Before LoDo was club central and all cleaned up — in fact, before LoDo was LoDo — the visionary couple Mickey Zeppelin and Susan Wick opened The City Spirit Café, at 14th and Blake. A serendipitous art-cave and basement bookstore lined with mosaic and bright colors, City Spirit was a…
Westword’s annual Best of Denver issue hits streets (and online) on Wednesday afternoon — a monument to our (and your) favorite things, places, people and burritos in Denver. This morning’s Denver Post offered a little sneak preview, so we will too. After the jump, find out which TV personalities earned…
One of the most contentious aspects of Union Station’s ambitious redevelopment — the construction of two modern wing buildings on either side of the historic station — is poised to move forward. Yesterday, the Union Station Neighborhood Company, the master developers on the project, announced the selection of local architects…
#1. Relaxed residential zoning codes…..
This week’s cover story, “The Hard Sell,” looks into the curious case of Erik Osborn, the Denver developer who is demanding the city provide him with a free public defender despite the fact that he lives in a multi-million dollar “villa” in the uber-ritzy Polo Club neighborhood. Osborn’s wife, real…
“Our March Madness Predictions: A Prelude to Humiliation…,” published March 18, shared brackets assembled by me and my daughter, Lora, for both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments — and in an update posted yesterday, I noted that our women’s picks had proven more accurate than the men’s in…
On Monday, one week after a press conference about In Denver Times, a new web venture peopled by former members of the Rocky Mountain News, Kevin Preblud, one of three entrepreneurs behind the project (along with Brad Gray and Benjamin Ray), took part in the following interview. In addition to…
So Jay Cutler’s (probably) getting traded. Fine by me. He’s a talented guy, sure, and he’s got an arm like a diesel-powered T-shirt gun. But I like my quarterbacks savvy and cerebral and not so damn pouty when things go awry. And while Josh McDaniels has proven to be just…
Much of the Ward Churchill trial to date has been a big tease. Reports suggested that Churchill might take the stand in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the University of Colorado-Boulder as early as March 16. But it wasn’t until yesterday that the once and future prof finally got his…
When errors are made, it’s important for news organizations to set the record straight — and the Denver Post attemped to do so this morning with the following item: “A photo caption on Page 20A Sunday incorrectly stated that Irrigation Engineering worker David Warren was soldering a pipe. He was…
March forward. Today in Backbeat Online: • The Photo Atlas live at SXSW 2009. • Overcasters SXSW tour diary. • Epilogues SXSW tour diary. • Aloft in the Sundry SXSW tour diary. • Meese SXSW tour diary. Today in Cafe Society: • Appleman’s cooking in Boulder tonight. • Alba Osteria…
Our daily survey of local blogs. Send tips. Attention, Democrats: Meet the men who will try to make your life miserable in the near future. (Face the State) Contraception bill passes, but not without some requisite weirdness. (Colorado Independent) Now that’s how to endear your readers: Blog sponsors a happy…
Blogs — and take note, you are reading this in a blog — aren’t the wave of the future. Blogs are the here and now, the thing of the moment, where grassroots communications are dealt right over the top of the table, straight-forward, via the Internet. It’s where we can…
Once a year for several years, I sat across a table from a slender, graceful girl named Whitney DeMoraes Hendrickson. This happened during my annual pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, when I would have dinner with my old college friends, Dave and Clelia Hendrickson. Dave is a political science professor at…
Our weekend started Thursday, with a bizarre made-from-paper fashion show, and continued through Saturday night with a not-at-all-bizarre parade of drunk people at the downtown Lodo’s. In between we looked longingly at photos sent from our colleagues in Austin for South by Southwest. See pictures of it all at westword.com/slideshow,…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 12. South Park Hill: Birdhouse Village A yard arteologist once said, “Some of us are born in birdhouses, some of us make birdhouses, and some of us have birdhouses thrust upon us.” The comment was made while examining a shipment of…
Although most fans who fill out brackets during NCAA basketball tournament season only focus on the men’s teams, the contest through the Archdiocese of Denver that my daughter Lora and I have participated in during recent years gives the women equal billing. That’s a good thing from the perspective of…
How do you report on one of the most-covered events in recent U.S. history? That was the conundrum facing Boulder-based writer Dan Baum, then a New Yorker staff writer, when he arrived in New Orleans a few days after Hurricane Katrina. Baum and his wife and writing partner Margaret Knox’s…
The headline on “Our March Madness picks: A prelude to humiliation…,” a March 18 blog in which I shared the NCAA brackets filled out by my daughter Lora and me, may prove to be prescient very soon — but at this point, we’re still hanging in there. We correctly named…
American Idol didn’t prove to be a skyrocket to fame for Boulder’s Ace Young, a 2006 Westword profile subject. But three years after finishing seventh in the contest — remember how he equated that number with the one John Elway wore? — he’s still using the show to put bread…
“David Sirota Carries No Water on AM 760,” a March 17 More Messages blog, pointed out that columnist Sirota wasn’t tempering his criticism of President Barack Obama’s handling of the current financial crisis during fill-in appearances at AM 760, a station that boasts about specializing in “progressive talk.” Two days…
When the latest rash of layoffs, cutbacks and buyouts struck newspaper and TV outlets a few years ago, journalists worried about a loss of “institutional knowledge” — reporters, producers or editors who’d been around town long enough that they could connect all the dots when a news event took place…
