“Being tossed into the street is keen!” No real good can come out of the economy violently puking its intestines out and then dying in a broken heap in the gutter, unless, of course, you’re an opportunistic vulture of a real estate company. Enter the McCoy Repo Home Bus Tours,…
Fashion times three. Editor’s note: The Cat’s Pajamas, our fashion blog, is taking a cat nap. But fear not: Some of your favorite CP features will pop up on The Latest Word from time to time — including TaRosa Jacobs’ Secondhand Sartorialism. Here’s her latest installment. When I was in…
Tom Tancredo, bailout buddy. For at least one day in election year America, partisanship didn’t rule. The muddy moral oozing out of Capitol Hill in the wake of the failed $700 billion Wall Street bailout is that individual survival always trounces party allegiance. Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing between entrenched House…
That’s one way to Maxim-ize your assets. We know — the ongoing fiscal crisis has got America in a panic. But learning about the latest dismal developments is a lot less painful when they’re delivered by a babelicious business reporter of the sort that populate cable news nets these days…
The September 30 headlines for the Rocky and the Post. Whenever the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News make similar editorial decisions — like the day last year that both papers ran nearly identical photos of Colorado Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba — readers who don’t quite understand the particulars…
DJ Chonz in an image from KS-107.5’s website. As program director for hip-hop hits purveyor KS-107.5, Cat Collins was largely responsible for transforming the station from a chronic underperformer to a perennial ratings powerhouse — usually one of the two or three most listened-to signals in the city. But rather…
Union Station. Denver Union Station’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, prepared by the Regional Transportation District and other local agencies, is one of the final pre-construction steps in the station’s protracted redevelopment. It’s also one of the last chances the public will get to officially comment on the project before the…
“Now, let’s see. I count one, two, three, four…” Your kid’s got a test tomorrow morning and he’s not prepared — so he’s pretending to run a fever. Well, double-check that thermometer, because if he’s absent, it’ll cost your student and his school in the long run. That’s because October…
Let your gaze linger on the ’70s-tastic porn-style mustache on Nick Cave. There are other blogs on this site than just the ones below. Here’s how to find them. Backbeat Online delivers sad news about the death of Sharon Rawles, a beloved mainstay on the local music scene. On the…
Charles Gale. Charles Gale, a tango instructor whose teaching methods crossed a slew of lines detailed in the 2007 Westword feature article “Dirty Dancing,” received a light sentence after pleading guilty to third-degree misdemeanor assault: nine months of probation. Moreover, he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender. Why…
Not approved by Hottest Inked. People with copius amounts of skin covered with tattoos are sometimes considered rulebreakers by mainstream society — but that’s not always (or even often) the case. Take the Hottest Inked contest that TattooFinder, an online tattoo resource and sponsor of the September 19-21 Denver Tattoo…
Byron Grandy. The past several months have represented a time of transition among the executive ranks at Channel 7, and surprisingly enough, none of the principals involved has reason to be unhappy. In July, station manager Darrell Brown (a 2005 Westword profile subject) vacated the big desk at the station…
Bob Schaffer and Mark Udall on Meet the Press. If Colorado Republican senatorial hopeful Bob Schaffer won yesterday’s debate against Democratic rival Mark Udall on Meet the Press, it was a pyrrhic victory. As the combatant trailing in the polls, and the person with by far the most difficult case…
An unfortunate “oops.” A lot of newspaper errors are kinda funny — as long as we’re not the ones making them, that is. But one on the Rocky Mountain News website at this writing is more sad than amusing: A piece headlined “Boyfriend Suspected in Slaying of Girl, 4” is…
The view from the bar at Beatport Lounge, according to this slide show. What you missed while the Broncos prepared to soil themselves… Friday: Photographer Uriah West posts up in the Beatport Lounge to bring you a slide show accessible here. Saturday: Everything may not be bigger in Littleton. But…
And if you want to install a stripper pole, it’s coming out of your security deposit. Roommate hunters on Craigslist must have thought they lucked out when they first spotted a September 24 posting about a shared space on Capitol Hill that seemed quite the steal: “$200 with some requirements,”…
Woody Paige. In a September 28 scouting report that preceded Sunday’s Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs game, five Denver Post prognosticators, supplemented by Chiefs kicking legend Jan Stenerud, offered their predictions of the outcome. Predictably, only Stenerud foresaw a Chiefs victory. However, four of the five Posties (Jim Armstrong, Lindsay H…
La Bella Vita at Solterra. The ongoing fiscal crisis means that fewer people are in the mood (or have the means) to plunk down big bucks to purchase a home — which presents a particular challenge to the entrepreneurs behind Solterra, a spectacular luxury community being developed on a sprawling…
Belly up to the Cinebarre. Blogging along… Cafe Society has items aplenty today. Get the skinny about the new Cinebarre in Thornton, the reopening of Gelman’s in Highland, a review of Brach’s Candy Poppers by the Candy Girls, the continuing expansion of Jack and the Box franchises in Colorado, the…
“Why does Richard Nixon look so sweaty, mom?” Now that it looks like both John McCain and Barack Obama will make it to their first presidential debate in Mississippi tonight, you’ve got a choice to make: where to drink while watching it. Obama’s campaign website shows a whopping 141 debate-watching…
Relive the last month of summer through the sometimes hazy lens of Westword.com, from Monolith to roller derby, tattoo addicts to Modern Drunkards. See the slide show at westword.com/slideshow. — Joe Tone…
Christina Szele. Colorado’s most famous accidental tourist, Christina Elizabeth Szele, has a date in a Colorado court today, but she won’t be here in person. And that’s too bad, because we’d love to hear what legendary U. S. District Judge John Kane (profiled in this 2001 Westword feature) has to…
