A few weeks ago, my little sister marveled at all the Obama signs around Denver. She grew up here, same exact house as me, literally right down the hall, but has since moved to Colorado Springs because she is crazy. Well, not crazy so much as lingering in a post-Colorado…
“Open Secrets,” Lisa Rab, October 9 Shelter Skelter The story you published about asylum-seekers sucks. Write an article about the number of veterans returning from the field of battle with half their brains blown out and living on the streets, then talk to me. These so-called asylum-seekers need to leave…
Dennis Leonard, the new vice president and general manager of Channel 31, is a salesman in the old-fashioned sense of the word. Although he’s only been on the job for a few short weeks, he seems to know the name of every person he encounters at the Fox affiliate’s mammoth…
You’ve probably seen the RapidScreen vans at off-ramps and busy intersections around town. Maybe you even benefited after one of them scanned the emissions from your car’s tailpipe as you drove by; anyone from nine participating counties who passes the RapidScreen test twice within ten months gets to avoid a…
Pat Craig walks along a fenceline of his 240-acre spread outside Keenesburg, visiting with some of his latest arrivals. He calls to them in a falsetto, much higher than his normal voice, and they respond with grunts, snorts and roars. “Yuma! Hey, Yuma! How ya doin’, boy?” A three-year-old male…
Jared Boller. Bring on the blogs. Today in Cafe Society: • Shaking it up with cocktailer Jared Boller. • Jonathan Shikes takes a bite out of Denver Ted’s. • Teague Bohlen weighs in on an ad campaign for high-fructose corn syrup. Today in Backbeat Online: • A Q&A with Diplo…
On Monday, when Sarah Palin arrived for a speech in Grand Junction, protesters tried to stop her motorcade as it rolled down North Avenue, the town’s main drag — and they got to eat some asphalt for their trouble. Witness the mayhem below…
In “Pat Craig has a Tiger by the Tale,” an article in this week’s issue of Westword, reporter Alan Prendergast explores one of the country’s top carnivore sanctuaries, the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg. For a view inside the sanctuary — including footage of some damn cute animals that could…
The dirty truth. As reported in this week’s Off-Limits column, Colorado’s RapidScreen emissions project has scanned hundreds of thousands of metro-area tailpipes at some of the busiest off ramps and roadways since 2003. The goal of the program, which was outsourced to Envirotest Systems Corporation, is to increase the efficiency…
Dog days. Dogs are annoying. They whine, beg, bite, bark and poop. They stink and shed and jump on your guests. They have to be walked and yelled at and taken to the vet. Most pet owners allege that dogs are worth all that trouble, however, and judging by the…
Lynda Hilburn. The Vampire Chick Lit crowd has welcomed new author Lynda Hilburn into the fold. She has penned two books on vampires: last years The Vampire Shrink and its follow-up, Dark Harvest, which was released earlier this month. Hilburn, a real life licensed psychotherapist, will discuss why women love…
The early voting center at 20th and Wadsworth. Like so many Coloradans, I had such unpleasant voting experiences the last two elections that this time around, I decided to do my civic duty well in advance of the first Tuesday in November. I requested a mail-in ballot and received it…
Sarah Palin in an interview for 9News’ Your Show. Sarah Palin’s interview this week for 9News’s Your Show, which can be sampled below, includes a bit where she’s answering questions from grade-schoolers. One of them asks what the Vice President does, and Palin answers that (among other things) the Veep…
The unemployment line is a lot better dressed after the firing of Mike Nolan. It is, it seems, that time of year again, when a beloved one’s continued failure leads to panic among the masses, and that panic leads verbal diarrhea voluminous enough to sink the QM2. No, I’m not…
Are there any more Baileys at home like you and Boss? As if the news about the Denver Broncos wasn’t bad enough already, now we hear that the two best players on the team’s hideous defense, Champ and Boss Bailey, are both hurt; Champ’s on the shelf for four to…
Those lips are made for baby-smooching. The plan was simple. Take my 16-month-old son to the Joe Biden rally in Commerce City yesterday, so the vice presidential candidate could plant one on him. That’s the American dream, right? Getting your baby kissed by some utter stranger in the name of…
You can unpack now, Eleanor. Editor’s note: To get you in the mood for ballot-casting, The Latest Word is kicking off each weekday between now and the November 4 election with Buttoned Up, a look at political buttons from my family’s extensive collection… Lawyer and utility executive Wendell Wilkie didn’t…
This is how the 1st Avenue Hotel looked 91 years ago. Reading is fun-da-mental. Today in Cafe Society: • Counting up the cash Jesse Morreale paid for the 1st Avenue Hotel. • Westword restaurant-reviewing alum John Kessler shares memories of brew and beaver at the Wynkoop Brewing Co. • A…
Wouldn’t you have liked to have one of these in 2007? What were you doing one year ago today? I certainly remember what I was up to — frantically trying to buy tickets online to see the Boston Red Sox play the unlikely and amazing Colorado Rockies in their first-ever…
Those who attended Sarah Palin’s campaign appearance in Loveland yesterday were among the first to see the latest attempt by the folks at ProgressNowAction to tie John McCain’s candidacy to the legacy of George W. Bush: the Hug mobile. The display commemorates an awkward photo of McCain and Bush embracing…
The cover illustration for “Open Secrets.” The eleven-year battle of one Ugandan immigrant to win asylum in Denver hit a roadblock last week when an attorney for the local office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) appealed his case for a third time. Earlier this month, Westword brought you “Open…
