I got an e-mail bulletin this morning from Denver DA Mitch Morrissey, warning me to be aware of a Craigslist scam involving unreal deals on rental properties. I’ve moved twice in the past eighteen months and both times I have seen a number of these — the first time, I…
No, you weren’t seeing things. The Ghost of Fat Elvis, sadly, was not out shopping for new Nikes on the 16th Street Mall on Friday. That was “Gotta Get this Gig” fair, hosted by Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino in Central City. Replete with a free craps tutorials and Elvis…
The heat’s on, and suddenly the idea of sweltering outdoors just for the privilege of watching a movie for free stops sounding so swell. Sure, there’s something delightful about that general get-out-your-lawn-chairs-and-chill ambience of the outdoor movie, but how do you chill when it’s still 85 degrees? You go indoors,…
The study of neighbors through their lawn ornaments… Figure 24. Cory-Merrill: The daze of wine and roses So much time and energy is spent warning Americans about the evils of alcohol. If a yard full of malt liquor bottles in a low-income neighborhood is proof of alcohol’s iniquity, then a…
The latest trend on the Internet is local, and new media juggernaut The Huffington Post is wasting no time leading the charge into desirable local markets. Not too long ago, the site launched its first local foray with the Chicago edition of the Huffington Post (around the same time that…
Beginning on July 4, drivers on E-470 will no longer be able to pay cash for tolls. Instead, the interstate is going all electronic; those not signed up for discounted express payments will be billed via a method that traces them using snapshots of their license plates. And to inform…
See photos from the weekend in Denver, including the Hoop-it-Up tournament in Civic Center Park and various nightlife spots around town, plus a fashion show from Thursday night, at westword.com/slideshow…
Last Monday, Mark Huebner, the Denver pizza entrepreneur who’s been among the hopefuls on this season of The Bachelorette, got the heave-ho from Jillian Harris, and the anonymous scribe who pens the episode recaps for ABC, which airs the series, wasn’t exactly surprised. Here’s the key section of the latest…
Just as Colorado is belatedly trying to become friendlier to Hollywood moviemakers via the re-establishment of the state’s Office of Film, Television and Media, the most recent studio flick to be shot in these parts — Eddie Murphy’s Imagine That, which cost around $55 million to put on screen –…
Activists with the radical environmentalist outfit EarthFirst! have apparently taken a hiatus from monkeywrenching logging trucks and boiling pine cones for sustenance during three-month tree-sits to run a campaign in urban Denver against the various proposals to widen or reroute Interstate 70. So far, “High Country EarthFirst!” — a recently…
Returning home early Saturday morning after seeing a late screening of Year One (which bl-o-o-o-ows), I had my radio tuned to The Fox, because my wife only listens to music made this millennium on a semi-annual basis — and as Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever” was drawing to a close,…
The announcement last December that the Rocky Mountain News was being put up for sale came mere months before the paper’s 150th birthday — a benchmark that was to have been commemorated by a 150-part series by Mike Madigan, who spent thirty years at the tabloid, in which he highlighted…
In a May 26 blog, Bob Moore, editor of the Fort Collins Coloradoan, complained that the Denver Post had offered no substantial, self-generated coverage of a lawsuit filed by the Coloradoan, the Pueblo Chieftain and the Colorado Independent website against Colorado State University; the suit argued that CSU’s governing board…
I can’t help feeling responsible for an error in Denver Post columnist Bill Husted’s June 21 offering about the death of Elway, a legendary drug-sniffing police dog for the San Francisco Police Department. To accompany a June 10 blog about the pooch’s demise, I created a faux-gravestone using a web…
View Larger Map The Denver Police Department is investigating shootings at 12565 E. Albrook Drive, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Officers arrived at the scene around 1 a.m. to find two men suffering from gunshot wounds;…
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’. Today in Cafe Society: • Update: Pad Thai on the go…. • Toke of the town: Mary Jane’s Pizza. • First report from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen. • A free donut for dad. • Huebner off The Bachelorette, back on pizza. • Barbecue this…
The investigation into the hit-and-run death of Lilian Verdonkschot, 49, has gone through several permutations since the incident took place on May 29. Dawn Marie Gonzales was taken into custody in connection with the crime, only to be subsequently released — and afterward, the Denver Police Department representatives announced that…
A Jefferson County judge threw out objections Friday afternoon to a suicide’s controversial will, ruling that the man’s estate must go to a prominent Denver charity — even though his family contends that the charity had prior notice of his suicide plans and failed to take action. Laradon Hall, which…
As noted in a previous blog, “Doing the Math on Christo’s Arkansas River Wrap,” Colorado art mavens and opinion leaders are just crrraaaazy about Over the River, the proposal by husband-and-wife artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude to suspend six miles of silvery fabric over the river between Canon City and Salida…
Our daily blog round-up. Send tips. New fiscal forecasts for the state are due in Monday. Anyone have some Paxil? (Face the State) Who’s that new tight end? Oh, that’s the third-string quarterback. (Mile High Report) Legends of Tom Tancredo’s douchebaggery continue to grow. (Colorado Independent)…
I’m pretty sure when DARPA was inventing the Internet back in the late ’60s, organizing squirt gun fights and documenting them via tools such as YouTube and blogs were exactly what they had in mind (well, that and porn). Now Denver residents can fully reap the fruits of what DARPA…
The Denver Post’s staff is still buzzing about Bill Husted’s interview with editor Greg Moore as part of the columnist’s weekly Bar & Grilled feature, and no wonder. Unlike, say, former Rocky Mountain News editor John Temple, Moore has never seemed that interested in pushing himself into his own pages…
