This morning’s Denver Post features a Colorado Rockies story on page one — but it’s not about the team’s eleventh straight victory, which tied a franchise record. Rather, it concerns an interview with catcher Yorvit Torrealba on the subject of his son’s kidnapping and eventual rescue in Venezuela. And its…
So… does knowing that your Denver Nuggets lost in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals to the eventual champs, the L.A. Lakers — and put up more of a fight than did the Orlando Magic — make the way the Nugs’ season ended a little less painful. No. Not at all…
More Boulder news — a follow-up to the Friday blog “Suicidal Boulder Outlook Hotel Guest Causes Problems at Check-Out,” about a man who left a note at the aforementioned facility warning about a chemical release shortly before killing himself. That evening, the Boulder Police Department put out a press release…
The Boulder Police Department’s threat of potentially registering genital-displaying Naked Bike Ride peddlers as sex offenders seems to have done the trick. This weekend’s Ride went off without a hitch, but with plenty of stitches over groins — and pasties on male and female nipples alike, as can be seen…
Dig in…. Today in Cafe Society: • Simms Steakhouse update. • Giggling Grizzly clan plan to turn Public House into Lizard’s Bar & Grill. • A full weekend of food fun. • In answer to your question, D Bar. • An early peak at the Streets of SouthGlenn restaurants, including…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new-urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their…
View Larger Map Another body — this one identified moments ago by the Denver Coroner’s office as Eugene Velarde, 25, who died of multiple gunshot wounds near the intersection of 17th Avenue and W. Sheridan Boulevard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image,…
View Larger Map Yesterday morning, a man the Aurora Police Department is now identifying as Baltazar Ramirez-Estrada, 25, was killed during a robbery outside the Bar La Cabana, a venue located on the 1100 block of Yosemite Street. (The venue is captured in the graphic above; if you have any…
Links. Click on them. And send some if you feel like it. Tensions over new drilling regulations continue to burn hot. Did Zach Morris teach us nothing? (Colorado Independent) What Sonia Sotomayor can and can’t do for the West. (5280) A look at the future Rockies who could help down…
Is the Twitpocalypse nigh? Is the end of Facebook right around the corner? And if so, how on earth are you going to fill eight hours a day at work? The horror! I enjoy a good dose of doomsaying as much as anyone — hell, more than most. But a…
Here comes the weekend, kids, so pray for more sunshine and fewer thunderstorms, because there’s just a lot to do. To begin with, you can check out Westword’s events search page for a bounty of weekend recommendations. But — what the heck — here are a few more. Tonight from…
It was a banner week shmuckwise for members of Team Nature, which grabbed three of the top four spots in our weekly Shmuck Power Rankings. The rankings broke down like this: 4. Gravity. Newton and his God forsaken apple showed up at my very manly volleyball game the other night…
Following a May 29 hit-and-run that killed 49-year-old Lillian Verdonkschot near a Burger King in the vicinity of West 6th Avenue and Broadway, the Denver Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect named Dawn Marie Gonzales — but a few days later, Gonzales was released. Now the DPD has…
Don’t let the recession stop your plans for a summer R.V. excursion. Instead of paying for numerous tanks of gas and countless campground fees, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that offers strip-mall camping and sunset marshmallow roasts. A staycation in the Stapleton neighborhood…
There’s plenty to get disgusted about in the story of a Colorado female inmate who was awarded $1.3 million in damages for two years’ worth of sexual assaults by a male guard. As this report in the Denver Post recounts, federal judge David Ebel blasted the Colorado Department of Corrections…
The word magic often conjures images of beleaguered bunnies, plastic wands and elegant assistants, usually half-dressed and halved in pine boxes. Even with the latest resurgence of magic in popular culture, the tendency is to discard the mysterious art’s rich history just as smug, swaggering, sleight-of-hand superstars like David Blaine…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new-urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their…
With AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin still battling a serious health crisis and his main fill-in, David Sirota, in China for several weeks and uncertain if he’ll be taking to the station’s airwaves again upon his return, some listeners have worried that Clear Channel Denver, the outlet’s owner, will…
Casual baseball fans who hear that the Colorado Rockies have suddenly won eight games straight, including ultra-rare road sweeps against the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers, may start thinking about corner-turning, even though the Rocks are currently mired in fourth place among the five National League West teams,…
Easy Virtue, which opens today at the Esquire Theatre, marks a return for Stephan Elliott, who directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with fellow Australian Sheridan Jobbins, who accompanied him during a recent publicity trip to Denver and took part in the rich, forthright and funny Q&A that follows…
If it seems that we’ve been hearing about today’s transition from analog broadcasting to the digital kind for ages, it’s only because it’s true. The warnings about the switch’s final phase have been coming for month after month after month, and yet a reported 1.75 million American TV viewers aren’t…
Yes, I, too, assumed that Late Night with Jimmy Fallon would be a disaster. But it’s actually pretty funny on occasions, as demonstrated by a bit from yesterday’s show in which the former Saturday Night Live self-chuckler pretended to do eight promos for assorted local TV markets over the course…
