Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Jobbed every Thursday as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of job ads has to offer. The Job: Time traveler Wanted (Greater Denver Area), found on Craigslist Pay: $250,000 Qualifications: “I am looking…
Say somebody calls you up and asks if you’d like to donate to the Family Help Center. Sounds like a good idea, right? Because you like families, and you’d like to help. But if you opened up your heart, and your wallet, to such an offer between 2005 and 2007,…
Loveland Ski Area opened yesterday, and photographer Soren McCarty was there. See his photos on the slideshow page…
As part of our medical-marijuana coverage, Westword has created the largest and most extensive directory of Colorado dispensaries available anywhere. To page through the updated version, click here…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
Since Dick Wadhams was named the State Chairman of the Colorado Republicans, the party has lost control of the state Senate, the state House of Representatives, the Governorship, one U.S. Senate seat and one U.S. House of Representative seat. But Dick is not depressed. He is energized! Like General Motors,…
Russ Johnson, who gabbed as an evening talk-show host at KOA from 1999 to 2004, and subsequently worked at KVOR in Colorado Springs, died earlier this week at his Aurora home. John Turk, a producer of AM 760 who was friendly with Johnson, confirms that he took his own life…
View Larger Map Here’s a development sure to freak out residents living in the vicinity of 3042 Humboldt Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Early this morning, the Denver Police Department responded to a burglary call at…
“Tony Rouco is really a small piece of the puzzle,” former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis says about an ICE supervisor who reportedly gave false testimony under oath. “It’s most obvious that the wrongdoing is at some level higher.” In some respects, the Voorhis case seems like…
Most commentators discussing the Philadelphia Phillies’ 5-1 dismantling of the Colorado Rockies yesterday came to the conclusion that the P-men simply outclass the Rocks on every level — an easy conclusion to draw if you suffered through the last five innings. But amid the destruction, there was reason for hope,…
Reality-TV watchers know early in nearly every show who’s in danger of elimination — and during last night’s episode of America’s Next Top Model, Louisville’s Nicole Fox found herself smack in the middle of what that great philosopher Kenny Loggins once described as the “Danger Zone.” She had plenty of…
In a Tuesday blog, the Colorado Department of Health’s Margaret Huffman reassured the public that the H1N1/swine-flu vaccine was safe and said concerns about it weren’t dominating calls received on the state’s CoHELP info line. If so, that flies in the face of a new Associated Press poll in which…
It was 85 degrees below zero, and Erin hadn’t seen the sun in five months. Her skin had lost its pigmentation and she was sneezing blood because her sinuses were so dried out. A marine biologist turned dishwasher, Erin was working in the coldest, harshest place on earth, alongside 42…
“Better Gay Than GLAAD,” Kenny Be, October 1 Don’t Get Mad, Get GLAAD So I sat down for breakfast at a local hangout here in Englewood to enjoy the October 1 Westword, and lo and behold, what did I find? Ah, yes, more drama-causing fags. Who’da thunk?! As a queer…
In this age of terrorism, security can be swift and strong in the United States — and a Westword operative found out just how swift and strong on Monday when Janet Napolitano, the director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, was here for the International Association of Chiefs of…
In a teleconference with reporters today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar declared that his department’s wild-horse management program “is simply not working” and proposed a new way of dealing with the surplus of horseflesh that is devouring millions in taxpayer dollars. Secretary Salazar wants to head ’em up and…
Everything was in place for one of the biggest social events of the season. Union Station was primed to host “A Night in Old Union Station,” a swanky, Victorian-themed gala, on October 15, with tickets set at $40 to $200 to raise money for a replica of the long-gone Mizpah…
In the 1980s, the only way for Antarcticans to communicate with loved ones back home was by writing letters (in the summer) or by making phone calls patched through by high-frequency radio. The radio didn’t always work, however, and messages often had to be short. Fortunately, five years later, the…
As part of the feature story on the effectiveness of the Denver’s twenty-year-old law outlawing pit bull breeds, Westword posted a photo blog of dogs impounded in a section of the municipal animal shelter known as Pit Bull Row. Now, photographs have surfaced apparently showing some of the estimated 3,487…
Our daily perusal of local web goodness. At HuffPo Denver, Alan Gottlieb writes that we need to demand more of our teachers — and compensate them accordingly (H/T Education News Colorado). With Dems in control, Congresswoman Diana DeGette might finally be in position to save some wilderness, Colorado Independent reports…
Much of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 associate counsel Crisanta Duran’s time is being taken up these days with the continuing contractual stalemate between grocery workers and the two largest grocery chains in the area, Safeway and King Soopers. But that’s not the only drama in which she’s…
Yesterday, the last votes by unionized Safeway workers were counted, and once again, they turned thumbs-down on a contract that struck plenty of employees as extremely familiar. According to United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 spokeswoman Laura Chapin, “The most recent offer is virtually the same one they’ve been…
