The most isolated prisoner in America has some new friends at the University of Denver. Student lawyers at the Sturm College of Law filed a lawsuit Wednesday on behalf of Thomas Silverstein, an inmate at ADX, the federal supermax prison in Florence, claiming that his solitary confinement for the past…
For those following the recent travails of Mary Louise Starkey, who’s been accused of mismanagement and physical altercations at her world-famous Denver butler school (“At Your Disservice”) and was recently arrested for allegedly attacking one of her students last February ( “Mary Starkey Got Served”), here’s the latest news: In…
In Minneapolis, the RNC Welcoming Committee – the protest-planning counterpart to Denver’s DNC-dissing Recreate 68 – recently released this hilarious, self-spoofy recruitment video as part of its efforts to draw comrades to the Twin Cities to screw with the Republicans next September. Nationally, an umbrella group to these umbrella groups,…
Diana DeGette has laid claim to the unusual distinction of hosting a Democratic National Convention physically located entirely in a single congressional district: Hers. In the past, conventions have overlapped multiple districts, the congresswoman said Wednesday during a roundtable discussion. The 2008 convention, which takes place next August in Denver,…
And then there was one. There are 46 people serving life without the possibility of parole in Colorado for crimes that they committed as juveniles. But, thanks to a law passed last year, those who commit first-degree murder before they turn 18 are now eligible for parole after 40 years…
Here’s a new way to tell if there’s going to be a snowstorm: Wait for the Denver Post to run a story in which prognosticators suggest that such weather systems will be few and far between. Last year, as sketched out in this More Messages blog, a Post reader noted…
Remember last winter? Remember all the abuse that was heaped on city, county and state representatives in charge of road safety due to their poor preparation in advance of storms and tardy responses once precipitation started to fall? Remember how said government types swore they’d learned lessons from the debacle…
When they use the “cow town” descriptor, what most folks mean is podunk, provincial, lacking in the sort of taste and culture found in the big cities on the coasts. They’re saying that while we, the people of Denver, may be urbane enough to understand that going out for a…
View larger image Iowa Total Number of Delegates: 56 Pledged: 45 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize an Iowa Delegate: Iowa is the smartest state in the union, topping the annual list for national ACT and SAT scores. That’s only fitting, since the national ACT offices are in Iowa City, and…
Long before the Denver Crip set known as the Tre Tres became notorious for a link to the still unsolved murder of Denver Bronco Darrent Williams almost a year ago, they forever changed the life of Cathy Maestas for the worse. Maestas’s son, Geranimo, was 16 on this day in…
Denver-based attorney and past Westword profile subject Andrew Cohen is a rarity — a TV legal expert who brings class and smarts to a role that’s often filled by ranters and screamers. No wonder he’s been a regular presence on CBS’s weeknightly newscast through the equivalent of three administrations, regularly…
Is there anything capable of making Broncos’ fans feel better about the team’s November 25 overtime loss to the Chicago Bears, which has to rank among the most idiotic and unnecessary defeats in franchise history? Probably not — but this clip from NBC Sports comes close. In it, Keith Olbermann,…
I asked the Mexican what he wanted to eat during his visit to Denver. In addition to being the author of Ask a Mexican, a weekly column now published in 31 papers, Gustavo Arellano is the food editor at our sibling paper, OC Weekly, in Southern California. So finding the…
This morning’s “Speakout” in the Rocky Mountain News features a curious little rant by one of the University of Colorado’s nuttiest professors, Michael Tracey, the dubious documentarian who made John Mark Karr a household name. The piece is remarkable on several levels, none of which have much to do with…
“A Tough Sell,” Naomi Zeveloff, November 8 Home, Sweet Home As a Stapleton resident not living in affordable housing, I would like to say that we do not all share the same fears as Margot Vahrenwald when it comes to having more affordable options in our community. It is too…
What was it about this particular pooch? His limpid brown eyes? His fetchingly droopy ears? His legendarily mellow demeanor? Or his slobbery affinity for peanut butter? Certainly the height differential alone would seem to make the basset hound an unlikely pick for a predator. The dog isn’t talking, and neither…
I can kick your ass in Street Fighter II. I’m not kidding. You could be Ryu or Guile or even M. Bison if we were playing the Turbo version, and I could be lowly Zangief, and I would still bury you. I’d deliver a swirling, hairy, man-blizzard of Russian beatdown…
As the head of the prominent Denver-based Starkey International Institute of Household Management, Mary Louise Starkey has long been recognized for bringing professionalism to the butler industry. But the city’s “First Lady of Service” has also become known among former students, staff and industry colleagues for alleged mismanagement, turmoil and…
Last week, Quiznos chairman and former CEO Richard Schaden delivered the keynote address at the Under One Roof — Denver Help the Homeless Summit that brought mayors from around the country to Denver to discuss ways to end homelessness. But event promoters had also promised that Schaden would make a…
In a June press release sent out under his own byline, publisher Zac Folk touted his hiring of Dahlia Weinstein, the Rocky Mountain News’s society columnist, as editor-in-chief of a new luxury lifestyle magazine dubbed Shine. “With Dahlia’s talent, vision and influence, the magazine is sure to be among the…
October 20: Maranatha Christian Center Crusaders vs. Nederland Panthers W-I-N. That’s the acronym that head coach Aaron Jones has repeated for months to his high school football team, the Nederland Panthers, when they’ve needed to get their heads in the game. W-I-N: What’s Important Now. And what’s important right now…
As the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office continues to investigate the Glendale Police Department’s handling of a recent prostitution sting — profiled in the November 8 City Limit “Prostitution Sting Has Fringe Benefits” — it has sent letters to defense attorneys, advising them that their cases may benefit from information…
