Our daily perusal of local blog deliciousness. Send links this way. A new DNA testing bill won’t help the backlog problem. (Colorado Independent) The bailout won’t quite bail out Colorado farmers. (5280) The upsides of the Nuggets’ game three loss (not included: the opportunity to heckle Mark Cuban). (Denver Stiffs)…
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…
On the same day numerous senators undermined a death-penalty-abolition bill by inventing a new tax to fund cold-case investigations, the state Senate made another bold move, taking language banning the use of standard cellphones while driving out of… a bill designed to ban the use of standard cellphones while driving…
On Friday, Westword.com published a story about a recent spate of murders connected to Craigslist — including that of former Denver radio personality George Weber. The story also touches on the unlikely emergence of Craigslist founder Craig Newmark as an ally of the family of one of the victims, Kristin…
The Federal Aviation Administration has opened its database about birds and other animals struck by planes — a hot topic following the January landing in the Hudson River of a US Airways flight that tangled with a flock of geese. And guess what? Our own Denver International Airport has the…
It’s not often that the New York Times weighs in on Western water issues — but that was the case with “De-Watering Wyoming,” a recent editorial attacking a plan by developer Aaron Million to build a privately financed pipeline from Wyoming’s Green River Basin to Denver and Colorado Springs. The…
We tend to think of the upper crusters as living in a different world than the rest of us — and liking it that way. But society queen/former Westword feature subject Holly Kylberg and Tom Lorz are actually reaching out to the rabble in relation to their latest event: One…
On April 25, InvisibleChildren.com is staging events in 100 cities to bring attention to the abduction and forced recruitment of child soldiers — an unspeakably cruel practice that’s all too common in many parts of the world. In Denver, participants will gather at the main gate of Coors Field prior…
So this is … odd. Raphael Saadiq, a former singer from Tony! Toni! Tone! — the California R&B group that serenaded most of my middle-school-dance makeout sessions — apparently has a Denver-based videogame company called Illfonic. And that company has apparently created a videogame called “Ghetto Golf,” a “Tiger Woods”-meets-“Grand…
