“The Body Shop,” Alan Prendergast, July 2 Body Work Thank you for the enlightening, well-written, highly informative and ethically frightening cover article in the July 2 issue. I noticed the cover picture and title while walking through the hospital on my way back to the pathology department. I truly hope…
You put me out in Denver because I wouldn’t suck your dick.” That’s what Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, a lobbyist hired last year by former D.C. mayor and current councilmember Marion Barry to be his driver and personal assistant, shouted at Barry in June — shortly before he was arrested and jailed…
He knew something was gravely wrong when he tasted the blood in the back of his throat. He’d been forcing out sounds for nearly an hour, his voice becoming more and more hoarse, each individual word feeling like it was wrapped in barbed wire and dipped in rubbing alcohol. Finally,…
Back in September, former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry was arrested in relation to a series of cocaine-related charges — but because the drugs in question were found in Montana, the trial took place there rather than in Denver. That proceeding ended today with Henry earning 36 months in…
Put up your dukes. Today in Backbeat Online: • Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Better than a bag of poop on fire! • Last Night: Paul Sprawl at the Laughing Goat in Boulder. • Hearsay bits: City Hall, Speakeasy Tiger, Torch the Wagon, Patrick Porter, Magic Cyclops. • The Mars Volta…
Our daily cruise through the blogosphere. Send tips. Inside Infinity Park and Glendale’s strange obsession with rugby. (5280) Breaking down the Broncos quarterbacks. (Mile High Report) Michael Bennet’s campaign has money in the bank. About $2.66 mill, in fact. (Colorado Independent)…
Denver-based “everything for nerds” site Nerdivore is taking the great leap into Web 2.0. From now on, you, the nerds of the world, can contribute to Nerdivore. Until now, Nerdivore had been the more-or-less sole province of political columnist, New York Times bestselling author, Denverite and, apparently, giant nerd David…
Our favorite lingerie ads? Each year, the ritzy SOL… Store of Lingerie in Cherry Creek North surely wins that title, bare-handed, for plastering billboards and the store’s windows (and the Post’s business section) with sexy images of the latest SOL girl, all decked out in little more than something frilly…
In this week’s Westword, Dave Herrera introduces us to the men behind the Colorado Voice Clinic, where your favorite musicians go when their vocal chords fail them. Join Herrera on a video tour of the clinic above…
Been looking everywhere for realistic representations of the lunar surface? Look no more. Zybek Advanced Products, a Boulder-based firm just chosen for assistance by a University of Colorado-affiliated nonprofit dedicated to promoting space-industry entrepreneurship, has built “a full-scale plasma processing facility… used for manufacturing high-volume glass and mineral materials,” including…
All kids love the popular syndicated puzzle comic strip Slylock Fox. Along with drawing lessons and picture riddles, the favorite Slylock funtime feature challenges viewers to find the six differences between two nearly similar side-by-side pictures. The recent back-to-back news coverage of Colorado’s two dismissed professors, Ward Churchill of CU-…
The June 9 Westword feature “Down the Drain” examined how Denver officials are using funds designated for the improvement and maintenance of the city’s storm-water drainage system to pay for various non-storm expenses. The investigation found that more than $80 million dollars in “storm drainage fees” collected from property owners…
As Westword’s Alan Prendergast has reported in a series of blogs, Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. has ordered district attorney Carol Chambers to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of Julie Stene, who says she was sexually assaulted after a 2000 high school graduation party by two…
Today’s Denver Post story about onetime biking champ and former Durango resident Missy Giove, who’s been charged by federal authorities in relation to the seizure of about 400 pounds of marijuana in New York state, doesn’t qualify as breaking news. The bust took place in mid-June, and the Post was…
What the hell’s going on with Boulder and bizarre suicides? Last month, the Boulder Outlook Hotel was evacuated due to the possibility of strange chemicals in the room of a man who killed himself; turns out the fumes in question were traced to charcoal in a small grill. Then, yesterday,…
Yesterday’s American Idol auditions took place out of the view of local news cameras, in order to save the good, the bad and the ugly for the talent contest’s next season of broadcasts. But that didn’t stop pros and amateurs alike from trying to document the hoopla. Click “Continue” to…
Yesterday, a Colorado State University team led by civil engineering professor John van de Lindt successfully staged a very large-scale test in Miki City, Japan. They’ve come up with a new approach to building earthquake-proof (or at least more earthquake-proof) buildings, and to see if they’re on the right track,…
Today’s online Wall Street Journal features an unusual story about Denver’s Wells Fargo Center, whose owner, an Australian real-estate investment firm called Macquarie Office Trust, has been trying to peddle it since earlier this year. The piece isn’t about a sale but a possible sale. Sources cited by the Journal…
In the flesh. Today in Backbeat Online: • Westword Music Showcase Awards Wrap Up. • Q&A with Asher Roth. • Deejay Diabolic competing to spin at Lollapalooza. • Fake Problems cancels Larimer Lounge date. • Tickle Me Pink covers that are anything but “Typical.” Today in Cafe Society: • Tonight:…
Your dog’s poop could cost you a lot more come September — if you don’t pick it up, that is. The Denver City Council last night passed a bill that allows the city’s Department of Environmental Health to set fees and fines related to animal control and care. And the…
A few things we learned at yesterday’s Film on the Rocks screening of Office Space: 1. Office machines are no match for blunt instruments. Not the printer in the parking lot and not the fax machine on stage, and that was all before the movie even started. 2. People hate…
No law is truly written in stone. Not even those tablets Charlton Heston brought down from the top of Mount Hollywood in The Ten Commandments, which looked suspiciously like slabs of heavy cardboard. But some laws, as they age ungracefully, begin to resemble big cement blocks. Take, for example, the…
