The February 26 Denver Post featured a lengthy article on Joneen Mackenzie and how she became a crusader for abstinence education — a crusade she leads through her Center for Relationship Education, which is funded by a pair of grants, including one approved by the Colorado Board of Education even…
WTF, Fruita? The Western Slope town already has a festival devoted to Mike the Headless Chicken, so was it such a stretch to put out a WTF welcome mat? But before the debate was over — how welcoming was it, really, to greet tourists with a hearty “what the fuck?”…
Governor John Hickenlooper met with newspaper reps in town for the Colorado Press Association’s annual convention at the Governor’s Mansion yesterday. There, he talked about Iowa, Christo, the coolness of Lieutenant Governor Joe Garcia…and how Westword was a very good neighbor during the Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s early years — since…
Are we stuck with the Denver boot? Yesterday, in advance of Mayor Michael Hancock flipping a Denver omelet to promote Denver Restaurant Week, we wondered what better items were named for this city, which seems to be officially memorialized by nothing more than the Denver boot, a clamp devised to…
You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet — as Michael Hancock is quickly learning as mayor of Denver. (You may have to knock a few heads, too.) And today, Hancock put those egg-breaking talents to good use as he flipped a Denver omelet in the ultimate…
Happy thirtieth birthday to Marlowe’s, which opened in February 1982 on 16th Street — before there was even a 16th Street Mall. We’d gotten to know Phil “Zoom” Roberts as the owner/operator of Govnr’s Park, a ’70s fern-bar hangout that remains a sports bar hangout today, and when he and…
Is lying about being a decorated combat vet particularly heinous? Or is 2005’s Stolen Valor Act, which made it a misdemeanor offense to make false claims about receiving service medals and awards, unconstitutional because it violates the wannabe warrior’s First Amendment rights?…
If it’s Presidents Day, the First Lady must be in Colorado, skiing. Last year, Michelle Obama took the two First Daughters to Vail over the same weekend — and our first clue that she had returned to the slopes was a flurry of hits on that piece. This time, Michelle…
The Justice Department could be in federal court today, filing a motion to lift the roadblock that Superior (joined by Golden) put in the path of the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife’s plan to transfer a 300-foot right-of-way on the east side of Rocky Flats to the Jefferson Parkway…
After two months of renovations, Club 404 will officially reopen today as the Denver Wheel Club 404. The watering hole that Jerry Feld bought back in 1951 is now in the hands of Craig and Andrew Caldwell, and Brad Evans, the designer who also keeps the Denver Cruisers rolling, has…
From my window on the edge of Highland, I can see the headlights of all the cars racing by on I-25, the psychedelic Ferris wheel at Elitch’s, the glowing signs of Xcel, the Sheraton, Century Link and even a church stretching across downtown and the Platte Valley. But Sports Authority…
Early on May 18, 2008, a car full of Crips drove into Park Hill. They were were young gangbangers who’d just beefed with some Bloods in LoDo, and they were still spoiling for a fight: Michael Asberry, co-founder of the Denver Crips, had been shot and killed in Aurora just…
The Colorado Legislature has a date with cupid a day after Valentine’s Day. At 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 15, the Senate Judiciary Committee will consider the Colorado Civil Union Act in the old Supreme Court Chambers. The bill would provide same-sex couples the same legal protections and benefits now…
Mohammed Zazi was reaching for the American dream — and wound up in a nightmare. A native of Afghanistan, he’d emigrated to the United States, driving a taxi to support his family and becoming an American citizen in October 2007. Two years later, his son, Najibullah Zazi, was accused of…
Terrorism hit home in September 2009, when Aurora shuttle driver Najibullah Zazi was accused of conspiring to blow up the New York City subway system with homemade bombs made from beauty supplies in an al Qaida-authorized “martyrdom operation.” Today, Mohammed Zazi, his father, will be sentenced for his role…
Chefs are Denver’s rock stars, and lower downtown is one hell of a stage. Last night I was lucky enough to moderate a panel of four LoDo chefs — Jen Jasinski, Matt Selby, Tom Coohill and Max MacKissock — who dished out restaurant tidbits (both literal and figurative) before an…
The party had everything: a worthy beneficiary (the Children’s Hospital Burn Center), lots of alcohol for the mostly female crowd, and stripped-down, smokin’ hot firefighters. But then the Denver District Attorney threw a wet blanket on the fun: Turns out that Fired Up for Kids might not have been sending…
Denver has long proclaimed itself the home of the cheeseburger, and even has a monument to that invention on Speer Boulevard — though several other cities have tried to claim the burger-king crown. But we were also the undisputed home of the Hot Pocket, which brothers David and Paul Merage…
You can bet that the 26,000-plus Coloradans who voted for Rick Santorum at yesterday’s Republican caucuses, pushing the conservatives’ conservative to a surprise victory, are not faithful readers of Savage Love. Because Dan Savage, the author of that sex-advice column, not only took issue with Santorum’s stance on gay sex,…
The American Constitution Party has a major problem in Colorado. Because Republican renegade Tom Tancredo, who ran for governor on the ACP ticket in 2010, got more than 36 percent of the vote in 2010 in the race against Republican Dan Maes and Democrat John Hickenlooper, the ACP now qualifies…
The newly painted wall outside the Denver Performing Arts Complex looks like a million bucks. Make that $200 million. Because that’s what graffiti artist David Choe stands to make in Facebook’s public offering: When the street artist did a piece for Facebook headquarters years ago, he took his pay in…
For many years, the regional Planned Parenthood headquarters was Westword’s neighbor, and we had a front-row seat for the picketers who harassed employees of an organization that does so much more than providing abortion services…
