Like fellow representative Doug Lamborn, whose healthcare town hall was frenzy-free (because pretty much everyone agreed that ObamaCare is awful), Betsy Markey, who represents Colorado’s 4th District, managed to keep her own get-together about reform from deteriorating into a remake of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. However, she had to work…
Congressman Doug Lamborn, a Republican representing Colorado Springs, has found the key to keeping town halls about healthcare relatively free of rancor and ideological clashes: Stage them in districts where most people, including the star of the show, are metaphysically opposed to reform, and then let attendees spend an hour…
You’re it. Today in Cafe Society: • Behind the Bar: Mike Henderson of TAG. • Chapter Two BBQ closes the book. • A sneak peek of Colt & Gray. • A taste of restaurant history before LoDo Bites. • Craft breweries are on a roll. • Mysteries of Sheehan’s Desk:…
Interview with Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.Our daily search for local bloggage. E-mail recommendations. Scott McInnis is being a real McInnis these days, isn’t he? (Colorado Pols) Where has Melo’s money gone? (5280) Meet the future Rockies. (Purple Row)…
Back again with more great Twits to follow for your burgeoning Twitter feed. As always, follow us at @denverwestword, @cafewestword, @westword_music and @casciato. @ChannelMassive: Gaming is rapidly becoming one of the main pastimes of our society. And since most mainstream media still just doesn’t get it, you need smart, savvy…
It’ll be the ultimate back-to-school practice run at Buntport Theater’s quarterly Teacher’s Pet event tonight, wherein ten volunteers, the first to sign up, get up on stage for five minutes to show and tell on a chosen theme. That would be Back to School (Things I Wish I Hadn’t Learned)…
According to the Denver Police Department, theft from motor vehicles is up 32 percent this year. With that in mind, DPD reps suggest a number of seemingly obvious steps locals can use to avoid becoming a snatch-and-grab victim: lock the car, don’t leave the keys in it, park it in…
Urbavore’s Dilemma is an ongoing web series detailing city dwellers’ commitment to urban homesteading. From May through September, Westword writer Joel Warner will get his hands dirty, covering everything from backyard chickens to front-lawn gardens, from greenhouses to co-ops and food-sharing. Check out the full series here. Holly Arnold Kinney…
Former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio received good news when he learned that the U.S. Justice Department had decided against appealing the reduction of his original six-year jail sentence for insider-trading violations. But many Qwest Wireless customers will probably be less excited upon leraning they’ve got to switch their service by…
A baseball card collection that features Colorado’s boys of summer (dresses) in the fashions of Denver designers. An underrated backup catcher like Yorvit Torrealba rocks the bold-striped finish of this strapless cocktail dress by Jose Clark……
Douglas Bruce is a victim. At least that’s the story he told yesterday at a news conference in Colorado Springs, where he complained about the city violating his constitutional rights. The Springs’ sin? Handing Bruce and a buddy a trespassing ticket for insisting on collecting signatures for a ballot proposal…
Lockheed Martin Space Systems’ Waterton Canyon facility has served as a major economic engine for southern Jefferson County for decades, and it will no doubt continue to do so — but its horsepower is due for a reduction. The firm plans to cut 800 jobs by the end of the…
Believe it or not, drugs are fairly common at most concerts by Phish, whose phans have been known to follow them around the country, Grateful Dead-style. And according to police in Howard County, Maryland, a couple of Coloradans were doing their best to fill the phaithful’s needs this past weekend…
Almost five years ago, a man currently using the moniker Benjamin Kyle was found naked and unconscious behind a Georgia Burger King — and upon being awakened, he said he had no idea who he was. Since then, he’s been the subject of numerous newspaper articles like this recent McClatchy…
Yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Justice Department not to appeal a ruling that former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio’s six-year jail term and accompanying $52 million fine were excessive could well mean a couple of years, and perhaps even more, will be shaved off his sentence when Judge Marcia Krieger…
Earlier today, an earthquake struck near Craig; the U.S. Geological Survey rates it a 3.7 magnitude temblor. That follows a 3.9 magnitude quake near Eads yesterday. So where will nature’s vengeance strike tomorrow? Carbondale? La Junta? Or maybe Highlands Ranch, where it can send all those Californians who’ve moved here…
It didn’t take long. First, Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall was acquitted of wrongdoing in a battery trial in Atlanta. Then, on Sunday, he returned to the practice field when a supposedly minor injury that had somehow managed to keep him out of action since late July miraculously improved. And yesterday,…
Before Congressman Jared Polis’ constituents got a chance to see him do a beer bong with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report last night, they had the opportunity to watch him do something else unusual — host a healthcare town hall that didn’t deteriorate into scarlet-faced, neck-tendon-displaying sound and fury…
The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cEven Better-er Know a District – Colorado’s 2nd – Jared Poliswww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorMeryl Streep It’s one of those TV moments when you’re thinking, “He won’t do that. He wouldn’t possibly do that.” And then he does it anyway! Second District Congressman…
At this moment in our country’s history, celebrity can land on people like a terrible, swift sword — or the satisfying embrace of a loving reach-around. University of Colorado at Boulder student Zach Lahn is experiencing the latter, figuratively speaking, with the conservative media giving him a lingering hand for…
We’ve been taught from an early age not to squeal on people. Doing so is seen as such a negative that the action’s been given a number of entirely perjorative names: “rat,” “fink” and so on. But given the crimes for which twenty-year-old Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos is wanted — sexual assault…
It was positively Atmospheric. Today in Backbeat Online: • Over the Weekend: Atmosphere at Red Rocks. • Over the Weekend: Green Day at Pepsi Center. • Dialed In: This week’s local music radio playlists. • Behind the scenes at Global Dance Fest with Vista TV. • Placebo postpones North American…
