After the absolutely astonishing twists of fate that propelled the long-suffering Colorado Rockies into the 2007 World Series, I was filled with optimism that carried over into this season. But as the losses mounted and hints of the old ineptitude kept cropping up, I found myself musing about if and…
June 25’s Bike to Work Day became a bigger adventure than anticipated for me and, I’m sure, countless other riders who rely on the path through City of Cuernavaca Park to access Confluence Park, all thanks to the unexpected presence of a police crime scene. Not to mention a cadaver…
Here’s a sure sign that the Democratic National Convention is less than ten weeks away: local crazy John Madden has updated his sign! Westword first wrote about the relentless political sign-flier in 2005. Three months after the presidential election and five years since Bill Clinton had been president, the then-63-year-old…
With so many folks leaving the Rocky Mountain News of late, it’d be easy to assume that the paper is operating under a hiring moratorium. But no: The paper recently announced the hiring of two new staffers scheduled to start work next month. Here’s the memo with which Rocky managing…
This past winter in Colorado was wet and wild. According to info compiled by the National Climatic Data Center, Telluride and Aspen set season-to-date snowfall records at the end of February, and even traditionally parched zones in southwestern Colorado collected over 150 percent of normal snow water equivalent earlier in…
Beginning in 2002, the City of Northglenn, in association with the Northglenn Arts and Humanities Foundation (www.northglennarts.org), began to sponsor annual outdoor exhibitions called Art on Parade. Installed in E. B. Rains Jr. Park (11801 Community Center Drive), Art on Parade presents half a dozen sculptures on loan from the…
Why is Carmelo Anthony smiling? Because on June 24, he received a sweetheart deal related to an April DUI bust; after pleading guilty to a lesser charge (driving while ability impaired), he was sentenced to a year’s probation and a not exactly whopping 24 hours of community service, and he…
James Dobson, Focus on the Family’s moral arbiter and chief scold, isn’t supposed to play a major part in this year’s presidential election. After all, the longtime powerhouse in Republican politics has no detectable fondness for that party’s presumptive nominee, John McCain, and the only way he’ll support Barack Obama…
Judah Friedlander shows viewers the funny in plenty of different venues, including the laugh-inducing NBC sitcom 30 Rock and movies such as the upcoming Eddie Murphy vehicle Meet Dave, not to mention stand-up gigs like his impending four-night run at the Denver Improv (get details here). He ties all of…
United Airlines. It’s the company Denver loves to hate, the one that has caused sky-high stress levels and unhappiness for an untold number of fliers, the company many of us have no choice but to use since it dominates the gates at Denver International Airport. The latest insult? Charging $15…
DNC protest group Tent State University, standing in for the larger protest amalgam Alliance for Real Democracy, has been granted permits to host a series of large concerts in City Park from August 24-28. Parks and Recreation planners expect as many as 20,000 participants will be drawn to the free…
There’s a lot more fresh content on Westword.com’s other blogs. In Demver, Teague Bohlen slaughters Pork Invaders, a new video game developed to hype the candidacy of John McCain. Play it and decide whether it gets your vote. The Cat’s Pajamas salutes the missing Colorado Springs woman who prompted her…
So John McCain’s website has a new game you can play and/or embed in your Facebook profile called Pork Invaders, which you can sample below. Yes, I know it sounds like porn. No, I’m not sure they realize that…
Not so long ago, plenty of pundits seemed to think that John Elway might be interested in a political career — but why in the hell would he hurl himself into that meat-grinder when he’s capable of earning a nice living by letting people pay him to play around? Witness…
The fortieth anniversary of Libre, an artist commune, which drew a large crowd to the Huerfano Valley June 20 to 22, was a fantasmagoria of groovy tunes, far-out art and hip-cat reunions. The first day, the estranged, mainstreamed ex-hippies set up at the campground, then gathered for a semi-formal art…
Comcast’s “Screen to Green TV Recycling Rally,” which begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 28 on the Auraria campus (click here for details), is being given a predictably planet-friendly spin. Press materials quote Denver mayor John Hickenlooper lauding the Screen to Green initiative, which is intended to help consumers…
The non-profit arts advocacy group Americans for the Arts identified four dozen projects across the country for individual awards at its meeting in Philadelphia last weekend. The group mostly represents bureaucrats in the world of public arts administration and the politicians who help pass legislation to pay for all of…
A lot’s happened to Carmelo Anthony since the launch of our June 23 blog about his reaction to persistent trade rumors. As expected, he was named an official member of the 2008 U.S. Olympic basketball team. He also delivered his first public remarks about the prospect of a trade, telling…
It wasn’t very long ago that George Carlin, who died on June 22, graced the pages of Westword. A piece with the now-ironic headline “Carlin Continues” appeared in the paper’s April 3 issue in connection to an appearance at the Buell Theatre to benefit Channel 12, which issued a press…
Focus on the Family leader James Dobson is making headlines for an upcoming broadcast that attempts to give presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama a biblical beating; see this Demver blog for details. But Dobson is just as exercised — if not exorcised — at the possibility that the resurrection…
In a June 24 article by former Denver Post religion writer Eric Gorski, who’s currently writing (and kicking ass) for the Associated Press, Focus on the Family spokesman Tom Minnery said that an aide for Barack Obama recently suggested a sit-down at the evangelical organization’s Colorado Springs HQ. Doubt something…
The PleasuresDudes, Denver’s way-past-prime-time adult TV celebs, were invited to work the green carpet last weekend at the Los Angeles premiere of Poultrygeist. See their slideshow here; their upclose and personal account of the green-carpet capers continues below (read part one here): We finally left the theater in our limo…
