One of Western Colorado’s most coveted wild places got a stay of execution from the Bush administration two weeks ago. But locals say the action falls short of the full pardon they’d hoped for — and nobody is sure how long the reprieve will last. Rising 3,500 feet above the…
The Grand Junction Convention and Visitors Bureau may not know it yet, but 2.33 million Democrats could be headed their way. “After poring over voting tallies from every county in every state, I found 2.33 million marginalized Democrats in need of rescuing,” writes Amy Jenniges in the Stranger, the Seattle…
The Denver Post’s Miles Moffeit recently returned from New Orleans, but his time down South wasn’t all fun and games. He traveled there to speak to a group of trauma therapists about articles he co-wrote detailing sexual assaults in the U.S. military — and when he returned to Denver, he…
Three years ago, Jack Le of Denver took what he anticipated was a giant step toward realizing a part of the American dream. It has become a goal so crucial to success in this country that it is said to shape personalities, enhance romance, elevate career paths and promote excellent…
Where’s the Love? Send in the Clowns: Regarding Dave Herrera’s “Love Gun,” in the November 18 issue: Thanks again! First Rogue and now Love.45. Does Herrera work for 93.3? These bands suck, and based on the fact that he must have shown some credentials to get his Westword job, Herrera…
She stepped quickly to the witness stand. She raised her right hand. She swore to tell the truth. So began the main event in the murder trial of Krystal Voss — the much-anticipated moment when the accused took the stand to tell her own story. Wearing a lavender blouse and…
“He is not of the Christ,” says Jose Hidalgo, gesturing wildly at Bill, the panhandler he’s competing with at the intersection of Alameda Avenue and Santa Fe Drive. “He does not believe. He is not polite.” To illustrate his point, Jose hails a nearby Julian Electric truck and tells the…
For a while, it looked like Bada Bing was going Bada Bust. Just a few hours after Westword’s November 11 “Bada Bing, Bada Boom!” hit the stands, the Denver escort agency’s website was down, with users rerouted to www.mindyourownbusiness.com. Elsewhere in cyberspace, flame wars erupted on two popular forums for…
Hyung Soo Pak’s rage earned him a one-way ticket to the other side of the world. The 22-year-old sleeps away most of his days at a detention center in Aurora. Incarceration bores the hell out of Pak, who’s classified as a criminal alien. An expedited deportation is his only hope…
Cliff, Kiss, Cigarette, explains Dylan Ward, “is a story about danger, risk and coming of age in a fucked-up world.” At seventeen, playwright Ward has barely come of age himself, and he took plenty of risks staging his ambitious work at the LIDA Project experimental-theater space earlier this month, including…
The nasty tenor of the recently concluded campaign didn’t leave Bob Newman with an unpleasant aftertaste. Politically speaking, the former Marine gunnery sergeant turned Clear Channel radio host found the results of the 2004 vote to be downright inspirational. “I realized about noon on the Wednesday after the election that…
Most Nuggets fans can’t read tea leaves, but they’re pretty good with injury reports. Either way, universal health care will be critical to the immediate fortunes of a team that leaped into the season full of newfound hopes and dreams but quickly found its baby-blue ass in a 2-5 sling…
A Word to the Wives The evil that men do: As an AIDS activist and AIDS educator, I would like to applaud Westword for publishing Laura Bond’s “A Grim Prognosis” in the November 18 issue. I have seen the typical profile of a person with AIDS or HIV change from…
The belt buckles on the dance floor at Tequila Rosa’s shine as brightly as the mirrored ball that hangs overhead, sending fractured prisms of light onto the couples dancing to Mexican disco. Two men spin in mad concentric circles, around and around and around the floor, now and then tilting…
Inside a crowded East High School classroom, Imani Latif is teaching women how to talk to the men in their lives about love, sex and HIV. The 13th Annual Colorado Women of Color Conference on HIV & AIDS is under way, and Latif and about twenty African-American women have gathered…
Boulder High students provoked a talk-radio frenzy, not to mention a visit from the Secret Service, when one of the acts at a school-sponsored talent show proposed to perform as the Taliband. To defuse this ludicrous controversy, the fledgling musicians ultimately changed their group’s appellation to Coalition of the Willing,…
The capture of Ricky Eugene Bailey just before midnight on Friday, November 5, was good news for the Denver Police Department. After all, Bailey, 46, is suspected of committing over twenty robberies since early October, and because he sports a memorable nickname — the “Raspy Robber,” in acknowledgement of his…
Initial reports pegged Rick Bobbitt’s stunt at last month’s Santa Fe Air Show as a relatively easy maneuver called a hammerhead. A former Navy aviator, current United Airlines flight officer and experienced aerobatic competitor, the 46-year-old Parker resident was certainly qualified to perform the trick. The International Aerobatic Club gave…
Bada Company Boom and bust: The time following this November’s election was exhausting, and for once Denver’s liberal weekly was no help, choosing to run in the November 11 issue David Holthouse’s “Bada Bing, Bada Boom!,” a piece full of incredibly tired ideas about women (i.e. there’s something fascinating about…
In a strip-mall sports bar near the Denver Tech Center, the Halloween party is getting a little scary. A snowy-haired gent who’s costumed as a flasher, with a massive plastic phallus dangling beneath his raincoat, is dirty-dancing to “Play That Funky Music” with a hottie in a black leather Catwoman…
Until two years ago, Marcia Simmons thought of herself as a pretty lucky woman. She wasn’t fabulously rich, but she did have what mattered to her: an adoring husband, a nice home, and comfortable sums tucked away in mutual funds, retirement accounts and savings bonds for her kids’ education. She…
Colorado lawmakers heading into the State Capitol last Thursday morning for post-election caucus meetings were hastily redirected to the building’s side entrances by a power-washing custodial crew, out cleaning up the evidence of some free-speech activity by disgruntled voters who’d splattered the Capitol’s front facade with several dozen eggs. Two…
