In a bankruptcy filing today, Chrysler reveals that it plans to close 789 of its 3,200 dealerships in the United States — and a source with access to the documents finds at least three in the immediate Denver metro area on the list. They are: • Burt Dodge Chrysler Jeep,…
Editor’s note: Amy Herdy, a former Denver Post and Channel 9 journalist who’s currently the advisor for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s CUIndependent.com online newspaper, is in Pakistan under the auspices of the State Department. Her mission: to give students and professional journalists the tools they need to improve…
Jillian Harris, a 29-year-old restaurant designer from Vancouver, Canada, was given an especially brutal heave-ho by Jason Mesnick on the last season of The Bachelor — a move so nasty that Colorado’s own Bachelorette prize, Ryan Sutter, felt compelled to weigh in. Fortunately, Harris received a reward for becoming an…
On April 23, Kevin Preblud, one of three entrepreneurs backing INDenver Times, an online news service staffed by more than thirty former members of the Rocky Mountain News, revealed that only about 3,000 people had signed up as subscribers by that date — far short of the 50,000 needed to…
Yesterday, the police departments in Lakewood and Boulder put out warnings about wallet thefts within minutes of each other. Seventeen wallet thefts have taken place in Lakewood since February 1, while Boulder is looking for purse snatchers in two specific incidents. A photo of the first Boulder-area suspect is seen…
The driver and passenger involved in a crash at 56th Avenue and E-470 noted in the Wednesday blog “Speed Kills in Off-Highway Crash” have been identified as Nelson Starks, 49, of Denver (who died as a result of the accident), and Frankie Biggs, 25, Starks’ stepson, who was hospitalized. Then,…
As a lifelong Nuggets fan, I’ve grown accustomed over the years to waiting for the team to blow leads. But I don’t think I’ve ever been so zen about the Nugs as last night, during their series-clinching victory over the Dallas Mavericks. My confidence was so high going in that…
John Francis Beech had a date with destiny last summer. He counted down the days on a calendar in his garage, crossing out each day leading to the final Sunday in July, on which he’d scrawled the word “OUT.” But first he had one last bit of business, one final…
“Craigslist Unclassified,” Bradley Campbell and Matt Snyders, May 7 A Killer App When I saw the bloody keyboard image on the front of the May 7 issue, I got that sick feeling that has become normal in the last year and a half. You see, Katherine Anne Olson, whom we…
They say religion and politics don’t mix, but what about mixers and politics? Or better yet, margarita mixes and religious politicians? The answer is hazy — about as hazy as your head will be after a couple of snifters of Coyote Gold, the pre-mixed margarita being marketed by Maureen Schaffer,…
I think his eyes are at cross purposes… Today in Backbeat Online: • Q&A with Mike Watt. • Tori Amos tour hits Denver in July. • Last Night: Ghost Buffalo at 3 Kings Tavern. • Last Night: Mogwai at the Bluebird. • Moving Pictures: the Atlantic, Epilogues, 29th Street Disciples…
Our daily tour of the Colorogosphere. Send some links, yo. Guns, tobacco, liquor and Joe the Plumber, all at the same event? Count me the hell in. (Colorado Independent) Mark Udall continues to fight for credit-card reform, and the Post continues to (basically) ignore him. (Colorado Pols) More on the…
No less than an all-out love affair between British comedy and the Great White Way, Monty Python’s Spamalot pairs a plot blatantly (and with blessings) stolen by Eric Idle and Mike Nichols from the screenplay for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, with music and lyrics by Idle and John…
Shortly after the publication of a Bradley Campbell/Matt Snyders feature about the so-called Craigslist killings, the free-classified service has decided to eliminate its “erotic services” category in favor of a yet-to-be-determined replacement. Learn the latest in this report from the Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages, a sister publication of Westword where…
View Larger Map Boulder Police are investigating reports of an attempted child abduction at Mesa Elementary School, 1575 Lehigh St., seen in the graphic above (if you have problem seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Get the details after the jump…
Seat belts are important: Every car passenger should wear them. But they’re not a panacea — particularly when a vehicle traveling more than 100 MPH loses control. That’s what happened yesterday afternoon at 56th Avenue east of E-470. The driver died as a result of the crash in the fifth…
Denver Assessor Paul Jacobs and his staff tell you how to protest your 2009 real property valuation…..
While the Aurora Police Department still hasn’t officially confirmed that eighteen-year-old Darius Murray was the person seriously wounded in an officer-involved shooting over the weekend, complaints from his family about so-called “inconsistencies” in the APD’s reports prompted the following statement from Police Chief Daniel J. Oates: “There is no question…
There’s a new sheriff in town, one with a mean set of handlebars. We’re not talking about a mustache. We’re talking about his bicycle. The dude in question is Brad Evans, local realtor by day and two-wheeled merry prankster by night. In 2004, Evans founded Denver Cruisers, a pedal-powered party…
Republicans rallied the troops in the Senate this morning and managed to block the much-delayed confirmation of David Hayes, Ken “New Sheriff in Town” Salazar’s choice to serve as his top deputy at the Department of the Interior. In a crucial test of whether the new administration’s bold break with…
Here’s a video of the Ski Train leaving Denver for the last time on Friday, May 8. The description says this was “filmed at Utah Jct, moving onto the Belt Main,” which is apparently near 56th and Pecos. The train had been making trips between Denver and Winter Park since…
College-journalism professors teaching ethics could build entire classes around the career of Tom Martino. The co-owner of a rundown homeless hangout dubbed “Hotel Martino” in a recent Westword feature article, Martino acts as a de facto journalist on Channel 31, taking on sleazy businesses and scam artists under his “Troubleshooter”…
