Greetings and salutations. Today in Cafe Society: • Denver’s Ritz-Carlton is puttin’ on a happy hour! • Today: A celebrity cook-off, wine-tasting event and the kick-off to Telluride’s wine festival. • Red Trolley rewards you for your ice-cream gluttony. • A closer look at LoHi Steakbar. • Candy Girls: Skwinkles…
Our daily blog roundup. Missing something? Send it here. Consider yourself stimulated: Federal dollars have created dozens of new transportation jobs in Colorado. (Face the State) Marilyn Musgrave’s loss had more to do with Marilyn Musgrave, less to do than that other bullshit she’s been trying to sell. (Colorado Pols)…
I mentioned this last week in my Twitter Tuesday post, but in case you missed it, there’s a tweetup tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Wynkoop Brewing Company. In other words, a bunch of people who kinda-sorta know each other from Twitter will be hanging out, drinking beer and…
Denver native and historical-raconteur-about-town Phil Goodstein probably boasts the most encyclopedic mind for local history that you’ve ever encountered: Whereas other Denver experts expound on it, Goodstein gushes, spouts, lives, breathes and obsesses about its every detail, whether aloud on his well-known history walking tours or in print in any…
New Options Wellness Clinic, a Boulder marijuana dispensary, had a real buzzkill last week when a group of robbers held up the operation and made off with two large tubs of marijuana. Things are looking up this week, however. Not only have the police identified four suspects in connection with…
No need for Mike Coffman to thumb through “Ethics Roundup: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2009,” a new report by Colorado Ethics Watch, in order to look for his name. Even though CEW brought a complaint against the congressman for actions he took while serving as Colorado’s Secretary…
Unmistaken Child, which opens tomorrow, June 26, at the Mayan Theatre, is a remarkable documentary about a fascinating ritual of Tibetan Buddhism: the search for a reincarnated master in the body of a child. Tenzin Zopa is chosen for this task after the 2001 death of 84-year-old Geshe Lama Konchog,…
Although there might have been more bikers than normal on the roads for yesterday’s Bike To Work Day, it definitely wasn’t some sort of two-wheeled takeover. But there were absolutely more bikers than normal in the parking lot of ad agency Cactus. You’ll always attract a crowd with the formula…
Don’t let the recession ruin your summer sailing plans. Instead of paying the high price for a New York vacation in the Hamptons to see celebrity sailors, you can stay in Denver and see a star-studded array of (local) swabbies in the Hampdens…..
As reported in this space on Monday, the Huffington Post is planning to open a series of local branches — and in a recent interview, Arianna Huffington, the site’s namesake, revealed that an outpost in Denver would follow the launch of ones in Chicago and New York. Yesterday, I followed…
Talking on a cellphone and driving: bad. Texting and driving: really bad. Making a video and driving: off the friggin’ charts. This clip, posted on YouTube earlier today, purports to show bad traffic on I-25, and it does. But the stopping and starting, coupled with erratic zooms, repeatedly makes it…
View Larger Map On June 23, the Denver Coroner’s Office identified Morrail Bell as the man who died in a June 21 shooting at 12565 E. Albrook Drive, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Subsequently, the office…
Yesterday, Greeley’s own JBS Swift Beef Co. recalled over 41,000 pounds of meat contaminated with O157:H7 E.coli bacteria, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. The stuff went out on April 21 to enterprises in Colorado and a dozen other states ranging from California to…
If there were an award for the catchiest first paragraph in a press release e-mailed to Westword this week, the one from Laguna Beach-based New Life Ministries would win it, no contest. “As the pastor stepped up to the podium to preach his Sunday morning sermon, he opened what he…
View Larger Map The Mile High Murder ticker may move upward again today, as the Sheridan Police Department is investigating what it describes as a “possible homicide.” Yesterday, a body was discovered in a car parked on the 3100 block of South Dale Court, an area captured in the graphic…
The purchase of Frontier Airlines by Indianapolis’ Republic Airways Holdings will likely lift the carrier from bankruptcy, and that’s a very good thing. But the possibility remains that Frontier could move its corporate offices out of Denver in the sort of cost-saving tactic that’s already prompted the cancellation of a…
This past weekend, my family and I took a stroll in one of my favorite places, the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder — and while the sidewalks were crowded, I saw unmistakable proof that the area isn’t immune from the economic downturn. For the first time that I recall, a…
Anyone who’s ever ridden the Cyclone at Lakeside Amusement Park can testify to the terror it produces. Sure, other roller coasters boast bigger vertical drops or more severe twists and turns. But the Cyclone, whose cars zip along a vintage wooden track, produced more dread than the vast majority because…
For political junkies, and the sort of folks who can’t resist slowing down as they pass car wrecks, the sight of South Carolina Governor Mark Sandford revealing that he’d spent the better part of a week canoodling with his Argentinian mistress was riveting comedy-drama. So, too, were the ultra-sincere, equally…
“Invasion of the Bike Monsters,” Kenny Be, June 18 A Vicious Cycle I thoroughly enjoyed Kenny Be’s spread identifying the different types of bicyclists. He nailed it. In terms of enforcement, these “bike monsters” seem to be neither fish nor foul, not abiding by either vehicular or pedestrian rules. I’ve never…
Art, they say, is in the eye of the beholder — and the beholders in the Art District on Santa Fe can be tough critics. That’s what Marcos De La Torre discovered after he hired Justin (no last name, please) of Ill Resist to paint an unusual interpretation of an…
On the evening of February 16, 2008, more than a hundred law-enforcement officers along the northern Front Range prepared for Operation Fortune Cookie, which would go down as the largest marijuana bust in Colorado history. In the basement of Thornton Police Department headquarters, officers with the North Metro Task Force,…
