Former Westword writer David Holthouse (he of the famous “Stalking the Bogeyman” saga) made his debut in Rolling Stone this week (the one with Johnny Depp and Keith Richards on the cover), writing about Shirley Q. Liquor, a gay white man who puts on blackface and performs as a boozing…
A funny thing happened over Memorial Day weekend; the YouTube clip that accompanied our freebirthing story (“Baby’s Day Out”, May 10) experienced a minor explosion in popularity, garnering roughly ten times as many hits over the weekend as it had received in the weeks since it was posted. Jump on…
There’s plenty about the murder of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams (pictured) that doesn’t add up — and the folks at KOA appear to be as confused as anyone. On May 29, the station ran spots promoting an update about the Williams investigation, with the announcer expressing astonishment that it…
There I was, on the home stretch of the Bolder Boulder, pounding down Folsom Street (read: jogging at an exhausted pace barely faster than a walk), endorphins ramping up for final push over the last hill. Then I heard it, blasting from a loudspeaker at a gas station: “Always have…
There is only one true Italian restaurant — back east, in that charmed province that runs along the coast, north into New England, south as far as Baltimore. Upstate, downstate, in the barrens and on the shore, just one restaurant with 10,000 names that has grown the way mushrooms grow,…
Today marks the launch of Do Your Thing, a blog created to share fans’ stories and foster the follow-your-heart ethos that inspired the documentary 10 MPH, which chronicles a cross-country trip via Segway scooter, (“Slow Ride,” August 5, 2004, “Storme of the Day,” May 24) also releasing today on DVD…
Some hail on the ground Left view out the office door…
Tommy Lee Jones in No Country For Old Men. The Coen brothers’ pulpy, ultimately pretentious neo-Western No Country For Old Men screened early in the Cannes Film Festival and by the end had maintained its standing as the most widely approved Yankee feature to bow here since Pulp Fiction (though…
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. The 60th Cannes Film Festival was a generous one — and so was its jury, bestowing the Palme d’Or on the least heralded, most critically acclaimed movie in an unusually strong competition, namely Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2…
The shackled plaintiff testified by video hookup from a holding cell in the control unit of the highest security federal pen in the country. His lawyers were students from the University of Denver who haven’t yet passed the bar. But Mark Jordan was determined to have his day in court…
Offense Report No: 07-329892 Date: 05-21-07 Type of Offense: Assault on an At-Risk Adult Location of Offense: Regis neighborhood Officer T. Elliot reports: “The victim related that he was at home trying to sleep and heard loud music coming from a vehicle parked behind [his home]. The victim [a 27-year-old…
5.25.07 Ferry Station Málaga, Spain Boss, My Gibraltar connection fell through in a nasty way. I got out there to the big rock yesterday with a whole busload of antsy young backpackers, all of them intent on getting a lift across the strait to Morocco so they could get royally…
Map nerds rejoice! Follow Tony Perez-Giese on the Global Warning Google Map as he travels and blogs around the world. Global Warning (Google Maps)…
Because of misinformation provided by Pollstar, regarded as the most reliable concert-industry information provider, this preview item about the May 29 KBPI Birthday Bash at the Fillmore Auditorium inaccurately states that Horse the Band is part of the bill. Actually, the group in question is just plain Horse, featuring KBPI…
5.21.07 Edinburgh, Scotland Chief, I wish I could give you a nice tourism round-up from my four-day drive around Scotland, but it’s kind of hard to take field notes when you’re afraid for your life. Big D established the rules right after him and his son, Little D, scooped me…
This stop-the-presses story from Monday’s Denver Post has the kind of cheery headline and deck you just have to admire: “METH COOKING 101/DEA holds awareness class to show how easy it is to make the drug, which is increasingly imported.” Aside from the fact that homemade meth is the definition…
The Colorado History Museum’s current exhibition, The Italians of Denver, celebrates the numerous contributions to local culture made by the proud immigrant families who came here from Italy and settled primarily in the northwest part of town. Yet for one painting in the exhibition — “The Agony in the Garden”,…
A still from Abel Ferrara’s Go Go Tales. “Whaddya love about it so much?” Abel Ferrara — director of the strip-club-set Go Go Tales, my favorite film at Cannes — is interviewing the interviewer. Well, I say, it’s consistent with the Ferrara oeuvre — King of New York, Bad Lieutenant,…
A still from the Cohen brother’s No Country for Old Men. Sometimes the competition is actually competitive. No one disputes that the official section at the 60th Cannes Film Festival has been the strongest in recent memory. The heavy favorites are the Coen brothers’ No Country For Old Men; Julian…
Slideshow Some people just don’t listen. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a combustible little energy drink that goes by the name of SPIKE. In that column, I pointed out how kids have been going to the hospital for drinking too much SPIKE, and I then proceeded to drink…
Slideshow Bob Dylan is a weirdo among freaks. Even when he was a leader of the ’60s folk scene, he considered himself an outcast, a stranger who was lost, and by his own admission had “no direction home.” So maybe it was fitting that the Bob Dylan tribute show last…
The May television ratings period known as “sweeps” is over, and while Channel 9’s newscast continues to lead all competition in the marquee 10 p.m. slot (and most others), the margin of victory was smaller than it’s been in ages. Predictably, the final daily update compiled by KMGH-TV/Channel 7 publicity…
