The last of the week’s local-blog wrangling. Make it count. Broncos Country has spoken, and what they’re talking about is a nice little touchdown win on Sunday. (Mile High Country) David Sirota on the problems with Obama’s electoral meddling. (Huffington Post Denver) More on Denver’s position as the world leader…
Like many stories about dog attacks, the recent description of an aggressive “fight dog” that bit a woman on the thigh and elbow in a Superior parking lot prompted many online comments at Denverpost.com. “Anyone who owns a mutt from one of these killer breeds should be REQUIRED to have…
First Friday or last, you can always find something new in the local art world. Tonight’s gallery watch yields at least a couple of fun exhibit openings, including Barnaby Furnas’s really, really big one at MCA Denver. But on the smaller side and quite nearby, you can also catch You…
Aurora’s Jesse Dennis Dimmick was already wanted for questioning in a murder when he went on the lam recently, eventually finding himself in a police chase with Kansas authorities. And while murder is a little too severe to label Dimmick a shmuck, what he did next more than qualifies. During…
The second-floor event hall at the Tattered Cover LoDo was packed last Monday as people anxiously awaited author Jon Krakauer, who was going to speak about his new book, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. As I walked in and took a spot along the wall, some…
Pitchers and catchers: Pitcher Jeff Francis winds up in a side-slit dress by Francis Roces and catcher Paul Phillips swings in a bridal gown by Rae Marie…..
A sharp-eyed reader noticed an odd editor’s note at the bottom of an INDenver Times account about the CU Buffs’ 24-0 victory over the Wyoming Cowboys this past weekend. It reads: “Comments have been turned off on football stories involving CU to meet the university’s requirement for giving media credentials…
A while back — as in the previous millennium — an announcement about the launch of a newspaper wouldn’t qualify as unusual. Times have a-changed, though, making the decision by the Boulder Daily Camera to publish the Longmont Weekly beginning about a month from now seem like either a remarkably…
Representative Mike Coffman is usually a pretty cool customer — but he’s made little effort to mask his anger at Colorado Ethics Watch’s Chantell Taylor, who he’s accused of her own ethical violations in a letter to the state Supreme Court. Back in April, after members of the Independent Ethics…
I’ve been waiting for the deluded denizens at SF Weekly, our sister paper, to start crowing about the Rockies’ dispiriting performance over the past couple days, when they dropped two at home to the friggin’ San Diego Padres. (Note: From this point on, Franklin Morales’ pitch count should be one…
Denver may not be the nationwide leader in homicides, thank goodness. But as demonstrated by our Mile High Murder archive, which has documented forty murders since the project was launched in late May, there’s plenty of violence to go around in these parts. Witness the story of 49-year-old Lilian Verdonkschot,…
Channel 4’s report that Kristen Parker will plead guilty to charges against her won’t go down as the shock of the century. Back in July, after all, she confessed to swiping drugs while working as a surgery tech at Rose Medical Center, where she’s said to have infected more than…
Yesterday, Representative Jared Polis turned to Twitter to let his followers know about the latest episode of his CNN series Freshman Year, “featuring our new puppy Gia!” However, he didn’t mention another addition to the family — a swank condo at 1655 Walnut Street in Boulder, which turned up in…
Although the film version of No Impact Man, starring author Colin Beavan, subject of a Q&A published earlier today, takes place in New York City and a handful of other nearby locales, there’s a piece of Colorado on Beavan’s NoImpactProject.org website. The welcome video seen above, which encourages people to…
Author and self-proclaimed No Impact Man Colin Beavan is loved and hated with equal passion. In 2006, the New York City resident came up with an idea for a new book: He and his family, consisting of wife (and BusinessWeek writer) Michelle Conlin and toddler Isabella, would spend a year…
Earlier this week, Scott McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy griped that a new survey showing Josh Penry leading SM in the gubernatorial race was unscientific (which the folks behind it acknowledged) and dismissible because it was conducted by a Penry supporter (which they disputed). Now, the complaint’s in the other mouth…
The pdf of the detention file released by the Justice Department in relation to the case against terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi was sent upside-down — but the evidence against Zazi looks ugly from any direction. As such, expect him to be officially sent packing to New York following a perfunctory…
Make ours a double. Today in Cafe Society: • Denver’s Hottest Service Employees: An update. • Great American Beer Festival Q&A: Sprecher Brewing Company. • Jing chef Jay Spickelmier wins the Mile High Chef Competition by a lamb’s nose. • Up Close: The dishes of Menu Affair. • Part Two:…
We search local blogs for decent reading. Here’s today’s selection: Your hot European ski instructor is about to get way less European (and thus way less hot) thanks to Obama. Further proof he’s not American! Let’s see that birth certificate, chief! (Colorado Independent) Former Governor Lamm wants to ration your…
You want to know what the next social media service that will be eating all of your time will be? All of them. Or rather, all of them that you want, in whatever proportions you like. Recently, Twitter announced a couple of big integrations — one with MySpace and another…
They say we have a beautiful weekend approaching, and there are few places in the state more gorgeous this time of year than the environs of Delta County, where the wine grapes and orchards are peaking. And Colorado Art Ranch, the rootless organization that hosts “Artposiums” twice yearly at changing…
Having trouble finding work? You’re not alone. Follow Westword every Thursday in Jobbed on the Latest Word blog as we troll for the weird, the wacky and the worst of what the recession-era world of online job ads has to offer. The job: Undercover Operative Pay: $50 an hour; All…
