View Larger Map As noted in a blog yesterday, an Aurora Police Department release about a robbery and shooting on East Colfax was as vague as vague could be. The document didn’t even make it clear how many stick-up artists were involved — just that a man left leaking blood…
View Larger Map More gunplay and, at this point, more questions than answers revolving around a robbery on the 9400 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Aurora Police Department, officers responded…
Feeling crabby? Today in Cafe Society: • Out of the sea and into the claws of Jax Fish House. • Guess where I’m eating? • Chris Cina seen in Black Hawk. • Milking It: Cinna-Graham Honey-Comb. • The Rackhouse Pub to open in former Heavenly Daze. • Il Posto adds…
When you want to stalk someone but Facebook and parking outside their house for hours with binoculars just aren’t doing it for you, how about buying high-resolution images of their neighborhood as taken by satellites? Sure, you could just get an image off of Google Maps, but if you want…
Every day, we sift through local blogs in search of links worth clicking. What’d we miss? Send links this way. Channing Frye and other potential free agents that could sizzle for the Nugs. (Denver Stiffs) Rep. Betsy Markey: She’s a maverick! (no, really!) (Colorado Pols) Senator Bennet engages religious leaders…
The gas leak that closed a stretch of 92nd Avenue between Yates and Raleigh in Westminster this morning has been found, according to a new release. As said leak is being repaired, one lane of traffic is being allowed through the area, with more to follow once everything’s patched up…
View Larger Map Late on July 4, Denver Police officers responded to a call at 14954 East Elk Place in Montbello, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). There, they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds: one dead,…
Local artist and supporter of the arts Eric Matelski started his First Monday Art Talk program three years ago, and since then, it’s grown comfortably into itself: The monthly artist talk-cum-social gathering, which showcases a different local artist (or, like Matelski himself, a mover within the local art world) in…
When politicians make a gaffe, an army of online smart asses is ready, willing and able to make them feel stupid about it. Witness Republican gubernatorial hopeful Scott McInnis, whose website went live with a photo on its home page picturing an area near Canada’s Lake Louise Ski Area rather…
See photos from Blue Traveler at Red Rocks, the Cherry Creek Arts Fest, and various local watering holes from the long weekend at westword.com/slideshow. And read a review (with pictures) of Wilco’s Red Rocks show on the Backbeat blog…
The Rocky Mountain Independent, which officially launched today, is the latest online news project from former members of the Rocky Mountain News — and many of the fourteen journalists involved were also part of INDenver Times, which fell about 47,000 paid subscribers short of its announced goal of 50,000. Steve…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments…. Figure 26. Globeville: Mockey Mouse, Guard Poodle and Green Angel Unlike the Japanese, whose entire economy is now dependent on cuteness, American culture has never been very good at handling the concept of cute. Perhaps it is because cuteness stimulates the same…
View Larger Map Officials with the Westminster fire and police departments have closed 92nd Avenue between Yates and Raleigh, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), due to a suspected gas leak. In a press release, Westminster Fire Department…
Truth be told, plenty of us have personal obsessions that would convince people uninterested in our particular thang that we need to get a life. It’s just that these pastimes differ from individual to individual — and some are quirkier than others. Witness the just-completed 35th annual Coca-Cola Collectors Convention,…
On last night’s Channel 4 newscast (in a segment rebroadcast this morning), the sports report was delivered by an unlikely person: Mike Hooker, who’s served as either the station’s mountain or northern newsroom reporter since 1994. Why? News operations traditionally scramble during the summer months to cover for vacationing staffers…
Sure, it’s great that both Brad Hawpe and Jason Marquis made the All-Star team as representatives of the Colorado Rockies. Moreover, an argument can be made that both Aaron Cook and Huston Street deserved to receive nods as well — a testament to the improvement the squad’s made since its…
In Denver, most of the coverage about Kristen Parker, an operating-room technician who’s been charged with exposing patients to hepatitis C for swapping dirty syringes filled with saline for new ones loaded with the painkiller fentanyl, has focused on her time at Rose Medical Center. However, she also worked at…
In the recent past, the Denver Police Department’s public-information office hasn’t exactly earned a reputation for rapid responses when it comes to either press inquiries or the issuing of news releases. But while the DPD’s embrace of electronic communication when it comes to police reports has actually made it more…
Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s surprise announcement on Friday that she’ll be leaving her office eighteen months early because — well, just because — distressed many of the GOP faithful. But it didn’t upset Adam Brickley, the Colorado blogger credited with helping to land Palin on the 2008 Republican ticket alongside…
View Larger Map Most of us were able to celebrate Independence Day without capping each other — but not everyone. Earlier today, we told you about a slaying late yesterday on the 1700 block of Billings Street in Aurora. Now comes word from the Denver Police Department about an exchange…
View Larger Map One of the loud noises heard by people living in the vicinity of 1700 Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), wasn’t caused by Fourth of July fireworks. It was a gunshot that left…
Don’t let the current economic recession ruin your summer fun. Now you can stay in Denver and enjoy a Confluence Park vacation that includes all of your favorite activities without the cost of all that expensive gear…..
