When the owners of the the Rocky Mountain News revealed that the tabloid would close in late February, Dean Singleton, the Denver Post’s publisher and head of MediaNews Group, announced that he hoped to cajole 80 percent of Rocky subscribers to sign up with his paper — a number that…
Last night, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette, Duane “Dog” Chapman, aka Dog the Bounty Hunter, star of a reality show on A&E and at least one quasi-tribute in Westword, was in pursuit of 35-year-old Hoang Nguyen, whose bond had been revoked, when Nguyen took a shot at him and…
A bill to abolish the death penalty in Colorado passed the House by a single vote today. HB 1274, which would use the cost savings of eliminating the death penalty to fund a cold case unit, is on its way to the state Senate. The vote was 33-32, just as…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is live blogging the Greeley trial of Allen Andrade, the man charged with murdering Angie Zapata, a transgender teen. Look for updates here — and click these links to catch up on Asmar’s coverage of the proceedings on April 16, April 17 and April 20, as…
As you were. Today in Cafe Society: • Boulder’s renegade lunch lady. • The Kitchen celebrates its fifth birthday. • Samba Brasil Cafe & Grill dances to a June beat. • Five stars at 30,000 feet. • Biker Jim’s Gourmet Dogs and the Waffle Brothers to serve food at the…
Elsewhere: See a video from Denver’s 4/20 rally and read a dispatch from the Boulder version. When I left Denver’s 4/20 Rally in Civic Center Park yesterday, I was confused — and not for the reasons you would suspect. I spent five hours of a gorgeous Mile High day meandering…
Our daily Denver blog round-up. Send tips. How do Democrats see Ritter’s reign? (Colorado Pols) Bob Schaffer is either stereotyping Latinos, shamelessly shilling product, wisely courting the Hispanic vote or… doing all three at once! (Colorado Independent) Crocs: Are they on their last comfortably supported leg? (5280)…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In an e-mail exchange yesterday, local journalist Dave Cullen, author of the well-reviewed book Columbine, declined to talk for a blog about Oprah Winfrey’s last-minute decision not to air a pre-taped program about shootings at the school ten…
This is one of those tricky situations. You know someone who is a total fashion disaster — we all do — and you don’t want to let her know you know. And yet, this is your big chance to do something nice for her while paradoxically outing her poor fashion…
Flowery dresses, drum circles, nut butter, bubbles, climb trees, passing out, so much weed, planes, just doob it, people. Those are all the notes I managed to take while on assignment blowing off a staff meeting to take in Boulder’s version of 4/20. Campus police estimated that 8,000 to 10,000…
A rezoning application submitted by local TV and radio personality Tom “The Troubleshooter” Martino was introduced as a proposed ordinance to Denver City Council last night. Martino is a managing member of a group of investors called Welton Street Properties, which owns several large parcels at the intersection of Welton…
After channels 7, 9 and 20 converted from analog to digital broadcasting on April 16, many local viewers who thought they’d adequately prepared for the switch discovered serious reception issues, usually through no fault of their own; read the January Message column “The Digital Conversion Will Leave Some Coloradans in…
The much-watched board of directors election for Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest power co-op, wrapped up this weekend, and those who saw the race as a referendum on longtime IREA general manager Stan Lewandowski and his conservative energy ideas are eagerly awaiting the outcome. Of the three board…
For photos from yesterday’s afternoon ode to herb in Civic Center Park, see slideshows from Joshua Duplechian and J. Knight (NSFW). Or, to smell the smoke for yourself, watch the video above…
I suppose we at Westword should feel partly responsible for the jarringly self-satirizing promotion currently airing on Channel 2, which was recently rebranded as “The Deuce” — a term that, as we pointed out, is definied by one entry in the online Urban Dictionary as meaning “a crap measuring 2…
As a resident of the metro area near Columbine High School, I found the tenth anniversary coverage of the shootings to be particularly unpleasant — although not nearly as bad as it was, I’m sure, for relatives or friends of those who were killed, injured or directly traumatized by Eric…
Here’s a video that should get sports fans’ day off on the right foot: a montage of Chauncey Billups three balls from the Denver Nuggets’ game-one rout of the New Orleans Hornets. It’s a clip calculated to make your every swish come true…..
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is live blogging the Greeley trial of Allen Andrade, the man charged with murdering Angie Zapata, a transgender teen. Look for updates here — and click these links to catch up on Asmar’s coverage of the proceedings on day one, April 16, and day two, April…
Smoke ’em if you’ve got ’em. Today in Cafe Society: • Smother love: Happy 100th, Stella Cordova. • Eat here now! Do good, eat well, smell stinky cheese. • Milking It: Banana Nut Cheerios. • Ask the Critic: The art of the Man Date. • Biker Jim now takes credit…
Wouldn’t you like to e-mail tips about great local blogs? Hope so. Ski season is on its way out. And it was not a good one. (5280) Dems urge sentencing reform, but GOP doesn’t want to let criminals “in our homes.” Might there be something in the middle? (Colorado Pols)…
The ease with which the Denver Nuggets pulled away from the New Orleans Hornets during the second half of last night’s 113-84 playoff victory certainly bodes well for the Nugs in the series — although game two, scheduled for Wednesday night, remains key. Still, Hornets star Chris Paul remains dangerous,…
