Westword Music Showcase June 16, 2007 Outdoor Stage Better than: Making small talk about my daily life. Aaron Collins is totally offensive. So is Gared O’Donnell, for that matter. The two mouthy frontmen–Collins of Machine Gun Blues and O’Donnell of Planes Mistaken for Stars–shot off a string of expletives on…
It’s summertime in Colorado and the motorcyclists are out, but it’s not just record setting temperatures that’s bringing the heat down on them this year…
I was in high school when the OJ Simpson verdict was read on TV. I was in public speaking class when it was read. The white kids in the class were close to tears, as the black kids jumped up and down and gave each other high fives. I really…
Date: 06-15-07 Type of Offense: Second-degree Burglary Location of Offense: Sunnyside neighborhood…
6.13.07 Kafue River, Zambia Coordinates: S 15 degrees 07.870′ E 025 degrees 58.443′ Zulu Time 0945…
For this week’s on line movie review, I decided to do something a little different. I let my roommate Stoke 27 (his artist name, not his real one) give his thoughts on the latest installment of Fantastic Four, which opened today (June 15) in theaters everywhere. Not because he is…
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DJ Donald Glaude June 14, 2007 The Church Better Than: Being eaten by a bear. The Church hosted DJ Donald Glaude Thursday night but it was Friday morning before he appeared behind the decks. Glaude didn’t come on until just after 1:00 a.m. and his set was over by 1:45…
Vonnegut, The Cinematics and The Photo Atlas Slide Show…
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Westword Music Showcase! This year’s Showcase, set for Saturday, June 16, in the Golden Triangle, is bigger and better than ever (yes, I know we say that every year, but it happens to be true). For starters, the all-ages Outdoor Stage has moved…
It’s surreal to watch Tom Tancredo equate illegal immigration and the movie Terminator. Maybe Tancredo believes since illegal immigrants speak in thick accents like similar to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Terminator character that they both are hi-tech-goal specific robotic killing machines. Regardless of his thought process it is obvious that Tancredo watches way too much TV. As […]
There has been a lot of interest in Westword’s World Naked Bike Ride coverage. And some of you out there might have the idea to recreate the magic that the protest brought to our city. But before you strip and run around the 16th Street Mall, you might want to…
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By the time I squeezed through the closing doors, I was ready to punch the walls if I heard that same bossy voice telling me that I was “delaying the departure of this train.” I was delaying the departure?…
Now with added police footage (and we know that is the best kind). Original story and video Slide Show…
There are two things I will remember Mr. Wizard (a.k.a. Don Herbert) for: 1. He was responsible for my mother beating my ass when I tried one of his experiments (It was the one where you suspend a glass of water upside down from a plate. It didn’t work and…
When I stepped back outside, the wind had picked up. The fuzz from the cottonwood trees was blowing so thick down the street it looked like a freak summer snow storm, but the rain wasn’t far behind. I walked back down the boardwalk and crossed towards the water, looking for…
When I stepped back outside, the wind had picked up. The fuzz from the cottonwood trees was blowing so thick down the street it looked like a freak summer snow storm, but the rain wasn’t far behind. I walked back down the boardwalk and crossed towards the water, looking for…
Comedian and writer for The Simpsons Dana Gould will be appearing at the Comedy Works this weekend. Westword’s Adam Cayton-Holland recently interviewed the prolific comedian about everything from his start in stand-up, to the upcoming Simpsons movie to the brilliance to the second-to-last episode of The Sopranos (Not the last…
The Greenwood Village cop that tasered Denver Nugget DerMarr Johnson at the Purple Martini in the Denver Tech Center early Saturday morning should’ve known it would take a lot more than a little shock to bring the big man down…
Governor Bill Ritter’s colossal snit over long-brewing federal plans to drill the hell out of the Roan Plateau is just what Colorado needs right now: a Sagebrush Rebellion in reverse…
