“Ernie Duran Takes on Channel 7 in PR War,” published earlier today, shares a letter sent out by supporters of embattled United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 president Ernie Duran Jr.; it disputes a recent Channel 7 report accusing Duran of nepotism and questionable practices in regard to expenses…
Another season, another Broncos-Raiders game, another five YouTube reminders that you shouldn’t make the trip to Oakland to root on your Broncos. 5. “I Will Kick Your Powder Blue Ass” Look below for more mayhem:…
Stitch and pitch: Happy hooker Greg Smith throws some curves in a cocktail dress by Tran Wills, while sinker-baller Greg Reynolds works the stitches of a power suit by Kotomi Yoshida……
E-mail blasts are a great way to reach a lot of people quickly — but it’s important that they actually include some content. A message sent out earlier today to folks who signed up for entertainment updates from the Denver Post shows why. As you can see by the image…
Among the more intriguing and/or disturbing features on the City of Boulder’s web site is a crime map feature that allows residents and other curious Internet surfers to see precisely where a variety of offenses have occurred throughout the community in a given week — in today’s case, the one…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
The ScienceDaily.com site reveals: “Denver released the largest amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) and Barcelona the smallest amount in a new study documenting how differences in climate, population density and other factors affect GHG emissions in global cities.” And according to the survey, to be published in the October 1…
Don’t know if Anthony Bryant’s business cards list him as a “Sexually Violent Predator” — but that’s how the Denver Police Department refers to him in a release that asks for help from the public in tracking him down. Seems Bryant, who has a couple of stranger-on-stranger assaults under his…
Those reports we told you about earlier this morning suggesting that authorities would seek to transfer terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi to New York have proven accurate. The Justice Department confirms that Zazi has been indicted in New York’s Eastern District “on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass…
Ernie Duran Jr., president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, is in a fight for job survival. Although his re-election campaign was unsuccessful, he and his supporters (many of them family members with prominent UFCW jobs) are challenging the results of the vote, claiming, among many other…
Louisville’s Nicole Fox, a contestant on cycle thirteen of America’s Next Top Model, is in absolutely zero danger of being eliminated from the competition anytime soon. Last week, guest judge Lauren Conrad declared Nicole’s photo to be her favorite, and this time around, she finished number two in the best-pic…
Last week, an e-mail string inadvertently sent to the press by a member of Michael Bennet’s staff suggested that the senate appointee sees fellow Democrat Mark Udall as something of a rival. But that didn’t stop him from joining Udall and a group of eight other freshman senators to deliver…
At 9 a.m. this morning, terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi will be back in federal court, and feds will reportedly ask to transport him to New York, where his alleged co-conspirators in a bombing plot are located. If that happens, he won’t need his Aurora apartment anymore, and that’s fortunate, since…
Flipped over to KHOW en route to the office this morning, arriving at the dial spot just in time to catch ten minutes of the most incomprehensible radio I’ve ever heard in my life. Host Peter Boyles noted that he’d posted a video on his page of the outlet’s website…
Some stories could be set anywhere — but not this one. Okay, there’s this joint in Severance called Bruce’s Bar, and for more than a quarter century, it’s sponsored an annual bash called the Nut Run — so named because the main attractions are Rocky Mountain oysters. Men and women…
Kevin O’Connell was away on business when he got a call from a Denver animal-control officer: His dog, a Presa Canario, had mauled a Chihuahua. O’Connell, a civil engineer who lives in Thornton, had left his two dogs with a friend who lives in Denver; he gave the officer his…
On Fear Factor, host Joe Rogan usually begins with the following statement: “The stunts you are about to see were all designed and supervised by trained professionals. They are extremely dangerous and should not be attempted by anyone, anywhere, anytime.” Since Rogan himself just moved to Denver — he’s been…
“Going Viral,” Alan Prendergast, September 17 Get the Point? Kristen Parker should be tried for the intentional spread of the virus. Even if there were a slim possibility of infection, common sense as a health-care worker should have kept her from redistributing the needles she had already used, and potentially…
Matthew James adopted Major, an American Pit Bull Terrier, from a Los Angeles shelter in 2006. When he moved to Denver later that year, he knew very little about the city’s pit bull ban. “I wasn’t sure how strict it was,” he says. “Then I got here and learned they…
Wye not? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Scout Niblett and Wye Oak at the hi-dive. • Fiery Furnaces, Nitzer Ebb, 3OH!3 shows announced. • Win tix to see Mayer Hawthorne at the Larimer Lounge tonight. • Q&A with Bryan Adams. • Tonight at La Rumba: I fought the…
Our daily hike up Blog Mountain. Is Aspen really as shitty as Ski Magazine things? (Huffington Post Denver) In case you were getting too optimistic, Pols tells us Colorado’s budget is hosed till 2011. (Colorado Pols) Welcome back Huston Street and Aaron Cook! But how welcome are they? (Purple Row)…
Earlier today, I posted a blog about an NPR appearance by Centennial’s Dr. Michael Kurtz, during which he talked about the thirty-to-fifty likely swine flu victims who are coming into his office every day. His account made his waiting room sound like “a petri dish,” I wrote. Then, a few…
