At 4:30 p.m. on May 24, staffers at the Rocky Mountain News are slated to bid farewell to fellow workers who chose to take the paper’s buyout offer — meaning that the list of names that’s been circulating for several weeks will finally be proven accurate, dubious or somewhere in…
I don’t know if I’m the last one to know about these automatic pot hole-filling trucks, but I was thoroughly wowed when I saw one in action today near downtown. The driver simply pulled up to the 2-foot-wide gouge in the street and started spitting asphalt through a long robotic…
Offense Report No: 07-330054 Date: 05-18-07 Type of Offense: Burglary Location of Offense: Prospect Place neighborhood Property Stolen: Fried Chicken ($5) Officer E. Quintana reports: “On the listed date and time, the unknown suspects(s) gained entry into the listed location by kicking in the front door. Once inside, the unknown…
Driving to work today I saw a bumper sticker that said “Keep the Field in Broomfield,” obviously some sort of open space plea. But it was stuck to an old Chevrolet Suburban cruising down a tiny Capitol Hill street, which inspired me to come up with a new bumper sticker…
When we last checked in with Casey Holden, he was scraping by as a wage slave at a pizza joint in Grand Junction. This was a better life than being locked down in the Colorado state pen, mind you, but a bit short of Holden’s dreams of getting an education,…
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Being a native of Littleton, I felt an immediate affinity for Januar while researching their Myspace Music page. Their profile was incredibly straightforward. From: Littleton (who owns up to that?); influences: Jeff Buckley, Mojave 3, Sigur Ros; band name is Icelandic for “January,” and they’re wearing woolly beanies in their…
The spotlight’s on the Senate’s debate over immigration reform but most of the men in Washington don’t know what they’re talking about when it comes to the crux of the issue. None of them have to fill low paying jobs like the farmers and hotel owners in Colorado do. None…
The title says it all. If Denver’s had anything like Atlanta Public Access’s Alexyss Tylor, I would cancel Comcast in a second. Not like they haven’t already canceled it for nonpayment. Not Safe For Work—Don’t gamble with your finances. [As seen on Crunk + Disorderly] –Crystal Preston-Watson…
Old newspapers line the windows of what used to be the Clara Market on East Colfax, the shop sits empty, still for rent. The shops former owners, Mohamad Aboub and family are officially out of the convenience-store biz, Aboub says, after pleading guilty to unauthorized use of a transaction device…
Ethan Iverson, keyboardist for the Bad Plus, had a lot more to say than could be squeezed into the profile that appears in the May 24 edition of Westword. But the web has plenty of room — so here’s the full Q&A. The topics discussed include the reasons behind the…
One of Colorado’s most notorious celebrities made the Dlisted.com blog last week, with a picture taken from the cover of Westword. Yes, Storme Aerison was the Slut of the Day for May 17. Only one problem: Storme’s a guy. Or was, when she started out life as Charles Daugherty. That…
Angelina Hergenreder doesn’t usually give money to the homeless men who call out to her as she leaves her hostess job at a restaurant on the 16th Street Mall. But the man who asked for spare change one Wednesday evening in early April was so polite — even after she’d…
After it was all over — the emergency meetings and votes of no confidence, the suspensions and resignations, the backroom intrigues and public squabbles, culminating in the ouster of the fire chief — Charlie Neppell decided it was time to give credit where credit was due. So when the board…
Centennial’s Comcast Media Center is such a mammoth facility that its hallways have been given street names to prevent the uninitiated from wandering it like disoriented lab rats involved in a pointlessly cruel maze experiment. Hence, visitors must traverse part of Uplink Avenue and take a long walk along Programming…
When I was nine years old, I lost my virginity to a gym sock. The best part about it was that I was not biologically developed enough to actually, how you say, manifest, so there was absolutely no mess to clean up! I just put the gym sock back on…
“Final Checkout,” Luke Turf, May 17 No-Tell Motel While I found “Final Checkout” an interesting and informative article, I believe you do a great disservice to motel residents such as Amy Limon and Charles Young by including the story of Amy Hess-Kibben alongside theirs. Most people have a hard time…
The paranoia at the Denver Post is running high these days. The paper wants to cut 37 positions via buyout offers, but if not enough employees age 50 or older take the deal, executives have already said they’ll achieve their goal through layoffs. As a result, younger staff members, who’ll…
Notes like this one are the backbone of nearly every shitty, irritating relationship forced upon us by the horrors of modern life. If it isn’t the roommate, it’s the neighbor, or the jackoff that works two cubicles down. Some of us leave them, some of us are the target of…
In what could very well be foreshadowing of the next global war, this year’s Cannes festival was dominated by the current superpower (that’d be the good ol’ U.S. of A.) and the superpower on the rise (China, of course). Unlike the coming conflict, this fight features lots of arty close-ups…
A May 22 blog item focusing on Jared Polis’ decision to run for U.S. Representative in the second Congressional district noted that he stopped returning phone calls and e-mails from Westword after the appearance of a warts-and-all profile of him was published in 2004. The piece concluded that “Polis will…
Call her, just don’t call her bitch. Becky Due is a Colorado-based feminist author who’s been through the shelters and skid row. Men have walked all over her, beat her, and for a long time Due allowed herself to be a victim. Then she picked up a pen and started…
