“Monday ain’t a fun day/Tuesday’s a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday’s the worst day/Friday is great/’Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend.” Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn’t much changed. So pop those rocked-out…
We don’t like to repeat shmucks around here. There are plenty of multiple offenders, sure, but there’s lots of new blood every week, too, and this week was no different. We could have shmucked the kid who bashed in the DNC offices, if only for unleashing the right’s loony pack…
The death of the joint-operating agreement that was supposed to sustain a business partnership between the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News for a half-century but didn’t survive for even one decade can’t help seeming anticlimactic. After all, the Rocky’s been gone for six months now, as John Temple,…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) sporting the fashions of Denver designers. Hit-leader Garrett Atkins scores big in this Indian-inspired chiffon wrap skirt and asymmetrical cropped top made of silk brocade by Kandyce Hudson……
Just over an hour ago, we told you about a federal grand jury indictment leveled against Xcel Energy, Public Service Company of Colorado, RPI Coating and two individuals over an October 2007 incident at Cabin Creek Hydro Plant near Georgetown in which five workers died. Since then, Public Service Company…
Poor Brandon Marshall. The Broncos didn’t renegotiate his contract and shower him with the millions he thinks he deserves, likely because of his iffy hip and a history of off-the-field incidents capable of making any woman in his vicinity scream in terror and sprint in the opposite direction. But instead…
In an August 24 blog, I noted that commentators had been hyping the Colorado Rockies’ homestand against the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers as the most important in team history. I questioned that hyperbole at the time, and given that this particular stretch sputtered out with two…
Being civic-minded and all, you’ve probably already spent a great deal of time on the City of Denver’s spiffy new zoning code website, absorbing all the new terminology and figuring out exactly how it’s going to affect your neighbor’s plans to build an enormous treehouse that will blot out the…
In October 2007, five employees of RPI Coating Inc. were killed by carbon monoxide generated by a fire at the Cabin Creek Hydro Plant outside Georgetown that’s operated by Xcel Energy and Public Service Company of Colorado. Now, a federal grand jury has issued indictments against RPI, Xcel, Public Service…
Republic Airways chief executive Bryan Bedford is in town again today, meeting with employees of Frontier Airlines, which Republic purchased after unexpectedly besting Southwest Airlines at auction. He’s also been chatting with city officials who are understandably desperate to convince Republic to keep Frontier’s operations base here, as opposed to…
Last week, we passed along the Aurora Police Department’s invitation to roll over on Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos, an accused child molester. No luck finding the suspect thus far, but the APD has located a much better photo, seen here. As for the reasons why you may want to consider dropping a…
This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democratic National Convention, an event that made Denver the center of the media universe for several unforgettable days. To mark the occasion, we’ve been offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today’s item: Former staffer Jessica Centers’ account of her epic trek into…
Jared Polis: He’s everywhere these days. When he’s not sucking down a cold one with Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, beer-bong style, the Boulder Democrat is pointing the camera at himself as part of Freshman Year, a CNN series in which he and Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz chronicle their first…
In an August 20 blog, our own Joel Warner told us about the Shaggy Bandit, a scofflaw wanted for numerous bank heists. Shaggy’s memorable name came courtesy of the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, whose members understand that reporters tends to pay more attention to thieves with catchy…
Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department’s valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view below, a woman identified by the…
As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn’t exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. House. An internal memo apparently written by…
It’s not faux. It’s Pho. Today in Cafe Society: • Up Close: Pho 95. • What’s Cooking? Getting corny in the kitchen with Pete Marczyk. • Spike It: Top six things that could be improved by caffeine. • Guess where I’m eating? • Candy Girls: Twilight Sweethearts, Forbidden Fruits. Today…
The blogosphere is our sanctuary. The Denver housing market is rebounding like Jessica Simpson. (That is, if you consider Colt Brennan a solid rebound). (5280) This is sort of meta, but: Melanie Asmar hits the radio to talk about last week’s cover story on Medicaid cuts. Go, girl! (Colorado Pols)…
You ever wonder how the Internet sees you? Googling yourself is one way to find out, but what if you’ve always yearned to see yourself as a cross between a bar graph and abstract art? Well, now thanks to the MIT’s Sociable Media Lab and Aaron Zinman, you can find…
It isn’t everyday a teen, particularly one who’s considered at-risk, gets to create a billboard. But that’s just what’s happened this summer at PlatteForum, where twelve youths enrolled in the gallery’s ArtLab program teamed up with student mentors from Metro State College of Denver’s Communication Design Department to create six…
The instant it became clear that Maurice Schwenkler, busted for smashing windows at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters earlier this week, was a far-left radical, not a right-wing healthcare-reform opponent, Republicans began to salivate, and that makes perfect sense. After all, Schwenkler, also known as Ariel Attack, unwittingly handed conservatives a…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. Powerful left-handed pitcher Franklin Morales will get more ground ball outs in this top-of-the-rotation starter party dress by Armando Guerra……
