Ahoy. May we interest you in a fresh serving of blogs? Cafe Society spends happy hour at Oceanaire. It’s an alternative to the recently closed Ocean, whose former employees don’t have a raft of compliments for their ex-boss. Thank goodness the Candy Girls deal with sweeter stuff: M&M’s Premiums. Also,…
My new jersey. Okay, so I’ve whined. And I’ve moaned. And I’ve generally grumbled about how few Denver Broncos stars there are and how, because of that, I wouldn’t know which jersey to buy this football season if I were to buy one at all. And now it’s time for…
Pat Bowlen back in the day. Technically speaking, Canadian millionaire Edgar Kaiser sold his interest in the Denver Broncos to Pat Bowlen in 1984. But it’s been hard to let go — especially as the team’s value has soared from the $60 million or so that Bowlen paid for it…
Dean Singleton. An October 3 Denver Post editorial headlined “11th Hour Deal Puts Colorado First” praises a coalition of business and labor leaders for reaching a bizarre agreement to pull four initiatives — Amendments 53, 55, 56 and 57 — from the November ballot. But there’s no shortage of vitriol…
Transportation panel co-chair Doug Aden. Governor Bill Ritter’s Transportation panel recently launched a five-week, 25-meeting community outreach effort to raise awareness about Colorado’s transportation funding crisis, and engage the public in a debate about possible solutions. At least that’s what the press release said. Since the biggest roadblock standing in…
Dad? Travis Henry has problems. Lots of problems. The former Denver Broncos running back ran himself right out of the NFL – and his lucrative salary – after getting busted last year for smoking marijuana (he had signed a five-year, $22.5 million contract, but ended up playing only one year…
Kevin Corke. Following last night’s debate, NBC presented a “Truth Squad” segment aimed at determining what vice-presidential hopefuls Sarah Palin and Joe Biden said that was varying degrees of wrong — and the person doing the judging was none other than Kevin Corke, who has executed what may be the…
Lisa Kennedy. The downsizing of newspaper staffs has decimated the ranks of locally based film reviewers across the country, Denver included. Neither the Rocky Mountain News nor Westword currently use area scribes to analyze flicks, meaning that the Denver Post’s Lisa Kennedy is the last fulltime Denver movie critic with…
If you were this hot, we’d let you cheat, too. When the St. Pauli Girl, the six-foot-tall Russian vixen charged with promoting St. Pauli beer, needed to shamelessly promote her product through a friendly game of beer pong, she called Westword’s Adam Cayton-Holland, because who the hell else would you…
Brian Griese during his Broncos tenure. This weekend, the Denver Broncos take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are in the desperately sad situation of believing that quarterback Brian Griese gives them the best chance to win. Broncos fans have been here before — from 1999 to 2002 specifically (and…
“I eat candidates like you for lunch…” Content? We can help you out when it comes to both meanings of the word… Cafe Society leads with Jason Sheehan’s guide to the care and feeding of political volunteers. That’s followed by the evaporation of one 8 Rivers, a recommendation about where…
Click here or on the cartoon thumbnail to see a larger image; it’ll take a few seconds. Editor’s note: In addition to the return of Hip Tip, Kenny Be’s Worst Case Scenario will also appear regularly in The Latest Word. Here’s the first installment. As Mary Poppins cheerfully intoned, “For…
Nearing Book Buffs’ last chapter. Like World War II veterans, used bookstores are getting harder to find — especially stores with a quality inventory spanning classic and modern literature. With Amazon, eBay, AbeBooks and other online services offering a virtual clearinghouse of good reads, the whole experience of browsing the…
Shoo, cat. A sidebar to an article introducing three new comic strips to the Rocky Mountain News mentions in passing that the tabloid has bid farewell to a trio of older offerings: “Herman,” “Hagar the Horrible” and — most notable of all — “Garfield.” Oh, how the times have changed…
Travis Henry when he was running from defensive linemen, not the law. Former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry’s arrest yesterday on federal cocaine charges doesn’t exactly put him in exclusive company. Indeed, he’s the second high-profile Broncos ball carrier in the past couple of years to be busted in…
Richard Scudder. With only about a month to go until the presidential election, local media observers have begun speculating about who the Denver Post will endorse, and for good reason. In 2004, the paper touted George W. Bush in a backhanded, convoluted piece that ran alongside a salvo by two…
Dan Savage. I get more letters at Savage Love than I could ever hope to respond to personally, and infinitely more letters than I could ever hope to answer. Still, there’s really no secret to getting your letter into Savage Love: I just have to find your problem somewhat interesting,…
Jon Caldara mugging for the camera. Once upon a time, this very newspaper named previous Westword profile subject Jon Caldara the city’s “Best Media Manipulator” — and one reason he so richly deserved this honor is his willingness to make an ass of himself in the name of his cause…
What a sap… A lawsuit filed by a teenager against the Denver Police Department could have an impact on officers’ use of an antiquated weapon. Fourteen-year-old Anthony Fernandez alleges that he suffered serious spine and head injuries during an arrest in April when Officer Thomas Bogart struck him with a…
Don’t forget to pack your wallet. Our friends at the Aspen Daily News have been doing some calculating — and the digits they’ve come up with are capable of giving a chill to anyone planning a quick ski trip to Aspen this winter. According to writer Andrew Travers, most visitors…
On September 10, the City of Baghdad posted a notice on its website announcing hearings at which the public can weigh in on future uses for al-Zawra park. The first order of business: Design proposals for a 650-foot-high Ferris wheel, which would be the tallest in the world — and…
Aspen is about as far as you can get from Baghdad. There are no suicide bombings, no power outages, food shortages or military checkpoints in this upscale enclave. But there is a skatepark, and Llewellyn Werner points to it as he explains why his project has the potential to transform…
