Denver’s got more than its share of success stories in the 21st-century rock arena. One of them, Meese, formed five years ago when the Meese brothers, Patrick and Nathan, reunited here and decided to collaborate on a combo. They stuck with it, and since their 2007 tune “Tell Me It’s…
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. The red-brick house,…
View Larger Map When the Denver Coroner’s Office identified Eugene Velarde as the man killed in an exchange of gunfire at the intersection of 17th Avenue and West Sheridan Boulevard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), its press…
You may have heard that the newspaper business is going through a difficult patch — and Freedom Communications, owner of the Colorado Springs Gazette, among other properties, is no exception. Freedom’s Orange County Register is reporting the impending implementation of a 5 percent pay cut at the company, which racked…
The Colorado Frockies baseball call series: The boys of summer dresses swing their bats in bridal gowns……
This month marks the 25th anniversary of KOA radio personality Alan Berg’s murder. But despite this substantial passage of time, Ken Hamblin, Berg’s friend and colleague, still gets emotional when he thinks about the evening when he broke the news about the slaying to radio listeners across the state and…
In recent days, Denver billionaire Phil Anschutz has been in the news due to his aborted promotion of a fifty-date Michael Jackson tour — a reversal that could cost a fortune (although, frankly, Anchutz can afford to take the loss). But Forbes is taking notice of the moneybags for his…
Spotted: The BroncosBus in a strange, off-season hideout on shady Fairfax Street near Eighth Avenue across from Christ the King Church. The glorious orange and blue BroncosBus (“the product of a few friends’ collective love for Denver Broncos football,” according to the website, www.BroncosBus.com) can be seen at every home…
Subscribers to the Craig Daily Press, the largest newspaper in Craig, a community in the state’s northwest quadrant, have regularly received a bonus: a copy of the Sunday Denver Post, delivered sans additional charge. But no more. Today, the Daily Press is telling readers that the free deal is done…
A week ago today, we shared mixed messages about Brandon Marshall coming from Jay Cutler’s Twitter feed. Now, however, it appears that Cutler may not have been the person doing the tweeting. The account in question has now been suspended due to what’s described as “strange activity” — which probably…
So you thought the only thing scary about Denver International Airport was the blue Mustang of death? Not so, argues comedian Ralphie May. For him, the sheer size of the place is much more daunting. In a recent bit posted online at ComedyCentral.com, the large-and-in-charge yukster rails against the long…
Nuggets fans know J.R. Smith as the happy-go-lucky prodigy who’s sure his every shot will find nylon whether he’s in the paint, beyond the arc or in the arena parking lot. But today, he’s facing a prospect capable of wiping the smile off anyone’s face: a jail sentence. Smith is…
A Flickr photo. Last year, Colorado lawmakers passed a bill calling for a biennial teacher survey they hoped would help them make decisions about school financing and education reform. The first statewide results of that move — dubbed the Teaching, Empowering, Leading & Learning Initiative, an incredibly long name predictably…
The promo for Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech made it clear that controversial professor Ward Churchill would be receiving the hero treatment in the HBO documentary — and last night’s debut of the production didn’t disappoint in that respect. The final cut allowed Churchill to essentially…
Changing channels? Today in Cafe Society: • ESPN ZONE turns off the scoreboard, blames economy. • Tonight: A symphony of food and wine at Opus. • Milking It: All-Bran Yogurt Bites. • Bad weekend for barbecue at Big Hoss, Q Worldly Barbecue. • Bye-bye, Brandon’s. • Arrivederci, Alto. • Ask…
Rep. Laura Bradford has a pitchfork in her pantsuit, and she’s not afraid to use it. Our daily cruise through what’s decent in local blogs. What’d we miss? Tell us here. Republicans are breaking out the pitchforks over new drilling regulations. Hey, better than Palin and her shotgun. (Colorado Independent)…
As someone who’s been blogging since before that was a word — I created and maintained a personal journal-type site back in 1998, using HTML hand-coded in Notepad and uploaded to my server via FTP — I’ve been there for most every change the medium has seen. But one thing…
The Lance Armstrong mystique runs deep. Here’s a guy who’s conquered testicular cancer and won the Tour de France a jaw-dropping seven times, against all odds, and who now says he’s coming out of retirement to try for win number eight. Plus, as far as the local angle goes, he’s…
The National Edward R. Murrow Awards, doled out annually by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, are among the most prestigious in electronic journalism, and as a result, most of them tend to go to stories that tackle overtly important topics: national disasters, murder investigations and the like. So it’s something…
In recent days, area news outlets have reported that Colorado ranks fiftieth in these United States when it comes to places oil and gas executives would like to invest. But these stories tend to either underplay or omit entirely important context about the organization that issued the report: The Fraser…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments…. Figure 25. Westwood: Shaved shrub serves as shelter for Cher statuette Westwood was annexed into Denver in 1947, but it manages to maintain its country-bumpkin charms. The diagonal dissection of Morrison Road gives the neighborhood the feel of a once prosperous Midwestern…
In a report about efforts to control healthcare costs broadcast on National Public Radio this morning, Len Nichols, of the New America Foundation, an organization lobbying for reform in a wide array of areas, declared that “the ideal healthcare system” already exists in a number of places — and the…
