If Chris Matthews has to ask someone “Why are you screaming?” then you know something interesting must be going on. And that it was, on Hardball this week. Conservative Los Angeles political commentator (and occasional talking head on CNN and CourtTV) Kevin James was on to address President Bush’s recent…
It was almost two years ago that the parents of Jennifer Marcum posted a billboard by Shotgun Willie’s, offering a $20,000 reward for anyone who could tell them the whereabouts of their daughter, who’d been working as a stripper at Shotgun Willie’s before she disappeared. The last her parents knew,…
Attention, all snooty contemporary art nerds and starving painters/taggers/sculptors/illustrators/photographers/designers of Denver! Want to check out the screening of Beautiful Losers at the Mayan next Thursday? For free? Test your skills at identifying the artists behind the works shown after the jump. The first three people to send a correct list…
Art geeks will recall the Beautiful Losers exhibition that toured American museums from 2004 to 2006 (it featured Colorado native Evan Hecox) and the subsequent book of the same name that profiled the emerging aesthetic category now known as Urban Contemporary. Well, the man behind both of those projects, Aaron…
A few years ago, Sally Perisho was in the driver’s seat at the Center for Visual Art, and in that role was one of the city’s chief movers-and-shakers when it came to art. But since she was forced out of her choice gig by a bureaucrat in Metro State’s administration…
On May 14 the Colorado Department of Corrections announced that it would be bringing nearly 500 state prisoners back from Sayre, Oklahoma, where they’d been stored in a private lockup like so much toxic waste for months because of a lack of bedspace in Colorado prisons. At first glance, this…
Last year, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs and the Denver County Cultural Council hired Artspace Projects, Inc. to conduct an online survey meant to assess the need for space among those in the creative fields, including the visual arts. The survey results, released at a town hall meeting at…
A 20-year-old Denver man was arrested Saturday after leaving a toddler in a locked car while he watched dancers at Shotgun Willie’s strip club. According to a police incident report, a Glendale officer was flagged down at 6:46pm on May 10 by a Fascinations adult superstore manager who was concerned…
Check out the trailer for the new graffiti documentary Bomb It, screening tonight at the Starz Film Center to kick off three days of graffiti events organized by Kim Owens over at www.kaffinebuzz.com. Directed by Jon Reiss – who will be on hand afterward to answer questions – the film…
Alert! Take your frog out of the freezer! Earlier this month, the Colorado Division of Wildlife suggested that one of the best ways to deal with frogs not native to Colorado is to euthanize them by putting them alongside your frozen peas and corndogs. “It might sound cruel, but the…
“Boys Will Be Wetboys,” Jared Jacang Maher, May 1 Chairmen of the Board The funny thing about a boy with a skateboard is that you can do what you will with it. If it makes you get some rad trick that no one has done, you would be satisfied —…
Someone in Denver is throwing a Pajama Party, and Westword’s been invited. It started two months ago, when staff writer Joel Warner discovered a mysterious handwritten letter hidden at the bottom of a deposit-envelope receptacle at a downtown Wells Fargo ATM. The unsigned note requested that whoever found it draw…
The recent announcement that the Colorado Daily will abandon its headquarters at 2610 Pearl Street in Boulder in order to share space with the Boulder Daily Camera hardly caused an uproar among locals. Just three readers posted comments on a Camera article about the change — and only one saw…
Last week, I took a walk in a juggalo’s shoes — or at least his T-shirt. Juggalos may be hated the world over, but nowhere do they feel less welcome than at Colorado Mills. Although juggalos can buy shirts and hoodies and jerseys with the red Hatchetman logo of Insane…
Mary Louise Starkey, head of the prominent Denver-based butler school Starkey International Institute of Household Management, was arrested yesterday for domestic violence. The incident is the latest in a string of recent embarrassments for Starkey, 59, the city’s so-called “First Lady of Service.” As reported in the Westword story “At…
At 2 p.m. today, the Denver 2008 Convention Host Committee was scheduled to officially unveil its “Freewheelin” bike-sharing program, in which 1,000 bikes will be distributed around the streets of Denver to be freely used by visitors and the public during the Democratic National Convention, August 25-28. Local luminaries are…
With hindsight being 20/20, the minute after Barack Obama finished his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston, Hillary Clinton should have been on the phone to party leaders in West Virginia, setting the wheels in motion to allow the state to move its primary up in…
As detailed in a More Messages blog, University of Colorado Boulder Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson is spearheading a long-term project (estimated price tag: $9 million) to bring more conservative professors to the famously liberal institution. Well, at least one high-profile aspirant is ready, willing and able to share his rightward…
Updated May 14, 2008 2:40 p.m. Denver and Boulder newspapers take pride in being one-stop shopping places for the latest information about Colorado — and reporters and editors there despise it when a nearby competitor scoops them. The ire runs even hotter, though, when they’re beaten by outsiders, as seemingly…
This afternoon, the office of Congresswoman Diana DeGette, vice-chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent out a release noting that she was supporting legislation to suspend the filling of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve through the end of the year, which the House will vote on tonight: “Congress is…
It’s still not too late to get Mom a belated something special. From experience, she probably expects too little too late as a matter of course. So, in order to make for your perpetual tardiness, you’re looking for something beyond the usual brunch out, card and flowers, all the stuff…
There’s a lot of wizardry at CNN these days. There’s Wolf Blitzer and his enchanted beard. There’s Andersen Cooper and the mystical way he made everyone forget that he was ever the host of a reality show. And then there’s John King and his magic board of election elucidation. The…
