The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 27 edition

Will you be game tonight? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler’s Green. • An extended conversation with Tim Pourbaix. Today in Cafe Society: • Eight is enough at chef’s table dinner at Strings. • Bucking to visit every Starbucks. • Mary…

Video: Five people arrested during yesterday’s Prop 8 protest

Soulforce in Colorado, a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to ending oppression against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, has posted a YouTube video of yesterday’s protest of the California Supreme Court ruling upholding Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. (For more about the protest, check out our blog previewing the event.)…

Today’s featured event: The Denver Cruisers take to the streets

A couple of weeks ago, as my family drove through downtown Denver, we spotted an unusual sight: a tipsy gaggle of bicyclists coming down the street that made me smile and wave. These bikers wore no sleek paraphernalia made of super-wicking mystery fabrics, nor were they mohawked, pierced, lean and…

Colorado Crimes: Welcome back, Ronald F. Thrasher

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ronald F. Thrasher, formerly of Colorado Springs, has been on the run for the past fourteen years. That’s not entirely true: He’s probably rested a time or two since 1995, when he fled custody before he could be sentenced for assorted drug- and gun-related…

Mountain View’s dilemma makes the Wall Street Journal

Mountain View, Colorado, a Denver suburb, is modern enough to have a website — but the information on its home page suggests that its concerns are quaint and old-fashioned. The first item concerns “Weeds and Tree Limb Violations.” The second notes that building permits are necessary for most home improvement…

Tour Denver the DaVita way

The announcement that DaVita, a healthcare giant specializing in kidney dialysis, is moving its corporate headquarters to the Denver area offers a rare bit of good economic news during a period filled with plenty of the opposite sort — and judging by its website, execs at the firm understand that…

Amy Herdy’s Pakistan travel diary, volume five

Editor’s note: Amy Herdy, a former Denver Post and Channel 9 journalist who’s currently the advisor for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s CUIndependent.com online newspaper, has spent recent weeks in Pakistan under the auspices of the State Department. Her mission: to give students and professional journalists the tools they…

Imagining the Nuggets starring in the NBA’s nightmare

“NBA & Nike Lose if Denver Nuggets & Orlando Magic Advance to NBA Finals,” an article at MarketingShift.com, begins like so: “Everybody loves a conspiracy theory, including fans of the National Basketball Association. Since the Tim Donaghy refree scandal,commisioner David Stern can’t be thrilled with the complaints from former players…

Is “ILVGINA” just as smutty as “ILVTOFU”?

During one of many torrential downpours last weekend, I was driving north on I-25 near Belleview Avenue when a Dodge Ram pickup sped by me and spayed my car with a ton of water. Once my wipers had done their job, I took a closer look at the truck, noticing…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 26 edition

Is it almost the weekend again? Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Trouble Andrew at the Bluebird. • Over the Weekend: Iwrestledabearonce at the Marquis Theater. • Over the Weekend: Moderat at Beta. • ManeLine breaks in the Deuce’s live stage as first local hip-hop act. • Metric…

Thanks, Joe Biden, for getting my car towed!

No doubt plenty of attendees enjoyed Joe Biden’s town-hall meeting at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science today. But at least one Denverite wouldn’t have minded if the veep had stayed in Washington, D.C.: marketing maven Jerri Thiel. Turns out that Thiel had car problems last night and had…

Vince McMahon takes on faux-Stan Kroenke’s killer toupee

True Nuggets fans didn’t watch last night’s edition of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Raw, in which Nugs owner Stan Kroenke and the ballers on his payroll were spoofed by WWE’s Vince McMahon and his unitard-clad minions — an act of revenge/publicity stoking inspired by a Pepsi Center double-booking. We were too…

Denver Blogs: Umm, this can’t be good

Our daily stroll through the local blogosphere. Brandon Marshall’s ex-girlfriend will be interviewed on ESPN this weekend. Why do we suspect she’s not bragging about his gift-giving prowess? (Complete Colorado) The case against high-speed rail in Colorado. (Face the State) You know you’re bad when your local city magazine has…