This week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” is all about APEX Movement, the new facility opened by parkour experts Ryan Ford and Matt Marshall that’s the largest parkour gym — anywhere. To experience APEX for yourself, here’s a video tour of the place — featuring lots…
Ryan Ford, featured in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” knows his way around an interview. The accomplished parkour practitioner, or traceur, has been profiled by the likes of ESPN and the New Yorker. When I sat down recently with Ford for my story, I…
As we note in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” the discipline of parkour is best described not through words, but through videos. With that in mind, we’ve collected a variety of parkour movies, from locally filmed Colorado Parkour clips like the one above to…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. It’s hard not…
For me, there are certain experiences that remind me inexorably of this time of year — madeleines of spring and summertime, if you will. The smell of sunscreen, for example, and the song of the ice-cream truck echoing through the neighborhood. Over the past couple of years, a new experience…
The middle finger is one of those wondrous little quirks that make life worth living. How is it that a single finger, sticking straight up, can have such an impact on us? Stick up a ring finger or pointer and nobody cares. But when that guy in between them comes…
These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term — “twate” — which means, “To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter.” But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we’ve discovered one…
We here at Westword are quite excited about the possibility of male birth-control meds — mostly because we’ll then get to take all the rubbers people no longer need and wear them on our heads like that old “condom hat” routine Howie Mandel used to do. Seriously, that bit never…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. If Quint and…
With the new Terminator Salvation movie hitting the theaters this week, now’s as good a time as any to check in on SkyNet. No, we’re not talking about the scary computer system that takes over earth and spews out Arnold Schwarzenegger robots in the Terminator films. We’re talking about the…
This Saturday, the drug policy reform group Sensible Colorado is throwing its free-to-the-public fifth-anniversary bash from 6-9 p.m. at the Atlantis Community Center, 201 South Cherokee Street — and these guys have a lot to celebrate. Three years ago, Sensible Colorado helped successfully lobby for the passage of Amendment 20,…
While Denver-born restaurant chain Chipotle is getting flak for its new ad campaign’s distinct lack of cojones, the marketing for Quiznos Sub Shop, another local restaurant chain done (sorta) good, still shows a lot of balls. Or, to be more accurate in this particular case, a lot of boobs. The…
Local developer David Zucker is making a strong case to be crowned Denver’s earth-friendly answer to Donald Trump. In May 2008, Zucker’s company, Zocolo Development, completed RiverClay in Jefferson Park — a sixty-unit development that was the first residential condominium building in the state to get a Leadership in Energy…
As you may have noticed, Denver is getting into the urban homesteading movement in a big way. Homeowners are replacing sod with vegetable beds and building chicken coops by their garages. Power players are turning prime downtown real estate into miniature farms and citizens are fighting for their right to…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. A year after…
Colorado Rail Passenger Association (ColoRail) plans to file a federal lawsuit to halt implementation of the proposed redevelopment plan for Denver Union Station. The all-volunteer advocacy organization says the proposed plan is “short on transportation services that were committed to in the earlier planning processes and published documents. Specific concerns…
There’s a new sheriff in town, one with a mean set of handlebars. We’re not talking about a mustache. We’re talking about his bicycle. The dude in question is Brad Evans, local realtor by day and two-wheeled merry prankster by night. In 2004, Evans founded Denver Cruisers, a pedal-powered party…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. Penelope Thron-Weber and…
Boulder-based scribe Dan Baum has had a pretty distinguished writing career. The guy’s byline has popped up in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times Magazine and Rolling Stone, among others, and his latest book, Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans, made the New York Times’ extended bestsellers…
Sure, the economy’s in the crapper, the country’s auto industry is going kaput and newspapers as we know them may soon cease to exist. But here’s one example of good news: Casa Bonita is doing well enough to be hiring a new cliff diver! That’s right, the Lakewood-based bastard child…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. His first piece appeared in print this week. Check…
After decades of disregard, it’s been a busy couple of years for the downtown structure formerly known as the Fontius building. First in the summer of 2007, local developer Evan Makovsky bought the infamously decrepit building at the corner of 16th and Welton streets as part of his ambitious plan…
