Oh, the wonders of that balky contraption Al Gore invented, the Internet. It’s only taken fifteen years or so, but government agencies are finally figuring out how to make their cyber presence a little more useful. While certain state websites continue to suck glistening giblets — we won’t mention any…
Tomorrow night, CBS’ 48 Hours Mystery features “Drawn to Murder,” a two-hour examination of the long march to justice taken by Timothy Masters, seen here in a photo from the ’80s. The onetime Fort Collins resident was convicted in 1999 of murdering a woman twelve years earlier — a verdict…
I got a letter from the government the other day. Well, not the government, specifically, but the esteemed law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP, who claimed to be working for the City and County of Denver in the capacity of leg breakers. It appears I was cited…
With a mere 28 shopping days remaining until Christmas, I feel it is my duty to shift away from my regular musings on the state of world politics/my facial hair, and turn to the world of brash, soulless consumerism, so that we may all celebrate Jesus in a way befitting…
Leo Perino has the gift of gab. He knows many of his customers by name and chats them up when they walk into Lincoln Market, at 1704 East 25th Avenue, just a block from Manual High School. Perino, who has worked in education and human resources, in the airline industry…
“Where the Wild Things Are,” Adam Cayton-Holland, November 13 A Family Affair My wife and I have a daughter, Samantha, at Monarch Center for Family Healing. We decided in September of this year to send her to Monarch because of behavioral problems and drug use; our decision was the result…
Zuheyra was freezing on the evening of September 5, even colder than usual because she was starving. The knife she used to slice fat off the endless slabs of raw beef lining up before her felt heavy in her cramped hands, and the frigid, sterile air in the meat-packing plant…
Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe in. And yet this very cocktail of mediocrity — stirred by an early endorsement of Barack Obama — has thrust Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano into the heady midst of…
Today in Backbeat Online: Swedish Dance Bands you can waste your time with Pre-Turkey Day debauchery to get your party started AC/DC at the Pepsi Center Today in Cafe Society: Jason Sheehan returns to Five Guys Eating Aspen: parts one and two The bird is the word at Pat’s Philly Steaks…
This week, Westword’s cover story, “Wage War,” introduced you to Greeley’s Somali refugees, many of whom lost their jobs in a clash over prayer breaks at the JBS Swift & Company meatpacking plant. But Somali refugees throughout the United States are facing a bigger hurdle: Seeing their families. The U.S…
Denver style maven Brandi Shigley, who grew up on a steady diet of musicals and variety shows like Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, is still an admitted fan: “So when the opportunity came up to host my own evening at the Meadowlark, I decided to make it be this…
One of our favorite Shmucks was back in the news and back in Colorado, where she’ll probably be for a while. Christina Elizabeth Szele, of Woodside, N.Y., pleaded guilty Tuesday to interfering with a flight crew member during a June 17 JetBlue flight from New York to San Francisco. Szele…
Colorado is well positioned to thrive in the “New Economy,” but not as well as it was five and ten years ago, according to a new report that nearly made our heads explode.The report — The 2008 State New Economy Index, produced by some folks who most likely where protectors…
Barack Obama had no sooner been declared the president-elect when the speculation started: Just which Coloradans would join his cabinet? The name of Federico Pena, an early supporter, was floated — despite the fact that he’s already done two turns in the cabinet, for Bill Clinton, and has more influence as a…
While White House Press Secretary and former Colorado resident Dana Perino (for Michael Roberts’s profile, see “New Forecast”) fields hundreds of questions from a ravenous Washington press corps every day on subjects that span the globe, her father, Leo Perino, took questions from Westword during a busy day at his…
Just when the world seems in capable hands with the election of Barack Obama, some disquieting news comes out: The president-elect has hired a disciple of Leeroy Jenkins, the wacko who gained global fame by running beserk in the online game World of Warcraft. (To learn about the mild-mannered local behind this viral-video…
By now, you’ve heard of Turkeygate, the Sarah Palin TV interview in which a turkey farm employee sends a couple of gobblers to their gruesome deaths behind the former vice-presidential candidate. But you might have missed the Colorado connection. To find out more, check out Jon Solomon’s hilarious interview in our…
Last week, the fine folks at the Denver Police Department sent us some handy-dandy shopping tips for us to pass along to readers to “assure their personal safety and an enjoyable holiday season.” But while things like locking the car and avoiding secluded areas seem like they might work well…
Betcha can almost taste that dead bird… Today in Backbeat Online: • “Anthem” by Born in the Flood (pictured) climbs One Tree Hill. • The Flobots score a Music Choice nomination. • The release of Frank Zappa’s Lumpy Money is delayed. • Thirteen things that took less time than Guns…
For more ways to rock the night and kill the day, go to westword.com/calendar. When it’s winter, do as the Mongolians do. After all, yurt season is upon us, so it wouldn’t hurt to get a yurt. These round tents, stretched over wooden frames and lit by circular skylights, are…
I admit it: At first I thought Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (right) was being childish when she kept mum after losing in the election earlier this month — the topic of the November 7 blog “When Is Marilyn Musgrave Going to Concede Defeat to Betsy Markey?.” But with each passing week,…
