Zen master attorney David Lane led a First Amendment seminar today at Denver University for a large gathering of legal disciples seeking free speech enlightenment before the Democratic National Convention. “Your right to free speech goes as far as cop’s billy club will allow,” said Lane, whose most recent client,…
Jeffrey Scott Hawn, a 44-year-old Austin, Texas, businessman who owns a ranch in Park County, was charged with 32 counts of animal cruelty earlier this week, one count of criminal mischief and theft to the tune of $20,000. You may remember Hawn (pictured) as the man who was accused of…
Film geeks scare me – and this coming from a film major. But while I appreciate the art of cinema, I have never been one of those line-up-hours-in-advance-to-catch-the-premiere types. You know who I’m talking about. The geeks who dress up like the characters in the film and painstakingly discuss all…
John Moore wrote a critique of the Henrys in the Denver Post last weekend, pointing out some weaknesses in the system — first among them the fact that a production stood no chance of winning awards if most of the eight critics who serve as judges hadn’t seen it. This…
Democrats, God bless-’em, have made their share of mistakes over the years on the campaign trail. But for every Blunder there’s a Best, a shining moment that continues to turn states blue and keep donkeys in their seats. Click here for a slide show of the Top Ten Best Democratic…
Here’s your daily map to the little corner of the Internets we like to call Westword.com. Demver explained ten reasons Obama may not be the candidate for you. You can also find a report about the $10 million(!) being spent on security and the number of protesters the city expects…
Photo by Michael Weintraub At the Mile High Music Festival this weekend and the YarmonyGrass Music Festival at Copper Mountain (August 15 through 17), there will be music — lots of it — vendors and food. And if you can spare a thought for people who can’t afford to purchase…
Katherine Archuleta, Mayor Hickenlooper’s Senior Policy Advisor and point-person for the Democratic National Convention, poked fun at members of protest group Re-create 68 in the audience by asserting that less than a dozen protesters will show up in Denver. The statement came yesterday evening at a DNC safety forum for…
Last night’s Labyrinth screening at Film on the Rocks was close to magical. I settled in at a prompt 7:30 p.m., preparing for amusement and delight when Ukulele Loki’s Gadabout Orchestra took the stage. The group of annoying, loudmouthed teenagers a few rows behind me (I must be getting old)…
Heath Ledger will be remembered for several of his movies, no doubt — his turn in Brokeback Mountain catapulted him into the stratosphere of stardom, to be sure. But the role for which he might most be remembered is his last: that of the Joker in the upcoming Batman: Dark…
Let’s get this out of the way first; the opening hour of HBO’s Iraq war mini-series Generation Kill is tough to sit through. Not in the sense of Schindler’s List, with its sharp focus and unflinching look at the horrors of concentration camps, or Saving Private Ryan, in which we…
“If you believe you should pay more taxes,” John McCain said in his July 7th Denver town hall meeting, “I am the wrong candidate for you.” Aside from the fact that it’s not as though Barack Obama is running on an “I’ll tax the hell out of all of you…
Woe is the traveler this summer who flies for business or pleasure. As gas prices have gone through the roof, the airlines have responded by taking it out on passengers, raising ticket prices, adding fees for checked bags, canceling routes and charging for food. As a result, Westword decided to…
“Best or Bust!,” Patricia Calhoun, July 3 The Best Is Yet to Come I really enjoyed Patricia Calhoun’s defense of the Best of Denver, and loved the last line of her bonus column, “The State of This City.” The future is indeed around the corner, and we need to focus…
It’s hot, and people are taking off their clothes. Sounds fun, and in some cases, like the July 12 World Naked Bike Ride in Denver (see below), it is. But frankly, nudity isn’t always a good thing. Take the most recent display by a Denver Water employee who wore a…
When I was a pup coming up, if you made the East High School Boys’ Varsity Soccer Team, you landed in City Park Lake. I do not know if this tradition persists, but ten years ago, it was a given — as intrinsic to the institution as fights in the…
Rule number one about yard sales: If you want the good stuff, you’ve got to show up early. Hence the 7 a.m. meet-up on this Saturday at Common Grounds in Highland Square. Realtor Brad Evans, his girlfriend, Erin Siegel, who owns a skin-care store, and longtime newspaperman Jim Burrus stumble…
The flier sent to a handful of activists in early June was far from subtle. The screaming slogan “WE BEAT YOU THEN! WE’LL BEAT YOU AGAIN!” appeared over two images — one of a police officer outfitted in riot gear (he looks like an extra from Rollerball), the other featuring…
Jel and Buket laid down hundreds of tags in Denver — but the two renowned members of the TKO crew had to go back to their old stamping grounds in Los Angeles to get caught. U.S. marshals were skeptical when they received a tip that Candy “Jel” Srichandr, a graffitist…
Ray Ruybal can picture the tagger’s face: shallow eyes, cocky sneer, mouth that would run almost as quickly as his legs. He refers to the tagger as a “kid,” but the guy was 35 years old — and a father of two — when Ruybal put him in jail five…
