Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
In an absolutely brilliant act of subversion (headslap! — why the hell didn’t someone think of this before?), Banksy, one of the world’s most infamous and prolific grafitti artists, has directed his aim towards the most vapid and inexplicable of American celebrities, the would-be-pop princess who is Paris Hilton. A…
Props to whoever was responsible for putting together the Subversiv* Records Tour flier that we snagged from a lamppost at 11th and Broadway this morning. Although the handbill hyping a July 14 date at Old Curtis St. featuring Epic, Brzowski, Matre, DJ Chaps, K the I and Ancient Mith was…
“This PeaceJam is amazing,” my friend said. “I was just hearing about them on Colorado Public Radio.” She’d been hearing about them from me for months — since last November, when I interviewed founders Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, and wrote about how PeaceJam would mark its tenth anniversary by…
“I’m a conservative Republican,” Michael Brown says. “What am I doing here?” Still, on the list of tight spots where Brown, former head of FEMA, has found himself in the last year, the Westword office should rank low. For starters, there was that emergency-response photo op on September 2, 2005,…
Disaster is Lori Peek’s specialty. When Hurricane Katrina struck, she was fresh from the University of Colorado, where she’d earned her Ph.D. with a thesis on 9/11, and just beginning her first semester as an assistant sociology professor at Colorado State University. Still, she somehow found a week last October…
A year ago, Michael Brown was at the center of the storm. Today, the former FEMA head is back in Boulder, where he’s set up a disaster-consulting business. So far, he hasn’t been asked to consult on the disaster in his own back yard — but over the past two…
Although Sunday’s preseason pairing between the Denver Broncos and the Houston Texans aired locally on Channel 31, coverage was actually provided by the NFL Network, a venture owned and operated by the National Football League. This fiduciary relationship may explain why the broadcast team of Spero Dedes and Sterling Sharpe…
Apparently the Boulder County Jail didn’t get PETA’s memo. On Tuesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of animals sent a note to the jailer in Los Angeles, urging that John Mark Karr be served a cruelty-free diet, one free of animals, because “unlike the humans in the prison system, all…
Just when you thought the JonBenet Ramsey murder case had everything — a pint-sized beauty queen, a bogus Santa Claus, a ransom note right out of Matlock and, finally, a suspect with a yen for confessing and wearing eyeliner — another player enters the picture. PETA. Yes, People for the…
Boulder has never been particularly kind to Republicans, but Bob Beauprez owes District Attorney Mary Lacy a box of chocolates. Because without John Mark Karr, Beauprez’s running mate might still be stumbling through the headlines. Last Wednesday morning, the media was all over first-term Mesa County commissioner Janet Rowland, whose…
Turns out that John Mark Karr wasn’t the first person to be fingered by CU prof Michael Tracey in connection with the murder of JonBenet Ramsey. And as this report from New Times, our partner paper in Broward/Palm Beach, Florida, shows, Tracey’s identification of that suspect was even more suspect…
Just when the University of Colorado was starting to resurrect its reputation, journalism professor Michael Tracey, long a sideshow in the JonBenet Ramsey circus, hits (or is that creates?) the news with his creepy e-mail exchange with John Mark Karr — in which Tracey (pictured) looks about as much like…
The concert business in Denver just got a hell of a lot more interesting. After last month’s announcement that Live Nation planned to acquire House of Blues, things had calmed down — but now a tidal wave looks to be forming on the horizon, one that could have epochal implications…
The People’s Republic of Boulder isn’t known for supporting Republican causes, but gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez should send a big bouquet to the DA’s office there. Because yesterday’s announcement that the Boulder DA finally has a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder may have been the only thing that could…
Dozens of adult film stars will show off their very fine body of work at the third annual Adult Filmstar Ball, which runs from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. tonight at La Bohème Gentleman’s Cabaret, 1443 Stout Street, and is second in size only to the AVN Awards (the Oscars…
Tonight is all about public process, with two major city-policy meetings both running from 6 to 8:30 p.m. So you’ll have to decide if you’re more interested in revamping the zoning code or choosing between light rail and streetcars for north Downing Street. (Or none of the above.) If you…
Daniel Libeskind is finally coming to town on August 30 to reveal his concept for the Civic Center. That’s more than two months after his June 15 presentation was cancelled, giving critics plenty of time to wonder whether the rumored 300-foot tower and giant pond would ever materialize. Even though…
This political season has been pushing buttons with everyone, which is reason enough for tonight’s Oh, It’s Just the Fate of the Republic Talk and Cocktail Reception. At 6:30 p.m., John Nichols, the insightful, erudite Washington correspondent for The Nation, will hit below the Beltway as he discusses the current…
Sure, the Cyclone rollercoaster stalled on its tracks last Sunday, but that won’t keep me from going back to Lakeside Amusement Park this summer. As soon as it’s green-lighted, I’ll be back on the beast that has been scaring me since I was a kid. My grandfather took me to…
On July 25, over fifty supporters of the Derailer Bike Collective packed into the Board of Adjustment hearing room, where Derailer members Mackenzie Liman, Sarah Graves and Sarah Bardwell explained why Derailer should be granted a six-month delay of enforcement of the April 5 cease-and-desist order. In that order, the…
Back in June, Bill Clinton’s handlers didn’t think he’d answer a question about whether his wife was running for president. (Although answer it he did — twice — and one of his lines even rated a laugh on Leno.) But in Denver yesterday, when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton unveiled the…
