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…
Channel 4 sportscaster Vic Lombardi has wanted a regular radio gig for a while now — but he faced a number of seemingly insurmountable obstacles when it came to making one a reality. Due to the scheduling of team practices and news conferences, not to mention the TV broadcasts he…
In recent years, most rulings about communication from courtrooms have centered on the use of cameras or laptops — but that’s so last generation, technologically speaking. Today, it’s all about phones like the one Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has been given permission to tweet updates from during the impending…
It’s comparatively easy to display humility, grace and good sportsmanship for athletes who don’t reach elite status. No one expects greatness from them on any level, personal or professional, so folks tend to grade on the curve from the get-go. But stars are as different in this way as they…
Since news broke about the arrest of former University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson, who’s been charged with sexual exploitation of children in relation to a video system set up in his bathroom, plenty of alumni have stepped up to share their experiences. However, no account I’ve stumbled…
We don’t want none that don’t have buns, hon. Today in Cafe Society: • King of hot dogs, Oscar Mayer, passes away. • Tonight: Steak and wine at Elway’s Downtown. • This spud’s for you at the DPL. • Guess where I’m eating? • Oak Tavern takes over Monarck. •…
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will host a traveling exhibit on Genghis Khan starting on October 16. “We’re bringing the world’s greatest badass to Denver,” says exhibit curator Marc Levine. This morning at the west entrance to the museum, members of Denver’s surprisingly large Mongolian population helped preview…
Our rundown of the local blogosphere. Send links. Why trade for Roy Halladay when you can land a sort-of light-hitting second baseman? (Purple Row) Congratulations, local blogger, you are one of Keith Olberman’s World’s Worst People. (Face the State) A Colorado professor has been threatened with firing for shooting his…
If you’re pissed off at a company and want some satisfaction, it seems Twitter may be the answer to your prayers. That’s the thrust of this piece from the New York Times Sunday edition, which relates several incidences of airline screw-ups resolved through a quick Tweet or two. It makes…
Don’t worry about running into operating-room tech Kristen Parker anytime soon — if you’re not in the hoosgow, that is. The self-confessed needle lover accused of spreading hepatitis-C among patients at two different medical facilities in the area is being held without bond according to a new release from the…
The Mizel Museum’s programming always seems to encompass a fine web of relationships. For instance, this summer’s Israeli Film Series, a relaxed outdoor roster of screenings on the lawn, manages to interconnect the museum’s summer self-portrait show and the 100th anniversary of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Subtitled Tel…
The way Jim Benish tells it, if local law enforcement agencies don’t manage to solve two and possibly three notorious, decades-old child murder cases, it won’t be because they don’t have enough evidence. “They have all the information that I have,” says Benish, a former Thornton police officer and author…
Judge Larry Naves’ decision to vacate a jury decision in the wrongful-termination lawsuit filed against the school by Ward Churchill has emboldened CU to seek at least ten grand’s worth of compensation from the controversial prof. But it’s also brought support for Churchill from folks on the political left –…
The addition of a new Celebrity Prairie Dog Museum in the redesign plans of the main terminal would be both horrifying and hilarious. And consequently, it would fit right in with the rest of DIA’s apocalyptic public art displays……
Carolyn Kane, vice president of content for Channel 2 (known as The Deuce) and Channel 31, confirms that five editorial employees at the combined stations were laid off yesterday. Included among them: Chris Dunn, the primary weather forecaster for Channel 31; Charlie Brennan, a former Rocky Mountain News reporter who…
It’s rare for a judge to order a reluctant district attorney to purse a rape case, finding that the DA’s decision not to file was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. But that’s what happened last year in a decade-old sex assault case in Arapahoe County that we reported on in “CU…
The press generated by next week’s American Idol auditions in Denver will likely be off the charts considering how much coverage has been heaped on winners of pre-Idol contests. Mykal Hudson won the Denver Idol showcase sponsored by Channel 31 (he gets the good news from Ron Zappolo and…
The accusations levied against University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson are grotesque in the extreme: Earlier this week, he was charged with sexual exploitation of children related to a video system set up in (wait for it) his bathroom. And charges that UNC took no action against Fulkerson…
Earlier this week, we offered an update on Adam Brickley, a University of Colorado-Colorado Springs student who was credited with helping to bring Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to national prominence via his palinforvp.blogspot.com website. Brickley subsequently agreed to participate in an e-mail Q&A about his experiences, offering plenty of new…
Judge Larry Naves’ decision not to reinstate Ward Churchill to his position at the University of Colorado at Boulder has emboldened CU in a big way. The school’s attorney revealed yesterday that Churchill will be billed ten grand or so for costs incurred while fighting his wrongful-termination lawsuit. Hard to…
Today, and for weeks to come, we at Westword will receive daily reminders about the contraction currently taking place in the media industry. The paper has been based for years at 969 Broadway — but as times have gotten tighter, the staff has gotten smaller, making the space too large…
Joe Sakic’s retirement announcement scheduled for later today will no doubt spawn a bevy of salutes to the Colorado Avalanche captain and surefire first-ballot NHL hall of famer — but few more unusual than the one on view here. The montage combines clips from Sakic’s incredible twenty-year career — even…
