Her name was Sonja DeVries. She was the only child of Carolyn and Van DeVries, the light of their lives. And on July 18, 2004, that light was extinguished by a drunk driver, sentencing her parents to a life of almost unbearable darkness. The driver, Ramon Romero, is serving the…
It seems that squirrels aren’t the only creatures stocking up for winter by hurriedly filling their cheeks with supplies. A September 21 arrest near Skyline Park reveals that a local drug dealer has been following the lead of our furry friends. According to a Denver Police Department incident report, the…
When Josh Blue was named the last comic standing, he automatically became Denver’s second-most-famous living celebrity — after John Elway, of course, and before…Dealin’ Doug? But Denver has no shortage of dead celebrities, and it’s high time we resurrect one: Neal Cassady, the inspiration for Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s…
The techtonic plates continue to shift along Denver’s increasingly competitive concert scene. Although no official statement has been released, Chuck Morris will be vacating his current post at Live Nation to join his proteges, Don Strasburg and Brent Fedrizzi, at the new Denver outpost of Anschutz Entertainment Group. Morris, one…
I thought I was supposed to be the funny man! That was until I saw Daniel Libeskind’s plans for Civic Center. Compared to his $100 million plan, the ideas I offered in my “Civic Center Master Plan Defined” cartoon seem almost reasonable. The cartoon, which originally ran on March 31,…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu rocked the house when he came out on stage Sunday morning. The thousands of kids gathered in Magness Arena cheered as he danced, waved the scarf that the Dalai Lama had presented him with the afternoon before, talked about how the story of Jackie Robinson inspired him…
Did he or didn’t he? When U.S. Representative Tom Tancredo stopped by the South Carolina State Museum on a swing through that state earlier this month, he delivered his standard immigration speech from a podium draped with the Confederate flag. And then, as he exited the room, some members of…
“Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior.” That’s Earl Devaney, the DOI’s inspector general, telling a House of Representatives subcommittee yesterday about the ethical black hole among the bureaucrats who manage one-fifth of all the land in the United States. In…
On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the founders of PeaceJam met with the Secret Service and finalized arrangements for the ten Nobel Peace Prize winners coming to town this week to announce their global Call to Action and, in rare spare moments, wondered what they’d have to do to become…
The 1900 block of Market Street has been quiet this summer. Not quiet, in the sense that business has been bad — in fact, business along this stretch of LoDo is better than it’s been in years, with people packing the bars and restaurants and rooftop patios. No, quiet in…
Ah, MySpace, thou art a foul temptress. It’s amazing how the social networking website is treated by so many young adults as some sort of secret journal where they can spill their most outlandish desires and drug-addled exploits. It’s a virtual candyland for perverts and journalists alike. Nowhere else can…
There’s nothing that can bring back Sonja DeVries. But the Colorado Republicans just added insult to fatal injury when it sent out a release using the case of Sonja DeVires (sic) — killed by a drunk driver on July 18, 2004, when she was just nineteen— to bash Bill Ritter…
Before Gustavo Arellano started appearing in the pages of Westword, he appeared on The Colbert Report. To watch, click on the control below…
Tom Tancredo makes news wherever he goes — particularly when he’s not precisely sure where he’s going to wind up. On his swing through South Carolina this past weekend, Colorado’s controversial congressman found himself standing behind a podium draped with the Confederate battle flag, addressing the League of the South…
As if I don’t already have enough chef Troy Guard/Sullivan Group stuff kicking around in print, here’s another tidbit. In a recent conversation, spin mistress Leigh Sullivan let it slip that she’d just been on the phone checking on dance lessons for Troy, her husband.. “Seriously? Dance lessons? What for?”…
As if I don’t already have enough chef Troy Guard/Sullivan Group stuff kicking around in print, here’s another tidbit. In a recent conversation, spin mistress Leigh Sullivan let it slip that she’d just been on the phone checking on dance lessons for Troy, her husband.. “Seriously? Dance lessons? What for?”…
Scottie Ewing is becoming a household name in Denver — particularly in southwest Denver. On Thursday night, KDVR Fox 31 News broadcast a story about continued neighborhood opposition to his proposed nightclub at 1395 West Alameda Avenue. Ewing first appeared in these pages in June, when “Swap Talk” detailed the…
Word came down from Washington, D.C., last week: No more horse slaughterhouses in the United States. To which most people responded, “Are there horse slaughterhouses in the United States?” Yes, there are. Three of them. All owned by foreign companies that are slaughtering tens of thousands of horses a year…
Word came down from Washington, D.C., last week: No more horse slaughterhouses in the United States. To which most people responded, “Are there horse slaughterhouses in the United States?” Yes, there are. Three of them. All owned by foreign companies that are slaughtering tens of thousands of horses a year…
Why the Krisana Park Modern Home Tour is not just another house tour: I grew up near, but not in, the Eichler-style, mid-century Krisana Park development and went to Ellis Elementary, the recipient of benefit bucks raised by this weekend’s seven-home tour. In those days, the Bruggenthies greenhouse still stood…
When Brett Andrews Allen, the subject of “The Impersonator,” appeared in Denver District Court yesterday, he was alone. His mother, who’d declined to be interviewed for the story, didn’t show up — but Allen didn’t seem surprised. He says his mom is terrified of the cameras and swarms of reporters…
In the end, the plan for gas drilling on the Roan Plateau, one of the most ecologically diverse areas on the Western Slope, displeased just about everyone. Environmentalists, Senator Ken Salazar and an unusual coalition of local recreation and business interests wanted to leave the top of the plateau unscathed…
