Four years ago, Westword ran a “How United Airlines Ruined My Summer Vacation” contest. Well, this year United Airlines ruined my family’s Thanksgiving. I got a phone call from my mother the Sunday after Thanksgiving. But she wasn’t checking in to see how I was doing, or thanking me for…
Among local critics, the new wing of the Denver Art Museum has been almost uniformly lauded as an innovative, architectural triumph. Nationally, however, the reaction to Daniel Libeskind’s design has been more mixed. In the November issue of House and Garden, critic Martin Filler calls the Frederic C. Hamilton Building…
Today’s Rocky Mountain News sports an intriguing investigation into Hope Online Learning Academy Co-Op, a taxpayer supported charter network of 81 schools in Colorado that’s run afoul of critics. It’s fine work that might not have been done if the Denver Post hadn’t goaded the Rocky into taking a closer…
At last, the saga ends. In two previous blogs, I recounted my attempts to vote in the November 7 election. The first noted that three out of four voting machines at my Jefferson County polling station weren’t functioning on the big day, forcing me to opt for a provisional ballot;…
Jen hasn’t found anything she doesn’t want to kiss. Last week, we introduced the Real World Drinking Game, designed to answer this burning question: Which roommate is the worst for your liver? The score thus far, after the first episode of The Real World: Denver: Davis: sips/chugs Stephen:…
In a November 25 Rocky Mountain News column, media writer Jason Salzman wrote about the process by which the Denver dailies arrive at their list of political endorsements. However, the piece’s most intriguing bit of information pertained to a specific plug — the Denver Post’s 2004 decision to back George…
Denver finally made an appearance on the super-groovy site The Cool Hunter: Roaming the Globe So You’re in the Know. So what got us there? The Hamilton building? The new Clyfford Still museum? The Lab at Belmar? Or maybe some of our local designers? Nope. Denver Water. That’s what got…
Real World Denver cast: Stephen (clockwise from top left), Colie, Davis, Brooke, Tyrie, Jenn and Alex (center). On Wednesday, all of Denver waited with bated breath as MTV aired the first-ever Real World episode set in our fair city — actually, it was the first two episodes. And it wasn’t…
Heather Cameron heard the sound of the gunshots that killed her mother. On Saturday, April 20, 1996, the twelve-year-old was waiting for Debra Cameron — Debbie, to her friends — to return from a charity auction at Graland Country Day School, where Heather was in the sixth grade. Debbie had…
The goal for me is just to get people to read my writing, and the newspapers definitely helped with that,” says Max Karson, a University of Colorado at Boulder student who’s recently received plenty of coverage thanks to The Yeti, a controversy-courting newsletter he publishes. “As far as any personal…
You can’t watch The Real World: Denver without a drink, and you shouldn’t watch it without a drinking game. This one is based on the X-Files version and is guaranteed to get players a mile high. (If any player misses a turn — and the others call him on it…
You would have thought we’d landed on the moon the way people were falling all over each other at the opening of Southeast Light Rail last Friday, with every politician from Lone Tree to Denver — as well as every administrator, router, bus driver and guy-who-cleans-the homeless-from-the-undercarriage-of-buses for RTD –…
The Audi TT coupe is a quick little sports car that handles well — particularly the automatic version, thanks to a computer-assisted transmission that downshifts around the turns, revs up the engine and is almost like having a tiny race-car driver under the hood. “It’s sort of freaky, in a…
“Guest Wishes,” Luke Turf, November 9 Labor Daze How refreshing to read a Colorado article on illegal immigration without a single reference to a certain blowhard, bullying, say-anything-but-do-nothing local congressman. He is finally getting the attention he deserves. Rolf Asphaug Centennial As Helen Krieble notes in “Guest Wishes,” nobody wants…
In the spirit of civil disobedience, it’s not uncommon for anti-war organizations to encourage activists to put their bodies on the line for the cause. But there’s nothing passive about the resistance that Global Orgasm for Peace has in mind. The same San Francisco couple who founded a group that…
Generally speaking, we stand-up comics are a sorry bunch of louts. Sure, you may think otherwise, may even think it downright noble for us to get up on the stage and make people laugh, make people forget about their worries. But you are wrong. Because we are not doing this…
At my last job, my boss had a butcher’s diagram of a broken-down pig tattooed on her ass. I worked on the line with another guy who had PORK inked across the knuckles of his right hand. And in my family, bacon is how we show our love for one…
In an election day blog, I recounted my personal voting tale, which involved a Jeffco polling station at which three out of four voting machines weren’t working. In the end, I opted to mark my choices on a provisional ballot, and when I handed it in, the nice election worker…
The cancellation of a book and companion TV event that was to feature O.J. Simpson talking about how he would have killed his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and a friend of hers, Ron Goldman, had he actually done the deed (wink, wink), has been a bigger bummer for the folks…
Of the two Denver dailies, the Rocky Mountain News is the one that’s likeliest to use its press for self-promotion. Witness Rocky editor/publisher/president John Temple’s Saturday column, which pays tribute to the tabloid’s greatness on an extremely regular basis. Today, however, the Denver Post took this often tacky tack to…
The November 18 screening of Rescue Dawn at the Temple Buell Theater didn’t constitute the official conclusion of the 29th annual Denver Film Festival; other flicks unspooled later that evening and throughout the next day. Yet the event neatly encapsulated the best of the fest. The proceedings got off to…
This is the last weekend of the Denver International Film Festival, and dressing for such an occasion is no easy task. You want to look hip in case you get caught by any of the roving paparazzi, but you also want to be comfortable because, well, you’ll be on your…
