With the recent end of the Denver Nuggets’ exciting season, plenty of fans in these parts probably figured that they wouldn’t have another competitive local pro-sports team to follow until… the Nugs start playing again in the fall. But the Rockies have elbowed their way back into the conversation via…
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. #28 Aaron Cook wears a Deb Henriksen……
Coloradans such as Boulder’s Ace Young have had a modicum of success on American Idol. And now, a contestant on Australian Idol, the down-under variation on the TV singing-contest phenomenon, has raised Denver’s profile internationally, more or less. In this case, though, the Denver in question is Denver the Dinosaur,…
Larry Winget, a reporter for Alamosa’s Valley Courier newspaper, has seen a lot of things during his five years as a journalist. But last week, he experienced something new: He says he was attacked while trying to take a photo of a minor traffic accident involving a vintage train. On…
Most football observers think the Broncos came out on the short end of the trade that sent Jay Cutler to Chicago earlier this year — a move that may have inspired troublemaking wide receiver Brandon Marshall’s own attempt to get out of Denver. But Greg Trippiedi, a Michigan-based blogger who…
Clinton S. March, seen here, is a moderately attractive man — certainly far from hideous. But I don’t really have a hankering to see him nude, which is how a homeowner living on the 700 block of Isabelle Street in Golden found him yesterday. March then ran down the street…
Broncos wide receiver has had off-season health issues, not to mention a proclivity for arrests that rivals Robert Downey Jr. during his drug-pounding years. So, of course, he thinks he deserves an enormous new contract, and he’s demanded a trade if he doesn’t get one. Given his skill level, it’s…
Denver Archibishop Charles Chaput is typically thought of as a conservative, and no wonder, since he regularly implies that voting for a politician who supports abortion rights is tantamount to helping the ghost of George Tiller section a fetus in its eighth month. But this weekend, he was among speakers…
One of the basic rules of press releases is that they represent a release of information to the press, right? But one of the latest missives to issue from the Denver Police Department keeps info divulging to a minimum, offering a reward for information leading to the capture of a…
Just as they did in early May, King Soopers employees rejected the company’s latest contract offer. In a press release, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, characterized the margin of defeat as overwhelming and urged “the corporation to return to the bargaining table and offer them…
Recovered yet? Today in Backbeat Online: • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Bannock St. Garage. • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Broadways. • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Vinyl. • Westword Music Showcase: How I saw thirty bands in five hours and lived to tell about it. • Over the Weekend: KS-107.5’s Summer…
Our daily tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Is Bill Ritter passing the buck on health care? (5280) More Ritter: He really, really likes his bike. (Face the State) The ethanol industry descends on Denver to try to save itself. (Colorado Independent)…
*Okay, asking actual people is probably a better idea. But this is a tech blog. Computers. Is there anything they can’t do? Each day brings us closer to the time when that answer is truly “no,” and today brings us to a particularly momentous milestone: the day we no longer…
You don’t buy a book by Todd Shimoda expecting the usual thing. His fiction veers in and out of nonfiction, and the ubiquitous illustrations by his wife, master calligrapher/artist Linda Shimoda, are integral to the passage of the plot. The Shimodas’ lovely 1998 collaboration 365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms…
Michael Ledwitz, the editor and publisher of Denver Magazine, is excited about the recent hiring of Jeff Kass, the former Rocky Mountain News reporter who’s currently promoting a book entitled Columbine: A True Crime Story. (Kass recently spoke to Westword about the distinctions between his tome and Columbine, a more…
What do you get when 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. Collect them all…..
Don’t know if Brian Wayne Coplen, 24, is the most wanted man in Arapahoe County — but representatives of the sheriff’s office are going out of their way to snare him. A month after sending out a press release about Coplen’s alleged complicity in a marijuana-grow operation in Bennett that…
Wow: That was suspenseful. The competition to succeed Jay Cutler as Broncos QB is already over now that Kyle Orton has been awarded the starting position — although it’s debatable whether he should regard this move as a victory. After all, he may not have disgruntled, new-contract-wanting Brandon Marshall as…
Our recent rash of severe weather included the funnel cloud seen in the video above, which seemed to hover directly over the State Capitol building yesterday. “Too bad it didn’t touch down,” writes the YouTuber who captured these images. “Could have been a crazy place for a tornado.” True –…
Did you know that this year’s Westword Music Showcase took place on Saturday? If not, you can pretend that you knew, and attended, by clicking through slideshows keyed to acts that played a slew of venues: Broadways, Bannock St. Garage, Curious Theatre, Mo’s, Bar Standard, Dazzle, Vinyl, La Rumba, Sutra,…
Zoning code is not sexy. It is not fun. And no one cares about it until it stops them from building the deck they always dreamed of or allows a developer to build a combination McDonald’s/hi-rise condo that blocks the view out of their bedroom window — i.e., when it’s…
This week, the Denver Post reports, a Denver District Court judge ruled that developer Craig Nassi is “personally liable for $1,046,250 in damages for fraudulent misrepresentation as he negotiated how many parking spaces would be available for Club Matrix, a high-end fitness gym and spa in the Beauvallon building at…
