Greg Griffin is among the stronger staffers in the Denver Post’s business department. His work is consistently smart and incisive — and according to this press release, it’ll be missing from the paper for a year. Griffin was one of ten candidates from across the country to be named Knight-Bagehot…
Jefferson Park United Neighbors (JPUN) have been butting heads with developers over a proposed apartment complex on the site of the shuttered Baby Doe’s and Chili Pepper restaurants in northwest Denver for a long, heady 20 months, which you can read about here and here. When it came time last…
There is something about Chipper Jones that just drives white-trash women crazy. It’s uncanny. Much like NASCAR, buckets of fried-chicken, pit bulls, cold sores, black eyes and having way more babies than they can afford, white-trash women are unable to exist without a love of the Atlanta Braves slugger. It’s…
Kirsten Dunst has been lighting up the fashion blogosphere with her on-again-off-again relationship with style as she trounces through European press junkets promoting Spidey 3, trying ever so hard to convince crowds that she could, in fact, portray falling if shoved off a cliff. (Naturally, nobody believes her.) The snarky…
In general, the Denver dailies did an impressive job of covering the trial of former Qwest chief executive Joe Naccho (pictured). But while the Denver Post’s Al Lewis, in particular, made a strong showing throughout the process, the Rocky Mountain News narrowly bested its crosstown rival, thanks to the energy…
This cover story in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine is a lengthy but surprisingly slipshod examination of the Robert Charles Browne case, the former tree farmer who claims to be one of the most prolific serial killers in history, with 48 victims scattered across the country. The piece, by…
Camel No. 9 Glamour Ball 3 Kings Tavern 04/206/2007 Slideshow R.J. Reynolds has redirected its energy. No longer does the cigarette company focus on baiting children with a seemingly innocent mascot, but they have now moved on to cornering the hipster market. Or maybe the children of the Joe Camel…
All of us mile-high slack-jawed mouth breathers can rejoice: culture has finally reached our little Podunk burgh. As the front page of yesterday’s Denver Post declared, “Surreal world comes to Denver.” As Post fine arts critic Kyle MacMillan breathlessly reported, “Bubbling up from the street-smart subcultures of surfing, hip-hop and…
Gerald Styron, a write-in candidate for Denver City Council District 1, paid a visit to the Westword offices today. It seems the old guy – who seriously looks like Methuselah – was pissed that Kenny Be didn’t include him in this week’s Worst-Case Scenario cartoon. Of course, he didn’t actually…
Nothing warms up the soul for a little rock ‘n roll better than reggae. Warren Haynes, a latter-day recruit of the famed Allman Brothers Band, probably learned that long ago. But regardless of when Haynes crossed paths with Toots Hibbert, frontman of the legendary Jamaican band Toots and the Maytals,…
Museum of Contemorary Art/Denver director and curator Cydney Payton made her final choices in the Cydney Payton Design Challenge, in which eight designers from the Tamarac Square Fashion Project sketched her a “museum-opening oufit” (appropriate since the new MCA building opens this fall). Payton considered both the artistic and stylistic…
The April 27 Rocky Mountain News features the final installment of “Border Street,” a year-long series about an unnamed Denver block where, according to its introduction, “old meets new, English meets Spanish, legal resident meets — and sometimes marries — illegial immigrant.” The concluding piece, dubbed “The River Churns Endlessly,…
It’s said, it’s done, it’s over. Cat knows who won the final challenge, a day-to-evening look, and Cat knows who is going to be representing D-Town at New York Fashion Week in the fall. You want to know who won… click here for the complete slideshow. Then come back to…
As noted in the March 8 story “Bus-ted,” Parents Television Council Denver Chapter Director George Robison is suspiciously good at the violent video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories – but that doesn’t mean he wants ads for the game splashed all over Regional Transportation District trains and buses…
The slideshow from last night’s Tamarac Square Fashion Project will be up later this afternoon — a lot of pictures to go through! — but in the meantime, here’s some fun video of the Little Black Dress and Ace Hardware challenges, shot by Johnny Morehouse and Ben Kronberg, to keep…
Here’s a bonus for fans of Joseph Arthur, who’s profiled in the April 26 edition of Westword. The published piece was based on an extensive Q&A reproduced below. Among the topics Arthur touches upon: his risky new solo album, Let’s Just Be, and why at least one song on it…
The trucks rumble through the gates of Waste Management Recycle America’s plant in north Denver, lining up for their turn at the scales. A driver for the City of Thornton tailgates one from the City of Denver. Dump trucks from commercial and residential collection routes across the metro area squeeze…
Even Cydney Payton had big hair. Yes, the director/curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art/ Denver once teased and sprayed her hair into a voluminous cloud — and all in the name of fashion. But she’s certainly made up for that transgression and is fast becoming one of Denver’s most…
AM talk-show hosts and FM gabbers who work for the cluster of eight Denver stations owned by Clear Channel, the nation’s largest radio business, live in very different worlds. Nevertheless, they all came together on April 19 at Clear Channel’s Tech Center headquarters for a highly unusual, all-hands-on-deck meeting inspired…
For a brief period in 1993, my mother was unabashedly in love with Karl Malone. I can recall her going on about “what pretty eyes he had” and how impressive his shoulders were. When she spoke of Malone, it wasn’t hard to see that same teenybopper who’d traveled from her…
On April 6, Jeff Trott, the most industrious burglar in Colorado history, was sentenced to 32 years in prison. It was the maximum the judge could impose after Trott pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree burglary — a mere fraction of the more than 500 break-ins that he admits…
“Faith, Hope…and Charity,” Luke Turf, April 19 Charity Begins at Home Luke Turf wrote a balanced, beautiful story proving that we all need a little Charity sometimes. Lisa Norwood’s story should make even the most die-hard anti-social-program cynic see that there are a lot of families that simply need some…
