As we wrote about in “Pot of Gold,” Joseph Brodsky, coffee buyer for the Denver-based boutique coffee roaster Novo Coffee, traveled to Ethiopia last October to search out the African origins of the Panamanian Geisha coffee bean, widely considered one of the best coffees in the world. When the trip…
Parody on Parade? Actually, it’s just another fucked up day in Colorado Springs, where the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo Parade meandered down the main drag to the horror/delight of Noel Black who snapped this pic from Newspeak headquarters. Since moving into his new downtown office earlier this year, Black’s…
Sunday’s loss to the Philadelphia Phillies may have snapped the Rockies five-game winning streak, but it did provide one of the more bizarre — and ultimately entertaining — rain delays in recent memory. A vicious – albeit momentary – rainstorm ripped through the Denver area sending the grounds crew out…
Sporting beige, desert fatigues and an arsenal of aviators, the 8th Civil Support Team, Colorado National Guard, was in the parking lot of the Pepsi Center on Monday afternoon, July 9, suited up and ready for action. What kind of action? Whatever the fuck kind of action you got, sucka!…
View a slide show of the entire adventure While in elementary school in Aurora, kids looked for any little thing to single out a kid and rip them apart over. Kids that got their shoes at Payless, for instance, were ripe for destruction. Only poor kids got shoes at Payless…
Randy Moore’s “Little Art Critic” personifies the spirit of the Cherry Creek Arts Festival. The Cherry Creek Arts Festival has been going strong for seventeen years, and it’s not hard to see why this annual arts event is one of the most competitive juried arts showcases in the country, inviting…
The big news out of Georgia this weekend is that John Mark Karr, the bogus confessor in the JonBenet Ramsey case, was arrested after a domestic dispute at his father’s home in Sandy Springs. What’s surprising here isn’t that Karr, a wandering dramaturge who gained international notoriety for his claim…
The newsroom reshuffle at the Denver Post is proceeding apace, and in an internal e-mail sent out late on July 5, editor Greg Moore provides details about a plan he first introduced to staff during a meeting the previous week. As delineated below, the staff will be divided into a…
Subject lines in e-mails are supposed to get a recipient’s attention. Well, the one that introduced a July 6 press release sent by Lance Clem, public information officer for the Colorado Department of Public Safety, did that and more. It reads: “MEDIA ADVISORY — Suicide Bombing Class Open to Reporters”…
HIV information and b-boy jams. Anti-drug messages and basketball clinics. These topics may seem disparate, but it turns out together they’re the perfect subject matter for the all-ages HipHopOsium Art n’ Motion Urban Health Fair today and tomorrow, July 6 and 7, at the Auraria Events Center, 900 Auraria Parkway…
“Ruby Slipper” by Riva Sweetrocket is on display at + Gallery in the RiNo District. Ready to get all artsy and hit up this First Friday thing everyone’s been buzzing about — even Travel and Leisure? Well, this Friday, July 6, is the day, and to help you with your…
Those of us who live near Invesco Field are used to humongous, obnoxious fireworks displays this time of year. I’m not talking about the official ooh-aah stuff at Coors and after lacrosse games at the stadium; I like a brief shower of phosphorus as much as the next guy. But…
Oumar had lived at the Grace apartments exactly one day when Daniel Smith approached him in the parking lot and asked if he wanted to play soccer. Originally from Somalia, Oumar and his family had arrived at the east Denver complex the night before, after a long trip from a…
Nate Marquardt doesn’t seem like the type of guy who likes to beat others into submission, choking them within seconds of blacking out. Because when Nate “The Great” Marquardt isn’t fighting in the eight-sided ring, he’s at home with his family or at church with God. And if it’s God’s…
If dry-humping could produce a vapor, a filmy dust that settled over a room whenever two clueless, semi-asexual torsos awkwardly bumped together in guilty first-time ecstasy, it would smell the way that the Adam’s Mark smelled last Thursday. Or perhaps it was eunuch sweat. Maybe the odor that filled that…
“A Tear in My Beer,” Patricia Calhoun, June 28 Ladies and Gentlemen? Your mocking tone in the ladies’ night article is unjust. If it were men’s night, white people’s night, good-looking people’s night, blond people’s night, thin people’s or fat people’s night, would you still mock it? You seem to…
For real-estate porn voyeurs, 14th Street is a real wet dream. The heart of the city’s newly designated Denver Theatre District is the site of three pricey residential high-rises that will put 750 new homes in the downtown market — enough to jump that population by 25 percent, even if…
This week Jason Sheehan reviews Chutney’s. Photo by Mark Manger. A few years ago, while working in Albuquerque, I made one dumbass move that almost accidentally ended my cooking career — a full three or four months before I ended it quite deliberately on my own. It was a Tuesday…
The first thing that Nando Mondragon did when the cops in Las Vegas let him out of prison last week was go buy new clothes…
6.25.07 Cape Town, South Africa Chief, We were on our way back to camp talking about the legendary African Hunter Andres DeKock when we got ambushed my the lions. It had been yet another 12-hour day of blood, Tsetse fly swarms and sunburn and we were washing the dust out…
Typographical errors are common in newspapering — but seldom are they more satisfying than the one a sharp-eyed Westworder spotted in “Panel to Target Backlog of Disabled Adults in Need,” a story in the June 30 Rocky Mountain News. The article, by Alan Gathright, reveals what appears to be an…
It’s cool when you can transform to a truck or a spaceship, but what happens in today’s iPod world when you’re the robot that turns into a tape deck boombox? To read our review of Transformers (out today), click here.
