Media updates the weekend after Thanksgiving are always filled with attempts to judge the strength of the Christmas shopping season by the opening surge of buyers, and this year is no exception. But reports about a robust start to this annual exercise in consumption tend to ring false when they…
Today in Backbeat online: Gregory Alan Isakov is working on a new album. We play Christmas on Mars: the video game. Last night’s Freddy Rodriguez Sr. and the Jazz Connection show. Today in Cafe Society: The Veggie Girl is MAD for Greens. The rise of the great red beet…
Greeley Mayor Ed Clark has strong opinions, and the people of Greeley have strong opinions on him as well – just ask the University Middle School girls who’ve been scrawling death threats against Clark on the bathroom walls there. The former police officer and head of security at the…
It’s a far stretch from Rockefeller Center, but restaurateur Jesse Morreale goes all out for the holidays at his pair of hipster cantinas, Mezcal and Tambien, by decorating both rooms in true Mexicano holiday splendor that adds – we swear it – an additional sparkle to those already glowing signature…
The news hasn’t been good this holiday season. The world is at war, travel is expensive, companies are canceling Christmas parties, and the economy, well, you know… But Loews Denver Hotel, 4150 East Mississippi Avenue, which is making a habit of turning bad financial news on its head, is…
For lease: the luckiest building in Denver. Four years ago, this space at 11th Avenue and Bannock Street was home to the Ken Salazar for Senate campaign — a race that Colorado’s then-attorney general won easily when the Republicans lined up behind Peter Coors, whose candidacy fell flatter than a day-old…
Click here to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. The last election put many Republicans out of work. As difficult as it is to feel sorry for Bob Schaffer, Tom Tancredo, Wayne Allard and Marilyn Musgrave, it’s even more difficult to imagine them dusting off their resumes…
Perhaps you are in a fowl mood this morning. Too much turkey, pie and pinot noir has made your stomach sour and your head hurt. Well then, don’t even consider how much worse things would be if you had to get up a 6 a.m. to feed your cluckin’ chickens…
Oh, the wonders of that balky contraption Al Gore invented, the Internet. It’s only taken fifteen years or so, but government agencies are finally figuring out how to make their cyber presence a little more useful. While certain state websites continue to suck glistening giblets — we won’t mention any…
Tomorrow night, CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery features “Drawn to Murder,” a two-hour examination of the long march to justice taken by Timothy Masters, seen here in a photo from the ’80s. The onetime Fort Collins resident was convicted in 1999 of murdering a woman twelve years earlier — a verdict…
I got a letter from the government the other day. Well, not the government, specifically, but the esteemed law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP, who claimed to be working for the City and County of Denver in the capacity of leg breakers. It appears I was cited…
With a mere 28 shopping days remaining until Christmas, I feel it is my duty to shift away from my regular musings on the state of world politics/my facial hair, and turn to the world of brash, soulless consumerism, so that we may all celebrate Jesus in a way befitting…
Leo Perino has the gift of gab. He knows many of his customers by name and chats them up when they walk into Lincoln Market, at 1704 East 25th Avenue, just a block from Manual High School. Perino, who has worked in education and human resources, in the airline industry…
“Where the Wild Things Are,” Adam Cayton-Holland, November 13 A Family Affair My wife and I have a daughter, Samantha, at Monarch Center for Family Healing. We decided in September of this year to send her to Monarch because of behavioral problems and drug use; our decision was the result…
Zuheyra was freezing on the evening of September 5, even colder than usual because she was starving. The knife she used to slice fat off the endless slabs of raw beef lining up before her felt heavy in her cramped hands, and the frigid, sterile air in the meat-packing plant…
Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe in. And yet this very cocktail of mediocrity — stirred by an early endorsement of Barack Obama — has thrust Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano into the heady midst of…
Today in Backbeat Online: Swedish Dance Bands you can waste your time with Pre-Turkey Day debauchery to get your party started AC/DC at the Pepsi Center Today in Cafe Society: Jason Sheehan returns to Five Guys Eating Aspen: parts one and two The bird is the word at Pat’s Philly Steaks…
This week, Westword’s cover story, “Wage War,” introduced you to Greeley’s Somali refugees, many of whom lost their jobs in a clash over prayer breaks at the JBS Swift & Company meatpacking plant. But Somali refugees throughout the United States are facing a bigger hurdle: Seeing their families. The U.S…
Denver style maven Brandi Shigley, who grew up on a steady diet of musicals and variety shows like Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, is still an admitted fan: “So when the opportunity came up to host my own evening at the Meadowlark, I decided to make it be this…
One of our favorite Shmucks was back in the news and back in Colorado, where she’ll probably be for a while. Christina Elizabeth Szele, of Woodside, N.Y., pleaded guilty Tuesday to interfering with a flight crew member during a June 17 JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco. Szele…
Colorado is well positioned to thrive in the “New Economy,” but not as well as it was five and ten years ago, according to a new report that nearly made our heads explode.The report — The 2008 State New Economy Index, produced by some folks who most likely where protectors…
Barack Obama had no sooner been declared the president-elect when the speculation started: Just which Coloradans would join his cabinet? The name of Federico Pena, an early supporter, was floated — despite the fact that he’s already done two turns in the cabinet, for Bill Clinton, and has more influence as a…
