Jury selection in the trial of the man accused of killing Angie Zapata, a transgender teenager beaten to death last summer in Greeley, starts Tuesday in Weld County. State anti-violence and gay-rights groups are using the occasion to raise awareness about hate crimes and spread the word about Zapata, an…
Without much fanfare, more than 2 million acres across the West became wilderness when President Barack Obama signed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act two weeks ago. On April 9 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and several members of Colorado’s congressional delegation celebrated the deal with a ceremony at…
Denver-based Associated Content isn’t often mentioned in discussions of the city’s web powerhouses, but it should be. Since May 2007, when Associated Content founder Luke Beatty was profiled in a Message column, the site, which pays content providers fees based on the popularity of their items, has grown at an…
Twitter, a guaranteed object of good-natured ridicule on a future episode of VH1’s I Love the ’00s, isn’t just for egocentric celebrities anymore. The Boulder Police Department has recently started tweeting, hipping hipsters to current events and investigations on its very own Twitter page. Public-information officer Sarah Huntley is the…
So although the Nuggets let the Thunder stay in the game about 47 minutes too long last night, it’s become evident they mean business this year. They sit at the number-two spot in the conference with three games to go, with some absolutely pivotal match-ups with the Lakers and the…
Our daily blog round-up. Send links. Colorado’s same-sex civil-union movement is gaining steam. This oughta be fun. (Colorado Independent) If you’re reading this on your phone while driving, you may be in for an unpleasant surprise. (5280) In Lakewood, federal funding will help save abandoned houses. (Lakewood Edge)…
One week in November 1985, the cover of Westword featured a photo of Boulder native Rick Rosner under the the headline: “Is This the Smartest Man in America?” He was wearing rollerskates and a loincloth, as Patty Calhoun recently remembered, and at the time was making his way as a…
Some people circle the globe on impossibly difficult trips for money (if you think you’re one of those, better log on and register to line up for tomorrow’s Amazing Race tryouts at the Wilderness Experience. Good luck, dudes.). Swiss ultra runner Serge Roetheli, on the other hand, circumnavigated the planet…
It’s nice to see that Santa likes to unwind in the Rocky Mountains after a tough holiday season. But I’m thinking that ol’ Kris Kringle has a little too much time on his hands after watching this video of “Santa Colorado” pounding Columbia Crest wine on his back porch and…
Did John Hickenlooper officially announce his re-election campaign in a downtown whiskey distillery this week? Or was the ever-entertaining Denver mayor just feeling particularly spirited (the election is May 2, 2011). The truth is murky — almost as murky as this poorly composed cell-phone image captured just minutes before the…
Attention all late adapters and chronic procrastinators! Three Denver television stations — channels 7, 9, and 20 — will go digital only on April 16, 2009. Getting a new digital converter box for your TV and setting it up is the easy part. The tough part is getting your rabbit…
Attention, Denver! Please keep your wallet in your front pocket at all times, shred all documents, and ask your girlfriend for two forms of ID before you let her in your apartment. Because apparently it’s Really Brazen But Not All That Clever Scam Week. First, of course, it was reported…
I swear I don’t work for DeRailed Ink, but I couldn’t blame you for thinking so, considering the endless fawning I’ve done over their quirky sports-related T-shirts. I just happen to dig the designs, and want local sports fans to consider their options when shopping for gameday garb. This time,…
Now that former Qwest CEO and convicted inside trader Joe Nacchio has been ordered to report to prison on April 14 — and presumably has to file his income tax return a day early — we want to make sure his stay goes smoothly, pending the outcome of his never-ending…
Tonight at 8:30 p.m. Denver time, my wife Deb and I are having an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas renew our wedding vows on the occasion of our 25th anniversary; access this page on the VivaLasVegasWeddings.com site and click on the “Main Chapel” icon to view a live webcast at…
Want to see me destroy the last remaining shreds of my journalistic integrity? Then visit VivaLasVegasWeddings.com around 8:30 p.m. Denver time tonight to watch a live webcast of me and my wife, Deb, renewing our vows after 25 years of marriage with a little help from a friend with a…
He’s young, maybe 21 at the most. His clothes look neat and clean, his hair recently cropped. When he gets out of a late-model SUV and crosses a downtown street, a plastic grocery bag in one hand, a woman gets out and follows him. She looks even younger, possibly in…
“The Zen of Ken,” Alan Prendergast, April 2 Greed Acres The Department of the Interior’s new head, Ken Salazar, is a good man who won’t sell us out. But he needs to fire all the bad apples right off and maximize transparency and policy — because every four or eight…
All Kelly Coffman-Lee wanted to do was share her philosophy of life with everyone else on the road. “We’re all vegan in my family,” the Centennial woman says of herself, her husband and their three kids. “Tofu is a staple, and my car is just a mass of bumperstickers about…
Here we go… Today in Backbeat Online: • Built to Spill, Mudhoney, the Fluid lead the 2009 Westword Music Showcase headliners. • Q&A with Reggie Youngblood of Black Kids. • Record Store Day preview: Flight of the Conchords take on a racist dragon. Today in Cafe Society: • Fork the…
Listen to . Colorado lawmakers last tackled the legalities of syringe exchange — the topic of this week’s feature “Ahead of the Needle” — eleven years ago, when they tried to change the state law prohibiting it. They failed. But not before Governor Bill Ritter, then Denver’s district attorney, weighed…
Highlights from the local blogosphere. Send tips. Some of Denver’s hottest politicos… aren’t very hot. (Face the State) George Karl for Coach of the Year? That’s an oddly sound idea. (Denver Stiffs) How cool! Our own little Bernie Madoff wannabe! (Colorado Independent)…
