Wednesday night MTV desperately scraped the resin from their Real World Denver crack pipe and aired the final, final, final few snippets of tripe remaining in their air-proof, secret underground vaults. The show was called “The Shit You Should Have Seen” or something like that but I really wouldn’t know…

Michael Andre and his wife, Marie. A coroner’s report issued yesterday by the Denver Office of the Medical examiner shows that Michael Andre was experiencing “acute intoxication” at the time of his death on February 23. The popular criminal defense attorney, had barricaded himself inside his Cherry Creek town home…

Steve Hogan, executive director of the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority, is looking for a new job. Hogan made this announcement after accepting a deal to lease the 11-mile Northwest Parkway toll road – which runs from Broomfield to E-470 – to a foreign business consortium that hopes to cash…

It was the best month ever in Denver (until June)! Slide Show…

Worst-Case Scenario…

Patrick Osborn, Westword’s Drunk of the Week columnist, is leaving, and we want to send him off with a properly toasted toast! So we’re collecting the very best drunk stories we can find, and will honor the winner with a hundred-dollar bill he/she can spend at the drinking establishment of…

5.28.07 Palma, Mallorca Spain Chief, I arrived here last week after my fiasco in Gibraltar to find that my old college professor is on the mainland taking care of some business. He booked me into a hotel until he gets back, assuring me that the price was right and that…

There is only one true Italian restaurant — back east, in that charmed province that runs along the coast, north into New England, south as far as Baltimore. Upstate, downstate, in the barrens and on the shore, just one restaurant with 10,000 names that has grown the way mushrooms grow,…

Today marks the launch of Do Your Thing, a blog created to share fans’ stories and foster the follow-your-heart ethos that inspired the documentary 10 MPH, which chronicles a cross-country trip via Segway scooter, (“Slow Ride,” August 5, 2004, “Storme of the Day,” May 24) also releasing today on DVD…

Some hail on the ground Left view out the office door…

The shackled plaintiff testified by video hookup from a holding cell in the control unit of the highest security federal pen in the country. His lawyers were students from the University of Denver who haven’t yet passed the bar. But Mark Jordan was determined to have his day in court…

Offense Report No: 07-329892 Date: 05-21-07 Type of Offense: Assault on an At-Risk Adult Location of Offense: Regis neighborhood Officer T. Elliot reports: “The victim related that he was at home trying to sleep and heard loud music coming from a vehicle parked behind [his home]. The victim [a 27-year-old…

5.25.07 Ferry Station Málaga, Spain Boss, My Gibraltar connection fell through in a nasty way. I got out there to the big rock yesterday with a whole busload of antsy young backpackers, all of them intent on getting a lift across the strait to Morocco so they could get royally…

Map nerds rejoice! Follow Tony Perez-Giese on the Global Warning Google Map as he travels and blogs around the world. Global Warning (Google Maps)…

5.21.07 Edinburgh, Scotland Chief, I wish I could give you a nice tourism round-up from my four-day drive around Scotland, but it’s kind of hard to take field notes when you’re afraid for your life. Big D established the rules right after him and his son, Little D, scooped me…