While I was driving across America and Canada last month, I couldn’t escape the influence of home. I detailed how Colorado stories lead the newscasts in every city I visited in my November 23 “Worst-Case Scenario.” While watching the evening news in Canada , for example, I learned that mayors…
This week’s Westword music section includes a Q&A by contributor Quibian Salazar-Moreno with Redman, accompanied by the publicity photo to the right. Too bad we didn’t know about the shot the Denver Post ran with the broadsheet’s own article on Big Red — an image far naughtier than typically appears…
Sarah Bahl had her Cherry Creek coming out last weekend, debuting her new line at Anastasia Collection, the just-opened boutique at 201 Milwaukee. Her line reflects much of what is happening in Denver fashion right now: whimsical recycled and reconstructed styles. Sarah hates using new fabrics, in particular, and she…
The October 19 Message column dealt with the shrinking percentage of local newscasts devoted to business news. In response, Channel 7 “consumer champ” Bill Clarke penned a persnickety letter to the editor suggesting that yours truly didn’t understand the difference between simply reading business-oriented headlines and original business journalism. He…
Reverend Fred W. Phelps, Sr., of Topeka, Kansas, has had more than his share of press in recent years. The rabid gay-basher and his clan of sign-waving true believers have traveled far and wide, outraging locals by protesting at funeral services for soldiers killed in Iraq and in the wake…
Eric Matelski calls Flux the biggest art gallery in the world. Others might know it simply as central Denver. A local live-art painter, Matelski created 50 wooden cubes wrapped in canvas as part of the Creative Block series (www.ericmatelski.com). To ensure ultimate public access, he is placing the pieces in…
I have many questions for the cast of The Real World, but this one is the most pressing: What are you going to do for the season finale? An orgy? Animal sacrifice? Mass murder? I can’t think of anything else that could possibly top their performances in the past three…
Gorillaz! While checking out the shoes at True Love (read about it in Night & Day, for Wednesday, 12/20), I took a few minutes to walk the boulevard and see what’s hot on Broadway this holiday season. Here’s what I found: At the designer-toy hut, Plastic Chapel, the always-enthusiastic Dea…
A November 14 More Messages blog chided Channel 2 for asking a rhetorical question in an on-screen graphic that was misleading at best, and flat-out false at worst, as a way of enticing viewers to watch the station’s 9 p.m. newscast. Well, staffers at the outlet took such plugs to…
In public, gay men once called meth “Christina” because it sounded like “crystal.” The nickname was soon shortened to “Chrissy,” then changed again to “Tina” by the time Rod Rushing finally decided to get rid of the bitch. Rod and Tina had been up for a night, maybe two, three…
Last Wednesday morning, as a few inches of snow fell on Denver — throwing the town into its usual snow-blind tizzy — Jesse Morreale heard a knock on his door. He opened it and saw a young Latino entrepreneur, shovel in hand, who asked if he’d like his walk cleared…
Most special elections are humdrum affairs involving bond issues and tax questions, but the one currently facing the citizens of Lakewood promises to be special indeed. At stake are two parcels of land on the southwestern edge of the city totaling less than fifty acres — and a bitter debate…
Do newspapers have a future? This question is being debated throughout the journalism community, and given waning circulation numbers, sinking ad revenues and an aging readership, plenty of pundits are convinced that the ink-on-paper paradigm is as doomed as Pamela Anderson’s next marriage. But others feel that while the Internet…
There was something strange in the air when I walked into the indoor soccer facility where I regularly fucking dominate, out there in that legendary Arvada coed adult B-league you hear so much about. And it wasn’t the stale oxygen of an aging space mixed with the bittersweet stench of…
“Change of Plans,” Jared Jacang Maher, November 30 Ring Around the City I was fascinated by Jared Jacang Maher’s article on Northglenn. I’m a lifelong resident of Denver, and I think its central core’s diversity is exciting and wonderful. In the 1970s, Denver faced challenges like a declining downtown, integration…
Last Saturday it was beyond cold outside, but inside Trax things were heating up for the 22nd Annual MAX Fashion Show. Every year Max Martinez hosts the extravaganza that showcases the spring looks that will be available in his boutiques. This year, Missoni, Chloe, Narciso Rodriguez and Diane Von Furstenberg…
The People & Prime Time page of today’s Rocky Mountain News features a blurb headlined “‘FoxTrot’ Cartoonist Ending Daily Strip.” The copy references a press release revealing that Bill Amend, the creator of this popular (and actually entertaining) family comic strip, has decided to discontinue daily submissions at year’s end…
Crocs, Mayor John Hickenlooper, Elway’s steakhouse — could only come out of Colorado. Others, like 99-cent strip-mall sushi and Western states hockey, seem anachronistic in this state, yet flourish here regardless. But I’ve been a lot of places and seen a lot of things. And while I’m thinking hard, I…
Cat is working on an gigantic review of the Max Fashion Show that happened last Saturday night — almost 100 images! — but is having technical difficulties making a slide show. Until that’s ready, here’s the fashion calendar for what is one helluva busy week: Thursday, December 7: Lee Alexander…
Radio has been pronounced in near-death condition more times than Augusto Pinochet — and radio news seems to be in the worst shape of all. Among all the stations in Denver, only KOA still maintains a sizable news staff, and when big stories hit, even that outlet is stretched thin…
In 1960, a new medication was released that sparked the second-wave feminist movement and the sexual revolution. It was the Pill, of course — a daily prescription-only pharmaceutical that kept women from getting pregnant. And there was much rejoicing. But there was something missing. It was another drug — the…
The first pair of columns by the Denver Post’s Woody Paige since his return from New York City, where he’d spent the past two years hamming it up on ESPN2’s Cold Pizza, didn’t brim with surprises. At various times, the pieces (which ran yesterday and today, respectively) were dopey, confusing…
