Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, you have to admit that there’s something lovely about a story of two wanderers seeking shelter and an innkeeper offering up the only space he has left — in his stable, where a woman soon gives birth to a special baby boy. Every year,…
Diana DeGette wants to be Colorado’s first female Senator – maybe – but Denver’s U.S. Representative has gone about making that known in a strangely blunt and abrasive way, namely by calling out Governor Bill Ritter, who will choose a a new one, and by bashing the “chattering class.” In…
New Year’s Eve is almost upon us, which means it’s time for you and all your friends to argue endlessly about what to do, building the night up so much that it can only turn into a major letdown. But! It doesn’t have to be that way. Here, 10 events…
Journalists are an unusual bunch. We complain about our godawful pay and long hours, but we also live for such things. We make fun of all the self-indulgent and pointless press awards we constantly bestow upon each other, but if we don’t get any ourselves, we quietly mope for weeks…
It will be time to start looking forward soon, but first we’ll take one last look back at all the looking back we’ve been doing, with a roundup of our year-end coverage. It was a strange and wonderful and absolutely dogshit year. Let’s relive it…
You’ve read all about Basil the robot and his fancy cybernetic brain; now see him in action. To prove that their mechanical friend is actually capable of delivering delicious liquids (a feat Basil failed to accomplish at his coming-out party at the Wynkoop Brewery, solely because the stupid humans let…
We’ve long known people love the iconic big blue bear that peeks into the Colorado Convention Center (it’s officially titled “I See What You Mean”). Blue bear miniatures have been selling like hotcakes, and, as we uncovered in a tell-all interview, the big blue bear even recently appeared on Good…
Gas is less than half what it was a few months ago, and Xcel is actually planning to lower rates after the new year. But savor those cheap energy prices while you can. Like Santa Claus, painful new hikes are coming to town, probably sooner than later. One lump of coal…
It’s time to count birds again, and we don’t mean your Thanksgiving and Christmas turkey dinners. The Audubon Society of Greater Denver, in conjunction with local Audubon groups around the nation, is asking its members to count the birds they see in their back yards on New Year’s Day -…
Rocky Mountain PBS said Tuesday it has hired Doug Price as its new president and chief executive officer. He replaces James Morgese, who explained to Westword’s Michael Roberts in August why he was leaving the public television service after fifteen years. A former top executive with First Bank of Colorado…
Is there anything Lance Armstrong can’t do? Not only has the 37-year-old cyclist won the Tour de France a gazillion times, but now CNN is reporting that his steady girlfriend, Anna Hansen, is pregnant without the involvement of medical fertility procedures. Quite a feat for the testicular cancer survivor who…
This time of year can be so draining for everybody, what with the before-Christmas frenzy — so why not find a secular reason to celebrate the season? Here’s a good one for all you seafood addicts out there: Jax Fish House Denver is celebrating its twelfth anniversary, and hence is…
You’ve already read about the drunken Santas who took over downtown Denver during Santacon 08 this past weekend; now you can have a drunken Santa for your very own. DRUNKEN SANTAS FOR HIRE, a new operation advertising on Craigslist, is all about providing folks with the perfect shitcanned St. Nick…
Heading to D.C. for the inauguration? The last thing you’ll want to do is help usher in the Obama presidency with your supersized, Bush-era carbon footprint. The solution, according to TripVerde, an Austin, Texas (ironically)-based company with offices in Denver and Palo Alto, is ride-sharing, and TripVerde’s RideJockeys are now…
The Denver Rescue Mission and more than fifty volunteers are serving up their traditional holiday dinner to homeless men, women and children today from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Lawrence Street Shelter, 1130 Park Avenue West. New this year: every guest – and the organization expects about 500…
Continental Airlines probably should have known better. After all, the airlines have long understood that pacification of terrified passengers in a time of crisis keeps a bad situation from getting worse. The purpose behind those oxygen masks that drop from the ceiling of the plane? Oxygen gets you high, making…
Ten Denver sports moments we’ll remember (sometimes against our wishes) from 2008.10. The Birdman flies back into DenverReserve center and reformed party addict Chris “The Birdman” Anderson re-joined the Nuggets this year after a two-year suspension for an unspecified violation (cocaine). He’s not the second coming of Shaq — he’s…
When times are tough, it’s comforting to know you can always get a nice, cushy government job. And at the City and County of Denver, this can mean earning $28 an hour as a yoga teacher.Yes, Denver is currently advertising for a long list of jobs, including an “on-call fitness…
All day long, we be bloggin’: On the Backbeat blog:Rather than sitting by idly, Denver artists take action 3OH!3 really crosses over…Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and UnmixedBeyond Playlist presents Xmas-rated, part four: Variety Packs On the Cafe Society blog: New digs in the new year for…
Tired of all the holiday hoopla yet? If you could use a few moments of sheer escapism from this hectic season, then the Curtis Arts and Humanities Center has just the solution: Cartoons — More Than Just Comics, an exhibit featuring work by Lonnie Allen, Daniel Crosier, Amy Reeder Hadley,…
See more photos from Denver SantaCon 2008. Everybody sing along: “On the first and only day of SantaCon a drunken Santa gave to me, a fifth of vodka and a porno DVD.” Such was the naughty yuletide spirit that ran through Denver SantaCon 08, the annual all-day holiday bar crawl…
