Fifteen minutes before Friday’s eight o’clock show at the Comedy Works, the line stretches nearly to Larimer Street. Tammy Pescatelli from Last Comic Standing is in town, and she’s attracted a sell-out crowd of primarily white suburbanites excited about a night out in the city. Pascatelli travels with no openers,…
“If they define gonzo journalism as journalism where the writer is an integral part of the story, then you guys are gonzo filmmakers,” a Woody Creek Tavern patron told Haylar Garcia, Darcy Grabowski and Scott Baxendale — the trio behind the documentary Do It for Johnny — on August 20,…
First Zippy the Pinhead, now this. No sooner had Lawrence Argent recovered from the honor of seeing Bill Griffith feature “I See What You Mean,” the forty-foot blue bear that has been standing guard over the Colorado Convention Center since July, in his August 22 “Bear Market” Zippy strip, than…
Broadway bums beat the pants off of Colfax bums. Sometimes literally. The overlap in these derelict Venn diagrams usually occurs near where the streets intersect at Civic Center Park, much to the well-documented horror of Japanese tour groups. And the incidents generally go like this: Colfax bum randomly encounters a…
“I’m very positive about DCTV carrying on,” declares Paul Fiorino, a producer and liaison to the board of directors at Denver Community Television, the embattled nonprofit that runs the city’s community-access channels. “We have all the resources we need to make great things happen. Now we just need the money.”…
A Funny Thing Milking the joke: Adam Cayton-Holland, you fucking kill me! I’m serious — I still have your side-splitting bit on Carmelo’s plate-tectonic hydroponic chronic saved in my favorites. Last week’s What’s So Funny on Mile High Milk was likewise pure hilarity. Keep it rolling — you’re a badass…
Session two of Project Igloo is scheduled to begin any minute. My designated driver and I push through the wide glass doors of the Courtyard by Marriott in Superior at exactly 7:30 p.m. Although it could be from the chlorine wafting in from the hotel pool, we can already feel…
I figured I was up for some experimentation. I’m secure in my own identity and all, but I’m also a young guy in his prime. So why not try something a little risqué? Truth be told, I was malt-curious. And the Nob Hill Inn on East Colfax Avenue seemed like…
When all hell broke loose last year at the Crowley County Correctional Facility, a private prison on Colorado’s eastern plains, Vance Adams stayed very, very quiet. From his cell door, Adams could see prisoners armed with weight bars running in and out of his unit, smashing windows, busting up plumbing,…
When visitors come to Colorado, they flock to the Cherry Creek Shopping Center, to FlatIron Crossing, to Castle Rock Factory Outlets. Those shopping meccas are among the state’s top five tourist attractions, according to a study released last month by the Colorado Tourism Office. But if visitors ventured just a…
The doctor is in — and on. Comic and veterinarian Kevin Fitzgerald may be the most famous veteran of the Denver Barbarians rugby team, which last week apologized for the rowdy behavior of a few members who swiped liquor and urinated in the galley of a flight heading into DIA…
You don’t even want to know how we’d get orange milk when What’s So Funny was a kid. But we’ll tell you, anyway. First we’d shovel four heaping spoonfuls of cottage cheese into a dish, which we would then place in the hot sun for seven hours. After that, we’d…
In New York City, Jack-FM is officially recognized as a giant killer, thanks to its June takeover of WCBS, a heritage operation that had been pumping out oldies for 33 years. Among those getting the gate were “Cousin Brucie” Morrow, remembered for introducing the Beatles at the band’s landmark 1965…
Blast Rites Doctor no: In last week’s “The Gonzo Goodbye,” I was bummed out by a few points that Gig LeCarp made, and the ones he blew, concerning the good doctor. Last Saturday an American icon was blasted off into the sky. Hunter Thompson was one of the legendary, unique…
“People expect you to take corrective action when there’s a problem, and they don’t understand why you don’t do it on a pretty prompt basis,” says Hank Brown, one-term U.S. senator, former president of the University of Northern Colorado, and now interim president of the University of Colorado. “My instinct…
So far, Hank Brown is definitely earning his paycheck at CU — and thanks to him, nearly a dozen others won’t. Before his first day at CU was done, Brown had eradicated ten staff positions: six that were vacant, two occupied by personnel planning to retire by year’s end, and…
“I fought for everything I ever got in the journalism business, and I’m proud of what I did,” says former Longmont Times-Call reporter Bruce Plasket. “But I’m ashamed of the business, too.” He’s none too pleased with the publishing industry, either. Earlier this year, Pearson Prentice Hall, a New Jersey…
You asked me “whom we should dispatch” to cover the monstrous memorial ceremonies for Hunter S. Thompson this weekend. Whom? Whom? Here’s my answer: Send Leary. Send Kesey. Better yet, send nobody. Hell, send Corey Clark — he’s nobody. Just don’t send me. Not that I begrudge the good Doctor…
Anyone who’s anyone is headed to Aspen this weekend for a final farewell to Hunter S. Thompson — whether or not they have an invitation to rub elbows and ashes with Johnny Depp at the official blow-him-up-real-good festivities on August 20. Rick McKinney is walking the 900 miles from his…
Downtown Denver, midday, summer. Car pulls into metered parking space outside Paris on the Platte, known purveyor of caffeinated beverages; two dashing young men — one a writer, one a law student — frantically search pockets and car for coins, find none. Law student agrees to purchase two cups of…
Porn Again Big talk: Kenny Be’s Worst-Case Scenario last week was the meanest — and funniest — thing I’ve ever seen. But I think he drew those talk-show hosts’ “mikes” too big. Sarah Morris Denver Sex ed: The real problem with the comic books is simple: Some people just can’t…
Anyone who can do a quick thumbnail on Sebastian Bourdais is running way ahead of the field. The French foreign minister, you say? A Parisian shoe designer? The pastry chef at Le Central? No. None of the above. If you’ve got a little Pennzoil in your crankcase, you know that…
