And in the center ring…. Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Animal Collective at the Boulder Theater. • Fell to appear on upcoming soundtrack. • Irony free disco at Problems D’Amour tonight. Today in Cafe Society: • Luca D’Italia kicks off its sixth anniversary chef dinner series tonight with…
Sometimes we need a little physics lesson: When a 1,000 pound steel and glass box traveling at 40 mph smashes into another 1,000 pound box containing two people totaling something like 250 pounds, the result is, well, just look at the picture above. Sharing scary lessons like these is the…
Tonight’s Denver Cruisers ride will have special significance for Brad Evans, the zany leader of the cycling pack, and not just because riders will dress themselves and their cruisers in bubble wrap and duct tape. The event, which takes place rain or shine and will likely see a couple hundred…
We read the local blogs so you don’t have to, although we recommend it, ’cause there’s some decent stuff in there sometimes. Send links we may have missed to this guy. At Colorado’s national parks, free is the new fee this summer. (Colorado Independent) An (ahem) Avalanche of changes is…
Three Colorado professors wanted to know more about gun violence in America — the social and cultural forces driving illegal gun use, how criminals view their gats, how they use them and why. So they did something few criminal justice researchers have ever bothered to do. They asked the thugs…
USED, Denver’s underground syringe exchange program (and the subject of the Westword feature “Why Doesn’t Colorado Get the Point of Needle Exchange Programs?”), has gone digital with a new website: www.used303.org. The website features information on how to exchange needles, links to resources for I.V. drug users, and statistics on…
Brent Jeffs lived the insider’s life behind the closed gates of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the LDS splinter denomination once led by his polygamist uncle, Warren Jeffs, and dogged by controversy and rumors of sexual abuse. But it wasn’t pretty: From his vantage point, the…
This week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” is all about APEX Movement, the new facility opened by parkour experts Ryan Ford and Matt Marshall that’s the largest parkour gym — anywhere. To experience APEX for yourself, here’s a video tour of the place — featuring lots…
Ryan Ford, featured in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” knows his way around an interview. The accomplished parkour practitioner, or traceur, has been profiled by the likes of ESPN and the New Yorker. When I sat down recently with Ford for my story, I…
As we note in this week’s cover story, “Colorado’s Parkour Pioneers are Running With It,” the discipline of parkour is best described not through words, but through videos. With that in mind, we’ve collected a variety of parkour movies, from locally filmed Colorado Parkour clips like the one above to…
Don’t let the recession ruin your summer fun! Instead of paying the high costs for transportation and hotels, you can stay right here in Denver and vacation in the neighborhood that best suits your interests. A staycation in the Sloan’s Lake and Jefferson Park neighborhoods has much to offer…..
In hopes of revamping its image as an industrial hellhole, Commerce City has hired an economic development consultancy to recast the berg as a diverse, forward-thinking municipality. The $80,000 the city is paying Texas-based AngelouEconomics should buy plenty of dreamy PowerPoint presentations. But one video they probably won’t be using…
E.W. Scripps has made no secret of its desire to sell the intellectual property of the Rocky Mountain News — but the company hasn’t done much since the tabloid’s February closure to peddle these particular wares. That appears to be changing, however. In recent days, a number of potential bidders…
Former Rocky Mountain News reporter Jeff Kass is the author of the other book about Columbine — and while his effort, Columbine: A True Crime Story, has received only modest attention on a national level, he feels his account has much to recommend it over Columbine, local journalist Dave Cullen’s…
Denver-based Archbishop Charles Chaput has grown more political since taking over as head of the city’s archdiocese in 1997 — and he spoke out early and often about the politics of abortion during the run-up to the 2008 presidential vote. As such, even his condemnation of abortion doctor George Tiller’s…
To put it mildly, Timothy Boham, now on trial for the 2006 murder of a Denver businessman in a botched robbery, has a more colorful background than the average slaying suspect. During the first half of this decade, operating under the pseudonym Marcus Allen (wonder how the former Raiders standout…
The NFL has informed Brandon Marshall’s agent that the Broncos receiver won’t be suspended for a since-dropped March charge of disorderly conduct aimed against him and his current fiancée, Michi Leshase Nogami-Campbell. And as the Denver Post’s Mike Klis implies in the article linked above, Marshall’s representatives will no doubt…
The public-affairs office at Fort Carson hasn’t issued a press release about the Army’s decision not to base an additional brigade there — a move that calls into doubt millions in additional contracts, not to mention even more money in long-term economic impact. The most recent news items on its…
As of this writing, shockingly enough, no one’s uploaded a video to YouTube of angry grocery workers confronting Governor Bill Ritter at a bill-signing ceremony yesterday — but expect it to pop up soon enough, adding one more smudge to the good-guy image that helped get Ritter elected in 2006…
Shape up. Today in Cafe Society: • Booze, boobs and broads: Jonesy’s EatBar staff showing skin for a good cause. • Half-price bottles at the Wine Loft today. • Who tried to blow up the Fat Cat Sports Bar? • Rock & Roll Grill goes up in smoke. • Chill:…
Denver pizza entrepreneur Mark Huebner isn’t the only Coloradan scoring points for engaging in a “Verbal Fight/Physical Fight” on television these days. Crested Butte’s Heidi Montag — along with her fluffy-haired weenie of a husband, Spencer Pratt — is a contestant on the lamely named NBC reality show I’m a…
It takes a special kind of bastard to commit such a crude, poorly planned crime as grabbing a lady’s purse on the street and running like hell. At least with a mugging or a carjacking, there’s some type of criminal/victim exchange like, Now I am going to rob you; please…
