At this writing, linebacker Boss Bailey’s page remains on the Denver Broncos’ website — but that won’t be true for long. Yesterday, the team cut him loose. And while that makes sense (he’s still rehabbing from the sort of microfracture surgery that makes comebacks slow and difficult), it’s still disappointing…
As one of the most prominent doctors in the country to perform late-term abortions, Boulder’s Warren Hern has been much in the news since the slaying last month of his friend and colleague, Kansas’s George Tiller. And now it appears that Hern is getting additional business of the sort he…
Twenty-five years ago today, KOA talk-show host Alan Berg was murdered in his driveway by members of a white-supremacist group called The Order — and as the Denver Post points out in a front-page story today, the act feels all too resonant thanks to this month’s slaying of a security…
Phil Anschutz’s slice of the Broomfield Event Center hardly represents his only recent investment. Last week, word surfaced that the Denver gazillionaire was negotiating to purchase The Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch, who may have decided that the right-wing bible had grown too conservative even for him. Now, the deal…
The Broomfield Event Center has been twisting since at least earlier this year, when Tim Wiens announced that he wanted out of his contract to manage the venue — a lack-of-success story almost from its opening in 2006. And while the willingness of Anschutz Entertainment Group/Kroenke Sports Enterprises, a joint…
“Senate to Repay Funds” reads the headline atop the Denver & the West section in this morning’s Denver Post — and there’s little doubt Senate President Brandon Shaffer didn’t enjoy seeing it. On the very day Shaffer was ostensibly the most powerful elected official in the state (because both Governor…
Once it became clear that the overwhelming majority of United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local No. 7 members across the Front Range had rejected King Soopers’ latest contract offer, the company had the option to put further negotiations in the freezer section. Instead, King Soopers spokeswoman Diane Mulligan…
Our February 4 story, “Medical Marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado,” described how the state’s medical pot laws have fueled a booming dispensary industry — an industry that was starting to look like the Wild West, with robberies and rip-off accusations thanks to lax regulations and fly-by-night entrepreneurs…
It had been almost a week since the Mile High Murder count moved up — meaning that there had been no new slayings in the seven-county metro area since the June 10 homicide of Eugene Velarde at the intersection of 17th and Sheridan. Unfortunately, all good things have to come…
Nothing about Denver Police Department headquarters at 1331 Cherokee Street screams high-tech. The conference room where I meet Lieutenant Ernie Martinez has torn-fabric chairs that look like Chief Gerry Whitman fished them from a dumpster; Martinez leads me down a hallway lined with tile that might have been fresh in…
“Action!,” Patricia Calhoun, June 11 Reel Life I’m writing just to say “thank you” for last week’s piece on the internal arguments at the Denver Film Society. I’m a member and a regular there, and I was writing tons of e-mails to the staff for support and to boardmembers to…
When Denver Police Department commander Deborah Dilley speaks, people listen. And this month, Dilley is speaking about spokes — bicycle spokes. In an effort to remind cyclists that they are legally required to abide by the same traffic laws as motorists, Dilley has teamed up with Brad Evans, founder of…
Masks off, everybody. Today in Cafe Society: • Cooking Dirty: Fourteen days and counting. • Del Maguey mezcal at Tambien tonight. • A fish story at Oceanaire’s Celebrate Alaska dinner. • The name game continues at Hickory Prime. • Birthdays, barbecue and Black Pearl. • Our Weekly Bread: Lakeside Waffles…
Plenty of folks in these parts despise and/or are terrified by “Mustang,” the demonic sculpture at Denver International Airport that managed to kill its creator, Luis Jiménez . Rachel Hultin’s Facebook page, entitled “DIA’s Heinous Blue Mustang Has Got to Go,” neatly encapsulates negative views about the piece, which has…
Blogs: We read the good ones so you don’t have to read the bad ones. Send tips. Polis tells Obama to sack up and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. (Colorado Pols) Colorado kids are really, really poor. They should get jobs or something. (Kidding!) (Colorado Independent) Wait, what? The…
If you’ve got a hot date but just can’t decide what to wear, Coathangr is here to help. Coathangr is, in the words of their beta slogan, “Social media for your pants” — although co-founder Dave Wiskus says that will probably change to the less catchy but also less-apt-to-be-misinterpreted “Social…
I have a sad confession to make. I love tiny things, like miniature plastic foods and completely useless blind-box toys. It must have started with a dollhouse when I was five, or perhaps it was some long-gone sugar Easter egg I peered into, with the little chicks and bunnies inside,…
I got a call a few weeks ago from Jolt, local graffiti OG and head of the graffiti advocacy group Guerilla Garden. “Hey, man,” said Jolt, aka Jeremy Ulibarri. The background was noisy, like a freight train or an… indoor swimming pool? “We’re doing that project I was telling you…
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. Russ Dale’s been…
Are you a kid who owns a business? If so, the deadline is fast approaching for the Celebration for Young Entrepreneurs, where you can win $1,000 if you’ve got the best business in your age group (6-11, 12-14, 15-17, and 18-21). A $250 prize goes to two additional finalists in…
What do you get when you cross(dress) the Colorado Rockies in the latest creations of Denver fashion designers? A series of baseball cards for the Colorado Frockies: the boys of summer dresses. #38 Ubaldo Jimenez as dressed by Brandi Shigley…..
Despite their (sometimes) divergent opinions on the issues of the day, Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman, who co-host the afternoon-drive slot on KHOW/630 AM, clearly have a great deal of affection for each other. But most listeners probably didn’t know just how fond Caplis was of his partner until yesterday,…
