I concluded the inaugural edition of Basebrawl, our stretch-run trash-talking faceoff with the Giants lovers at SF Weekly, one of Westword’s sister papers, with these lines: “The Giants begin a three-game series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles tonight, and this time Monday, the boys by the Bay will be…
It was a solid weekend for the local costume industry, with lingerie football, a saucy drag-queen show and Oktoberfest. See photos of them all at westword.com/slideshow…
At 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Colorado Court of Appeals, oral arguments will be presented in the matter of Stacy Clendenin, a medical-marijuana patient and provider who’s appealing her 2006 conviction for felony possession and distribution of ganja — and the folks at the Colorado 420 Coaltion, an organization devoted…
The Federal Communications Commission has left it up to local districts to monitor the content on BusRadio, a service providing music for school buses that’s used by several local districts. The most controversial aspect of BusRadio involves its airing of commercials — and its website certainly pimps products, too, including…
The Denver Post’s front-page blurbs about the Broncos’ 27-6 victory over the Browns yesterday appear beneath the line “With a Capital D” — the point being that Denver’s defense stifled Cleveland throughout the afternoon. But that’s not particularly difficult. As commentators Bill Macatee and Steve Beuerlein noted during the broadcast,…
Our own Joe Tone thinks the Newsweek cover headline “The Case for Killing Granny” is evidence that the folks at the mag have lost it, and maybe they have. After all, author Evan Thomas makes a Colorado reference in illustrating the healthcare disparities (according to him, the average cost of…
Listened to Colorado Public Radio on the drive to the office this morning, and at around 6:20 a.m., immediately after a lengthy report about President Barack Obama’s five talk-show appearances yesterday, accompanied by analysis from Cokie “No Relation” Roberts, CPR’s Mike Lamp popped up to tease… a story about Obama’s…
View Larger MapA fight took place around midnight near Hinkley High School, located on the 1200 block of North Chambers Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Upon their arrival, Aurora Police found a man suffering from stab…
A blog last Wednesday noted that Aurora-based Najibullah Zazi had taken an unusual tack in dealing with allegations of complicity in a New York-based terror plot, lawyering up and making himself available to limited media interviews. But while this may have seemed canny from a PR perspective (the Denver Post’s…
Last week’s Newsweek cover, with the tagline “Is Your Baby Racist,” was worth a good laugh. But after they followed it up with “The Case for Killing Granny,” I’m starting to think they might have hired a drunken monkey — or, worse, a consultant — to design their covers. If…
Boy, oh, boy. Today in Cafe Society: • Top ten ways America ruined pizza. • Garbanzo Mediterranean Grill opens today in Park Meadows. • The gang’s all beer! • Strings serves up an unbeatable beet recipe. • Oooh la la! Cliff Young is back, and opening a steakhouse at the…
Hello, sports fans. My name is Homer Duggins and I’ve been a monster Denver devotee for, like, my whole life! When I was a kid, I totally asked my parents to paint my room blue and green for the Denver Zephyrs, and I wore black and gold to school every…
We read local blogs so you don’t have to, although you should, ’cause many of them don’t suck. Turning trash into electricity: Yet another way that life imitates Back to the Future. (Colorado Independent) Malcom Glenn doesn’t think you should be surprised by Obama’s endorsement of Michael Bennet. (Which you…
Government 2.0 is just around the corner. This week, the White House announced the launch of the government’s very own app store, a place for various arms of the fedeal government to get their assorted IT needs met. It’s an effort to streamline and lower the cost of said IT…
According to Channel 7, Denver Post columnist Mike Littwin won’t suffer another sleepless night worrying that federal-investigation subject Najibullah Zazi might have no involvement whatsoever in activities related to terrorism. Moments ago, the station posted a story asserting that Zazi “has admitted he has ties to al-Qaeda and is in…
Here are just a few of our favorite things to do while the sun still shines: A good place to start is with something nice to eat, and you’ll get your wish at Sabor, a public beer, wine and food tasting hosted by the Denver Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, in…
The world doesn’t hand us many absolutes. Don’t stare directly into the massive fireball in the sky. Make babies. Never buy fewer than eight Washington apples at one time. And, of course, if you happen to know enough about rocks to teach geology at a large institution of higher learning,…
“Channel 4 to Fight Citation Against Cameraman Covering Zazi Terror-Investigation Story” looks into the case of Glenn McReynolds, who was handcuffed and cited for failure to obey an order yesterday after asking why he couldn’t wait in the lobby of the Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse until terror-probe subject Najibbullah…
Yesterday, Channel 4 photographer Glenn McReynolds went to the Byron G. Rogers Federal Courthouse, at 1929 Stout Street, to cover the continuing interrogation of Najibbullah Zazi, a DIA shuttle driver at the center of a federal terrorism probe. Instead, he became part of the story when he was handcuffed and…
A recent blog item featured several photos of the black helicopters of Yoder, which have been buzzing Shellie Kirby’s ranch in the southeast corner of El Paso County for the past three years. Kirby has filed several complaints with Fort Carson, the National Guard, Peterson Air Force Base and other…
No denying that Internet multi-millionaire turned Congressman Jared Polis is a believer in new technology. During the past day or so, his office has posted videos on YouTube in which he can be seen talking on the floor of the U.S. House about the personal healthcare stories of real Coloradans…
My fiancee and I are looking for a place to live in Denver. Nothing fancy, just a one- or two-bedroom rental, hopefully with a dishwasher and a closet big enough for her shoes, which is to say a closet the size of a Chrysler minivan. Yesterday, she stumbled on an…
