View Larger Image South Carolina Total Number of Delegates: 54 Pledged: 45 Unpledged: 9 How to Recognize a South Carolina Delegate: The tourism slogan of “Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places” is just a poetic figure of speech for this state’s ability to “grin and bear it.” South Carolinians have not had…
May 18, 2007, was a tough day on the job for Lieutenant Mike Gross of the Glendale Police Department. The sometime spokesman for the department was playing the john in a sting operation at the Staybridge Suites in Glendale, entertaining a series of women he’d found in escort ads. Tatiana…
Move over, Ohio and Florida. As John McCain and Barack Obama plan stops in Colorado next week, it’s clear that nine little electoral votes out West will hold the keys to the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Long decreed a “purple” state by optimistic Democrats who’ve seen the area trending…
Local television tends to shine when covering actual breaking news, as opposed to the sort that’s overhyped in an attempt to get folks to tune in to evening updates even when nothing out of the ordinary is happening — and that was certainly the case on May 22 in the…
Of the city’s half-dozen artist-cooperatives, Spark Gallery on Santa Fe Drive is the oldest, having opened in 1979, a little over a year before Pirate did. This pioneering role in the alternative space arena is reflected in the solidity of the membership at Spark, which is mostly made up of…
When it comes to shmucks, it’s hard to beat a guy who leaves a three-year-old girl alone in a car while he gets his groove on at a strip club — although the girl’s mother likely wants to. As first reported first by Westword, Alan Baxter was arrested on May…
This has been a groundbreaking and altogether interesting election process, but the music, as per usual, is bland – do presidential candidates listen to music? Do we really want to elect someone without knowing their tastes? You could all win my vote if you switched some things up…
Special Agent Peter Miles Regenold Bergman of the Institute of Sociometry relayed this official memo concerning a recent experi-stunt involving those stacks of Qwest phone books that Dex routinely abandons in lobbies of offices and apartments across the city. This marks the first action the Institute has undertaken downtown since…
Christoph Heinrich, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum, must be having a contest with the MCA’s Cydney Payton to see who can find the most obscure, yet internationally known, artists and bring them to Denver. Fitting this description is Bjørn Melhus, a Norwegian who lives…
On May 20, a federal jury decided to give Rudy Sablan a life sentence rather than the death penalty for the gruesome 1999 slaying of another inmate at the high-security penitentiary in Florence. That same day, Prison Legal News filed suit in Denver federal court, seeking the release of the…
In the May 22 Message column, Rocky Mountain News cartoonist Ed Stein (pictured) discusses his decision to end “Denver Square,” his long-running local comic strip — and while he declines to talk about specific plans for future projects, Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple hints that they’ll likely involve animation. Turns out,…
Oh, how the worm has turned for J. David McSwane. Last year, as outlined in this More Messages column, McSwane, the editor for Colorado State University’s Rocky Mountain Collegian, wound up as a coast-to-coast whipping boy thanks to his part in the decision to publish an oversized, two-word editorial: “FUCK…
“Taco the Town,” Adam Cayton-Holland, May 15 Up and Adam I don’t care what everyone says, Adam; even if you are a pretentious asshole at times, I fucking love your column. I hate Toxic Hell almost as much as I despise the growing sect of our culture I have come…
If Christine Smith is elected president this November, she wouldn’t be the first published author in the oval office, or the first marksman, or even the first redhead. But she would be the first woman, the first Coloradan, and the first person to have written a book about the spirituality…
This past Saturday, a column appeared in the Rocky Mountain News under the headline “At ‘Westword,’ the sh— must go on.” The piece was penned by a balding man named Dave Kopel, and the two dashes in the headline weren’t referring to “show.” No, Kopel was citing our rag’s predilection…
The Rocky Mountain News’s Ed Stein is ending “Denver Square,” his long-running comic strip, on May 21, but he’s not wrapping up his career at the paper — and for that he’s grateful, particularly since editorial cartoonists in general have become an endangered species. “More and more, you’ve got managers…
Jessica Young can remember the exact moment when politics infiltrated what was until then her exclusively biological viewpoint regarding the Gunnison sage grouse. “I was out to breakfast with a lot of different guys from the Division of Wildlife,” says Young, then a visiting scholar at Western State College of…
Gathered did a group of men in a hall like this one many years ago. And with simple words like these, launched did they America’s improbable experiment in democracy, yessss. Farmers and scholars, they were; statesmen and patriots! Traveled across an ocean they did, to escape tyranny and prosecution and…
It’s not often that you can mute an Obama victory speech and still get the full weight of the message. His fine oratory, sharpened and grounded by the five-month primary season, is still his best political weapon, one that will doubtless be called upon relentlessly to smother the woeful delivery…
Plenty of authors are shy about pimping themselves — but not Chuck Palahniuk, the subject of a Q&A conducted in advance of a May 22 event at the Tattered Cover LoDo. His website is a hype spot par excellence that currently lavishes attention on his latest book, Snuff, via t-shirts…
Beginning with the 1996 publication of his provocative book Fight Club, author Chuck Palahniuk has earned a reputation for writing things that many of us wouldn’t dare think, let alone put into print – and he hasn’t lost this quality during the intervening years. In the following Q&A, held in…
Back in February 2007, after the murder of Darrent Williams had Denver on edge about gangs, Michael Asberry told Luke Turf how tough it was to get out of the gang life for this story. And Asberry knew all about gang life: He’d started the Crips here back when he…
