“I’ve been thrown out of some of these bars. Chased out. Ignored. I don’t do karaoke, but I know a place where one might indulge their proclivities for singing half-drunk versions of Mandy or Forever in Blue Jeans until late in the night or early in the morning. I know…
Skitching: all the kids are doin’ it – at least according to the Denver Post. Last Thursday, a Littleton teenager died after being run over by his buddy’s Jeep while “skitching,” meaning he was riding his skateboard while holding onto a moving vehicle. But those who assume that the death…
I know when I eat any kind of fried food, thoughts of evil float around in my head. The Devil uses trans-fat to tempt humankind and I can say I am tempted many times a day. While I’m stuffing that fried Twinkie in my mouth, I say a prayer, hoping…
News today that Denver International Airport is hoping to place advertisements in the plastic bins used at security checkpoints is sure to stir up complaints about turning security screenings into one big commercial. If you can’t be spared from an advertising bombardment as you take off half your clothes and…
Last week, Colorado Department of Transportation head Russell George announced that the agency would be reexamining its stance that highway widening is the “preferred alternative” for addressing gridlock along the I-70 mountain corridor…
On May 21, Internet millionaire turned Democratic Party insider Jared Polis formally declared his intention to run for the second Congressional district seat currently held by Mark Udall, a declared candidate for the U.S. Senate. (Polis’ website can be accessed here.) By doing so, he’s opening himself up to a…
Thickly bearded and shrouded beneath a floppy hat, Sir Richard Bishop warmed up the eager, Monday night crowd. Sort of an edgier Leo Kottke, after about thirty minutes of lighting-quick guitar instrumentals he lightheartedly lambasted the freak folk scene, trying to count the beards in the crowd. Then he broke…
As noted in an April Message column and blog items like this one from May 7, the Rocky Mountain News appears to be focusing much of its impending staff slimming on the features section. Some employees have already been shifted, in whole or in part, to duties elsewhere in the…
“The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice,” said Theodore Roosevelt. But Roosevelt was wrong, dead wrong. The most successful politician is he who looks most like sexy George Clooney. Of course, old Teddy never could have known this,…
Click the links for a slideshow of the event The Omens Hi-Dive Saturday, May 19th Yerkish and Red Cloud West Oriental Theater Friday, May 18th The BBC America Brit Bus Tour Civic Center Park Saturday, May 19th Bow Wow Vows Aspen Grove Saturday, May 19th…
The concept is great: a marathon on the longest non-highway street in America. It’s the reality that sucks, at least for those of us who subjected ourselves yesterday to the torture that was the Colorado Colfax marathon. The course is an uphill battle of Colfaxian proportions, with the majority of…
During the first several years following their April 1993 debut, the Colorado Rockies were the envy of Major League Baseball thanks to the incredible fan support they enjoyed. But less than a decade and a half later, the team has pissed away every last drop of that good will. The…
Red Room (along with seven other bars along East Colfax) 7:00 pm Saturday, May 19 My favorite memory from my first Colfax Crawl was my former German roommate being mistaken for a prostitute. We were sitting on the corner of Colfax and Williams stuffing Burger King in our drunken mouths,…
Enough already. Our local guardians of morals have been getting a lot of mileage out of being shocked, shocked, at the way a panel of randy “experts” from the World Affairs Conference were allowed to espouse sexual experimentation to Boulder High School kids last month. Vince Carroll has been turning…
“It feels really, really good to be back in America,” Colie says at the beginning of the end — the very last episode. Thailand is glad you’re back in America, too, Colie. The roommates head over to the Jet Hotel. “Everybody in the world wishes to be us right now,”…
After a week of watching that trailer for the Real World trip to Thailand, I was expecting certain roommates — namely, Colie — to be much less well-behaved than she actually was. They get to Thailand with apparently no drama on the plane, although Brooke (predictably) doesn’t seem to be…
Those lucky enough to be attending the Cannes Film Festival this year can catch a little taste of Colorado talent. Jennifer Platt’s short film Not a Competition is screening at the festival as we speak, and will continue to show through May 26. But Not a Competition isn’t the whole…
Three of television’s biggest shows are wrapping up their seasons tonight -I have only watch one episode of this show (“Swag”). I like what I saw but I never get home in time to see it. Also the second half is on during the The Office. But I am getting…
Chief, I used some miles to upgrade to business class on the flight over here thinking I might cop a few z’s and arrive in Europe fresh. The only problem with this plan is my notorious penchant to abuse open bars. I am older and wiser now, so I thought…
May 17’s Westword features a profile of Dimmu Borgir, Norway’s premier practitioners of symphonic black metal — but there’s a lot more mayhem where that came from. Below, find the entire Q&A with Erkekjetter Silenoz, the band’s guitarist, lyric writer and all-around conceptualist. Along the way, he discusses the narrative…
Looking through the window of room 105 at the Dunes Motel, Amy Limon could see the kids playing outside. She opened the door and slowly navigated her wheelchair down a wooden ramp that she’d had the motel maintenance guy install. The parking lot was littered with cigarette butts, empty beer…
A decade ago, wrestling with crushing legal and financial problems and looking at months of jail time, a cocky 26-year-old stockbroker named Douglas Alan Glaser decided to disappear. He walked away from his business and home in Colorado, only to reappear in New Jersey as a man named Douglas Michael…
