Yes, I know that the Nuggets-beating Los Angeles Lakers are supposed to school Orlando in the NBA finals series, which begins tonight. But although I’d have to give the edge to the Lakers, too, I’m not ruling out a sweet, ever-so-satisfying Magic victory. No doubt the refs will give every…
News flash: If ski towns were super-strict about marijuana laws, those snowy hills nearby would be a lot less crowded. So it makes sense that Sensible Breckenridge, a spinoff of SensibleColorado.org, would see the community as fertile ground for marijuana reform. To that end, a group that includes town councilman…
Don’t let the recession ruin your summer fun! Instead of paying the high costs for transportation and lodging, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that best suits your interests. A staycation in the Sloan’s Lake and Jefferson Park neighborhoods has much to offer……
Today’s Greeley Tribune features an article about 52-year-old Kell Hulsey, a Greeley cop who was arrested last year following a fight at Livermore’s Pot Belly Deli Bar and Restaurant that reportedly started because he and his son, Daniel, “believed another man in the bar gave them a ‘gay look.'” A…
A May 26 blog explored a lawsuit brought by the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent website over their contention that Colorado State University violated open-meetings law in the way it anointed Joe Blake, former vice chairman of CSU’s board of governors, as the sole finalist…
At a teleconference yesterday announcing that he’d joined the NBC Sports cadre of broadcasters, former Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy was asked about the Chicago Bears’ acquisition of hurler Jay Cutler in exchange for a couple of draft picks and party dude QB Kyle Orton (who’s having trouble grasping new…
As rumors continue to swirl about the sale of the Rocky Mountain News’ intellectual property, the shuttered tabloid’s offices remain idle — expect for workers tearing them apart. Above is a recent photo of the news desk, which onceprovided the Rocky newsroom’s heartbeat. Another shot is on view by clicking…
Because sometimes we all need to see a big, stupid dinosaur mascot looking like an idiot…
The name of the ColoradoSenateNews.com has a wonderfully bland ring to it — one that implies evenhandedness and bipartisanship. But the truth is on view in small print at the bottom of the home page — “An online service of the Senate Minority Office,” the line reads — and in…
View Larger Map The Aurora Police Department has identified Jose De Jesus Martinez, 32, as the victim in a May 28 arson at 2301 N. Emporia Street, an address captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Coy Dunn and Douglas Taylor…
Yesterday afternoon, during a conversation with Sandy Clough and Mike Evans of FM 104.3/The Fan, Tony Granato, who’d beeen canned as head coach of your Colorado Avalanche a short time earlier, came across as the classiest of class acts, expressing gratitude to the franchise that treated him like excess ice…
The New Westword Cover Under Cover Under that cool, slick cover, I found the same down-and-dirty Westword inside. Nice move! Heather Vigil Denver Wrapping Westword in the new, super-hip 5280-style cover is like wrapping a fish with a cashmere scarf. I prefer the old rag. Rumaldo Ulibarri Arvada How much…
The world Ryan Ford inhabits looks very different than the one most of us live in. Ours has boundaries, limits, margins and finite possibilities. Our daily paths are delineated by sidewalks and stairwells, corralled by guardrails and building walls. We take this confinement blithely, rarely venturing onto any surface that’s…
View Larger Map Back in the ’90s, the Denver area experienced what was known as the “Summer of Violence.” Today, we seem to be in the midst of an especially murderous spring. This afternoon, a man was shot and killed in a Dollar Value Plus store at 5765 E. 63rd…
View Larger Map There’s been an arrest in the murder last week of security guard Alfredo Gonzalez-Ramos at the El Chapparal night club, 2727 W. 6th Avenue, the venue captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Denver Police…
And in the center ring…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Animal Collective at the Boulder Theater. • Fell to appear on upcoming soundtrack. • Irony free disco at Problems D’Amour tonight. Today in Cafe Society: • Luca D’Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with…
Sometimes we need a little physics lesson: When a 1,000 pound steel and glass box traveling at 40 mph smashes into another 1,000 pound box containing two people totaling something like 250 pounds, the result is, well, just look at the picture above. Sharing scary lessons like these is the…
Tonight’s Denver Cruisers ride will have special significance for Brad Evans, the zany leader of the cycling pack, and not just because riders will dress themselves and their cruisers in bubble wrap and duct tape. The event, which takes place rain or shine and will likely see a couple hundred…
We read the local blogs so you don’t have to, although we recommend it, ’cause there’s some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado’s national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Avalanche of changes is…
Three Colorado professors wanted to know more about gun violence in America — the social and cultural forces driving illegal gun use, how criminals view their gats, how they use them and why. So they did something few criminal justice researchers have ever bothered to do. They asked the thugs…
USED, Denver’s underground syringe exchange program (and the subject of the Westword feature “Why Doesn’t Colorado Get the Point of Needle Exchange Programs?”), has gone digital with a new website: www.used303.org. The website features information on how to exchange needles, links to resources for I.V. drug users, and statistics on…
Brent Jeffs lived the insider’s life behind the closed gates of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the LDS splinter denomination once led by his polygamist uncle, Warren Jeffs, and dogged by controversy and rumors of sexual abuse. But it wasn’t pretty: From his vantage point, the…
