As “Lone Tree Police – Wasting Tax Money” begins to play, the six minute YouTube video has the feel of a crappy school project some kid threw together for class. And in fact, the creator of the video, Collin Watson, admits just that in a description box disclaimer: “This was…
The arrival of a new district attorney in Boulder has some people expecting that the 12-year-old murder of JonBenet Ramsey will get a “fresh look.” But what exactly does that mean? This mind-bending report in the Boulder Daily Camera suggests a new look means another look at John Mark Karr (pictured),…
Has the other shoe finally dropped for up-and-coming Republican Ryan Frazier? The Aurora city councilman made headlines – as well as enemies – for sponsoring the controversial “right to work” ballot measure Amendment 47 this past November, and even though it lost at the polls, unions, many of which are…
The Tattered Cover Lodo may be trying to keep non-dwarf patrons from having to see the covers of their adult magazine collection by placing these titles at shin height, but it seems like some problems with the plan would be exposed if little Jimmy or little Jenny decides to peruse…
The New Depression thriftiness is forcing ad execs to get creative. Car commercials brag about how much money their tiny hatchbacks will save on gas. Banks insist they’re the only trusted sources of financial wisdom left. Weird late-night TV ads urge you to stick your gold jewelry in a plastic…
Wow! Never thought we’d live to see this day. Seriously. Sure, we’ve all sensed that this moment would come sooner or later. After all, the Broncos just pulled off one of the biggest choke jobs in recent memory and, yes, this is the third consecutive season the team has missed…
Diana DeGette has told Governor Bill Ritter that she’s not interested in replacing Ken Salazar in the U.S. Senate. “After serious deliberation and consultation with my family, supporters and colleagues in Congress,” she announced today, “I have concluded I can best serve the citizens of the First Congressional District and…
It’s New Year’s Eve Eve and you’re stuck in that mid-holiday rut? Whether you’re hoping to celebrate early and avoid the NYE debauch or just want to dig yourself out of the house, a glitzy night of Broadway standards, delivered by a crack cast at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, might be…
Tim Neverett, a former studio host for FSN Rocky Mountain and a Westword Best of Denver winner from 2005, was recently named the play-by-play announcer for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He joins Greg Brown and three other broadcasters there. Neverett, 42, who filled in as a play-by-play announcer for the Colorado…
The January Esquire features profiles of fifty prominent Americans, one pegged to each state, talking about “What I’ve Learned.” And who did the mag pick to represent celebrity-starved Colorado? An elder statesman like Gary Hart? (BTW, he’s my dark-horse candidate to return to the U.S. Senate.) An old standby like Judy…
To review the accuracy of the last election’s vote count, Boulder County conducted an audit of ballots using a groundbreaking software program that was developed through open-source methods. This is computer geek-speak for a collaborative design approach based on the sharing of knowledge and technology between various creators, essentially opening…
First spotted on Boing Boing, this cheery holiday film is brought to us, for some reason, by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the government agency that’s based in part in Boulder. (Hopefully this video involved the incineration of one of those crappy student bungalows on the Hill.) The…
Broncos fans distraught over the team’s disintegration over the past three weeks are likely taking a break from all things sports today and probably tomorrow. But for those of you who can’t get enough pain, Opening Day for the 2009 Colorado Rockies is only 98 days away, and the home…
The nifty ads are hard not to notice, boldly proclaiming: The Cigarette is Dead. They’ve popped up alongside buildings, buses and billboards, directing people to www.QuitDoingIt.com, where smokers can find tools to help them quit. Commissioned by the State Tobacco Education & Prevention Partnership (STEPP), a division of the Colorado…
The holidays are nearly over, but your state government remembered to renew its annual gift to Colorado taxpayers: furniture made by prisoners. By law, all state agencies, from the Community College of Denver to the unemployment department, are required to buy office furniture from Colorado’s homegrown sweatshops, otherwise known…
Dear Governor Bill, I hear the clamor over who gets to replace Senator Ken Salazar, and I feel your pain. Opportunists are crawling out of the rich woodwork at the statehouse, stumbling off the barstools on Wazee and emerging from lavatories at truckstops, hands still moist from underpowered hot-air dryers,…
Like most Denver football fans, I found the Broncos’ humiliating defeat to the San Diego Chargers last night to be painful in the extreme. But there’s an additional reason why I’m in agony this morning — and it centers on Denver Post editorial page editor Dan Haley, pictured here. Back…
Once upon a time, Anna Hansen was your average blond, pretty, sorta-outdoorsy Colorado girl working as a waitress at Rio Grande in Boulder while attending CU. Four years later, after living abroad for a spell, she gets a job with a non-profit in Vail, takes up competitive mountain biking, starts…
Transubstantiation was what did it for Nate Lappegaard. Raised within the strict dogma of the Catholic Church, Lappegaard was fifteen years old when he argued with a priest over whether he was really consuming the body and blood of Christ during Communion rather than just downing wafers and wine. “I…
“Moovers & Shakers 2008,” Backbeat, December 18 Vocal About Locals Despite the fact that I have been notably critical in the past of some of the local bands that Westword’s music department has deemed worthy of praise, the fact remains that the paper has played a pronounced role in the…
I would like to suggest you report on the inability of Colorado’s unemployed to receive their benefits due to a ‘busy signal’ when trying to call,” Anonymous User wrote Off Limits. “I’ve called over 500 times!” Off Limits limited its attempts to just five, and never got anything other than…
That’s all for us. We’ll take tomorrow to silently lament our families’ sub-par gift-giving efforts (or, in the case of our Jewish colleagues, to mob on some Kung Pow Chicken). We’ll be back in sort-of-full-force on Monday. — Joe Tone…
