Shawn Merriman pleaded not guilty to mail fraud charges against him yesterday — but since the former Mormon bishop has already confessed to swindling folks since 1994, that seems like a temporary situation. In any event, he’s already bid farewell to a huge array of belongings seized by authorities in…
Colleen Don Dero got a taste of Colorado recently, but she didn’t like it much. Don Dero, who was born and raised in Colorado before moving to Phoenix several decades ago, runs a hat and T-shirt company called It’s All About the Head. The apparel features the company’s name as…
Sean Wenlock stands at the end of a seafoam-green diving board, his toes curled over the edge like upside-down question marks. He’s still. He looks like he’s contemplating something, but it’s impossible to know what. The 29-year-old in the red-and-black swim trunks with the flames on the sides couldn’t tell…
“Boxed In,” Patricia Calhoun, August 13 You Be the Judge Nicely done. Unfortunately, instead of the $926 million representing a death knell for Dow and Rockwell (something that might finally get the SEC and relevant shareholders to pay attention to corporate behavior, and my personal fantasy wish would be for…
Improve your Batting average. Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Natasha Kahn of Bat For Lashes. • Q&A with Bob Crawford of the Avett Brothers. • Q&A with Dalton Rasmussen, co-curator of the Rocky Mountain Low comp. • Flier of the Week: Church of the Snake at Rhinoceropolis. •…
Our daily search for decent local bloggage. Fill our in-box. Just because your shit’s organic doesn’t make it okay to be an asshole. As Whole Foods is quickly learning. (Colorado Pols) The humor of Jared Polis’s beer bong seems lost on the Denver Post. (Colorado Independent) Seriously, Brandon Marshall: I…
Denver-based Coathangr, a social media service aimed at the fashion conscious (read about it here), has just made it easier than ever to collect your friends’ opinions about that pair of pumps on sale — or to let them giggle at a distance when you spot a fashion disaster out…
The bridge from Mad Max to Kill Bill crosses years but not much distance: A starstruck Quentin Tarantino admits to being an unabashed fan of the ´70s explosion of exploitative Australian films and unapologetically copied them. A genre set off when repressed Aussie filmmakers were freed from the shackles of…
It’s Fantasy Football season, and if you don’t know what we’re talking about, then you simply aren’t a geeky, no-life sad sack who never gets out of the house — like several Westword staff members. Still, 22 million North Americans waste countless hours on it, and August, when fantasy lovers…
Colleen Don Dero got a taste of Colorado recently, but she didn’t like it much. Several decades ago, the Colorado native moved to Phoenix, where she runs a hat and T-shirt company called It’s All About the Head. The apparel features the company’s name as a slogan alongside a mug…
In the past year or so, a number of state and local agencies in Colorado have begun charging members of the media higher fees for completing public-records requests. Take the Denver Police Department, which used to make copies of daily reports and put them in a press room where journalists…
Certain changes must be made to the annual gathering to appeal to contemporary audiences and sell more tickets…. Get out of Pueblo: Relocating to the Renaissance Festival in Larkspur would situate the State Fair closer to the state’s population base. Here, the boredom of rural drudgery would be replaced with…
The Obama administration talks tall about its fresh ideas and new directions. Especially at the Department of the Interior, where Secretary Ken Salazar has vowed to change course from the Bush years and develop sound public-land policy based on science, not political influence — as detailed in my April feature,…
Fascinating article by Joanne Ostrow in today’s Denver Post about the portable people meter, a pager-like radio-ratings device that picks up signals from stations that sound in the vicinity of a person wearing or carrying it. The results are supposed to provide more precise audience estimates than the sort of…
This morning, Mary Marvin sent out an update about her husband, AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin, who underwent an epic surgical procedure two weeks ago to address serious health issues that have kept him off the air since March. Instead of e-mailing a description of how he’s doing, though,…
Writers at the Denver Post had to figure they’d be walking away with the lion’s share of honors at this year’s Colorado Press Association awards. After all, the Rocky Mountain News, which tended to win more than its share of baubles in the large newspaper contest, regularly beating the Post…
The lack of state regulation and oversight of medical marijuana dispensaries, which spurred a raucous Colorado Department of Health hearing last month, has Durango Police Chief David Felice worried. He tells the Durango Herald News that he and his colleagues across Colorado are e-mailing each other frequently with ideas about…
Yesterday, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter presented a new budget that includes nearly 300 state job cuts and the early release of some prisoners, among other politically toxic proposals. In an effort to sell it, Ritter penned (or at least authorized) an op-ed for the Denver Post entitled “This Budget Minimizes…
Josh Penry may be quickly becoming the leading Republican candidate for governor, thanks to the rapid implosion of Scott McInnis’ campaign and the difficulties Ryan Frazier is having in regard to gaining traction — but not everything’s going his way. Yesterday morning on his Twitter feed, he wrote, “What kind…
Larry Harmon, once one of Carmelo Anthony’s key financial advisors, shares the same name as the late actor who portrayed Bozo the Clown. But neither he nor his client are laughing now. Earlier this week, Melo sued Harmon and a slew of others, alleging that they stole $2 million from…
One more quick hit about Jared Polis’ beer-bonging appearance on The Colbert Report. On his Twitter feed earlier this week, host Stephen Colbert tweeted the following: “Can’t believe Jared Polis called me gay. Ridiculous. In other news, totally fired up for Project Runway premiere this week!” You and me both,…
Representative Jared Polis beat Doug Lamborn and Betsy Markey to the healthcare-town-hall punch, staging a session on Monday. Not that the event got much attention. After all, that evening, Polis starred in the first “Even Better-er Know a District” segment on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, during which he and…
