Make room for Charles Barkley on the Nuggets bandwagon

Embedded video from NBA Video Isn’t it nice to hear national basketball commentators like Charles Barkley say nice things about your Denver Nuggets for a change? Sir Charles has typically treated the Nugs with all the respect of something he scraped off his shoe — but the further the team…

Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: “The Room” Uno Collector’s Edition

The game plays much like a regular UNO experience, although there is a cool new “Don’t Worry About It” card designed exclusively for the Uno Collector’s Edition of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic movie, “The Room.” Perfectly named, the “Don’t Worry About It” card rescues a player from having to follow…

No rest for gambling-addicted: Broncos ’09 win projection down to 6.5?

A couple of days ago, a friend mentioned what he thought was a sound, wise, and terribly depressing investment opportunity: Vegas had released the over/unders for NFL teams’ regular season wins, and the Broncos’ number was enticingly high: 7.5. For the responsible among you, this means that if you bet…

Bank stress puts stress on the rest of us

Wells Fargo and KeyCorp, two major banks operating in Colorado, didn’t get top marks in stress tests administered by the feds, and that makes perfect sense, since my family’s recent experiences with banking have made us plenty up-tight as well. Late last year, we were informed that our credit-card data…

The Statue of Liberty and Ken Salazar’s crowning achievement

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This morning, Secretary of the Interior (and former Colorado Senator) Ken Salazar got the full-bore show-biz treatment when he joined the Today show’s Matt Lauer in the crown of the Statue of Liberty, which will reopen for the…

Internet leaps to support student banned from prom for whiff of weed

A press conference featuring Sarah Heideman, a Brighton High School student who was banned from prom because her boyfriend, Jason Schweinsberg, allegedly smelled like marijuana, received a surprising amount of mainstream coverage in the Denver area, in part because of Heideman’s unusual demands: She wants the school to pony up…

Carol Chambers, the death penalty and the 7-Eleven slaying

It’s been a good news-bad news week for Arapahoe County District Attorney Carol Chambers. As one of the state’s most zealous officials when it comes to pushing for the death penalty, as documented in “Arapahoe County DA Charges Death-Penalty Fees to the State,” Alan Prendergast’s February 2008 feature, she was…

Avoid the swine flu and keep those hands clean, CU grads

Oh, to have the Purell franchise at the University of Colorado at Boulder graduation ceremony, taking place at Folsom Field at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Earlier this week, reports surfaced about three possible swine-flu cases at CU, but officials decided against canceling the celebration, pimped in the press release available…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 7 edition

Bite this. Today in Cafe Society: • Jack-n-Grill’s Juarez burger gets a top 50 nod from Food Network magazine. • What’s cooking? Events at cooking schools. • Colorado, Italian-style: How the West was undone. • The Recovery Room has recovered! • Veggie Girl: The Melting Pot. • Stranahan’s leaves LoDo…

Denver Blogs: Keep your heat at home, Buffs

Our daily cruise through the Colorogosphere. Check it. And send tips. Still no concealed guns allowed on CU’s campus. But guns-rights folks are going down firing. (Face the State) People still use brothels? I thought that’s what Craigslist was for… (5280) In defense of K-Mart. The player, that is. Not…

Best-job-ever alert: Casa Bonita’s hiring cliff divers!

Sure, the economy’s in the crapper, the country’s auto industry is going kaput and newspapers as we know them may soon cease to exist. But here’s one example of good news: Casa Bonita is doing well enough to be hiring a new cliff diver! That’s right, the Lakewood-based bastard child…

An update on Jay Marvin’s health crisis

The serious health issues AM 760 morning-show host Jay Marvin has been battling since late February aren’t getting any simpler for doctors to tackle according to Mary Marvin, Jay’s wife, who updated David Sirota, his most-frequent fill-in, during an appearance on the station yesterday. As first reported on the DenverRadio.net…

Nails were bitten in yesterday’s death-penalty vote

Yesterday, I predicted that the Colorado Senate vote on a bill to eliminate the death penalty in the state wouldn’t be a nail biter, Senator Morgan Carroll’s suggestions to the contrary. But her command of math proved far superior to mine. In the end, the measure fell just one vote…

Colorado’s answer to swine flu: Close the prisons?

You got to love the way officials in this state think. According to this item in the Colorado Springs Gazette, the Colorado Department of Corrections has decided to ban visitors and volunteers from state and private prisons for at least a week, describing the move as a “precautionary” step to…