Chicago remains giddy at the thought that former Broncos QB Jay Cutler will return the Bears to the promised land. But fans might not be too thrilled to hang out with the petulant passer, as indicated by excerpts from a Cutler profile set to run in ESPN The Magazine’s September…
Last night, I attended back-to-school night at Chatfield High School (home of the evacuation-prompting mystery smell — which turned out to be mace). Amid a presentation by the teachers of the journalism class my twin daughters are taking, a parent said his son loved newspapers so much that he hoped…
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’ll be offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. Today’s entry: a Pepsi Center celebrity roundup. In the few minutes before…
Author Dominick Dunne, who died yesterday at 83, is best known for covering the nation’s most sensational crimes and trials. But he never showed much interest in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, to the frustration of some folks obsessed with the mystery over the Boulder girl’s 1996 death. However, he…
KHOW talk-show host Peter Boyles has spent many, many mornings during the past year or so talking about President Barack Obama’s U.S. birth certificate, and whether it’s the genuine item. But this morning, his latest variation on the topic — the prospect of putting up a station-sanctioned billboard asking the…
Ferris is a dachshund. A cute dachshund, no doubt, not only because dachshunds are, by their nature, cute, but because the thought of a dachshund named Ferris is even cuter. And some people stole him. Bad people who folks at the Boulder Police Department want to catch and then punish…
As Patricia Calhoun pointed out earlier this morning, Boulder’s Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions, was the subject of a death threat by a Spokane, Washington, man, Donald Hertz, mere weeks after the murder of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller. (Following Tiller’s death, Hern,…
In today’s Denver Post, media writer Joanne Ostrow takes on the September cover of Denver Magazine, in which Channel 31 stars Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal are transformed from anchors to shank-ers. After spotlighting quotes from Weaver and station exec Carolyn Kane shrugging off any scent of controversy over the…
A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it’s hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in that area. In July, the West…
Arguments continue about just how grassroots protests against healthcare reform like a recent shoutfest at an Ed Perlmutter event really are. But such displays of disaffection are positively organic in comparison with the rally about climate legislation that took place yesterday in Greeley. The Greeley Tribune reports that hundreds of…
Zoning disputes: Not an inherently fascinating subject for folks not involved with them — and often not even then. But the interest level perks up when wholesale horse assassination is thrown into the mix. According to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Trenton Parker recently received a ninety-day sentence for contempt…
Running through the Burger King parking lot at 2:30 a.m. on May 29, Shala Parker managed to catch the license plate of the green Cadillac DeVille as it zoomed onto Sixth Avenue and took a hard left onto Lincoln. To remember it, she screamed “727RUG! 727RUG!” as she ran back…
Mistakes happen. Just ask Tom Martino. On a post titled “Westword Cowards” that Martino originally published August 17 on the Channel 31/Fox blog, he included a photo of a man identified as “Jared Jacang Maher,” the author of “The Martino Matrix,” an article in the July 23 Westword. Just one…
“Cut Off,” Melanie Asmar, August 20 The Unkindest Cut Melanie Asmar recently wrote an outstanding piece on Denver’s Underground Syringe Exchange, and now, in “Cut Off,” she details the impact that cuts in Medicaid funding will have on adults with disabilities and their families. Speaking as someone who grew up…
James Dean lived fast and died young, and the same will soon be true of a mural of the Rebel Without a Cause actor, which has graced the side of the Video One building at 1301 East Colfax Avenue since 1995. Created by artist Jae Choe, the huge, illuminated mural…
This week’s feature is a cartoon by Kenny Be. See it on the Latest Word blog…
Chew on this. Today in Cafe Society: • The 10 manliest candies ever. • Chopsticks China Bistro won’t move until September. • Our Weekly Bread: Gourmet Corner. • Chef and Tell: Troy Guard from TAG. • Hot dog! Biker Jim’s Wednesday and weekly specials. • Sam Taylor’s gets to the…
When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had…
Our daily dose of worthy bloggage. Use as directed. GQ names CU among the country’s douchiest colleges. Which is funny, because when your magazine reeks of bad cologne and man-bags, you’re probably not a great judge of douchiness. (5280) The moron who smashed up the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters did…
Left-leaning political websites such as the Colorado Independent and Colorado Media Matters haven’t had much to celebrate since the progressive gains made in last November’s election. The former’s been hit with significant layoffs, and the latter pulled the plug in March, although its archives continue to linger online. In contrast,…
In a groundbreaking story printed yesterday, one of USA Today’s crack investigative journalists broke the story that people who hate Twitter don’t see the point of using Twitter! And in related developments, people who find marriage pointless rarely marry, vegetarians don’t like meat, and water is wet. Here’s the lead…
Longtime observers of local media will recall the name Melissa Klinzing. She was the Channel 7 news director circa the mid-’90s who launched “Real Life, Real News,” a format that attempted to freshen standard newscasts with infotainment-related show-biz glitz and an anchor, Natalie Pujo, who had a fondness for short…
