Are you ready for some football? If not, get ready, because your Denver Broncos take on the dreaded Oakland Raiders tonight in the 2011-2012 season-opening Monday Night Football nightcap. To help, we’ve collected five crazy Denver Broncos fan videos, including the bizarre “It’s Denver Broncos Football Time!” chant, a wacky…
On Saturday, a day before he visited the 9/11 Freedom Rally at Dick’s, photographer Brandon Marshall checked out New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat 2011, a bike ride that drew a crowd estimated at 10,000 pedallers, many of them outfitted in hilarious costumes. Check out an assortment of the funniest…
The University Park turban squash is a colorful heirloom that inspired the design of University of Denver’s Chamberlin Observatory back in 1889. Just as the observatory helps students look deep into the night sky, the buttercup-type squash is better for gazing than grazing…..
Is the Colorado Department of Transportation looking at hiking taxes on gasoline and electric cars? That’s the implication from an Independence Institute report, which quotes from CDOT e-mails. But spokeswoman Stacey Stegman says there’s no proposal yet, and one is unlikely this year…
When powerful development forces in metro Denver conspire to drain more water from already depleted Western Slope rivers, there’s only one thing for a self-respecting environmentalist to do: Grab your gear and head to Boulder for The World’s Largest Kayak Drum Circle. At least, that’s what protesters hope a large…
The Denver-based online shopping website ShopAtHome.com recently identified Boulder as the least frugal city in the U.S. based on coupon usage, or lack thereof, by the people who live there. One reader sees plenty of flaws in this measurement method…
Plenty of events in the Denver area commemorated the tenth anniversary of 9/11 — and that’s not even counting the couple who may have spurred a security incident by trying to join the Mile High Club in an airplane bathroom. The 9/11 Freedom Rally at Dick’s Sporting Goods park was…
Dolci Gryshayeva might have grown up to be a world-class gymnast. After all, both her grandparents excelled at the sport. But the two-year-old never got the chance, allegedly dying at the hands of Keith Ruiz, her mom’s boyfriend. Lakewood Police spokesman Steve Davis calls the case “one of the more…
Inspired by this week’s cover story, “Kink of the Jungle,” Westword’s crack team of researchers got to thinking about the collective hang-ups, preferences and opinions of related to the sex lives of Coloradans — and we’ve put together a survey to learn more. Don’t worry, it’s anonymous. We’re interested in…
Despite the excellent first impression made by new CU-Boulder coach Jon Embree, the Buffs seemed bound for a beyond-mediocre season in its first Pac-12 campaign — an impression reinforced by its desultory game one loss versus Hawaii. But while CU fell to Cal 36-33 on Saturday, they offered plenty of…
That sucking sound you hear out at Denver International Airport isn’t the arrival of the long-awaited, ever-elusive direct route to Tokyo. No, it’s the sound of tens of millions of dollars in “concepting” and design fees vanishing into the wild blue yonder, as architect Santiago Calatrava bows out of the…
Last night, the Department of Environmental Health board approved Denver’s first legal syringe exchange, which will be run by the Colorado AIDS Project. But the Harm Reduction Action Center, which serves injection drug users and has been at the forefront of legalizing syringe exchanges in Colorado, was not approved…
Hunger Free Colorado opened a satellite office today at the Save-a-Lot at 15220 East Sixth Avenue in Aurora. Why is the project so needed?…
After five years at Westword, I’m bidding you all adieu (at least for now). I’m taking a leave to work on the Humor Code, a book project in which I travel around the world with a humor professor in search of what makes things funny. Crazy? Yes. Foolhardy? Possibly. A…
Look, we know that real-life robbers are often lovers of the cinema. That’s why they dress in fanciful and elaborate costumes, à la Point Break (ex-Presidents), The Town (gruesome nuns), 3000 Miles to Graceland (Elvises) and, most recently, 30 Minutes or Less (apes). But now it seems that no self-respecting…
These Denver blog posts may ideal pets. Mile High Report’s Sayre Bedinger outlines a scenario under which Adam Weber would be the only current Broncos quarterback to be on next year’s roster. South Stand’s Colin D shares info about a tribute to fallen former Avs players. Denver Egotist shares Kegs…
The Denver Post is cutting its ties with Righthaven, a Las Vegas firm that files copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of newspapers — a decision that may have been influenced by bad PR from the outfit’s targeting of Brian Hill, a chronically ill, autistic hobby blogger. However, Righthaven has won…
Careful inspection of Denver’s Missing Cat and Found Kitty posters reveal hidden clues about a pussy’s private life. The sideways glare of the “found kitty” pictured above hints that the pose may be forced, and that the finders are more interested in ransom than a reunion…..
It’s been a dangerous summer for bicyclists in the Boulder area. Eugene Howrey, 73, was killed after being hit by a truck in June — and yesterday, Amy Howard, Jane McConnell and Susan Graves were all injured (Howard critically) after an encounter with an SUV. But a spokeswoman for the…
Yesterday, we shared a collection of weird classroom “discussion posters” from 1973, featuring slogans ranging from “You’re O.K., and I’m O.K.” to “What is the purpose?” One reader’s response to the gallery was definitely appropriate to the era…
The 9/11 events being memorialized on Sunday, ten years after they shook the world, didn’t take place in Colorado. But our state has no shortage of connections to terrorists — and not only because plenty of them are housed at Florence’s Supermax facility. Below, we look at the most prominent…
In its first announcement about the seizure of more than 3,000 marijuana plants from a plot in Pike National Forest, an ultra-popular place for illegal grows (more on that later), the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office estimated that the weed was worth $900,000. However, that was later altered to $9 million…
