Okay, okay: I get it. After watching LeBron James’ epic performance during the fourth quarter of Cleveland’s 112-102 victory over the Orlando last night, when he essentially schooled the entire Magic squad singlehandedly, I understand why the NBA, Nike and assorted TV networks would like to see him and Kobe…
Flashing: What a bad feeling — especially if you’re the one being unexpectedly confronted with a closeup view of genitals you really didn’t want to see in the first place. According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, a young man has been waving his package around in serial fashion: once…
This is what we did. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: No Doubt, Paramore and The Sounds at Fiddler’s Green. • Q&A with Tracyanne Campbell of Camera Obscura. • Missed FoCoMx? No worries. Check this out. • Musicians: Get your ears lowered for free. • Update: Monolith to reveal…
Our daily blog round up. Send some tips if we’re missing something. Lawmakers are not coming around on the whole Gitmo-terrorists-to-Colorado deal. (5280) Remembering the flood of ’64. (Buckfifty.org) Five simple rules to help the Nuggets reach the Finals. (Denver Stiffs)…
There’s little out there that’s sexier than salsa dancing, except maybe the delightfully lurid tango, which shares some Latin roots. And Denver, like any multi-ethnic city worth its #10 Scoville-rated habanero juice, is lucky enough to have a tight little salsa community that kicks up its heels to the clavé…
Would you like to be the new city manager of Lakewood? Well, you can’t — because six finalists for the position, which opens up in September, when current CM Mike Rock plans to retire, have already been chosen. They are: Larry Dorr, Mike Hein, Kathleen Elia Hodgson, Jay Hutchison, Gary…
There’s no doubt that the Colorado Avalanche needed Patrick Roy to take over the team as head coach — and when team president Pierre Lacroix decides to obtain someone’s services, he usually succeeds. But not in this case. Shortly after the Denver Post reported that Lacroix had offered him the…
Completely updated summer programs have evolved to offer children a wide variety of specialized educational activities that reflect current social trends……
These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term — “twate” — which means, “To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter.” But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we’ve discovered one…
Even as journalists debate about whether or not E.W. Scripps executives pinned their hopes for the Rocky Mountain News’ survival on Denver Post owner Dean Singleton’s death, MediaNews Group, Singleton’s company, is moving ahead with an unusual effort to monetize its content. As detailed in “MediaNews to Begin Customized Printing…
It didn’t take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280’s intriguing account of the Rocky’s death — that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid’s owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher…
The Education News Colorado website aspires to provide a depth of coverage long associated with newspapers — which is why the folks there hired education reporter Nancy Mitchell in March following the closure of the Rocky Mountain News. This week, Mitchell returns the favor via “Numbers Show Teacher Evaluation System…
One of the strangest sentencing hearings ever to unfold in Denver’s federal court came to an end Wednesday, after five days of often-bewildering testimony. Convicted last year on 23 counts of fraud and failure to file tax returns, alternative fuel pioneer Bill Orr was facing up to twenty years in…
We here at Westword are quite excited about the possibility of male birth-control meds — mostly because we’ll then get to take all the rubbers people no longer need and wear them on our heads like that old “condom hat” routine Howie Mandel used to do. Seriously, that bit never…
James Toback’s career seems to suffer from bipolar disorder. In the beginning, he was treated as a wunderkind thanks to his screenplay for The Gambler, a tough-nosed 1974 James Caan feature, not to mention his 1978 directorial debut, Fingers, a Harvey Keitel vehicle he also scripted. But despite the admiration…
During the months between the December announcement that E.W. Scripps had put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale and the February date when the plug was pulled once and for all, as everyone knew it would be, Maximillian Potter, executive editor of 5280 magazine, watched and wrote. Potter was…
I faced a dilemma when it came to the Nuggets’ crucial game five against the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA’s Western Conference finals last night. For weeks, I’d been scheduled to attend (and critique) the No Doubt-Paramore concert at Fiddler’s Green alongside my daughter Lora, a basketball fan just…
Man, pretty soon, the Central Platte Valley will have everything an upper-class urbanite could want: a mass-transit hub, a dog park, more fancy lofts and a brand spanking new firing range, where Denver cops will learn how to shoot suspected criminals. The planned location for the campus-like facility, which will…
On April 22, Allen Andrade, an unemployed 32-year-old who had spent time in prison for a string of non-violent crimes, was convicted of first-degree murder for beating to death eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata of Greeley. A striking beauty, Angie was born a boy named Justin David Zapata but had been living…
This season’s American Idol has sung its last note and Dancing With the Stars has taken a bow, but two more reality shows — with real Colorado connections — are about to ride the airwaves. Pitchmen is a Discovery Channel series that pairs infomercial king Billy Mays, who made his…
“The Giveaway,” Alan Prendergast, May 14 Give and Let Die My definition of a coroner or forensics examiner is an official responsible for investigating deaths, particularly some of those happening under unusual circumstances, and determining the cause of death. Based on that brief explanation, what in the world was Laradon…
Those who followed last month’s trial of the man who murdered eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata know a lot about what her life was like on July 14, 15 and 16 of last year. They know how two of her sisters found her on July 17, lying on the carpeted living-room floor…
