The U.S. Department of Energy’s third Solar Decathlon is now under way in Washington, D.C. Two years ago, twenty university teams from the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, Spain and Germany began designing the world’s most energy-efficient solar homes. Their off-the-grid creations – now on display in a Solar Village on…
Here’s a brief look at a few of the items Americans are desperate to learn about today: Ann Coulter Ann Coulter shows that there’s no thought too stupid for her to voice. This time, she’s said that Judaism needs to be discarded and that Jews need to accept Christ in…
We here at Westword sat down with the sports section today and couldn’t remember hearing name one from tonight’s starting nine for the Arizona Diamondbacks. So we thought we’d put together a guide for you so you can watch the game and know what and who you’re talking about. Here’s…
The Colorado Rockies are the Clint Eastwood of the MLB playoffs: The team with no names. Sure, most fans and analysts are at least somewhat familiar with first baseman Todd Helton and left fielder (should-be) NL MVP Matt Holliday. But as Tony Kornheiser and countless other commentators have griped, that’s…
I’ve got a fever! And the only answer is more Reaper. This new CW series is one of the more pleasant surprises of the new television season. No, it’s not going to affect you deeply, change your world, make you laugh or cry or become a part of you. But…
No, Morley Safer doesn’t get to put shoe bomber Richard Reid in a headlock, and you won’t see Mike Wallace interrogating Zacarias Moussaoui. (“Isn’t it true that you are a certified scumbag?”) But it may be worth tuning in “60 Minutes” this coming Sunday night, if you’re at all interested…
The item in the October 11 Westword advancing author Carl Bernstein’s appearance at the LoDo Tattered Cover on Monday, October 15, contains only a few snippets from the wide-ranging Q&A reproduced below. During his conversation with Westword, All the President’s Men co-author Bernstein proved to be a voluble and occasionally…
Maybe it’s time for us Broncos fans to get off our high horse. Over the past ten years, we’ve hoisted the Lombardi a couple of times, made the playoffs more often than not, won more regular season games than any other team, and ended the Patriots’ post-season win streak on…
“Duck, Duck, Noose,” Adam Cayton-Holland, September 27 The Duck Stops Here Holy lord, that commentary was genius. It was missing just one thing: the tears of one Scott D. Clark, recently unemployed federal prison inmate, to make it even funnier. I am a teacher and decided to share it with my after-school poetry…
Folksy, folk-writing folk hero John Denver — born Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. — died on October 12, 1997, when the experimental plane he was flying crashed into Monterey Bay off the coast of California. This week, fans both casual and rabid will commemorate the tenth anniversary of Denver’s death at…
I must be getting soft in my old age. Because there I was, in the children’s section of the downtown Denver Public Library, surrounded by happy kids who love books and learning — and yet for some reason, I could not force myself to sit at one of the public…
At least five people have been killed so far this year in gang-related homicides, but sixteen other murders remain unsolved in Denver. Several of these may be tied to gangs as well, though police can’t confirm that because no arrests have been made. Some of the shootings took place during…
On October 2, five workers at an Xcel Energy power plant in Georgetown died following a chemical fire that broke out while they were 2,000 feet underground. But even though this misfortune generated major headlines across the country, it wasn’t the first story that greeted subscribers to the Denver Post…
House of J-Bone, July “I’m Father Time,” Jason Abernethy says with a crooked smile. “Others can talk to you about the bike-messenger scene, I suppose, but they sent you over here because I have an increased vision of bike messengers and time.” Seated in his cramped Capitol Hill apartment, surrounded…
We here at Home Sweet Home have a question for you: Who do you think you are? Obviously, you know who you are, but where does a person like you get off? You are more than welcome to come into Home Sweet Home and ask for an interview, and we…
In 1984, Westword published its first Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that touted everything from the Best Radio Station (KBCO, then six years old) to the Best Gallery Openings (Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, still going strong on Navajo Street despite plenty of competition from other now-booming…
The October 11 Message column details the resolution of CSU v. McSwane, in which the Colorado State University board of student communications chose to formally admonish David McSwane, the student editor of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, the campus newspaper, for authorizing and endorsing a September 21 editorial consisting of the…
I was never very good at math, so it’s no surprise that there’s a computation glitch in my October 9 blog about the impending departure of Denver Post columnist Diane Carman. Luckily, Post veteran Bob Ewegen is helping me to sort it out. Here’s the e-mail Ewegen sent my way,…
In the October 4 Bite Me, I asked for suggestions for a new, true Denver omelet. The best recipe so far comes from my friend Stephen Crout, a champion gastronaut of the first order, who’s clearly given the matter some thought. He also reminded me that the prep and service…
Day One Day Two Day Three Day Four Day Five Everyone who visits Cuba tells all of their inquiring friends and family the same thing, that the country seems to be trapped in the 1950s, which is the last time most of the buildings had fresh paint. Most of the…
This fine specimen of Puma concolor posed for a portrait around mid-afternoon last Tuesday on the Shadow Canyon south trail, just a few miles south of Boulder. The photographer is Denver Public Library staffer Rob Jackson, who explains that the mountain lion was kind enough not to snack on his…
PR firms and lobbyist groups are expected to be able to morph their political or legal arguments into campaigns that will best advocate for a given client. But two separate controversies dealing with the city’s view plane ordinance this year have awkwardly placed Denver’s most powerful public policy consultancy on…
