Obama! Snow! A flurry of announcements started coming in yesterday, all indicating that Denver is on a collision course with a made-for-TV disaster. President Barack Obama is coming to town for two fundraisers tonight, as well as one public appearance tomorrow, inspiring a number of official and unofficial political activities…
In December 2007, Molly Midyette was convicted of child abuse that led to the death of her ten-week-old son, Jason, and sentenced to sixteen years in prison — even though she was at work and her husband, Alex, was watching the baby at the time. This week, she’ll be out…
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition moves to Fridays tonight, and makes a stop in Colorado. No, this isn’t where the crew builds a house for a family enduring hardship — that happens in Pennsylvania. Instead, while the crew is building their home, the family waits in Colorado…
President Barack Obama was in town last month, and will be back next week. But today, it’s George W. Bush’s turn to visit Denver, where he’ll be meeting this morning with Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver school superintendent Tom Boasberg to talk about Get Smart Schools, a charter school initiative…
The world will end on Friday, according to Harold Camping, the biblical clock-watcher who was born in the apocalyptic town of Boulder more than nine decades ago. Of course, Camping has been wrong before: He’d predicted that the Rapture would hit on May 21, 2011 — and if it did,…
Travel + Leisure recently released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits to bars and restaurants. And there’s some good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry…
Travel + Leisure just released its list of America’s Favorite Cities, ranking 35 major metropolitan areas on everything from pretty people to driving habits. There’s good news for Denver: It’s the No. 1 city for microbrews. Which means there’s plenty of beer to cry in over our pathetic showing in…
Amid the regrouping of Occupy Denver, which was booted out of Lincoln Park but is still growing as a movement, the state’s official Democratic political power brokers are in Las Vegas, at “Project New West Summit: A Roadmap for the West in 2012,” which today includes an appearance by Governor…
There have been some tense times between Aurora and Denver officials since word came down this summer that Gaylord Entertainment would like to build a hotel/resort complex in Aurora — and move the National Western Stock Show there, too…
There are dozens of great restaurant bars in the metro area, and yesterday Laura Shunk attempted to narrow that list down to Denver’s five best bars in restaurants. Barflies are questioning one particular inclusion: Cherry Creek Grill…
Gardeners along the Front Range are harvesting the fruits of their labors — and those gardeners include many local restaurateurs, who are supplying much of the produce for their own kitchens. Laura Shunk is currently profiling these chef/farmers, and her post on the Black Cat’s Eric Skokan yesterday prompted this…
County clerks began mailing ballots out yesterday. And in Denver, Pueblo, Boulder and a half-dozen other counties, that also meant mailing ballots to voters labeled “inactive” — some because they’d simply skipped one election cycle. Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler had sued Denver County to prevent that, but a…
Be thankful to your ancestors that got on that boat, landed here, and created the life you have today.” Those are the words of Mickie Lava Clayton, a longtime leader in Denver’s Italian community who passed away last November, less than a month after the 2010 Columbus Day Parade and…
History Colorado, the new museum that replaced a thirty-year-old facility a block away, will be dedicated today at 12th and Broadway — marking a very good outcome for what was once a very bad idea: burying the building underground at Civic Center Park…
Lots of sour notes at the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last week, with twenty boardmembers resigning before the musicians ultimately agreed to a 9 percent paycut. But at a meeting yesterday, what remains of the CSO board took several strategic moves to ensure the symphony’s survival…
Who put the “international” in Denver International Airport? Not just the Martians living in those underground tunnels at DIA. Next May, Icelandair will introduce non-stop flights from Denver to Reykjavik, Iceland — and the airline just launched a photo contest for two round-trip tickets on that inaugural flight, along with…
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette didn’t just fall off the turnip truck. She’s been concerned about food safety throughout her tenure in Congress, and yesterday, she and California Representative Henry Waxman sent a letter demanding a full investigation into the listeria contamination that’s already killed fifteen people…
Hold your horses! Cowboys only have to stay on a buckin’ bronc for eight seconds, but the debate over the proposed National Western Stock Show relocation continues to bump along. Five weeks ago, Mayor Michael Hancock gave NWSS officials until October 1 to come up with an explanation of why…
At tonight’s inaugural Pen and Sword open house at the Denver Press Club, a turn-of-the-century treasure at 1330 Glenarm Place, thirteen club member-authors will offer “the stories behind the books” from 6 to 9 p.m. But the stories, and the night, won’t end there. Stories rarely end that neatly…
The listeria outbreak that’s killed at least thirteen people has been traced to cantaloupe from Jensen Farms in Holly. While the FDA has been looking for the cause of the contamination there, the feds have never suggested that the problem was sick workers. But that hasn’t stopped the Yes on…
In the fall of 2009, local officials looked around and suddenly discovered that the medical marijuana business was booming in Denver. In fact, it might have been the city’s only growth industry at the time. The national media discovered the story, too — and when Westword advertised for a medical…
Last week, Anderson Cooper interviewed Willow the Cat. On Monday, he featured two more Coloradans on his new show, Anderson — but the story of Kristen and Will Stillman, which first appeared on the cover of Westword a year ago, isn’t nearly as warm and fuzzy…
