Given my fearless opening-day prediction that the Colorado Rockies would manage just 72 wins this season (a record they seemed well on their way to achieving during the early weeks of the season), the team’s 47-41 mark at the All-Star break qualifies as surprising, and gratifying, news. But the sense…
The World Naked Bike Ride anchors our gang of photos from the weekend. Also included: shots from the Irish fest, a pool-less pool party and the Outlaws dance team getting down at Sutra. See it all at westword.com/slideshow. And over on the Backbeat blog, read a review of The Reverend…
Since being purchased by the Kerasotes chain, my neighborhood movie theater, the Bowles Crossing 12, at 8035 W. Bowles Avenue in Littleton, has gotten super-strict about R-rated movies. Theater personnel are stationed outside screening-room entrances to prevent underagers from buying tickets to Ice Age and then sneaking into celluloid sin…
Registration continues today at Invesco Field for season nine of American Idol — and if the scene at the stadium is anything like the one yesterday, it’ll be the pitchiest mob scene ever, dog. If you’re thinking of stopping by to share your jaw-slackening rendition of “Send in the Clowns,”…
In recent days and weeks, there have been a lot of things said about Kristen Parker, an operating-room tech accused of infecting a thus-far-unknown number of patients with hepatitis-C by swapping dirty syringes for clean ones. But the main words attributed to her in this space and elsewhere were from…
How dizzying is the budget crisis looming over Denver? So dizzying that city officials don’t even know what day it is anymore. On Friday, July 10, Mayor John Hickenlooper’s office sent out a press release featuring the ominous headline, “City of Denver Must Cut $120 Million to Balance Budget Over…
The home page of the Chamber of Commerce in Louisville is out of date. At this writing, it declares the community to be “The # 3 Best City to Live in the United States.” However, CNNMoney.com has just declared the burg to be number one on a list of America’s…
The headline of last week’s blog “Josh Penry About to Announce Gubernatorial Bid?” didn’t really need a question mark. It was abundantly clear from the lead-up to his Saturday appearance at the Mesa County Courthouse in Grand Junction that only a bizarre cataclysm — like an earthquake that suddenly swallowed…
The weekend awaits. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night’s Show: Lazy Lester at Boulder Outlook Hotel. • Reminder: 2009 Westword Music Showcase Awards this Monday night. • The Denver Boot: Jon Snodgrass live at the hi-dive. • MP3 Freeloader: Speakeasy Tiger tomorrow night at the Marquis. • Freaky Friday:…
A new federally funded study by researchers at the University of Denver (to read it, click here) found that most unmarried couples who live together aren’t trying to test their relationship before tying the knot, as was previously thought according to this USA Today story. No, the study found, most…
View Larger Map More than two weeks ago, we told you about a body found in a car parked on the 3100 block of South Dale Court in Sheridan, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The decedent has…
Our daily roundup of local linkage. Send tips. All aboard! Colorado discussing plan for high-speed rail line to El Paso and other exotic locales. (5280) A bill to regulate hydraulic fracturing is doing some political fracturing of its own. (Colorado Pols) How much revenue is Colorado really losing? Depends who…
One of the great things about the abundance of data floating around the Internet is that really smart people can “keep score” using information ranging from the simple (like numbers of MySpace/Facebook friends or Twitter followers) to the incredibly detailed and esoteric (any website owner worth his salt can tell…
While Buntport Theater’s tRUNks team — the very funny Matt Zambrano, Mitch Slevc and Jessica Robblee — takes a summer break from the usual serial creative kids’ comedy based on book titles, the droll trio has cooked up something delicious for adults. Love and Potatoes, a well-packaged threesome of short…
I am, for the record, generally in favor of toplessness. Not my own, mind you, which I am so strongly against I often wear a shirt in the shower, like the fat kid at the public pool, only hairy and alone. But other people’s toplessness? Sure! Topless beaches in Europe,…
Airport officials are talking about spending $1 billion dollars to renovate Denver International Airport. Since their plans include the construction of an on-site hotel, it only makes sense to add a facility that caters specifically to people who want to get laid (over) in the Mile High City……
After the February 27 closure of the Rocky Mountain News, Dean Singleton, chairman of MediaNews Group and publisher of the Denver Post, said he wanted to retain 80 percent of Rocky subscribers — and in the first official report since then from the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which monitors circ…
“I’m extremely proud today,” writes Ross Kaminsky, a local libertarian columnist and blogger, about taking the bronze in MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World” list this past Wednesday night. Kaminsky got the dubious award for a 4th of July post he wrote under the pseudonym Rossputin…
Word that Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a prisoner at Florence’ supermax prison facility, was denied a request for two books by President Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope and Dreams From My Father, on the basis of national security shines a spotlight on the often bizarre rationale for keeping publications…
As Michael Roberts reported yesterday, live from his dusty cave, Westword’s headquarters building at 969 Broadway is undergoing major surgery this month, to make room at the front of the building for a new tenant. We’re also getting new carpet, new paint, new cubicles and, I can only assume by…
University of Colorado at Boulder officials weren’t thrilled by a jury’s decision in April that Professor Ward Churchill had been sacked for writing a controversial 9/11 essay, not for academic misconduct, as the school’s board of regents claimed. But they’re considerably more pleased about Judge Larry Naves’ ruling this week…
As if flying isn’t already unpleasant enough, here’s a new development to dread: Airlines are increasingly amenable to letting pets fly in the main cabin as opposed to the cargo area. Meanwhile, a new venture called Pet Airways, which will specialize in transporting Fido and Fluffy from point A to…
