One of the basic rules of press releases is that they represent a release of information to the press, right? But one of the latest missives to issue from the Denver Police Department keeps info divulging to a minimum, offering a reward for information leading to the capture of a…
Just as they did in early May, King Soopers employees rejected the company’s latest contract offer. In a press release, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, characterized the margin of defeat as overwhelming and urged “the corporation to return to the bargaining table and offer them…
Recovered yet? Today in Backbeat Online: • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Bannock St. Garage. • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Broadways. • Westword Music Showcase reviewed: Vinyl. • Westword Music Showcase: How I saw thirty bands in five hours and lived to tell about it. • Over the Weekend: KS-107.5’s Summer…
Our daily tour of the local blogoshpere. Send tips. Is Bill Ritter passing the buck on health care? (5280) More Ritter: He really, really likes his bike. (Face the State) The ethanol industry descends on Denver to try to save itself. (Colorado Independent)…
*Okay, asking actual people is probably a better idea. But this is a tech blog. Computers. Is there anything they can’t do? Each day brings us closer to the time when that answer is truly “no,” and today brings us to a particularly momentous milestone: the day we no longer…
You don’t buy a book by Todd Shimoda expecting the usual thing. His fiction veers in and out of nonfiction, and the ubiquitous illustrations by his wife, master calligrapher/artist Linda Shimoda, are integral to the passage of the plot. The Shimodas’ lovely 1998 collaboration 365 Views of Mt. Fuji: Algorithms…
Michael Ledwitz, the editor and publisher of Denver Magazine, is excited about the recent hiring of Jeff Kass, the former Rocky Mountain News reporter who’s currently promoting a book entitled Columbine: A True Crime Story. (Kass recently spoke to Westword about the distinctions between his tome and Columbine, a more…
What do you get when 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. Collect them all…..
Don’t know if Brian Wayne Coplen, 24, is the most wanted man in Arapahoe County — but representatives of the sheriff’s office are going out of their way to snare him. A month after sending out a press release about Coplen’s alleged complicity in a marijuana-grow operation in Bennett that…
Wow: That was suspenseful. The competition to succeed Jay Cutler as Broncos QB is already over now that Kyle Orton has been awarded the starting position — although it’s debatable whether he should regard this move as a victory. After all, he may not have disgruntled, new-contract-wanting Brandon Marshall as…
Our recent rash of severe weather included the funnel cloud seen in the video above, which seemed to hover directly over the State Capitol building yesterday. “Too bad it didn’t touch down,” writes the YouTuber who captured these images. “Could have been a crazy place for a tornado.” True –…
Did you know that this year’s Westword Music Showcase took place on Saturday? If not, you can pretend that you knew, and attended, by clicking through slideshows keyed to acts that played a slew of venues: Broadways, Bannock St. Garage, Curious Theatre, Mo’s, Bar Standard, Dazzle, Vinyl, La Rumba, Sutra,…
Zoning code is not sexy. It is not fun. And no one cares about it until it stops them from building the deck they always dreamed of or allows a developer to build a combination McDonald’s/hi-rise condo that blocks the view out of their bedroom window — i.e., when it’s…
This week, the Denver Post reports, a Denver District Court judge ruled that developer Craig Nassi is “personally liable for $1,046,250 in damages for fraudulent misrepresentation as he negotiated how many parking spaces would be available for Club Matrix, a high-end fitness gym and spa in the Beauvallon building at…
This morning’s Denver Post features a Colorado Rockies story on page one — but it’s not about the team’s eleventh straight victory, which tied a franchise record. Rather, it concerns an interview with catcher Yorvit Torrealba on the subject of his son’s kidnapping and eventual rescue in Venezuela. And its…
So… does knowing that your Denver Nuggets lost in the NBA’s Western Conference Finals to the eventual champs, the L.A. Lakers — and put up more of a fight than did the Orlando Magic — make the way the Nugs’ season ended a little less painful. No. Not at all…
More Boulder news — a follow-up to the Friday blog “Suicidal Boulder Outlook Hotel Guest Causes Problems at Check-Out,” about a man who left a note at the aforementioned facility warning about a chemical release shortly before killing himself. That evening, the Boulder Police Department put out a press release…
The Boulder Police Department’s threat of potentially registering genital-displaying Naked Bike Ride peddlers as sex offenders seems to have done the trick. This weekend’s Ride went off without a hitch, but with plenty of stitches over groins — and pasties on male and female nipples alike, as can be seen…
Dig in…. Today in Cafe Society: • Simms Steakhouse update. • Giggling Grizzly clan plan to turn Public House into Lizard’s Bar & Grill. • A full weekend of food fun. • In answer to your question, D Bar. • An early peak at the Streets of SouthGlenn restaurants, including…
The Congress for the New Urbanism is holding its annual conference in Denver June 10-14, complete with bus tours of our most well-known new-urbanist enclaves. But how do you judge walkable, neighborhood-based developments? Is it by the diversity (or lack thereof) of their residents, the number of parks nearby, their…
View Larger Map Another body — this one identified moments ago by the Denver Coroner’s office as Eugene Velarde, 25, who died of multiple gunshot wounds near the intersection of 17th Avenue and W. Sheridan Boulevard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image,…
View Larger Map Yesterday morning, a man the Aurora Police Department is now identifying as Baltazar Ramirez-Estrada, 25, was killed during a robbery outside the Bar La Cabana, a venue located on the 1100 block of Yosemite Street. (The venue is captured in the graphic above; if you have any…
