I s that a light at the end of the tunnel or an oncoming train? That’s the question Gina McAfee may have been asking herself Monday. McAfee, who is in charge of collecting public comments on the plan to redevelop Union Station and the land around it, noticed that most…
“Lifer,” Adam Cayton-Holland, and “Bursting Their Bubble,” Sean Cronin, September 25 Real Life Thank you for giving attention to the hot issue of “personhood,” as the lifers would like to define it in “Lifer.” Amendment 48 has grave implications for all people in Colorado and carries the potential for a…
David Berman of Silver Jews. A new month; a new shortcut. Backbeat Online offers music for your eyes: a Q&A with Silver Jews’ David Berman, a This Just In concert update, word of a new locally oriented show on Alice/105.9 FM, and a slideshow of Horse the Band at the…
Will it go ’round in circles? Maybe you’ve heard what has been dubbed the “Ferris wheel” radio attack ad targeting John McCain. “Well, the Iraqi government is finally spending some of its $79 billion surplus from oil,” begins a scratchy voice over the sound of carnival music. “Where’s the money…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has arrested former Broncos running back Travis Henry on cocaine-distribution charges, and the agent in the case makes some damning accusations, including that Henry was threatening to kill his drug runner if he didn’t recoup $40,000 that he was allegedly owed. If you’re wondering why a…
“Hey! I hear they’re building us a skatepark!” In this week’s Westword cover story, Jared Jacang Maher reports on California businessman Llewellyn Werner, who’s decided that the next logical locale for a skaterboarders’ paradise is… Baghdad! It’s a bizarre tale of entrepreneurship. But skaters — and, yes, they do skate…
Jeff Harris. In this September 27 More Messages blog, Byron Grandy, who was named Channel 7’s station manager in July, talked about hiring Jeff Harris to fill his old gig as news director. But Harris, an executive producer for special projects at 7News from 2000 until 2004, is more than…
See Renee’ Gautreaux’s wedding photos at westword.com/slideshow. When it comes to weddings, that whole church-and-tuxedo thing is so passé. To get hitched with style, take some pointers from Denverites Erin Siegel and Brad Evans, who tied the knot last Wednesday night at the Greek amphitheater at Civic Center Park, cheered…
James Dobson. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that Focus on the Family plans to lay off or reassign 46 workers due to planned changes in the way it distributes its merchandise. That’s not a huge number, given Focus’s overall workforce of 1,200, and neither is it unprecedented; as the Gazette…
Get the point? A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my troubles registering to vote in this fine city. After naively participating in a registration drive while waiting in line for ice cream at Liks (what, you can think of a better time?), I then wondered why my paperwork…
The other Paige Green in Gory Gory Hallelujah. Plenty of media types, including 9News sportscaster Drew Soicher, announced that the Paige Green whom Denver Broncos legend John Elway intends to marry boasts film credits such as Leave It!, Mercy for the Innocent and Ray of Darkness, a 2005 flick whose…
Dana Perino at the podium. Colorado-reared Dana Perino, the White House press secretary (and previous Westword profile subject), co-stars in today’s installment of Doonesbury, and in a neat bit of typecasting, she’s cast as an icy villainess. Whoda thunk it? Over the past week or so, the Doonesbury plotline has…
Closed for the season — and forever. Back in 2004, in that year’s Best of Denver issue, Westword trumpeted the “Best Movie News for the Nostalgic” — a reprieve for the Cinderella Twin drive-in near the intersection of Highway 285 and Santa Fe, which had been marked for destruction in…
3Oh!3 strip down. Our blog inventory is going through the roof. Backbeat Online is full to bursting with content, including a couple of live reviews that slipped past yesterday’s Shortcut — Smaug at PT’s Club Inferno and a roundup from the Summit Jazz Weekend. These items are joined by fresh…
Raj Chohan standing in front of an image of… Raj Chohan. As noted in this September 26 More Messages blog, Channel 4 reporter Raj Chohan, whose “Reality Check” series calculates the truthiness in political ads, wound up being featured in the very sort of commercial he typically critiques — a…
Kenny Be’s Hip Tip, a longtime staple of Westword, took a hiatus while he created his massive Delegating Denver series — check out all 56 installments here. Now it’s back, and you’ll be able to find it weekly in the pages of the paper as well as on The Latest…
“Being tossed into the street is keen!” No real good can come out of the economy violently puking its intestines out and then dying in a broken heap in the gutter, unless, of course, you’re an opportunistic vulture of a real estate company. Enter the McCoy Repo Home Bus Tours,…
Fashion times three. Editor’s note: The Cat’s Pajamas, our fashion blog, is taking a cat nap. But fear not: Some of your favorite CP features will pop up on The Latest Word from time to time — including TaRosa Jacobs’ Secondhand Sartorialism. Here’s her latest installment. When I was in…
Tom Tancredo, bailout buddy. For at least one day in election year America, partisanship didn’t rule. The muddy moral oozing out of Capitol Hill in the wake of the failed $700 billion Wall Street bailout is that individual survival always trounces party allegiance. Beneath the inevitable finger-pointing between entrenched House…
That’s one way to Maxim-ize your assets. We know — the ongoing fiscal crisis has got America in a panic. But learning about the latest dismal developments is a lot less painful when they’re delivered by a babelicious business reporter of the sort that populate cable news nets these days…
The September 30 headlines for the Rocky and the Post. Whenever the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News make similar editorial decisions — like the day last year that both papers ran nearly identical photos of Colorado Rockies catcher Yorvit Torrealba — readers who don’t quite understand the particulars…
DJ Chonz in an image from KS-107.5’s website. As program director for hip-hop hits purveyor KS-107.5, Cat Collins was largely responsible for transforming the station from a chronic underperformer to a perennial ratings powerhouse — usually one of the two or three most listened-to signals in the city. But rather…
