Is that one o’ them Three Tenors? Below: sweet blogs that won’t rot your teeth. Today in Cafe Society: • La Sandia Mexican Kitchen & Tequila Bar comes to you courtesy of Richard Sandoval and Placido Domingo. • Dazzle offers a dazzling Halloween deal. • Tambien and Mezcal feature lively…
Jon Parsons When they hand out the good Karma awards, Jon Parsons shouldn’t hold his breath. The 36-year-old Fort Collins man had stopped his 1999 Pontiac Firebird on the shoulder of I-25 about fourteen miles south of the Wyoming state line on October 25. But when a Colorado state trooper…
Rocky Mountain News founder William N. Byers. When I first read in Rocky Mountain News editor/publisher/president John Temple’s October 25 column about the paper’s plan to celebrate its 150th anniversary with a 150-day series spotlighting significant front-page stories published during its history, I thought it was a great idea –…
Mike Coffman On Wednesday, an agreement was reached by a trio of local watchdog groups and representatives of Mike Coffman, Colorado’s Secretary of State, that reinstated the voting rights of around 30,000 people whose names were purged from the state’s rolls — but they’ll have to vote provisionally, as pointed…
It’s getting close. Denver election officials know all to well about the difficulties that some people had with mail-in ballots this year after the city’s hired printing company, Sequoia Voting Systems, failed to process more than 18,000 of them until early this week. But Adams County has had problems of…
Cinderella City’s old “Blue Mall” fountain. Eerie, isn’t it? We’ve all read about Denver’s haunted places. The same old stories get trotted out every year about this time, and they can be fun. But they tend to lose their zing the fourteenth time you hear about the ghosts of the…
Go west, young bus. You can find anything out there on the open road, but as a Westword operative recently discovered in Nebraska, some things seem more out of place than others. In this case, it was a shuttle-sized RTD bus heading westbound on Interstate 80 near the town of…
A remote possibility. Stop the blogosphere presses, for I actually have something nice to say about Comcast. No, that is not a misprint. While I typically place Comcast behind only Qwest and Hitler for sheer, unfiltered evil, today I have come across a compliment that I would like to purvey…
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke. News organizations routinely shrug off criticism from Colorado Media Matters because the website operates from a liberal perspective — something its overseers don’t hide. Yet CMM frequently finds examples of journalistic errors and oversights that should dismay anyone, no matter their ideological bent. Example: An…
Hillary Clinton loyalists continue to prowl. “I don’t like Obama because he beat Hillary Clinton,” my daughter said. She’s precocious, but not astoundingly so. This is a girl who’d rather watch Dora the Explorer than Olbermann, rather listen to Music Together than Air America. “So I’m voting for McCain.” Four…
Sir Mix-A-Lot understands the appeal of a little extra “back.” The October 30 Rocky Mountain News article “Many Obese Women Sexually Active, Study Finds” isn’t quite as stupid as the moronic headline placed on it. The piece doesn’t begin and end with the assertion that women considered to be medically…
Barack looks pretty needy in this shot. Yesterday, I, like untold thousands of other Americans on Barack Obama’s e-mail list, received a message from his wife, Michelle. The subject line read, “What Barack needs.” No, I didn’t open it — because there are things between a husband and wife that…
This is not the David Cooper who was tried in connection with the sexual assault and stabbing death of his ten-year-old daughter. All newspaper mistakes are unfortunate, but some of them are more unfortunate than others — and the one featured in the corrections section of today’s Denver Post goes…
Did a chill just go down your spine? Editor’s note: To get you in the mood for ballot-casting, The Latest Word is kicking off each weekday between now and the November 4 election with Buttoned Up, a look at political buttons from my family’s extensive collection… As is clear from…
It has the trappings of a standard-issue get-out-the-vote video, but the above clip is just a sign of more to come. The video, which shows Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper introducing and chatting with Barack Obama, apparently was culled from footage shot by the mayor’s cousin George Hickenlooper, a documentary filmmaker…
I’m sure it looks better in person. Hold on — more blogs are comin’. Today in Cafe Society: • Veggie Girl takes a bite out of Osteria Marco. • Fritangas shuts down as Las Parrallida prepares to debut. • An organic look at Naturally Boulder 2008. • Offering a chile…
Robo-calling gone amuck. This week, there’s a robo-call targeting residents of Colorado (as well as other swing states) from an organization called Americans in Contact. And like most robo-calls in this hotly contested election cycle, they’re insulting, annoying and misleading. You know, exactly the sort of tactics we’d want to…
So there’s this election next week, and apparently Colorado is playing some sort of important role. Not sure how it works, but it seems there’s a good chance that lady from Fargo will be coming through to make her pitch again. And if she does, she’ll have one damn cool…
No human feces spotted here — yet. After several days of stepping over piles of human feces at the properties owned by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino — the subject of “Welcome to Hotel Martino: The Homeless Love It, the Neighbors Hate It, an October 30 Westword feature…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. Is it any wonder that Halloween and Election Day fall so close together on the calendar? The two holidays are so similar. First there’s the heavy reliance on yard art. Both require months…
Bob Schaffer speaking in Montrose earlier this week. Republican senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer needs a game-changer right now, given the size of Democratic opponent Mark Udall’s lead in most polls. So why not imply that liberals wanted to mollycoddle the Third Reich? That’s the apparent strategy behind his comments in…
Boo! — Joel Warner…
