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…
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…
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…..
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…
E.W. Scripps has made no secret of its desire to sell the intellectual property of the Rocky Mountain News — but the company hasn’t done much since the tabloid’s February closure to peddle these particular wares. That appears to be changing, however. In recent days, a number of potential bidders…
Former Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is the author of the other book about Columbine — and while his effort, Columbine: A True Crime Story, has received only modest attention on a national level, he feels his account has much to recommend it over Columbine, local journalist Dave Cullen’s…
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…
To put it mildly, Timothy Boham, now on trial for the 2006 murder of a Denver businessman in a botched robbery, has a more colorful background than the average slaying suspect. During the first half of this decade, operating under the pseudonym Marcus Allen (wonder how the former Raiders standout…
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…
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…
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…
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 pizza entrepreneur Mark Huebner isn’t the only Coloradan scoring points for engaging in a “Verbal Fight/Physical Fight” on television these days. Crested Butte’s Heidi Montag — along with her fluffy-haired weenie of a husband, Spencer Pratt — is a contestant on the lamely named NBC reality show I’m a…
It takes a special kind of bastard to commit such a crude, poorly planned crime as grabbing a lady’s purse on the street and running like hell. At least with a mugging or a carjacking, there’s some type of criminal/victim exchange like, Now I am going to rob you; please…
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…
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…
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…
If you’re in a high-risk profession that requires you to meet with lots of clients one on one (say, prostitute or pizza-delivery guy), or perhaps just sure you’ll be abducted or murdered at any moment, Face File has just the thing to help you feel a little safer — or…
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. It’s hard not…
Take the popular Rainbow ride and combine it with people’s love of reality entertainment and bathroom humor, and you get another classic carnival ride redesigned for contemporary kids…..
For me, there are certain experiences that remind me inexorably of this time of year — madeleines of spring and summertime, if you will. The smell of sunscreen, for example, and the song of the ice-cream truck echoing through the neighborhood. Over the past couple of years, a new experience…
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…
