The Aurora City Council decided last week to save a blue-and-white windmill known as the Dutch Mill that’s been a landmark on East Colfax Avenue since 1927. Originally built as a symbol of hospitality next to cottages that families of soldiers at nearby Fitzsimons Army Medical Center could rent, the…
This July 1 More Messages blog outlined some of the changes and challenges confronting E.W. Scripps, the Rocky Mountain News’s corporate mama — topics understood very well by Phill Casaus, the tab’s new senior editor for local news. After all, Casaus once edited the Albuquerque Tribune, a Scripps paper that…
The airline industry is giving flyers fits this summer as the big carriers raise ticket prices, add fees for checked bags, cancel routes and charge for food. United, American, US Airways, even Denver-based Frontier are making it difficult to sit back, relax and enjoy our summer vacations. Eight years ago,…
So you think you’ve seen every new Westword blog simply by visiting The Latest ‘Word? Think again. Backbeat Online leads with shocking news about the death of 22-year-old Tickle Me Pink bassist Johnny Schou (pictured), whose body was found on the very day the group’s much-anticipated new album came out…
Arguably the most anticipated action to emerge from the Colorado legislature’s previous term — the emancipation of the state’s liquor stores — will bear fruit on Sunday, July 6. But for those who can’t wait until then, lawmakers passed a handful of measures that go into effect today, and judging…
The summer’s here and the time is right for Westword cartoonist Kenny Be to bring the festival season to life. As a fitting capper to our recent series of web extras (like this one), we proudly present twelve full-color illustrations that celebrate hot fun in the summertime. To view the…
On CBS’s Face the Nation this last Sunday, genial host Bob Schieffer asked General Wesley Clark to talk about John McCain’s war record, specifically his criticisms as to McCain’s readiness to serve in the highest office, and how that compares to Barack Obama’s. Fair enough. But what it turned into…
“A friend writes…” That’s the way many New Yorker “Talk of the Town” items used to start, back in the magazine’s most genteel days. Well, nobody writes real letters any more — except prisoners, deprived of e-mail and text messaging. And here at Westword, we get lots of letters from…
For the better part of a decade after the still-unsolved December 25, 1996 murder of his daughter, JonBenét Ramsey, onetime Boulderite John Ramsey was a constant television-news presence in these parts — so much so that many of us felt the urge to run away screaming whenever an anchor mentioned…
On July 1, E.W. Scripps, the venerable company that owns the Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder Daily Camera, among other newspapers around the country, officially spun off its most valuable properties, including HGTV, The Food Network and the Shopzilla website, into a separate enterprise christened Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI)…
View larger image This week’s Worst-Case Scenario takes a look at the ubiquitous denizens of summer festivals. This is the last of four bonus festival folks from Kenny Be, presented in full color. Use the comments section to tell us about your favorite festival denizens that we might have missed,…
July 1, the start of a new fiscal year, marks day one of MillerCoors, the new entity that turns longtime brew competitors Miller and Coors into a corporate Chang and Eng. No one knows at this point what this merger will portend for the overall suds market or individual guzzlers,…
For the past several years, Wal-Mart has been fighting a battle against bad publicity of the sort collected in The United States of Wal-Mart, a 2005 book by Colorado journalist (and Geeks Who Drink quiz-master) John Dicker. The mega-corp’s latest weapon? A new logo that moves the star that previously…
How did KOA Morning News host Steffan Tubbs attempt to rationalize the latest ignominious loss by the Colorado Rockies — the lowly San Diego Padres beat them 15-8 thanks to a seven-run outburst in the ninth — shortly after 5 a.m. on July 1? By spinning a golden oldie. The…
With Barack Obama slated to accept the Democratic presidential nomination on August 28, the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, black TV networks will be all over the convention in Denver. In her piece in the June 30 Denver Post, Joanne Ostrow quotes TV…
What? There are other Westword blogs aside from this one? Why, yes — and here is some of the excellent stuff you can find on them. Backbeat Online overflows with weekend concert reviews, including wide-ranging coverage of the Warped Tour at which 3Oh!3 ruled, plus the SoCo Music Fest featuring…
With its June 30 edition, the National Public Radio offering Talk of the Nation launched a new series entitled “Issues Monday.” According to the program’s web page, “advisers from each campaign can join the program in the coming weeks to discuss their candidate’s policies on Iraq, energy, immigration and other…
The Colorado Contemporary Arts Collaborative, called CCAC, was established last year to “build public awareness and appreciation of contemporary art in Colorado.” The group — the brainchild of Kent Logan (pictured with his wife, Vicki) — has a lot of ideas, with one of the first being the establishment of…
View larger image Vermont Total Number of Delegates: 23 Pledged: 15 Unpledged: 8 How to Recognize a Vermont Delegate: Vermont has a reputation as a haven for hippies and trust-funders, but loaded wannabes are only fooling themselves if they think they can be a Green Mountaineer simply by relocating and…
Sleep in on Sunday (or maybe go to the Warped Tour) and miss Colorado guv Bill Ritter on Meet the Press? Look below for the transcript of his conversation with moderator Tom Brokaw and Wyoming’s governor, Dave Freudenthal…
For months Colorado Springs ultrarunner Tony Krupicka has been focused on a single challenge: getting ready for one of the most prestigious events in his sport, the 100-mile Western States Endurance Run in northern California, scheduled for the weekend of June 27-28. But despite his string of unbeaten (and often…
View larger image This week’s Worst-Case Scenario takes a look at the ubiquitous denizens of summer festivals. Each day through Tuesday, Kenny Be will bring a bonus festival-goer to the web, in full color. Use the comments section to tell us about festival folks that we might have missed, and…
