Trouble is percolating once more in the 18th Judicial District, where District Attorney Carol Chambers seems to have fallen into the habit of blasting everybody else for their lack of judicial decorum. A few months ago Chambers was publicly sanctioned for butting into a civil case on behalf of an…
Back in 2005, Phil Mitchell, an untenured history professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, made news in right-leaning media circles for contending that his teaching contract hadn’t been renewed after more than twenty years at the institution because of his conservative-Christian views. As noted in this Message column from April…
Celebrities spotted in this tent. Our Denver contingent arrived at the Coachella campgrounds Thursday night to set up; we quickly became known as the “Denverites who came with the Hawaiians.” The entire festival was amazing, but here are some of the highlights: Friday: Brother Ali, Digitalism, Tokyo Police Club, Faithless…
Crack numbed the hooker so much that she didn’t even realize the foot that she was walking on was broken. For weeks she walked down Colfax, too high to feel the pain, turning tricks for as little as $10 to get another rock. By the time she finally sobered up,…
Not everyone is comforted by mashed potatoes and big bowls of pasta. Some people like pad thai. Some people like sushi. Some people (though not me) are comforted by piles of truffle-scented shoestring fries. This board is comfort food for the well-traveled, the very well-fed, the occasionally heartbroken. It’s a…
You wanna give peace a chance? The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver is getting all technological and making it easy: Just visit the site to add your digital offering to its Peace Pile, the interactive portion of the museum’s current Peace Project exhibition. When Cat added her virtual symbol, 1,533 people…
What a kick ass weekend for live music in the Mile High City. Started things off this past Friday night at the Marquis Theater for the Brotherhood of Dae Han’s CD release party. The scream theater commenced with a blistering set from Ft. Collins’ In Case You’re Curious, who years…
Soon enough, there will be a new landmark on the bluff overlooking Interstate 25 just south of Speer Boulevard: Pinnacle Station, a multi-unit apartment complex planned by developer A.G. Spanos. The project, located in the Jefferson Park neighborhood, will certainly be nicer than the site’s current occupants, the vacant Baby…
Offense Report No: 07-258069 Date: 04-21-07 Type of Offense: Criminal Mischief Location of Offense: Hampden South Victim Type: Christ Community Church Officer R. Harris reports: “Investigation disclosed that unknown suspects removed listed items [four 8-foot florescent bulb, 2 Plexiglass sign letters] from the victim’s sign, then wrote “Repent of your…
It’s another stylish, stylish week here in D-Town, with lots of stuff Cat doesn’t want to miss. So leave those ball caps and hoodies at home, and hit the streets. WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 Transitions: A Fashion Benefit for UACK 8 p.m. Wynkoop Brewery (upstairs) $10 at the door; $8 in…
Well, it’s not exactly the 100-year flood, but the overflow on the Cherry Creek near downtown sure felt that way to people who use the path everyday. Because of recent rains, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been releasing water out of Cherry Creek Reservoir south of the city…
Greg Griffin is among the stronger staffers in the Denver Post’s business department. His work is consistently smart and incisive — and according to this press release, it’ll be missing from the paper for a year. Griffin was one of ten candidates from across the country to be named Knight-Bagehot…
Jefferson Park United Neighbors (JPUN) have been butting heads with developers over a proposed apartment complex on the site of the shuttered Baby Doe’s and Chili Pepper restaurants in northwest Denver for a long, heady 20 months, which you can read about here and here. When it came time last…
There is something about Chipper Jones that just drives white-trash women crazy. It’s uncanny. Much like NASCAR, buckets of fried-chicken, pit bulls, cold sores, black eyes and having way more babies than they can afford, white-trash women are unable to exist without a love of the Atlanta Braves slugger. It’s…
Kirsten Dunst has been lighting up the fashion blogosphere with her on-again-off-again relationship with style as she trounces through European press junkets promoting Spidey 3, trying ever so hard to convince crowds that she could, in fact, portray falling if shoved off a cliff. (Naturally, nobody believes her.) The snarky…
In general, the Denver dailies did an impressive job of covering the trial of former Qwest chief executive Joe Naccho (pictured). But while the Denver Post’s Al Lewis, in particular, made a strong showing throughout the process, the Rocky Mountain News narrowly bested its crosstown rival, thanks to the energy…
This cover story in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is a lengthy but surprisingly slipshod examination of the Robert Charles Browne case, the former tree farmer who claims to be one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with 48 victims scattered across the country. The piece, by…
Camel No. 9 Glamour Ball 3 Kings Tavern 04/206/2007 Slideshow R.J. Reynolds has redirected its energy. No longer does the cigarette company focus on baiting children with a seemingly innocent mascot, but they have now moved on to cornering the hipster market. Or maybe the children of the Joe Camel…
All of us mile-high slack-jawed mouth breathers can rejoice: culture has finally reached our little Podunk burgh. As the front page of yesterday’s Denver Post declared, “Surreal world comes to Denver.” As Post fine arts critic Kyle MacMillan breathlessly reported, “Bubbling up from the street-smart subcultures of surfing, hip-hop and…
Gerald Styron, a write-in candidate for Denver City Council District 1, paid a visit to the Westword offices today. It seems the old guy – who seriously looks like Methuselah – was pissed that Kenny Be didn’t include him in this week’s Worst-Case Scenario cartoon. Of course, he didn’t actually…
Nothing warms up the soul for a little rock ‘n roll better than reggae. Warren Haynes, a latter-day recruit of the famed Allman Brothers Band, probably learned that long ago. But regardless of when Haynes crossed paths with Toots Hibbert, frontman of the legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals,…
Museum of Contemorary Art/Denver director and curator Cydney Payton made her final choices in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, in which eight designers from the Tamarac Square Fashion Project sketched her a “museum-opening oufit” (appropriate since the new MCA building opens this fall). Payton considered both the artistic and stylistic…
