Links. Click on them. And send some if you feel like it. Tensions over new drilling regulations continue to burn hot. Did Zach Morris teach us nothing? (Colorado Independent) What Sonia Sotomayor can and can’t do for the West. (5280) A look at the future Rockies who could help down…
Is the Twitpocalypse nigh? Is the end of Facebook right around the corner? And if so, how on earth are you going to fill eight hours a day at work? The horror! I enjoy a good dose of doomsaying as much as anyone — hell, more than most. But a…
Here comes the weekend, kids, so pray for more sunshine and fewer thunderstorms, because there’s just a lot to do. To begin with, you can check out Westword’s events search page for a bounty of weekend recommendations. But — what the heck — here are a few more. Tonight from…
It was a banner week shmuckwise for members of Team Nature, which grabbed three of the top four spots in our weekly Shmuck Power Rankings. The rankings broke down like this: 4. Gravity. Newton and his God forsaken apple showed up at my very manly volleyball game the other night…
Following a May 29 hit-and-run that killed 49-year-old Lillian Verdonkschot near a Burger King in the vicinity of West 6th Avenue and Broadway, the Denver Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect named Dawn Marie Gonzales — but a few days later, Gonzales was released. Now the DPD has…
Don’t let the recession stop your plans for a summer R.V. excursion. Instead of paying for numerous tanks of gas and countless campground fees, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that offers strip-mall camping and sunset marshmallow roasts. A staycation in the Stapleton neighborhood…
There’s plenty to get disgusted about in the story of a Colorado female inmate who was awarded $1.3 million in damages for two years’ worth of sexual assaults by a male guard. As this report in the Denver Post recounts, federal judge David Ebel blasted the Colorado Department of Corrections…
The word magic often conjures images of beleaguered bunnies, plastic wands and elegant assistants, usually half-dressed and halved in pine boxes. Even with the latest resurgence of magic in popular culture, the tendency is to discard the mysterious art’s rich history just as smug, swaggering, sleight-of-hand superstars like David Blaine…
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…
With AM 760 morning host Jay Marvin still battling a serious health crisis and his main fill-in, David Sirota, in China for several weeks and uncertain if he’ll be taking to the station’s airwaves again upon his return, some listeners have worried that Clear Channel Denver, the outlet’s owner, will…
Casual baseball fans who hear that the Colorado Rockies have suddenly won eight games straight, including ultra-rare road sweeps against the St. Louis Cardinals and the Milwaukee Brewers, may start thinking about corner-turning, even though the Rocks are currently mired in fourth place among the five National League West teams,…
Easy Virtue, which opens today at the Esquire Theatre, marks a return for Stephan Elliott, who directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with fellow Australian Sheridan Jobbins, who accompanied him during a recent publicity trip to Denver and took part in the rich, forthright and funny Q&A that follows…
If it seems that we’ve been hearing about today’s transition from analog broadcasting to the digital kind for ages, it’s only because it’s true. The warnings about the switch’s final phase have been coming for month after month after month, and yet a reported 1.75 million American TV viewers aren’t…
Yes, I, too, assumed that Late Night with Jimmy Fallon would be a disaster. But it’s actually pretty funny on occasions, as demonstrated by a bit from yesterday’s show in which the former Saturday Night Live self-chuckler pretended to do eight promos for assorted local TV markets over the course…
The Boulder Outlook touts itself as the “cure for the common hotel.” Today, however, folks at the business likely wish they could find a cure for the uncommon guest. Yesterday, Boulder Police found a 41-year-old man dead of an apparent suicide in one of the Outlook’s rooms — and as…
As Patricia Calhoun implies in this morning’s Wake-Up Call, Imagine That, the new Eddie Murphy flick, much of which was filmed in Denver circa 2007, hasn’t exactly enraptured those film reviewers still fortunate enough to have a job. Metacritic.com, a website that compiles critiques from a variety of sources and…
Look at all those buns. Today in Cafe Society: • Denver’s hot dog champ chomp. • Follow the smoke and Steven Raichlen to BBQ University at the Broadmoor. • Video: How to make a John Lennon Latte. • Icehouse Tavern has an opening date. • Hot rocks, hot chefs at…
The entity that owns Coors Field is pursuing a view-plane ordinance that would prevent the construction of buildings that might block the view of the mountains from stadium seats — and not for the first time. A similar proposal in 2007 was dropped after controversy arose over property rights. Ray…
Our daily look at local blogs. Send tips. Picket signs and screaming workers: Coming to a grocery store near you? (5280) Colorado leads the way in green jobs. (Colorado Pols) Tom Lucero gets down and dirty in Loveland. (Colorado Independent)…
This Saturday, June 13, plenty of Boulder residents will take part in the World Naked Bike Ride — and if they’re anything like the ones who wheeled around during the 2007 Denver event seen in the video above, a lot of them will actually be, well, naked. But this year,…
One of the region’s preeminent sculptors, Charles Parson’s quite literally left a monumental mark on the area over the years (here’s what our Michael Paglia wrote about him a few years back). Now, a new show at the Foothills Art Center, Charles Parson: Personal Echoes on the Horizon, puts the…
President Obama and I disagree… about the awesomeness of CNN’s YouTube-y reality show Freshman Year, starring Colorado’s own freshman congressman, Jared Polis of Boulder. According to Polis, Obama “loves” his show. Me, not so much. (Although I do sorta love to hate it.) If you’re not familiar with Freshman Year,…
