Union Station. Denver Union Station’s Final Environmental Impact Statement, prepared by the Regional Transportation District and other local agencies, is one of the final pre-construction steps in the station’s protracted redevelopment. It’s also one of the last chances the public will get to officially comment on the project before the…
“Now, let’s see. I count one, two, three, four…” Your kid’s got a test tomorrow morning and he’s not prepared — so he’s pretending to run a fever. Well, double-check that thermometer, because if he’s absent, it’ll cost your student and his school in the long run. That’s because October…
Let your gaze linger on the ’70s-tastic porn-style mustache on Nick Cave. There are other blogs on this site than just the ones below. Here’s how to find them. Backbeat Online delivers sad news about the death of Sharon Rawles, a beloved mainstay on the local music scene. On the…
Charles Gale. Charles Gale, a tango instructor whose teaching methods crossed a slew of lines detailed in the 2007 Westword feature article “Dirty Dancing,” received a light sentence after pleading guilty to third-degree misdemeanor assault: nine months of probation. Moreover, he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender. Why…
Not approved by Hottest Inked. People with copius amounts of skin covered with tattoos are sometimes considered rulebreakers by mainstream society — but that’s not always (or even often) the case. Take the Hottest Inked contest that TattooFinder, an online tattoo resource and sponsor of the September 19-21 Denver Tattoo…
Byron Grandy. The past several months have represented a time of transition among the executive ranks at Channel 7, and surprisingly enough, none of the principals involved has reason to be unhappy. In July, station manager Darrell Brown (a 2005 Westword profile subject) vacated the big desk at the station…
Bob Schaffer and Mark Udall on Meet the Press. If Colorado Republican senatorial hopeful Bob Schaffer won yesterday’s debate against Democratic rival Mark Udall on Meet the Press, it was a pyrrhic victory. As the combatant trailing in the polls, and the person with by far the most difficult case…
An unfortunate “oops.” A lot of newspaper errors are kinda funny — as long as we’re not the ones making them, that is. But one on the Rocky Mountain News website at this writing is more sad than amusing: A piece headlined “Boyfriend Suspected in Slaying of Girl, 4” is…
The view from the bar at Beatport Lounge, according to this slide show. What you missed while the Broncos prepared to soil themselves… Friday: Photographer Uriah West posts up in the Beatport Lounge to bring you a slide show accessible here. Saturday: Everything may not be bigger in Littleton. But…
And if you want to install a stripper pole, it’s coming out of your security deposit. Roommate hunters on Craigslist must have thought they lucked out when they first spotted a September 24 posting about a shared space on Capitol Hill that seemed quite the steal: “$200 with some requirements,”…
Woody Paige. In a September 28 scouting report that preceded Sunday’s Denver Broncos-Kansas City Chiefs game, five Denver Post prognosticators, supplemented by Chiefs kicking legend Jan Stenerud, offered their predictions of the outcome. Predictably, only Stenerud foresaw a Chiefs victory. However, four of the five Posties (Jim Armstrong, Lindsay H…
La Bella Vita at Solterra. The ongoing fiscal crisis means that fewer people are in the mood (or have the means) to plunk down big bucks to purchase a home — which presents a particular challenge to the entrepreneurs behind Solterra, a spectacular luxury community being developed on a sprawling…
Belly up to the Cinebarre. Blogging along… Cafe Society has items aplenty today. Get the skinny about the new Cinebarre in Thornton, the reopening of Gelman’s in Highland, a review of Brach’s Candy Poppers by the Candy Girls, the continuing expansion of Jack and the Box franchises in Colorado, the…
“Why does Richard Nixon look so sweaty, mom?” Now that it looks like both John McCain and Barack Obama will make it to their first presidential debate in Mississippi tonight, you’ve got a choice to make: where to drink while watching it. Obama’s campaign website shows a whopping 141 debate-watching…
Relive the last month of summer through the sometimes hazy lens of Westword.com, from Monolith to roller derby, tattoo addicts to Modern Drunkards. See the slide show at westword.com/slideshow. — Joe Tone…
Christina Szele. Colorado’s most famous accidental tourist, Christina Elizabeth Szele, has a date in a Colorado court today, but she won’t be here in person. And that’s too bad, because we’d love to hear what legendary U. S. District Judge John Kane (profiled in this 2001 Westword feature) has to…
Federico Peña If there’s one thing most Coloradans learn from an early age, it’s not to interrupt a Broncos fan during a game. But apparently that message hasn’t sunk in yet for former Denver mayor and current Barack Obama tub-thumper Federico Peña. Earlier this week, National Public Radio’s Robert Siegel…
An image from an anti-Marilyn Musgrave ad features Channel 4’s Raj Chohan. Channel 4’s Raj Chohan is getting plenty of airtime around now thanks to “Reality Check,” a first-rate series of televised packages (and a print component published in the Rocky Mountain News — click for an example) that attempt…
Neal Stephenson. Neal Stephenson, who visits the Tattered Cover LoDo on Tuesday, October 2 (click here to learn more), isn’t just one of the top sci-fi authors working today. He’s among the best and most interesting current writers in any genre. It was a great opportunity, then, to chat with…
Sara Ramirez on Grey’s Anatomy. What did the Denver Broncos have to do with the season premiere of Grey’s Anatomy? Plenty — although the team’s name was never mentioned. One of the plotlines in last night’s two-hour episode involved a man who suffered a severe spinal injury in an automobile…
Dear diary… KRWZ/950 AM, known as Cruisin’ Oldies, went live Wednesday, and the station is clearly investing in name Denver talent, including Randy Jay, who got the heave-ho last year amid KOOL’s demo-shifting experiment, and longtimer Hal Moore. But even if the station attracts a sizable audience of boomers to…
A diorama of what the Liaoning Forest might have looked like during the time of dinosaurs. Photo by Roderick Mickens/American Museum of Natural History Amazing discoveries are constantly being made in the paleontological field, but China’s Liaoning Forest is yielding some information that’s truly astounding, changing the way we think…
