Portrait of a traceur as a young man

Ryan Ford, featured in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” knows his way around an interview. The accomplished parkour practitioner, or traceur, has been profiled by the likes of ESPN and the New Yorker. When I sat down recently with Ford for my story, I…

Parkour videos? Yes, please!

As we note in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” the discipline of parkour is best described not through words, but through videos. With that in mind, we’ve collected a variety of parkour movies, from locally filmed Colorado Parkour clips like the one above to…

Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: A Sloan’s Lake summer staycation

Don’t let the recession ruin your summer fun! Instead of paying the high costs for transportation and hotels, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that best suits your interests. A staycation in the Sloan’s Lake and Jefferson Park neighborhoods has much to offer…..

A video Commerce City won’t be using to improve its image

In hopes of revamping its image as an industrial hellhole, Commerce City has hired an economic development consultancy to recast the berg as a diverse, forward-thinking municipality. The $80,000 the city is paying Texas-based AngelouEconomics should buy plenty of dreamy PowerPoint presentations. But one video they probably won’t be using…

Archbishop Charles Chaput works both sides of political fence

Denver-based Archbishop Charles Chaput has grown more political since taking over as head of the city’s archdiocese in 1997 — and he spoke out early and often about the politics of abortion during the run-up to the 2008 presidential vote. As such, even his condemnation of abortion doctor George Tiller’s…

Pigs fly — and Brandon Marshall dodges suspension

The NFL has informed Brandon Marshall’s agent that the Broncos receiver won’t be suspended for a since-dropped March charge of disorderly conduct aimed against him and his current fiancée, Michi Leshase Nogami-Campbell. And as the Denver Post’s Mike Klis implies in the article linked above, Marshall’s representatives will no doubt…

Fort Carson and brigade politics

The public-affairs office at Fort Carson hasn’t issued a press release about the Army’s decision not to base an additional brigade there — a move that calls into doubt millions in additional contracts, not to mention even more money in long-term economic impact. The most recent news items on its…

Bill Ritter turning friends into enemies

As of this writing, shockingly enough, no one’s uploaded a video to YouTube of angry grocery workers confronting Governor Bill Ritter at a bill-signing ceremony yesterday — but expect it to pop up soon enough, adding one more smudge to the good-guy image that helped get Ritter elected in 2006…

The Westword.com blog shortcut, June 2 edition

Shape up. Today in Cafe Society: • Booze, boobs and broads: Jonesy’s EatBar staff showing skin for a good cause. • Half-price bottles at the Wine Loft today. • Who tried to blow up the Fat Cat Sports Bar? • Rock & Roll Grill goes up in smoke. • Chill:…

Denver Blogs: Trimming the fat, and maybe a little bone, in Boulder

Our daily blog round-up. Send links this way. How CU will cut $30 million from its budget. (Hint: It won’t be pretty). (Face the State) An abortion-clinic doctor in Boulder: “I’m next on the List.” (Colorado Independent) Now that the burning sensation behind our eyes has subsided… five questions about…

Rockies’ lack of power becomes laughing matter

The Bleacher Report piece “Colorado Rockies No. 1 In Denver Columnist’s MLB Power Rankings” claims that the local ballers have sat Denver Post scribbler Woody Paige’s roster all season, for reasons like these: “This team is showing a lot of determination this season,” said Paige in the article. “Even during…

Today’s featured event: One Book, One Denver turns a new page

Although, as Patricia Calhoun noted in her blog earlier today, the launch is a little late, you can cast your vote online today for this year’s reformatted One Book, One Denver program. It’s all part of a new public-participation element that allows Denverites to vote for their favorite choices from…

CU study says decline in depression diagnoses is depressing

Picked up the Archives of General Psychiatry issue for June yet? I haven’t, because I had no idea the publication existed until a few minutes ago. But WebMD reports that the edition includes an interesting study by University of Colorado academics like Robert J. Valuck and Anne Libby. The report…