Embedded video from CNN Video Evildoers better watch out. The Denver crime fighter who calls himself the Wall Creeper is everywhere — and that now that includes the evening news. In the above news clip from Cincinnati, Ohio station WLWT, Cincinnati superhero Shadowhare takes center stage — but the Wall…
La Ferme de Beau à Manger is one of the most tidy and picturesque farms I’ve ever seen. With the growing season just beginning, terrace upon brick terrace is primed and ready for a soon-to-be-lush sea of asparagus and strawberries and raspberries and pumpkin and spinach and lettuce and zucchini…
At the corner of 15th and California streets, the busy heart of downtown, an earth mover scrapes away at a newly exposed 8,000-square-foot stretch of dirt bounded by chain-link fencing. Surrounded by the 16th Street Mall, the Denver Pavilions, the Hyatt Regency Denver and the Denver Dry Goods Company Building,…
As the swine flu scare spreads across the country, people are desperate for answers. They’re looking for experts to give them direction, context and reassurance about this strange new terror gripping the globe. Turns out I’m exactly who they’re looking for. Google search “swine flu” and, as of Monday evening,…
It looks like Stan Lewandowski will be keeping his job for a while as general manager for Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest rural power co-op. Lewandowski had vowed to quit his 35-year post if IREA Voices, a progressive group, had succeeded in getting its three candidates elected to…
We’ve already discussed the plan to put a strange moat-pyramid in Writer Square on the 16th Street Mall. Our ridicule might have been a bit premature, however. Turns out the moat-pyramid is on the back burner for now, dependent on whether the right retailer comes along who’s dying for a…
As the election results continue to come in for the three board of directors seats up for grabs in Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest power co-op, longtime IREA general manager Stan Lewandowski’s footing is looking better and better. That’s much to the chagrin of IREA Voices, a progressive…
The much-watched board of directors election for Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest power co-op, wrapped up this weekend, and those who saw the race as a referendum on longtime IREA general manager Stan Lewandowski and his conservative energy ideas are eagerly awaiting the outcome. Of the three board…
They said it couldn’t be done. No way could a feature-length movie filmed and produced in Colorado make it big-time. Local commercial filmmaker Monty Miranda thought differently and, with Academy Award-winning Colorado filmmaker Donna Dewey signed on as producer, he came up with Skills Like This. The indie caper comedy…
Sprouting up through the haze along the horizon, the three smokestacks of the Comanche coal-fired power station rise far above anything for miles and miles on the dry, empty prairie on the outskirts of Pueblo. Two of them, attached to units 1 and 2, have been puffing away for more…
Two-term Aurora city councilman Ryan Frazier has announced that he’s formed an exploratory committee for the Colorado 2010 U.S. Senate Race. The development, which Frazier will announce today at a Grand Junction tea party rally, makes the 31-year-old Frazier the first Republican to take official steps towards what’s likely to…
Lately, the Union Station redevelopment plan has been cruising along nicely, with one political roadblock after another falling to the wayside. Last month, the citizen-based Open Space Initiative Group all but capitulated in its efforts to have the project’s developers ditch plans to build two modern wing buildings on either…
Michael Jason Martinez lived for kicking up out-of-bounds powder at A-Basin, Vail and Aspen — that and robbing banks. Martinez won’t be doing much of either for a while, though, since two weeks ago he was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his role in four Colorado bank…
Parks and Recreation, the new NBC city-government sitcom starring Saturday Night Live alum Amy Poehler, boasts a few local connections. For one thing, the show’s bore-tastic logo for its fictional City of Pawnee is a spot-on remake of a controversially bland new logo proposed for Fort Collins last year. The…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve likely heard of parkour — the art of moving up, over and around obstacles as fluidly and efficiently as possible. In ever more commercials and movies, parkour practitioners are hurling themselves up walls and over chasms. You may have even seen such…
Face the State, the feisty conservative political blog and repeated Westword Best of Denver winner, took a break from its liberal-bashing hijinks long enough to come out with its 2009 list of “Hottest Politicos.” We congratulate FTS for its impartiality: The 17 winners include Republicans like Nancy Spence, Democrats like…
So the owners of Writer Square along the 16th Street Mall are planning to build on the premises a glass pyramid. With a moat. That will somehow lead to an underground retail thingermerjigger. What a great idea. Really, we mean it. Cross our heart (stifling derisive snickering). Don’t believe us?…
Local doctor Terry Grossman is betting on living forever. Grossman is the personal physician of Ray Kurzweil, a renowned inventor whose beliefs about a fast-approaching technological “singularity” that will change the nature of existence led Rolling Stone magazine to recently call him “The world’s scariest techno profit.” But there’s nothing…
Some of you may remember Adam Cayton-Holland, aka What’s So Funny, onetime superstar humor columnist and crack reporter for Westword. Mr. Cayton-Holland’s been a busy guy lately, what with being key member of the award-winning standup production company Wrist Deep Productions, as well as staring in the new comedy DVD…
Talk about bad timing. In May 2007, local real estate developer Nichols Partnership Inc. broke ground on Spire, its ambitious 42-story Denver condominium project (the tallest residential tower built in this region in decades). Two months later, the mortgage crisis sent world’s financial markets into freefall. To make matters worse,…
Jonathan Mann is a genius. A beautiful, wonderful and very strange genius. Not only has this plucky fellow taken on the daunting task of posting a new homemade music video every day on his www.RockCookieBottom.com website — including a moving ditty on the meaning of Rock Cookie Bottom and a…
One of the most contentious aspects of Union Station’s ambitious redevelopment — the construction of two modern wing buildings on either side of the historic station — is poised to move forward. Yesterday, the Union Station Neighborhood Company, the master developers on the project, announced the selection of local architects…
