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Miami Prosecutors Quietly Drop "Solved" 1986 Cold-Case Murder Charges
Miami New Times
In 2014, Miami-Dade County prosecutors said Rickey L. Davis was a killer. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle's office announced that her office, working with Miami-Dade Police, had determined that Davis had strangled then-26-year-old Joycelean Burrows to death in Liberty City in 1986. Reporters blasted Davis's mugshot all over the press and...
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Doomsday Preppers Will Descend on Denver for Self-Reliance Expo
Westword Denver
Exhibitors and speakers will focus on sustainability, survival, preparedness and "the simple life."
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Mystery of Shotgun Willie's Dancer and Killer Scott Kimball Hits Prime Time
Westword Denver
NBC's Dateline takes on the case of Scott Kimball and the still-missing woman he's admitted to killing.
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Frontier Pilot: Airline's Mistreatment of Staffers Could Lead to "Major Mishap"
Westword Denver
A Frontier pilot raises alarms about the carrier amid tensions over a salary dispute and more.
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Cite-and-Release Started Last Year but Imposed Bonds Haven't Changed
Dallas Observer
Last year, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson promised that anyone caught with less than 4 ounces of marijuana would no longer be arrested on the spot, spend a night in jail and a pay an expensive bond to get out. But so far, not much has changed. In 2017,...
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Twitter War: Prop 127 Foe Mocked After Tweeting Women ‘Breathe Different Air’
Phoenix New Times
"It was Twitter sarcasm," Matthew Benson said.
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Term-Limited Councilman Paul López Running for Clerk and Recorder
Westword Denver
The seat will be decided in next year's May municipal election.
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Miami Man Pleads Guilty to Secretly Filming Sexual Encounters for Gay Porn Site
Miami New Times
Bryan Deneumostier, age 32, helped run the website "StraightBoyz" for roughly four years. The site offered more than 619 gay-porn videos for users' enjoyment — that is, provided the users enjoyed paying $35 per month to watch men being tricked into having sex on camera without their consent. According to...
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Angry Crab Shack Employees Sue Mesa Seafood Chain for Wage Theft
Phoenix New Times
Angry Crab Shack servers say that the Cajun seafood restaurant violated the Fair Labor Standards Act.
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The Backstory Behind Homeless Camps Sprouting Up in the Golden Triangle
Westword Denver
We got to know the homeless encampment that's been outside our office since Labor Day.
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Colorado Can't Contain the Velveteers
Westword Denver
Demi Demitro and Adrian Pottersmith of The Velveteers talk about what it's like going forward as a band with two drummers, their upcoming UK headlining tour, and what's on the horizon this quickly-rising Denver trio.
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Nick Klein's Love for Miami Comes Full Circle at Kill Your Idol
Miami New Times
The visceral sound of a Nick Klein record isn't something that can be easily sourced or replicated. This is due in part to Klein's approach to texture, volume, and recording: in his hands, the medium becomes shaped by the material in an inescapable way — evidenced by Klein often recording...
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The String Cheese Incident Announces Three New Year's Shows
Westword Denver
Make your New Year's Eve a String Cheese Incident.
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Nothing Could Stop Nine Inch Nails at Red Rocks
Westword Denver
When Nine Inch Nails played at Red Rocks, one question dominated the night: Is dark music medicine?
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Andy Palmer Releases New Video Before Going on Hiatus
Westword Denver
"I'm not sure most folks know the time and energy it takes behind the scenes to grow, and even just maintain, a music career."
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Bob Seger's Final Tour Hits Denver in 2019
Westword Denver
Another farewell tour announcement in a year of artists celebrating their retirement.
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Fire Tiger Want a Return to the "Go Big or Go Home" '80s
Westword Denver
As we get closer to L.A. Fashion Week, an admittedly enormous event in these parts, it only makes sense that, here in the music section, we take a look at a group with a bigger-then-the-norm image. A band that cares about its fashion, puts some effort in. And shit, local pop-rockers Fire Tiger look spectacular. The ’80s influence on the sound has had a similar impact on the image, much to the group’s benefit.
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Karl Denson, Teenage Fanclub Every New Denver Concert Announcement
Westword Denver
Plan your fall concert calendar.
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Greensky Bluegrass Works for a Living
Westword Denver
Greensky Bluegrass started out in Michigan in 2000, when its three original members, Dave Bruzza (guitar), Paul Hoffman (mandolin) and Michael Arlen Bont (banjo), began to develop their promising picking skills at open mics and bars around the city of Kalamazoo.
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The Six Best Events on the Culinary Calendar This Weekend
Westword Denver
Wallow in honey, get your lederhosen on and grab a trio of sausages this weekend around Denver.
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What Happens When You Blend Three GABF Medal-Winning Beers?
Westword Denver
Jamie Williams decided to find out.
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Big Changes for Lon Symensma's Cho77, BorraCho and LeRoux
Westword Denver
Construction delays, restaurant moves and new concepts are all keeping the founder of ChoLon busy.
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Nine Denver Chefs Share Their Own Dining Out Favorites
Westword Denver
If you want to know where the best food is, why not ask a chef?
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Sanguich de Miami Returns to Little Havana With Permanent Storefront on Calle Ocho
Miami New Times
Sanguich de Miami, a wildly popular Cuban sandwich shop, has returned to Little Havana — this time, for good. Last month, Sanguich's co-owners, Daniel Figueredo and Rosa Romero, quietly opened a permanent storefront three blocks west of the spot where their original shipping container debuted last year. This Saturday, September 22, they'll host a grand-opening celebration.
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Fiddlesticks Bar and Grill Is Lakewood's Home for Bar Nonsense
Westword Denver
This Lakewood neighborhood bar specializes in Colorado bar food, billiard and televised sports.
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What to Drink, What to Eat and What to Look For at GABF in 2018
Westword Denver
Here are our pro tips for navigating the world's largest craft beer festival.
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Trends Without End in the Denver Dining Scene
Westword Denver
Food halls, hotel restaurants and Israeli cuisine are among the hottest trends so far this year.
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Denver Deep Dish Adds Styles, Changes Name to Crush Pizza & Tap
Westword Denver
Denver Deep Dish is changing its name to reflect its dedication to several kinds of pizza.
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Nashville Hot Chicken and Craft Beer: Five Perfect Pairings in Denver
Westword Denver
The specialties of Music City and the Mile High City come together at these five spots for chicken and beer.
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Guest Artist Robert Seidel on Supernova and the Lineage of Digital Animation
Westword Denver
Robert Seidel is careful to note that he’s not a digital animator, though he does make use of video and other newer technologies to make what he calls “moving paintings.”
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The Best Things to Do in Miami This Weekend
Miami New Times
Medical Marijuana Concert, Juana Molina, Maren Morris, and more of the best things to do in Miami this weekend, September 21 through 23.
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Weekend Warriors: Sweating for New Beginnings
Westword Denver
This weekend is all about new beginnings and grand openings.
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Best Things To Do in Dallas This Weekend
Dallas Observer
Friday The high-fashion community has always been an advocate for AIDS awareness and research. Even when AIDS was still taboo to talk about, designers, models and retailers put the conversation in the spotlight and raised both awareness and funds. That vital tradition continues at the TWOxTWOXTWENTY Pop-Up Shop at Forty...
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Phoenix Residents Take Over the Streets on PARK(ing) Day
Phoenix New Times
Participants create temporary mini-parks out of Phoenix parking spaces.
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Ten Things to Do in Denver for $10 and Under (Five Free)
Westword Denver
Get busy, Denver.
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Here's Your Guide to September Third Friday in Metro Phoenix
Phoenix New Times
Including our must-see recommendations.
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Colorado Creatives: Laura Hyunjhee Kim
Westword Denver
“Enthusiastic” doesn’t begin to describe Korean-American multimedia explorer Laura Hyunjhee Kim, a PhD candidate in intermedia, writing and performance at the University of Colorado Boulder who ferociously surfs cyberspace in dual roles as an onlooker and a participant.
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Curator William Biety's Life Will Be Celebrated at RedLine
Westword Denver
Over fifteen years, he made many contributions to the local art scene.
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Love, Gilda Lets Gilda Radner Speak for Herself
Westword Denver
Radner narrates, in a way, through her own audio diaries, plus some snippets of interviews and judicious excerpts from the audiobook of her perfectly titled — and just-barely posthumous — memoir, It’s Always Something
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The House With a Clock in Its Walls Is Just the Right Kind of Scary
Westword Denver
Roth’s film is a funhouse throwback, a scare-the-kids goof with a top-shelf cast, an antique shop’s worth of creepy windup dolls and more heart than you might expect — and, like those jack-o’-lanterns, it’s got more teeth, too
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The Online Mob Gets Bloody Literal in Assassination Nation
Westword Denver
Despite the killing-spree craziness of its final reels, much of the film is a how-the-kids-live-now potboiler, replete with guileless dirty talk and immense bedroom windows that seem to have been installed with peeping in mind
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Fahrenheit 11/9 Aims for the Easy Target, Not the Urgent One
Westword Denver
But 11/9 plays not like a much-needed blast of truth but like an all-purpose Michael Moore sequel, a self-congratulatory follow-up to several of his films, with Parkland material in the Bowling for Columbine vein, references to Sicko and even excerpts from 1989’s Roger & Me
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In Life Itself, Women Have to Die So Men Can Learn We’re All Connected
Westword Denver
There’s a sense that Fogelman ... has been inspired in part by the broken narratives of Charlie Kaufman, as the first 10 minutes of this film feature a story-within-a-story meta fake-out with Jackson as himself, narrating the action of a screenplay written by forlorn drunk Will (Isaac)
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Like Blaze Foley Himself, Ethan Hawke’s Blaze Won’t Pander to Anyone
Westword Denver
It is to Hawke’s credit that he has invested what clout he has gathered in his industry into this study of an artist who never gathered much clout at all — and that the resulting film has the warm, weary rhythms of Foley’s own songs
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Chloë Sevigny’s Great, but Lizzie’s Best Whack Isn’t Enough
Westword Denver
... After a somewhat compelling hour suggesting all the reasons that Borden might be willing to kill, Macneill and screenwriter Bryce Kass tantalize with the possibility of their subject’s innocence
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American Chaos Lets Trump’s Fans Jabber On and On
Phoenix New Times
The film, I suspect, will have some minor historical value, but I fear that watching Stern well up on election night won’t offer much insight to people alive now
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The Gloriously Lurid Mandy Knows Just What to Do With Nicolas Cage
Westword Denver
Cosmatos delivers (as fans say) on the blood and guts, on cathartic slaughter, on the disreputable pleasure of watching a bereaved hero regard a new weapon and envision nasty uses for it
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