Can you ever have enough Harry Potter? The masterminds behind the franchise obviously don’t think so. The thousands of pages that comprise the books are looking more like a gateway drug every day. Once the taste is acquired, watching the movies is just a more efficient way to get the…
Society’s unseen illnesses are often easy for the mainstream to ignore, the “what-can-I-do” syndrome. Gang-bangin’ is one such illness, for which the only cure is community. This community, however, seemingly forgot about gang-bangin’ until Denver Bronco Darrent Williams lost his life to it on New Year’s Eve. Now, with a…
While Jack “Dr. Death” Kevorkian spent the last decade in prison, the right-to-die movement has raged on right out of Denver, where the non-profit, Compassion and Choices (an agency that grew out of the Hemlock Society) has continued to advocate for people like Sandy Bush, a cancer patient who couldn’t…
Slide show At this point, if you don’t know about Los Comicos Super Hilariosos, all I can say is, you better ask somebody. What’s that you say? You were asking me that exact question right now? Geez, I’m sorry. I’ll stop being such a prick and just tell you that…
Former New York City mayor and current GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani is headed to Denver for a visit. Fans and supporters can meet the potential president at a party June 9 for the low, low price of $1,000. If mingling at the party isn’t exciting enough, you can get…
The biggest current newsmaker in Colorado is a guy no one wants to share the same air with. Andrew Speaker, 31, was flown to Denver’s National Jewish Medical and Research Center for treatment of a strain of tuberculosis so virulent that he’s been placed under federal quarantine — the first…
Wednesday night MTV desperately scraped the resin from their Real World Denver crack pipe and aired the final, final, final few snippets of tripe remaining in their air-proof, secret underground vaults. The show was called “The Shit You Should Have Seen” or something like that but I really wouldn’t know…
Michael Andre and his wife, Marie. A coroner’s report issued yesterday by the Denver Office of the Medical examiner shows that Michael Andre was experiencing “acute intoxication” at the time of his death on February 23. The popular criminal defense attorney, had barricaded himself inside his Cherry Creek town home…
Steve Hogan, executive director of the Northwest Parkway Public Highway Authority, is looking for a new job. Hogan made this announcement after accepting a deal to lease the 11-mile Northwest Parkway toll road – which runs from Broomfield to E-470 – to a foreign business consortium that hopes to cash…
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Denver’s own gonzo brewery has gone geek. On May 15 Flying Dog Brewery announced their Open Source Beer Project, hoping to channel the talents of homebrew aficionados everywhere into the creation of their next specialty beer. The idea here is that homebrewers will take the recipe, test it, improve it…
To Whom It May Concern: My name is Aron Palma. I am a proud North High senior. I would first of all like to thank you for your time and consideration in reading this letter. The reason I am writing to you is to hopefully inspire and motivate you to…
The Colorado History Museum’s current exhibition, The Italians of Denver, celebrates the numerous contributions made by the proud immigrant families who came here from Italy and settled primarily in the northwest part of town, and even attacks the discrimination that Italian immigrants faced in America, including stereotypes about gangsters and…
Kitty Stark doesn’t seem like the type of person capable of raising anyone’s blood pressure. She’s a 63-year-old child-care provider with a kindly personality and a ready laugh. Yet when she objected to an offhand joke about “Vietnamese hookers” made by KHOW’s Craig Silverman and shared her thoughts about the…
It now costs $63 to take a cab from Bradley International Airport to Wesleyan University. Five years ago it cost only $50. I attribute this discrepancy to the War on Terror. I used to take cabs on that route quite often, either to the airport or from it, alternately heading…
“Girl Trouble,” Patricia Calhoun, May 24 Isn’t That Special? Your column on ladies’ nights gave me a great laugh, Ms. Calhoun. I just love to read about women’s justifications for “special deals” because, well, they deserve them. How would you feel if women had to pay more than men? How…
Westword’s crack team of political analysts are at it again. Last week they answered the age-old question, “Which local politician most resembles Shakira?” Now they’ve taken their investigation one step further, to bring to you, for the first time (drum roll, please) WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF LOCAL POLITICOS MATED WITH…
As was noted in this week’s Off Limits, the glitch-ridden Georgetown Loop railroad didn’t open in time for last weekend’s Railroad Days celebration in Georgetown. Some travelers must have showed up in Georgetown expecting otherwise, since on Friday a Denver Post article written by John Wenzel encouraged Memorial Day revelers…
A still from We Own the Night. Last weekend, as Jerry Bruckheimer’s pirates were once again storming the international box office, the Cannes Film Festival bestowed its two top prizes on a gut-wrenching Romanian movie about backroom abortion and a plaintive Japanese drama about a sad old man who wants…
Patrick Osborn, Westword’s Drunk of the Week columnist, is leaving, and we want to send him off with a properly toasted toast! So we’re collecting the very best drunk stories we can find, and will honor the winner with a hundred-dollar bill he/she can spend at the drinking establishment of…
5.28.07 Palma, Mallorca Spain Chief, I arrived here last week after my fiasco in Gibraltar to find that my old college professor is on the mainland taking care of some business. He booked me into a hotel until he gets back, assuring me that the price was right and that…
