Michael Roberts

Colorado

Writer at Freelance

Colorado native, excellent typist.

Articles

Nuggets Fans: Jokic Mistakes Led to Game Two Loss to Clippers

2 days ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

After the Denver Nuggets fell to the Los Angeles Clippers, 105-102, in game two of their opening round playoffs matchup on April 21, fans on social media aimed their blame at Nikola Jokić for uncharacteristic mistakes over the course of the bout. But they also acknowledged that without the Joker, the Nugs wouldn't have had a chance in hell of a W. Fair? Probably not — but such is reality for the squad's 2024-2025 edition.
Nuggets, Russell Westbrook Avoid Gagging Away Game 1 Versus Clippers

4 days ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

The Denver Nuggets' 2024-2025 regular season started out wacky and grew progressively loonier over time. So it's appropriate that the opening contest of the squad's playoffs campaign — a 112-110 overtime victory at the expense of the Los Angeles Clippers on April 19 — would produce so many head smacks that thousands of fans probably woke up this morning still bearing swollen palm prints over their eyes.
What Netflix's Forrest Fenn Treasure Hunt Docuseries Tries to Bury

2 weeks ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

Netlfix's Gold & Greed: The Hunt for Fenn's Treasure takes three episodes and around three hours of screen time to tell the story of the late Forrest Fenn. An eccentric from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fenn became a national celebrity after he announced that he'd hidden a chest filled with up to $2 million worth of gold and assorted baubles somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, setting off a search for the booty that spanned nearly a decade and obsessed untold thousands of fortune hunters.
The Life and Death Story Behind Records on Main, Littleton's New Vinyl Nirvana

3 weeks ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

The enterprise at the center of Chernin's fantasies is Records on Main, a vinyl haven located at 2430 West Main Street in downtown Littleton. But during the run-up to its scheduled introduction on Sunday, April 13, he suffered a horrific motorcycle accident that could easily have killed him. And while he survived the crash, he faces many, many weeks of recovery — an unavoidable necessity that put the timing of his creation's opening and the business's very existence at risk.
The Twelve Best Radio Stations for Music in Denver

3 weeks ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

Which ones are worth your time? We've assembled a handy starter set of suggestions based on twelve broad musical categories, listed below in alphabetical order. The selections should provide the perfect soundtrack for your next commute, road trip, backyard get-together or solo chill time. Now hear these. Yes, people still listen to music on the radio the old-fashioned way — by using a tuner to dial up a station that broadcasts by way of an antenna.
Sundance Film Festival's Move to Boulder Is a Colorado Coup

3 weeks ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

It's official: The Sundance Film Festival, an internationally renowned independent-movie event created by actor Robert Redford in 1978 and named for his character in the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, is moving from its longtime home in Park City, Utah to Boulder in January 2027. Plenty of signs have pointed in Boulder's direction since the folks at the Sundance Institute announced that they might seek a new home when the fest's current contract expired next year.
Remembering Norm Clarke, Swashbuckling Denver Journalism Legend

1 month ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

Norm Clarke, a journalist with a trademark eyepatch whose colorful career included a lengthy stint in Denver as a sportswriter and on-the-town columnist, died in Las Vegas on March 20. He was 82. But he lived long enough to see a copy of The Power of the Patch, a memoir that he spent the last eight years writing, detailing more than ten times that span filled with fun, frolic and much more than a dash of spice.
Lawsuit Over Meth Overdose Death in Weld County Jail Settled for $3.5 Million

1 month ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

A 2022 lawsuit filed over Amy Cross's methamphetamine overdose death in a Weld County jail has been settled for $3.5 million. An attorney for the Denver law firm representing the Cross estate sees the size of the agreement as significant in multiple ways. "I think it represents the severity of what happened to Amy Cross," says Anna Holland Edwards of Holland, Holland Edwards & Grossman LLC.
Wayne Laugesen on New Podcast, Donald Trump, Colorado Republicans

1 month ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

What are the differences between Colorado Republicans and GOP backers across the country? Wayne Laugesen, editorial page editor of the Colorado Springs Gazetteand the Denver Gazette, has some ideas. "Colorado Republicans writ large are fiscally conservative but socially moderate — and some of them are socially liberal," Laugesen says. "I probably fall into the latter category, with the exception of abortion.
Woody Paige on Cancer Surgery, Impending End of Around the Horn

1 month ago | westword.com | Michael Roberts

On March 7, Woody Paige would have had every reason to be depressed. After all, just three days earlier, ESPN revealed the cancellation of Around the Horn, a daily sports dish-fest that has featured Paige for 23 years, since its debut in 2002. The final episode is set to air on May 23. But Paige, 78, is anything but downbeat, in part because of a positive resolution to a medical crisis he's kept quiet until now.