Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario: 2009 Summer camp guide, part 2
Completely updated summer programs have evolved to offer children a wide variety of specialized educational activities that reflect current social trends……
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These days, the Twitter backlash is powerful and vociferous. Today, a colleague of ours coined a new term — “twate” — which means, “To have disdain for anything having to do with Twitter.” But while there are many, many uses of Twitter that are worth, ahem, twatting, we’ve discovered one…
Latest MediaNews Group moneymaking scheme: printing newsletters in people’s homes
Even as journalists debate about whether or not E.W. Scripps executives pinned their hopes for the Rocky Mountain News’ survival on Denver Post owner Dean Singleton’s death, MediaNews Group, Singleton’s company, is moving ahead with an unusual effort to monetize its content. As detailed in “MediaNews to Begin Customized Printing…
John Temple: We didn’t wish death upon Dean Singleton
It didn’t take former Rocky Mountain News editor, publisher and president John Temple long to react to a startling assertion in 5280’s intriguing account of the Rocky’s death — that execs at E.W. Scripps, the tabloid’s owner, thought the paper might survive if MediaNews Group CEO and Denver Post publisher…
Update: Education News Colorado teachers feature represents site’s ambitions
The Education News Colorado website aspires to provide a depth of coverage long associated with newspapers — which is why the folks there hired education reporter Nancy Mitchell in March following the closure of the Rocky Mountain News. This week, Mitchell returns the favor via “Numbers Show Teacher Evaluation System…
Judge gives inventor three years — and his company a death sentence
One of the strangest sentencing hearings ever to unfold in Denver’s federal court came to an end Wednesday, after five days of often-bewildering testimony. Convicted last year on 23 counts of fraud and failure to file tax returns, alternative fuel pioneer Bill Orr was facing up to twenty years in…
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Ball busters: Five Coloradans who should get the first batch of male birth-control meds
We here at Westword are quite excited about the possibility of male birth-control meds — mostly because we’ll then get to take all the rubbers people no longer need and wear them on our heads like that old “condom hat” routine Howie Mandel used to do. Seriously, that bit never…
Q&A with James Toback, director of Tyson
James Toback’s career seems to suffer from bipolar disorder. In the beginning, he was treated as a wunderkind thanks to his screenplay for The Gambler, a tough-nosed 1974 James Caan feature, not to mention his 1978 directorial debut, Fingers, a Harvey Keitel vehicle he also scripted. But despite the admiration…
The 5280 take on the Rocky Mountain News‘s demise
During the months between the December announcement that E.W. Scripps had put the Rocky Mountain News up for sale and the February date when the plug was pulled once and for all, as everyone knew it would be, Maximillian Potter, executive editor of 5280 magazine, watched and wrote. Potter was…
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No Doubt about the Nuggets loss last night
I faced a dilemma when it came to the Nuggets’ crucial game five against the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA’s Western Conference finals last night. For weeks, I’d been scheduled to attend (and critique) the No Doubt-Paramore concert at Fiddler’s Green alongside my daughter Lora, a basketball fan just…
Denver Police targeting a new $8.5 million shooting range in Central Platte Valley
Man, pretty soon, the Central Platte Valley will have everything an upper-class urbanite could want: a mass-transit hub, a dog park, more fancy lofts and a brand spanking new firing range, where Denver cops will learn how to shoot suspected criminals. The planned location for the campus-like facility, which will…
Seven unanswered questions about the trial of Angie Zapata’s killer
On April 22, Allen Andrade, an unemployed 32-year-old who had spent time in prison for a string of non-violent crimes, was convicted of first-degree murder for beating to death eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata of Greeley. A striking beauty, Angie was born a boy named Justin David Zapata but had been living…
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Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV
This season’s American Idol has sung its last note and Dancing With the Stars has taken a bow, but two more reality shows — with real Colorado connections — are about to ride the airwaves. Pitchmen is a Discovery Channel series that pairs infomercial king Billy Mays, who made his…
From the week of May 28, 2009
“The Giveaway,” Alan Prendergast, May 14 Give and Let Die My definition of a coroner or forensics examiner is an official responsible for investigating deaths, particularly some of those happening under unusual circumstances, and determining the cause of death. Based on that brief explanation, what in the world was Laradon…
Who was Angie Zapata? Her murderer’s trial didn’t tell the whole story.
Those who followed last month’s trial of the man who murdered eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata know a lot about what her life was like on July 14, 15 and 16 of last year. They know how two of her sisters found her on July 17, lying on the carpeted living-room floor…
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The Westword.com blog shortcut, May 27 edition
Will you be game tonight? Today in Backbeat Online: • Last Night: Jane’s Addiction and Nine Inch Nails at Fiddler’s Green. • An extended conversation with Tim Pourbaix. Today in Cafe Society: • Eight is enough at chef’s table dinner at Strings. • Bucking to visit every Starbucks. • Mary…
Video: Five people arrested during yesterday’s Prop 8 protest
Soulforce in Colorado, a Denver-based nonprofit dedicated to ending oppression against gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people, has posted a YouTube video of yesterday’s protest of the California Supreme Court ruling upholding Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. (For more about the protest, check out our blog previewing the event.)…
Denver Blogs: So you think you can run an election (without screwing it up colossally)?
Take a luxurious, four-click cruise through the local blogosphere. Know of something worth linking to? Send it along. For reasons we can’t figure, people really want to run the state’s elections. (Face the State) Tom Tancredo says Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is a racist. (Colorado Pols) Local ad agency…
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Today’s featured event: The Denver Cruisers take to the streets
A couple of weeks ago, as my family drove through downtown Denver, we spotted an unusual sight: a tipsy gaggle of bicyclists coming down the street that made me smile and wave. These bikers wore no sleek paraphernalia made of super-wicking mystery fabrics, nor were they mohawked, pierced, lean and…
Colorado Crimes: Welcome back, Ronald F. Thrasher
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ronald F. Thrasher, formerly of Colorado Springs, has been on the run for the past fourteen years. That’s not entirely true: He’s probably rested a time or two since 1995, when he fled custody before he could be sentenced for assorted drug- and gun-related…
Mountain View’s dilemma makes the Wall Street Journal
Mountain View, Colorado, a Denver suburb, is modern enough to have a website — but the information on its home page suggests that its concerns are quaint and old-fashioned. The first item concerns “Weeds and Tree Limb Violations.” The second notes that building permits are necessary for most home improvement…
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Mile High Murder, Nos. 3 and 4: Philip F. Dileo identified as likely shooter in double-homicide/suicide at 2403 Bluff Street
View Larger Map The Boulder Coroner’s Office has identified those involved in a double-homicide/suicide that took place at 2403 Bluff Street, an address visible above (if you have trouble seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). They are Elizabeth Schwarzenbach-Dileo, 63; Philip F. Dileo, 61; and the couple’s son, Philip…