A sharp-eyed reader noticed something unusual about the February 10 debut edition of “Consumer Shopping Bag” in the Denver Post. The column found “Bag” author David Migoya answering a question about Xcel and tree-trimming from a reader identified as Joanne Ditmer of Denver — and if that last name looks…
A Senate bill was introduced Thursday that would legalize the sale of full-strength wine and beer in grocery stores. If passed, S.B. 149 could mean the death of the Colorado oddity known as 3.2 beer. In 2006, I wasted away hour after hour of my life in front of microfilm…
See a slide show sample of the show. Unlike the brutal and drawn-out battles common amongst opponents in politics and sports, rivalries in art tend to be less about victory and defeat as they are about playful competition among contemporaries. The dual exhibition showing at Indy Ink, 84 South Broadway,…
As noted in Westword’s January 31 cover story, “The Player,” before longtime scam artist Amadeus Harlan started his latest venture, Harlan21, he worked at Legal Aid National Services, Inc., or LANS Corp., a legal-aid operation in Denver that many former employees have accused of unsavory practices. It turns out the…
Update: The Shoppe is now open for business. Get a look inside with this slide show by Molly Kreck. In its December issue, Men’s Health magazine named Denver the “Most Dangerously Drunk City” in America. It makes sense: Denverites can count on one shaking hand the social spaces that are…
It’s somehow fitting that the last people to know Mitt Romney was dropping his bid for the presidency were his supporters in the room. At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Romnites were still handing out buttons and wildly waving posters when Mitt took the stage for a stump…
Sort of like that obnoxious neighbor at the end of your block, the City and County Building insists on keeping up its gaudy holiday light display long after everyone else has taken theirs down. The city’s official policy is to keep the display going until the end of the National…
Call Vlog an elitist jerk if you want. Call the subject of Vlog’s scorn in this video low hanging fruit. But seriously people, those that show up for an American Gladiator audition are just plain odd…
“Juvel” is out of a job since Denver Sugar closed shop. A major law enforcement investigation into Denver’s top escort agency has sent a chill through the local sex-for-hire industry – and the wealthy clientele who finance it. Rumors of distress in the escort underground floated by Westword’s ear earlier…
I watched Superbowl 42 on a flight back to Denver from a writing conference in New York City. Many people on the plane were coming from that same convention, so there were two main sets of passengers that night: rabid Giants fans (since we were coming from NYC), and poets,…
“Pork Belly,” Jason Sheehan, January 31 A Fine Bromance Man-flirting? Jason Sheehan is so in love with the sound of his own words that I find it hard to believe he’d even notice a budding male romance — platonic or not!Gale SteinDenver Here we go again. Another illogical letter writer…
The ladies of Burlesque As It Was had just finished their show at the Pink Elephant at 1515 Madison Street on Friday night when Fannie Spankings, who was standing by the door, got an invitation for a special command performance — from a cop. It was a “request to appear”…
In the early ’90s, Saturday Night Live owned my weekends, and I wasn’t alone. Although there were other favorite prepubescent activities — soccer games, covering Lego men in rubber cement and then lighting them on fire — SNL was the focal point of any good overnight. I can still recall…
It’s not often that an executive at a major daily newspaper declares his paper’s ethical standards to be higher than those of the competition. But Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple comes mighty close in discussing Democratic representative Michael Garcia, who resigned as Assistant Majority Leader of the Colorado House…
You can learn a lot about a crook, the Colonel knew, if you discover who his friends are. By his friends you shall know him. But in the case of an honest man like the Colonel, it may be better to consider his enemies. Start with a single desperate moment…
The day after I first read Alan Prendergast’s marvelous story about Philip Van Cise, the fighting DA pictured here, I was at a memorial service at the First Universalist Church just off Colorado Boulevard at Hampden Avenue. I was seated behind Judge Larry Bohning, a member of that church and…
Romantic restaurants on Valentine’s Day are overpriced, overcrowded and overbooked, or at least that’s what you can tell yourself when you realize you’ve forgotten to make a reservation. But eating is optional, people, like those mawkish diamond “journey” pendants and the single red rose, and there’s no reason why you…
Maybe it wouldn’t be such a big deal if the Broncos had made it to the playoffs…or won more than half their games…or beaten the Chargers (even once) this season. Maybe it wouldn’t be so irksome if the team had made a sympathetic gesture toward loyal fans by keeping ticket…
While other reporters were wasting their time on Super Tuesday night tracking useless information like exit polls and delegate counts, the crack political team at Westword was focused on the issues the matter: namely, which Democratic candidate’s political apparatus throws a better post-caucus party. After a sleepless night of number…
In the days leading up to Super Tuesday, I kept waiting to get an off-white invitation in the mail from an older neighbor, preferably an active, sporty grandmother-type, who had looked up my political affiliation and requested my presence in her home for the Democratic caucus. I would show up…
Call it the most competitive, high-stakes game of Jenga ever, with nothing less than the leadership of our democracy hanging in the balance. Super Tuesday lived up to some expectations—a highly competitive Democratic race and a strong national showing for John McCain—while injecting more surprises and uncertainty into what promises…
In 2001, Westword published its eighteenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Performance by an East High Graduate (Don Cheadle scored in Traffic) to the Best Appearance by Coloradans in an Inaugural Parade (the Precision Lawn Chair Demonstration Team marched for…
