Nothing about Denver Police Department headquarters at 1331 Cherokee Street screams high-tech. The conference room where I meet Lieutenant Ernie Martinez has torn-fabric chairs that look like Chief Gerry Whitman fished them from a dumpster; Martinez leads me down a hallway lined with tile that might have been fresh in…
“Action!,” Patricia Calhoun, June 11 Reel Life I’m writing just to say “thank you” for last week’s piece on the internal arguments at the Denver Film Society. I’m a member and a regular there, and I was writing tons of e-mails to the staff for support and to boardmembers to…
When Denver Police Department commander Deborah Dilley speaks, people listen. And this month, Dilley is speaking about spokes — bicycle spokes. In an effort to remind cyclists that they are legally required to abide by the same traffic laws as motorists, Dilley has teamed up with Brad Evans, founder of…
Masks off, everybody. Today in Cafe Society: • Cooking Dirty: Fourteen days and counting. • Del Maguey mezcal at Tambien tonight. • A fish story at Oceanaire’s Celebrate Alaska dinner. • The name game continues at Hickory Prime. • Birthdays, barbecue and Black Pearl. • Our Weekly Bread: Lakeside Waffles…
Plenty of folks in these parts despise and/or are terrified by “Mustang,” the demonic sculpture at Denver International Airport that managed to kill its creator, Luis Jiménez . Rachel Hultin’s Facebook page, entitled “DIA’s Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go,” neatly encapsulates negative views about the piece, which has…
Blogs: We read the good ones so you don’t have to read the bad ones. Send tips. Polis tells Obama to sack up and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Colorado Pols) Colorado kids are really, really poor. They should get jobs or something. (Kidding!) (Colorado Independent) Wait, what? The…
If you’ve got a hot date but just can’t decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, “Social media for your pants” — although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted “Social…
I have a sad confession to make. I love tiny things, like miniature plastic foods and completely useless blind-box toys. It must have started with a dollhouse when I was five, or perhaps it was some long-gone sugar Easter egg I peered into, with the little chicks and bunnies inside,…
I got a call a few weeks ago from Jolt, local graffiti OG and head of the graffiti advocacy group Guerilla Garden. “Hey, man,” said Jolt, aka Jeremy Ulibarri. The background was noisy, like a freight train or an… indoor swimming pool? “We’re doing that project I was telling you…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. Russ Dale’s been…
Are you a kid who owns a business? If so, the deadline is fast approaching for the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs, where you can win $1,000 if you’ve got the best business in your age group (6-11, 12-14, 15-17, and 18-21). A $250 prize goes to two additional finalists in…
What do you get when you cross(dress) the Colorado Rockies in the latest creations of Denver fashion designers? A series of baseball cards for the Colorado Frockies: the boys of summer dresses. #38 Ubaldo Jimenez as dressed by Brandi Shigley…..
Despite their (sometimes) divergent opinions on the issues of the day, Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, who co-host the afternoon-drive slot on KHOW/630 AM, clearly have a great deal of affection for each other. But most listeners probably didn’t know just how fond Caplis was of his partner until yesterday,…
To see all of Kenny Be’s June 18 feature cartoon, click “Continue:” The invasion of the summer bike monsters spans the state from Boulder Canyon’s angry barricades to Downtown Denver’s bike-to-work breakfast stations……
The folks at Colfax Love Society recently dispatched a small army of photographers to shoot pictures of Denver’s most colorful street. The results will be on display at the Neopolitan Gallery starting on July 4. But for a taste, cruise to westword.com/slideshow and check out thirteen of the group’s pictures…
Jessica Biel, who was reared in Boulder (heh-heh — I wrote “reared” and “Jessica Biel” in the same sentence), is currently starring in Easy Virtue, a Noel Coward adaptation by director Stephan Elliott and screenwriter Sheridan Jobbins, who recently sat down with Westword for an extended Q&A. And as part…
Last week, the Congress for the New Urbanism held its annual conference in Denver — an event we commemorated with examinations of Bradburn Village, Highlands’ Garden Village and several other New Urbanist developments in the city; find them in our Not-So-New Urbanism archive. As for the conference itself, the issues…
In a February blog, the Denver Business Journal’s Neil Westergaard talked about the need for positive stories in these tough economic times — and a DBJ article about a just-released driving survey by AutoVantage certainly qualifies. The piece focuses on the fact that Denver tied with Cleveland and Portland, Oregon,…
As pointed out in a blog yesterday, the Colorado Rockies need stability more than a franchise-record win streak — and it’s a good thing, since the Rocks were clubbed to death in a 12-4 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays last night, halting them one victory short of a best-ever…
The latest report about trade-demanding wide receiver Brandon Marshall cites interest from the Baltimore Ravens, who made a play for the Arizona Cardinals’ Anquan Boldin a couple of months back in an effort to give young QB Joe Flacco a credible deep threat. But the team is sending mixed signals…
In a blog published yesterday morning, I noted that the Denver Police Department’s sex-crimes unit had put out an alert about a “pattern offender” — but the notice contained no description of the actual offenses. Perhaps that’s unsurprising given the DPD’s rather haphazard approach to information dispersal. Typical was a…
Even as Arapahoe County officials go beyond the call of duty in their efforts to bust Brian Wayne Coplen, who’s wanted for allegedly running a marijuana grow-house in Bennett, representatives of the Boulder Police Department are questioning four men in connection with a robbery at a facility where pot is…
