On April 6, opening day for the Colorado Rockies, I predicted that the team would only win 72 games this season — and based on their performance thus far, they’ll have to step it up considerably to reach even that mediocre total. No wonder Sports Illustrated’s Jon Heyman suggested this…
You might be second-guessing that vacation to Mexico now after hearing that most U.S. airlines have suspended flights to the country during May and June in the wake of the pig-flu shitstorm. United canceled all of them leaving from Colorado . But don’t send that week of margaritas, Jet Skis…
Boulder-based scribe Dan Baum has had a pretty distinguished writing career. The guy’s byline has popped up in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, among others, and his latest book, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, made the New York Times’ extended bestsellers…
Yeah, yeah, given the non-call that helped the Nuggets win game three of their playoff series against the Mavericks on Saturday, complaining about the officiating in the Mavs’ 119-117 victory last night seems churlish. But there’s no denying that the outcome bore the fingerprints of the NBA’s most intrusive referee,…
On the surface, Michael Johnston might have seemed an unlikely choice to fill the seat of Peter Groff, the departing president of the state Senate. After all, Groff is an African-American, as are Rosemary Marshall, Anthony Graves and Renee Blanchard, the three candidates aside from the Caucasian Johnston for the…
Welcome to the working week. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the weekend: Gene Ween at the Walnut Room and b.side in Boulder. • Rumors of Tickle Me Pink’s breakup completely unfounded. • Wentworth Kersey gives away new CD at St. Mark’s. • Tech N9ne top seller at Independent Records…
This week, the Denver-based Hep C Connection will do all it can — legally — to get dirty needles off the streets. Beginning today, the organization is hosting its first-ever Drop To Stop week, where anyone can anonymously drop off used syringes at eight separate locations around Denver and in…
Our daily rundown of local blogging. Send links. Republicans sequestered themselves in the Brown Palace to debate their failures. You have to wonder if Bob Schaffer brought the margaritas. (Colorado Pols) It’s not all rosy in Colorado’s higher-education system. Not that you’d know that from reading the Post. (Face the…
These days, Sean Moynihan is a deputy district attorney in Denver. But during the early ’90s, he was a regular on One Life to Live — and he was recently invited back for a ten-episode stint on the long-running soap opera. Turns out his character, Powell Lord, is the kind…
One supposes it would be tough to pin down an artist as diverse in style as Peter Coffin, an internationally known master of multi-media whose work plays out in every form, from video to sculpture. But the Aspen Art Museum did: Coffin served as the museum’s second Jane and Marc…
The University of Colorado at Boulder’s commencement ceremony took place on Saturday, where grads laughed in the face of swine-flu fears with a little help from Purell. But the folks at Boulder’s Cloud 9 Living, which specializes in “world-class experience gifts,” know that plenty of other schools will be sending…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 19. Speer: Two-faced angel-alien totem poles. The job description for angels has changed over time. In America, angels have been relegated to the lowly status of security guards who are worshipped by grandmothers through collections of pewter and plastic knick-knacks. Back…
The Colorado Avs managed to work their way back onto the first pages of sports sections in recent days by leaking info about a meeting between legendary goalie Patrick Roy and Avs president Pierre Lacroix, presumably spurred by the open general manager position — and the excitement this news generated…
See photos from Saturday’s Cinco de Mayo festival in Civic Center Park, plus more nightlife photos, at westword.com/slideshow…
I’ve always thought that having an alien encounter would be a curse. From that point on, your sanity would always be in question. Unless of course, you hang with a crowd that believes little green men have been snooping around our houses and backyards for centuries. That was the kind…
The decision by employees at King Soopers and Safeway to keep working amid continuing negotiations with management through at least May 30 despite the fact that their respective contracts have expired indicates an understanding that striking amid an economic downturn is a worst-case scenario for all concerned. That doesn’t mean…
Kenyon Martin was among the most-animated players during the scrum that developed in the seconds after the Nuggets’ controversial game-three win over the Dallas Mavericks on Saturday, for reasons that weren’t readily apparent to TV viewers. But his reaction made perfect sense after word got out that Mavs owner Mark…
There was more action involving the Aurora Police Department this weekend beyond the officer-involved shooting noted in this earlier blog. Corey Ray Albat, 21, who was being held in Hays, Kansas, on an unrelated warrant, has been arrested on a first-degree-murder charge related to a shooting that took place at…
View Larger Map Early Sunday morning, the Aurora Police Department offered information about an officer-involved shooting. Details remain fuzzy, although the Associated Press reports that the cops who fired will be put on paid administrative leave while investigators look into the matter. Click “Continue” to read the Aurora Police’s description,…
Allen Andrade will likely spend the rest of his life in jail. A judge today added 60 years to the life sentence he received for killing transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata last summer, piling on time for lesser crimes the 32-year-old committed in connection with the murder. Andrade was convicted…
Big as life. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last night: The Dead at the Pepsi Center. • The 38th annual CHUN Capitol Hill People’s Fair line-up announced. • 3OH!3 breaks top ten on Billboard Hot 100. • Freaky Friday: “Obama Flashback” — Autotune the News. • MP3 Freeloader: Tonight, the…
“Three former Colorado Springs residents were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver this week on charges of conspiracy and fraud for selling about $1.6 million of oil and gas investments in projects they did not own, Acting U.S. Attorney David Gaouette and FBI Special Agent in Charge James…
