In his State of the Union address, President Bush said that he wants to resolve the nation’s immigration woes without animosity and without amnesty. But for the millions of undocumented people in this country hoping for amnesty, there’s bound to be plenty of animosity if they don’t get their wish…
“Government is doing less, so the companies can do more — more cooking of the books.” That’s Bobby Maxwell, a former auditor for the federal Minerals Management Service, explaining how major oil and gas companies have been able to rip off the taxpayers for millions in underpaid royalties on energy…
Sterling Andrews Props to Hot IQs for being featured on Spin.com’s home page. The link, which has now moved below the fold after being front-and-center earlier this afternoon, features a photo of the band along with a short blurb urging visitors to download “Duck and Cover,” from the act’s latest…
As detailed in our recent article about local porn store yuckster Mike Wheeler of the Pleasures Dudes, bringing home the bacon as a bottom-feeding former child actor is hard work. But you don’t have to tell that to the man who put the “D” in D-list celebrity, Dustin Diamond. Better…
2052 Stout Street has been a bar for as long as matters. It was the Punch Bowl for damn near forever—an old boxing bar famous for the landscapes painted on all the booth-backs by wandering artist Noel Adams, who traded art for drinks and sandwiches, and for the number of…
After the January 6 avalanche that buried cars near Berthoud Pass, Central City Parkway’s “NO ROCKSLIDES” ad campaign, currently gracing the sides of RTD buses, seemed in especially bad taste. Of course, since presumably the ads refer to the June 2005 rockslide that buried the Parkway’s competing thoroughfare, U.S. 6,…
The only messages Marshall gets on his MySpace page are from nubile, barely-legal girls who would like nothing better than to get to know Marshall. Some of them are horny. Some of them are lonely. Some send their Yahoo! instant message or MSN Messenger IDs so that Marshall can talk…
Governor Bill Ritter’s just-announced choice of Ron Binz for chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities ought to generate considerable buzz in the blessedly smoke-free back rooms of power this morning. It’s a modest move in a fresh direction–sort of like naming Ralph Nader to head General Motors, or putting Baron…
The new-look Rocky Mountain News debuted today, and there’s plenty to say about it; the design, and the reasons behind the changes, will be explored in a future edition of the Message. But lost amid the hoopla over the tabloid’s tweaked appearance (symbolized by the cover, seen here) was the…
News that MySpace.com is suing Westminster’s Scott Richter, once considered the third-largest producer of spam in the world, comes on the heels of recent articles in 5280 and elsewhere in which Richter insists his company is totally legit. But then, “Mr. Spam Man” was making such assertions three years ago,…
Steve Crecelius Panzano, at your service Word is out on the third annual Denver Restaurant Week, February 24-March 7. The culinary celebration has boomed from 83 restaurants the first year to 125 last year to 150 this year. All are offering multi-course dinners for $52.80 for two ($26.40 for one),…
Before a solid turnout at the Bug Theater this past Sunday evening, the Denver filmmakers behind the indie documentary Do It For Johnny showed their flick to cast and crew and enjoyed a reception far warmer than the plummeting temperatures outside. Local filmmaker Haylar Garcia, the director, editor and face…
Here’s a story that’s unlikely to turn up in the Denver dailies or the Boulder Daily Camera. “Times-Call the Target of Subscription Sales Ploy,” an offering published last week in Longmont’s Daily Times-Call, begins by denying that the venerable publication has been sold. That’s followed by an odd explanation about…
Like California’s frozen citrus fields, the immigration issue has gone cold to many people. But it’s still hot to Helen Krieble, profiled in this story, as well as people in this country illegally who might benefit from her ideas if they’re ever adopted on a wide scale. People like Ismael,…
Like most big-city dailies, the Denver Post puts out what’s known as a “bulldog” — a version of its signature Sunday paper that’s made available a day early in order to pump up point-of-purchase sales at newsstands, grocery stores and the like. Typically, the main page-one headline doesn’t change from…
“A Sledder’s Paradise,” an article in the Denver Post’s Style section on January 21, highlighted several of the metro area’s most popular sledding hills, portraying them as consistently packed since our recent (and seemingly ceaseless) round of snowstorms began just prior to Christmas. However, the story left out some telling…
In my year-end roundup, I shared my shock that Windows Cafe — the all-veggie, pan-Asian eatery that had opened in the embattled 12200 East Cornell space in Aurora that had already swallowed the likes of Maruti Narayan’s, Denver Woodlands and Boudreaux’s Bayou Buffet — was still open. As it turns…
The last time I’d driven by the Blue Corn Lounge, on the corner of 38th and Perry in northwest Denver, it was around 1 a.m. on a Saturday. In the parking lot, a massive dude stood between two maniacally gesturing females. It looked like he was trying to mediate a…
A digital tree grows in Denver. As Alan Prendergast wrote in his profile of Denver-based MapQuest, the realm of internet mapping services is all about location, location, location. These days, however, the name of the game is not just digitally locating a specific location, it’s rendering that location in eye-popping,…
Outside of being able to stalk thirteen-year-old girls, the Artist on Artist interviews may just be the best thing about MySpace. It’s basically what it sounds like: two artists sitting down together and amiably shooting the breeze. Tenacious D and Dave Grohl have done it, Jeff Tweedy and Fred Armisen,…
Lately snowboarders have been prowling Denver, looking for the perfect snow-bound urban terrain. Sports-mag photographers and filmmakers are trailing the best of them — such as Salt Lake City bro Justin Bennee, whose escapades in the parking lot across from Westword on Thursday, shown here, were eagerly recorded by a…
Former Senator Hank Brown, who announced yesterday that he plans to resign as University of Colorado president just over a year from now (find CU’s press release here), was the right man for the right job at the right time. Prior to Brown’s decision to accept the position in 2005,…
