Over the Weekend: Hoops and whiskey
See photos from the weekend in Denver, including the Hoop-it-Up tournament in Civic Center Park and various nightlife spots around town, plus a fashion show from Thursday night, at westword.com/slideshow…
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Showing 38765 - 38786 of 50719Should Denver break up with The Bachelorette now that Mark Huebner’s gone?
Last Monday, Mark Huebner, the Denver pizza entrepreneur who’s been among the hopefuls on this season of The Bachelorette, got the heave-ho from Jillian Harris, and the anonymous scribe who pens the episode recaps for ABC, which airs the series, wasn’t exactly surprised. Here’s the key section of the latest…
Imagine That: Denver-filmed movie’s flop seals fate of movie executives
Just as Colorado is belatedly trying to become friendlier to Hollywood moviemakers via the re-establishment of the state’s Office of Film, Television and Media, the most recent studio flick to be shot in these parts — Eddie Murphy’s Imagine That, which cost around $55 million to put on screen –…
EarthFirst! enviro-radicals emerge from the trees to protest I-70 overhaul
Activists with the radical environmentalist outfit EarthFirst! have apparently taken a hiatus from monkeywrenching logging trucks and boiling pine cones for sustenance during three-month tree-sits to run a campaign in urban Denver against the various proposals to widen or reroute Interstate 70. So far, “High Country EarthFirst!” — a recently…
Clear Channel Denver fights radio performance tax via SaveYourRadio.org
Returning home early Saturday morning after seeing a late screening of Year One (which bl-o-o-o-ows), I had my radio tuned to The Fox, because my wife only listens to music made this millennium on a semi-annual basis — and as Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever” was drawing to a close,…
Mike Madigan to unveil end to Rocky Mountain News‘ final series
The announcement last December that the Rocky Mountain News was being put up for sale came mere months before the paper’s 150th birthday — a benchmark that was to have been commemorated by a 150-part series by Mike Madigan, who spent thirty years at the tabloid, in which he highlighted…
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Victory for media coalition in CSU/Joe Blake case
In a May 26 blog, Bob Moore, editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, complained that the Denver Post had offered no substantial, self-generated coverage of a lawsuit filed by the Coloradoan, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent website against Colorado State University; the suit argued that CSU’s governing board…
Denver Post doesn’t get Elway the dog’s tombstone quite right
I can’t help feeling responsible for an error in Denver Post columnist Bill Husted’s June 21 offering about the death of Elway, a legendary drug-sniffing police dog for the San Francisco Police Department. To accompany a June 10 blog about the pooch’s demise, I created a faux-gravestone using a web…
Mile High Murder, No. 18: Homicide at 12565 E. Albrook Drive
View Larger Map The Denver Police Department is investigating shootings at 12565 E. Albrook Drive, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Officers arrived at the scene around 1 a.m. to find two men suffering from gunshot wounds;…
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The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 19 edition
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Today in Cafe Society: • Update: Pad Thai on the go…. • Toke of the town: Mary Jane’s Pizza. • First report from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. • A free donut for dad. • Huebner off The Bachelorette, back on pizza. • Barbecue this…
Mile High Murder, No. 10: Nadine Nicole Montoya arrested in 6th and Broadway hit-and-run
The investigation into the hit-and-run death of Lilian Verdonkschot, 49, has gone through several permutations since the incident took place on May 29. Dawn Marie Gonzales was taken into custody in connection with the crime, only to be subsequently released — and afterward, the Denver Police Department representatives announced that…
Judge to suicide’s family: Will must be honored
A Jefferson County judge threw out objections Friday afternoon to a suicide’s controversial will, ruling that the man’s estate must go to a prominent Denver charity — even though his family contends that the charity had prior notice of his suicide plans and failed to take action. Laradon Hall, which…
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Forget Shane: Come back, Christo! Christo, come back!
As noted in a previous blog, “Doing the Math on Christo’s Arkansas River Wrap,” Colorado art mavens and opinion leaders are just crrraaaazy about Over the River, the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to suspend six miles of silvery fabric over the river between Canon City and Salida…
Denver Blogs: Just how broke are we?
Our daily blog round-up. Send tips. New fiscal forecasts for the state are due in Monday. Anyone have some Paxil? (Face the State) Who’s that new tight end? Oh, that’s the third-string quarterback. (Mile High Report) Legends of Tom Tancredo’s douchebaggery continue to grow. (Colorado Independent)…
Get wet with the Denver Squirt Gun Association
I’m pretty sure when DARPA was inventing the Internet back in the late ’60s, organizing squirt gun fights and documenting them via tools such as YouTube and blogs were exactly what they had in mind (well, that and porn). Now Denver residents can fully reap the fruits of what DARPA…
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Post Greg Moore: Denver is easier than it is smart
The Denver Post’s staff is still buzzing about Bill Husted’s interview with editor Greg Moore as part of the columnist’s weekly Bar & Grilled feature, and no wonder. Unlike, say, former Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple, Moore has never seemed that interested in pushing himself into his own pages…
Today’s featured event: Have a few laughs with artist Lisa Michot
There’s not enough whimsy in this ugly world, and that’s why we need a few artists like Spark Gallery member Lisa Michot. They’re not out to make a big statement or turn the planet upside down. Michot-style, they just want to have a little fun and make people smile. She…
Beware cyclists! Bike thieves at work in LoDo
Yesterday, a woman who works as a hair stylist in LoDo complained to me about a rash of recent bike thefts in the area. Indeed, a quick check of Denver Police reports since Tuesday shows that at least six people who locked up their bikes near 17th and Wynkoop, and…
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Shmuck of the Week: Brandon Marshall
There was a time when I wanted Roger Goodell to come down on Brandon Marshall. It was before the ESPN hit piece, but after Marshall’s most recent display of unhinged chauvinism, and around the time former Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was to be released from prison. While most Broncos fans…
Kenny Be’s Hip Tip: Colorado Frockies #29 Jorge De La Rosa
Frockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa puts some spin on this “Let ‘Em Have It” halter-neck cocktail dress by Fallene Wells……
Denver Idol offers American Idol shortcut
When I heard about the American Idol auditions set to take place here July 12-14, I began looking into flights out of town, in order to avoid being trampled to death by wannabe superstars who’d actually like to see Paula Abdul in person. (It can’t be any worse than the…
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Apparently, size matters in Denver art
We like things big in the West — and that’s true when it comes to art, too, as the just-posted YouTube video demonstrates. The montage spotlights the big Borofksy dancers at the DCPA, the big Blue Bear at the convention center, the big red chair with horse and the big…