Mark Paschall, Jeffco’s finest. Former Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall’s second trial for allegedly soliciting a kickback from an aide’s $18,000 bonus is underway out at the Taj Mahal. (The first one, back in February, ended in an acquittal on one charge and a hung jury on the other.) Although…
Cruise to Demver, Westword’s DNC blog, to see Adam Cayton-Holland’s guide to surviving the Democratic National Convention. There’s a boot, there’s beer in a boot, and there’s a dude in cut-off jean shorts. So there’s pretty much something for everyone…
An old high school is the now the center of CSU’s art world. Just a block or so east of the Colorado State University campus (1400 Remington Street) is the stately old Fort Collins High School, a red-brick, Georgian revival-style building constructed in the 1920s. As you can see from…
As we told you Monday, there’s rampant idling going on at Denver International Airport’s 45 Minute Waiting Area, and the folks in DIA’s environmental-services division are waiting to take action – in the form of signs reminding idlers that their irresponsibility uses more gas, harms their vehicles, and, of course,…
Like retracing Steinbeck’s steps through Salinas, James Anthofer makes like the Rocky’s James Meadows and pisses in a fountain. James Meadow’s hard-hitting “Civic Center Blues” features in the Rocky Mountain News haven’t shied away from the tough issues: Skateboarders. Half-naked women in the seal pond. Secret messages on the walls…
Denver-based indie film Skills Like This nabbed a distribution deal. Drowning in the white caps of westword.com’s blogworld? Have some floaties: Here at the Latest Word, Joel Warner reports that Skills Like This, a locally produced indie film, has been tapped for nationwide distribution, the first Denver film to do…
Denver’s Pleasures Dudes – late-night TV bandits and the subjects of a 2007 Westword feature – hit the red carpet last week for a porn-tastic event with Wicked Pictures, and they brought their camera. Head to the slideshow page for a bizarre slideshow of the Pleasures Dudes and the women…
Asking price: $1.6 mill. Home sales across the metro area may have all the momentum of a Nader presidential campaign, but developers along the Platte River continue to be manically upbeat. The glass boxes keep multiplying, and a penthouse in the Flour Mill Lofts has an asking price upwind of…
Leticia Van de Putte: “We’ve got to put a tremendous effort into making sure that Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico shift totally for Barack Obama.” Leticia Van de Putte wears many hats in a state that’s known for some major headwear. As a Texas state senator, the chair of…
Chris Andersen, aka Birdman, aka Empty Wallet Guy. Below lies your somewhat trusty guide to Westword.com’s five sort of trusty blogs. Use as directed. Kenny Be takes his weekly convention cartoon, Delegating Denver, down that old country road, to West Virginia. The Cat’s Pajamas cruises the aisles at Perpetual, the…
From Colorado Public Radio: Colorado Matters this morning aired a great interview with Kennedy adviser Ted Sorensen, who addressed the potential impact of Obama’s acceptance speech. Hear the interview — and Kennedy’s “New Frontier” speech — at kcfr.org…
The Rocky Mountain News’s “Bet made on carbon offsets” article on Saturday started with this: “Thanks to a windmill that tolls day and night producing clean electricity, the tiny eastern plains outpost of Wray has landed in the center of the fast-moving, carbon-offset world.” When he read that, Brad Jones,…
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The Rocky Mountain News’s “Bet made on carbon offsets” article on Saturday started with this: “Thanks to a windmill that tolls day and night producing clean electricity, the tiny eastern plains outpost of Wray has landed in the center of the fast-moving, carbon-offset world.” When he read that, Brad Jones,…
Denver barmaids were surely rejoicing last week when the Nuggets signed a one-year deal with Chris Andersen, the troubled forward who earned his nickname, Bird Man, as a flailing rookie forward with the Nuggets in 2001. In his time here – about two and a half seasons – Andersen’s impact…
CVVC Virus Report, 7/25/08: The Center for Viral Video Control has reported that this video (shown after the jump) has been responsible for the sudden cranial detonation of approximately 90% of the population of the North American continent. Unconfirmed reports have the video (in translated form) already appearing in Central…
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin:”Some of that healing and unification has started with Sen. Clinton and Sen. Obama and their respective camps. The convention, however, has to advance that.” Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin might be Howard Dean’s most experienced choice among his three nominated co-chairs of the Democratic National Convention. She’s…
View large image West Virginia Total Number of Delegates: 39 Pledged: 28 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize a West Virginia Delegate: If a Sasquatch sighting is ever confirmed, it will no doubt happen in West Virginia. There already are rumors circulating that the state’s governor, Joe Manchin III, is actually…
Ian Gold, in A Few Seconds of Panic: “Don’t hug me, don’t touch me, don’t call me your buddy, don’t tell me you love me, because I know you’ll motherfuck me as soon as I leave the room.” As football fans, we’re conditioned to treat kickers with the same mix…
In 2007, when Westword published its twenty-fourth Best Of Awards, things were looking up for the Rockies: Matt Holliday, our winner for “Best Rocky,” was a rising star, and he and the rest of the team’s young players were — who knew? — just months away from an improbable World…
Our favorite winner from Westword’s twenty-third Best of Denver Awards has to be that for “Best (Very) Late-Night People Watching,” the Ramada Inn on Colfax: The Ramada Inn Downtown Denver is like a rock-and-roll RV park on weekend nights, when tour buses crowd the parking lot and bleary-eyed musicians trickle…
How does a city change in four years? A look at Westword’s twenty-second Best Of Denver awards, bestowed in 2005, give a sense. We called Devil’s Food Bakery the Best Waffle joint, “a dangerous place firmly dedicated to helping those with a weakness for the venal wrongs of gluttony to…
