While television programs and commercial jingles will soon rape our earholes again, reminding us that this is the most wonderful time of the year, I’m going to disagree. That nifty little title is reserved for June 2, my birthday (see: free shots, me being the center of attention). Shoot, the…
Justin Jahn and Christina Clinkscales met in July 2005 at the Village at Breckenridge. He was a 26-year-old bellman, and she was an eighteen-year-old guest from Missouri who’d tagged along with her mom on a business trip. When Christina locked herself out of the mountain-base hotel on the first day…
Both men accused of hatching a murder-by-snake plot to kill Amateur Poker Tour owner Matt Sowash have now pleaded guilty to extortion in exchange for having the most serious charges against them dropped. Herb Beck and Christopher Steelman were arrested in August, charged with conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, conspiracy…
Colorado Studios houses two of the state’s best-kept media secrets. First among equals at the Stapleton-area facility is HDNet, billionaire Mark Cuban’s ambitious high-definition television service, whose offerings (including Dan Rather’s post-CBS broadcast) can only be seen by Denverites who subscribe to satellite TV, since Comcast continues to shun the…
It’s an early Saturday evening, and the tiny front room of Chubby’s Burger Drive-In is absolutely popping with patrons, all waiting to gorge. There are no tables here, no seats for dining, so customers place their order at the busy counter, then jockey for space to await their Chubby’s infusion,…
Santiago’s Mexican Restaurant, known for the spicy stuff it slips into everything from breakfast burritos to carnitas, isn’t as old as Chubby’s, but it already rivals the famed northwest Denver hot spot for the affections of green chile lovers in Colorado. The 21-location chain was founded in Brighton in 1990…
The most isolated prisoner in America has some new friends at the University of Denver. Student lawyers at the Sturm College of Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at ADX, the federal supermax prison in Florence, claiming that his solitary confinement for the past…
For those following the recent travails of Mary Louise Starkey, who’s been accused of mismanagement and physical altercations at her world-famous Denver butler school (“At Your Disservice”) and was recently arrested for allegedly attacking one of her students last February ( “Mary Starkey Got Served”), here’s the latest news: In…
In Minneapolis, the RNC Welcoming Committee – the protest-planning counterpart to Denver’s DNC-dissing Recreate 68 – recently released this hilarious, self-spoofy recruitment video as part of its efforts to draw comrades to the Twin Cities to screw with the Republicans next September. Nationally, an umbrella group to these umbrella groups,…
Diana DeGette has laid claim to the unusual distinction of hosting a Democratic National Convention physically located entirely in a single congressional district: Hers. In the past, conventions have overlapped multiple districts, the congresswoman said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion. The 2008 convention, which takes place next August in Denver,…
And then there was one. There are 46 people serving life without the possibility of parole in Colorado for crimes that they committed as juveniles. But, thanks to a law passed last year, those who commit first-degree murder before they turn 18 are now eligible for parole after 40 years…
Here’s a new way to tell if there’s going to be a snowstorm: Wait for the Denver Post to run a story in which prognosticators suggest that such weather systems will be few and far between. Last year, as sketched out in this More Messages blog, a Post reader noted…
Remember last winter? Remember all the abuse that was heaped on city, county and state representatives in charge of road safety due to their poor preparation in advance of storms and tardy responses once precipitation started to fall? Remember how said government types swore they’d learned lessons from the debacle…
When they use the “cow town” descriptor, what most folks mean is podunk, provincial, lacking in the sort of taste and culture found in the big cities on the coasts. They’re saying that while we, the people of Denver, may be urbane enough to understand that going out for a…
View larger image Iowa Total Number of Delegates: 56 Pledged: 45 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize an Iowa Delegate: Iowa is the smartest state in the union, topping the annual list for national ACT and SAT scores. That’s only fitting, since the national ACT offices are in Iowa City, and…
Long before the Denver Crip set known as the Tre Tres became notorious for a link to the still unsolved murder of Denver Bronco Darrent Williams almost a year ago, they forever changed the life of Cathy Maestas for the worse. Maestas’s son, Geranimo, was 16 on this day in…
Denver-based attorney and past Westword profile subject Andrew Cohen is a rarity — a TV legal expert who brings class and smarts to a role that’s often filled by ranters and screamers. No wonder he’s been a regular presence on CBS’s weeknightly newscast through the equivalent of three administrations, regularly…
Is there anything capable of making Broncos’ fans feel better about the team’s November 25 overtime loss to the Chicago Bears, which has to rank among the most idiotic and unnecessary defeats in franchise history? Probably not — but this clip from NBC Sports comes close. In it, Keith Olbermann,…
I asked the Mexican what he wanted to eat during his visit to Denver. In addition to being the author of Ask a Mexican, a weekly column now published in 31 papers, Gustavo Arellano is the food editor at our sibling paper, OC Weekly, in Southern California. So finding the…
This morning’s “Speakout” in the Rocky Mountain News features a curious little rant by one of the University of Colorado’s nuttiest professors, Michael Tracey, the dubious documentarian who made John Mark Karr a household name. The piece is remarkable on several levels, none of which have much to do with…
“A Tough Sell,” Naomi Zeveloff, November 8 Home, Sweet Home As a Stapleton resident not living in affordable housing, I would like to say that we do not all share the same fears as Margot Vahrenwald when it comes to having more affordable options in our community. It is too…
What was it about this particular pooch? His limpid brown eyes? His fetchingly droopy ears? His legendarily mellow demeanor? Or his slobbery affinity for peanut butter? Certainly the height differential alone would seem to make the basset hound an unlikely pick for a predator. The dog isn’t talking, and neither…
