In this week’s Message column focuses upon Nerf (pictured), the program director for KTCL — and along the way, he’s credited with putting the Fray into rotation prior to the point at which the group officially signed to Epic Records. But others at the station had an even more hands-on…
Just in case you’re all dressed up with nowhere to go, here are a few late-breaking events we heard about too late to include in this week’s Night and Day calendar: On April 13, Denver music hub Twist & Shout and local hip-hop maven Jeff “Apostle” Campbell are hosting WORD:…
Cydney Payton is the city’s reigning art matriarch. And how lucky we are, because Payton’s no stodgy old maven. No, the executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver loves Manolo Blahniks and red lipstick, wishes she could meet Miuccia Prada, is listening to TV on the Radio, and even…
As part of the Denver National Convention brouhaha in town yesterday, Howard Dean announced the convention committee’s leadership team. It’s a powerful, experienced bunch, including Leah Daughtry, Dean’s chief of staff, as the convention’s CEO. The list also includes Jenni Engebretsen as deputy CEO for public affairs, an apt choice…
You’ve already met Zac Pennington. He’s the well-dressed kid behind the counter at the record store; the one with the Modest Mouse good looks who intimidates you with his storehouse of music knowledge. He’s the one standing outside the venue passing out hand-drawn flyers for some multimedia art-rock show he’s…
What goes on in the minds of taggers? What are they trying to tell us with their hastily scrawled missives across our double garage doors? Perhaps a lack of coherent message and bad penmanship are not the only problems plaguing Denver’s tagbangers. More legible postings on a garage door in…
Brooke flipped her lid — again. MTV had better hurry up. There are only five more episodes of The Real World: Denver left, and there’s one more Outward Bound trip with the New Orleans female teenagers, plus a trip to Thailand, to cover in that span. As for Episode 23…
Nicole Popovich One of Cat’s faves from the second challenge of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. To view the slide show, click here. Cat will be honest: She expected some trash to come down the runway during the second challenge of the Tamarac Square Fashion Project. Not that she’s disrespecting…
This week’s profile of the Stooges describes original guitarist Ron Asheton as “voluble,” and that’s an enormous understatement. He’s clearly enjoying the opportunity to talk about his life and career after all these years, and he’s got plenty of stories to tell. In the extensive Q&A below, he talks in…
Get some exercise in the park. Joseph Brady was first introduced to T’ai Chi in 1967 at Brooklyn Tech, his New York high school that was one-third Chinese. “I got turned on to it then and have been doing it ever since,” he says. On April 14 and the 21,…
Offense Report No: 07-211415 Date: 04-02-2007 Type of Offense: Theft Location of Offense: Zion Temple, 1600 N. Syracuse Officer T. McKeever reports: “Investigation revealed that the suspect on a 10-speed bicycle [described as a Hispanic male wearing a janitor shirt, work gloves and scruffy facial hair] went behind the bushes…
It was one of those moments when a music fan can feel as if he’s fallen through the looking glass. This morning, I had to dash to my neighborhood King Soopers, in the Ken-Caryl Ranch area, to pick up some orange juice and milk, and as I stepped inside, the…
Colorado is known far and wide for its fleet-footed and dexterous athletes, and it’s time to add a new name to that list: Ryan Ford. Ford, a sophomore at the University of Colorado at Boulder, is the driving force behind the Colorado contingent of parkour, the sport/philosophy of using high-speed…
The gray-haired professor cracks his whip in mid-air. “Wake up back there!” he commands the two dozen folks lounging around on plush cream couches. It’s time for class. “It is particularly important to understand the physics of the paddle,” says the professor, who is wearing tight, black leather pants. “The…
They came to David Mirich looking for answers. Some were referred by the courts, since Mirich, a Wheat Ridge-based licensed psychologist, is a sex-offender evaluator. Some came of their own volition, not waiting for a judge to tell them that they needed help. They got pleasure from pain, they told…
In his small handful of years as a conservative politico, Brad Jones has been called many things — childish, a racist, a “back-door politician in training” — but never “news-gatherer.” That was before the 23-year-old launched www.facethestate.com on March 26, however. And before the end of that week, when his…
It’s no secret that I’m a Major League Soccer hater. I wish I weren’t, but I am. This country is so full of soccer-bashers that anyone who possesses any love for the beautiful game should be an out-and-out booster of the sport at all levels (never mind that the play…
Kitty’s South has howled for the last time. The venerable wank parlor at 119 South Broadway closed up shop a few weeks ago, its unhappy ending no doubt hastened by the introduction of a much more upscale Pleasures palace nearby. Now some neighbors are wondering whether Kitty’s could rise again…
KTCL program director Nerf prides himself on being accessible to the modern-rock fans who listen to his Clear Channel-owned station. “My e-mail box is wide open,” he allows. Sometimes, though, this policy can have unforeseen repercussions — as when Nerf responded to a note without realizing it had been sent…
Worst-Case Scenario, Kenny Be, April 5 This Idea Stinks! Shame on you, Kenny Be. How could you not mention pit bulls and meth when discussing Commerce City’s name change? If the idiot riche moved to Reunion without doing their homework, that’s just too damn bad. If the good people of…
Brenda Denton in 2004. Denver police announced today that they’ve identified John Lee Carson as a suspect in the murder of Brenda Denton, a 38-year-old woman who was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death in her apartment at 900 Lafayette on March 8, 2005. Carson is currently in prison on…
Okay, so the last place I ever expected to find a fantastic sandwich was at Montecito — the new restaurant from the Master family, open since December at 1120 East Sixth Avenue. Some great fish? Yes. Great apps? Absolutely — and constantly being tinkered with by chef Adam Mali. And…
