One aspect of the Ted Haggard/Mike Jones story that hasn’t gotten much national-spotlight time is the way the tale reached the public in the first place. Jones sat down with 9News investigative reporter Paula Woodward (pictured) and Westword editor Patricia Calhoun over the past two months, but details of the…
A muddy path leads up to the equestrian center, where Batman, Spider-Man, pirates and princesses trick-or-treat through a haunted horse stable. Looking up from one of the 130 trash cans he’s been dealing with all day, 52-year-old Antonio Hernandez Acave smiles at the fun, then returns to his job. He…
When HDNet, a high-definition network largely based in Denver, announced that it would be teaming with former CBS anchor Dan Rather, questions about the slant of his soon-to-debut show, Dan Rather Reports, quickly bubbled to the surface. But Mark Cuban, the billionaire co-founder of HDNet and owner of the NBA’s…
Boulder’s Twenty Ninth Street retail district held its grand opening in mid-October, and thousands of shoppers strolled along the wide sidewalks and plazas, eyeballing the 875,000 square feet of restaurants, specialty retailers and office space. Built at the intersection of 28th Street and Arapahoe Avenue atop the ruins of the…
Forty-three states regulate private investigators in one way or another. Colorado isn’t one of them, and state officials aren’t inclined to do anything about it — despite efforts by local private eyes to push for some kind of licensing requirements. “It’s crazy,” says Rick Johnson, a Denver P.I. and president…
I cannot believe that Tina finally punched Beth on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Duel! Those minxes have been angling for a catfight for three seasons, but I figured, hey, Beth is a crazy bitch, but if there hadn’t been bloodshed by now, there never would be. And then…
He had to pay for sex? How bad is he in bed?” That’s what Denver favorite Nuclia Waste, the first drag queen ever featured in Forbes (April 2005), wondered as the news oozed out last week that Pastor Ted Haggard had been a regular of male escort Mike Jones. “I…
What’s So Funny?, Adam Cayton-Holland, October 26 And the Pest Is History “Life has meaning when you measure yourself against a worthy challenge.” As rodentia, squirrels, like the poor, shall always be among us. This said, the answers to Adam’s problem are easy: 1) Surrender. Yes, that’s right: Start feeding…
Yesterday’s election debacle in the Denver metro area was a story custom-made for television — yet somehow, at least a couple of local stations failed to adequately report it. Based on what I was able to catch between watching national matters on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, TV types in…
I witnessed the kind of chaos that would completely shatter any normal restaurant crew: dining rooms filled to double-capacity, lines stretching out the door, crowds waiting out on the sidewalks and absolutely no room to move on the floor. The Southlands outpost of Tokyo Joe’s is designed like a Ginza…
My meals at Tokyo Joe’s — which I review in the next issue — were among the least interesting things I found when I braved the wilds of the new Southlands development. The grand-opening festivities were like the Do Loung bridge sequence in Apocalypse Now, a crowded, freaked-out mess about…
Polling places are always scary places. It’s where you really learn about humanity and all its foibles. Where you realize that the future of our nation is in the hands of the guy behind you reading the initiatives for the first time and making instant decisions, the woman in front…
The final votes have been cast, long hours have been logged tallying numbers, computer glitches have been carefully covered up, and we now have the results of our all-important MyRace gubernatorial election. As you may recall, in our original piece , we promised that whichever candidate garnered the most “friend…
Jack Finlaw, the director of Denver’s Division of Theaters and Arenas, has a handsome collection of cufflinks. He should — he’s been collecting since he was a boy. “I got my first pair when I was nine or ten,” Finlaw says. “I wanted to copy my grandfather.” When he landed…
Iraq is arguably the major issue in today’s election — and while the vote in the Denver metro area is going better than the war in that far-away country, the qualitative difference isn’t as sizable as it should be. KOA’s morning show was filled with reports of problems in city…
The freefall from grace of Pastor Ted Haggard (pictured) has generated loads o’ interest in New Life, the Colorado Springs megachurch he founded. But leave it to the folks behind a Springs original dubbed the Toilet Paper to discover a theme song for the controversy. At this point, there’s no…
Court was in session Monday morning and everyone was ready for the sentencing of 19-year-old Hector Cibrian. But the guest of honor was nowhere to be found. Denver District Court Judge Christina Habas heard lawyers say that Cibrian’s family and his attorney both claim to have not heard from Cibrian…
An item in the current edition of Westword features a few words with illustrator Ralph Steadman, who makes appearances this evening at the Denver Press Club and the Denver Newspaper Agency auditorium. Turns out, though, that Steadman had more to say about his new book, The Joke’s Over, and his…
The buzz is still building about Steven Holl, the architect who will not be designing the courthouse that will be part of the new Justice Center at the Civic Center. (For Michael Paglia’s recent take on the contretemps, click here.) But on Monday night, that controversy can take a breather…
Skinnies or boot-cut jeans? Is black really the new black? Getting stylishly dressed in the morning is hard enough, but what do you wear on election day if you’re vying for Colorado’s top job? The Cat’s Pajamas decided to help Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter out with that pressing question,…
The current issue of Westword sports an item about “Hell’s Guardian Angel” (pictured), an artwork that’s slated to go up for auction on eBay at midnight on November 5. But there’s a lot more to the story of this piece — enough to have filled an entire feature article. “Avenging…
The fate of Alimata, whose story was part of a 2005 Westword profile of immigration attorney Lilian Shea (pictured), is up in the air for at least another year. A former high school philosophy teacher and published novelist, Alimata is from the Ivory Coast. She is of the Dioula class,…
