“After the Exit,” Michael Roberts, December 6 Pultide Carols Sheesh. Other than the Christm…oops!…holiday gift ideas, the December 6 issue of Westword was packed full of more tearjerkers than an economy-sized box of Kleenex. First there was the usual Ask a Mexican bitch about how the Mexican food here isn’t…
After Big Head Todd and the Monsters kicked off Senator Hillary Clinton’s appearance at Auraria in October, she added “Blue Sky” — the song that Todd Park Mohr and company had written at the request of members of the Space Shuttle Discovery for their 2005 mission, the first since the…
In a lot of ways, the Internet is like a wormhole: There you are, just cruising along in your space module, playing pinochle with some commie chimpanzee and sipping on Tang when you see one — and oh, man, you’ve got to get a closer look. So you proceed with…
A curious sticker campaign featuring a hot hipster chick in a pouty-lip pose has even the most snooty veterans of the street-art scene doing a double take. The stickers show a MySpace URL and the blaring headline “JULENE HAS HERPES.” Could it be a new DIY fashion brand or an…
In retrospect, the saga that’s come to be known as the Boulder land grab seems like a surefire hit. After all, the tale involves a prominent married couple — Richard McLean, an ex-judge and former mayor, and Edie Stevens, an attorney and onetime chair of the Boulder Democratic Party —…
It’s ten minutes to five on the afternoon of June 29, 2006, and Mark Brennan can feel the tension coiled inside him like a steel spring, wound to the breaking point. He sits in a nearly deserted courtroom in Denver’s Alfred A. Arraj United States Courthouse with his client, Bill…
Forget peace on earth, good will to men and all that crap. Christmas, above all else, is about one thing: draping your house and shrubbery in excessive amounts of very, very small light bulbs to the envy and/or embarrassment of your neighbors. Two Coloradans have taken the pursuit to a…
Despite official denials at the outset that gunman Matthew Murray had any connection to New Life Church, where he killed two young women on Sunday, a very different picture is emerging from Murray’s copious online postings. A 2004 visit by Murray to the New Life campus apparently drove a deeper…
My waiter came by, brought me a warm towel for my fingers, a stack of menus, a beer. Then we started talking — about the menu, about the Izakaya concept, about how to order and what I should order and how much of everything I should order. “How hungry are…
The documentary Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, which begins its Denver run on December 14 at the Starz FilmCenter, has a fine subject — the combustible, highly quotable shouter for the Clash, who died in 2002 — and a sympathetic, visually audacious director — Julien Temple, the onetime music-video…
The land dispute between Boulder neighbors that’s at the center of the December 12 Message column just received its most prominent moment in the national spotlight to date: a four-minute spot heard by listeners to the NPR program All Things Considered on December 10. The piece stands out because it…
In 1993, Westword published its tenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Place to Take the Pope When He Comes to Town to Best Explosion (the old Montgomery Ward building on Broadway) to Best Radio Talk-Show Host (Peter Boyles, whose ratings continue…
Moderators at an online forum for former Pentecostals have reposted the rantings of Matthew Murray, the gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs this weekend, on their website here. Joe Istre, president of the Association of Former Pentecostals wrote of the decision, “In the interests of…
The gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs despised his own deeply fundamentalist upbringing but couldn’t quite escape it. Even while quoting copiously from the Web rantings of Columbine killer Eric Harris (“God, I can’t wait until I can kill you people”) in his own cyberspace…
“It’s a hotter issue than it ever has been before, all the presidential candidates are talking about it,” says Helen Krieble, a Colorado woman with a plan to solve the nation’s immigration trauma profiled in this Westword feature, “No candidate can step out in front of an audience without answering…
The Rocky Mountain News has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in “Beyond the Boom.” The four-day series, which debuted on December 10, is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the impact of the current uptick in energy-related projects on the state, complete with special, ad-free sections designed…
White House press secretary Dana Perino, a recent Westword profile subject, admitted to having had a bad week a few days back — and that’s not an example of spin. Perino, a Wyoming native who was raised in Colorado from age two, not only engaged in a heavily reported snipefest…
View larger image Kentucky Total Number of Delegates: 59 Pledged: 50 Unpledged: 9 How to Recognize a Kentucky Delegate: Kentuckians insist that they live in the south, even though the majority of the state’s population lives along the northern border, mainly in Louisville and the suburbs of the solidly Midwestern…
I’m no meteorologist, but I do know this: it was really, really cold out this weekend. We would have more for you this morning, my fellow Denverites, but several of us, after having bundled up to head out to enjoy the amazing culture of this town, decided that the roads…
When I clicked on my television Sunday afternoon, December 9, I thought all I’d see was football. Instead, I got a crystal-clear lesson in TV priorities, as assorted stations covered and/or didn’t cover a pair of local shootings — one at Arvada’s Youth With a Mission center, the other at…
In National Public Radio’s December 10 story about the previous night’s debate, a Republican presidential candidate forum in Miami sponsored by Univision, Tom Tancredo was mentioned first. How did the double T pull off this long-awaited coup? By not showing up — ostensibly because appearing at such a “Spanish-speaking” event…
Even Hillary Clinton does not rank in the Top Ten Queen Bitches of History. Here, in ascending order, is our list…
