering social media in all of its forms, is coming to Denver Thursday, August 6 as part of a six-city road trip to promote the Summer of Social Good campaign. The idea is to leverage the power of social media for the benefit of…
Colorado’s SolVista Bike Park at Granby Ranch got the best endorsement imaginable when it was chosen to host this summer’s USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships, featuring both the elite of international mountain biking, hundreds of them, and an equally rampant onslaught of amateurs in cross country, downhill, single speed,…
Earlier today, we told you about the decision by the Denver Post to hire former Rocky Mountain News sportswriter Jeff Legwold. But he’s not the only veteran of the tabloid’s sports department with a new gig. Today, the University of Colorado announced that B.G. Brooks, who began writing for the…
“Smutty” UNC theater professor Vance Fulkerson and “Nutty” CU-Boulder Ethnic Studies professor Ward Churchill are no longer welcome in the classroom. Despite their differences, they will always have each other. Look for them enjoying the anonymity and autonomy of big city life as they pal around from pub to pub…
Just when we thought swine-flu stories had flown away like the avian variety, we’re suddenly inundated with news about, for instance, 97 Air Force Academy students with the ailment, as well as five students at the University of Northern Colorado. So where to voice concerns and seek answers to pressing…
Dexter Yarbrough has had a tough year when it comes to the media. He took a leave from his position as Colorado State University police chief in December in relationship to what was called a “personnel investigation.” Then, the following month, Rocky Mountain Collegian student journalist David McSwane added to…
Crime of all stripes tends to ratchet upward during difficult economic conditions — and that’s proven to be the case in Broomfield according to statistics assembled by the community’s police department. During the first six months of this year, crime in general is up 3 percent. Even more worrisome, the…
Jeff Legwold, who reported on the Denver Broncos for the Rocky Mountain News, will be covering the same beat for the Denver Post. His inclusion on the staff surprised some in the journalism community not because of anything having to do with Legwold, who has a reputation as an energetic…
These days, Broncos fans tend to either love or loathe Jay Cutler, whose petulance over trade rumors precipitated a trade to the Chicago Bears. New York Times blogger and ESPN contributor K.C. Joyner doesn’t gravitate toward either of these extremes, but he’s not ready to anoint Sweet Baby Jay as…
It’s hard to understate the explosive rise of Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. When Westword took an in-depth look at issue in the February 2009 article “Medical marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado,” just over 5,000 patients had been approved by the state to use marijuana — which was…
Did Colorado Representative Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat, insert a provision in a climate-change bill to benefit so-called “green” banks like one he helped found in San Francisco? That’s the charge leveled by an article in the Washington Times. The measure in question, according to the Times, “calls on bank regulators…
The American Idol auditions that turned Invesco Field at Mile High into an ear-damage danger zone for three days earlier this week racked up at least one casualty. Quincy Vanderbilt, a 24-year-old North Dakotan was charged with animal cruelty and given an August 20 court date for allowing his terrier…
Early yesterday morning, the Aurora Police Department issued information about an apparent street race at the intersection of South Peoria Street and East Yale Avenue in which one of the drivers died. Later in the day, the APD issued mug shots of two men in the incident: Benny Sitinjak, 34,…
The redevelopment of Denver’s historic Union Station into a transportation hub was supposed to have begun this past spring. If things had gone as planned, a new light-rail terminal would be nearing completion this fall, followed by an underground bus terminal, a commuter-rail train shed and a grand new plaza…
