A few years back, there was this commercial with Ed McCaffrey standing in front of East High School, looking like that rascal Eddie Haskell and holding a football and talking about something positive. (I believe it was for United Way, but with all the shit McCaffrey hawks these days, you…
TJ Miller’s life is “totally insane.” You can blame Melody Duggan for that. The East High School drama teacher was the first person to encourage Miller to do standup, when he was a sophomore in her class close to a decade ago. Wisely, the now-25-year-old chose comedy over hip-hop as…
Mayor John Hickenlooper is all about the green: He has an initiative to plant a million trees by 2025, a leafy jacket and his Greenprint Denver plan to prove it. But students on the Auraria campus are trying to one-up him by building the largest solar-energy project on a college…
Journalists call it the golden rolodex — the list of numbers to call in case a quote is needed on short notice. Most media types have such digits separated into categories, with a handful of entries in each. Need an academic to weigh in on urban-crime statistics? Dial her. Stuck…
“Baby’s Day Out,” Jared Jacang Maher, May 10 That’s Women’s Work Let’s keep this statistic in mind: 20 percent of pregnancies develop life-threatening complications. This is why the decision — whether it’s the decision to bear a child or to abort, or it’s the decision to give birth at home…
The City of Denver and the American Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement on May 16 regarding a case where a citizen was arrested and sent to jail for requesting a Denver cop’s business card (“Watch and Learn,” June 8, 2006)…
Click here to view the slideshow It was disaster waiting to happen. In the second week of April, Aurora officials got some phone calls warning that the Blue Spruce Motel, a notorious dump on East Colfax, could be closing any day. On Friday, April 13, Aurora’s community development planner, Paul…
It’s early in the current Red Rocks season, but the marvelous venue’s most unusual 2007 show may have already taken place. The May 15 date featuring Icelandic sprite Björk and harpist Joanna Newsom offered the sort of challenging music that wouldn’t be expected to draw a throng. Yet the rows…
There has been big buzz about the Transformers movie coming out this July. Personally, I could care less. Wake me up when there is a ThunderCats movie. I am all about the hotness that is Lion-O. Michael Bay, the director of the Transformers movie, release high-resolution pictures of the robots…
Click here for the slideshow Space. Enough space for nine-year-old Charity Norwood to play. Space for her older sister, Essence, and space for her older brother. Micah. Space for her younger siblings: JoVaughn, Autumn and Majesty. And finally, some space for Lisa Norwood, the mother of the six children who…
“On my second night at Fruition, I lit my menu on fire. It wasn’t a big fire—just the sort one gets from an unfortunate proximity of a heavy-bond paper menu to a small candle on the dinner table. I put the fire out with the palm of my hand—thankful, in…
Former Westword staffer Tony Perez-Giese is now looking for stories around the globe, and will be sending us periodic dispatches. A final weekend in Vegas is just the last in what has proved to be a long string of bad decisions. It is slight comfort to know that I did…
Like Saddam Hussein, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, who died on May 15 at age 73, was satirized so frequently that it’s easy to underestimate his influence. Of late, he was best known for determinedly moronic cultural crusades and brain-dead pronouncements epitomized by his assertion that Tinky Winky, the purple Teletubby,…
Attention young, hip, creative-types of Denver! Need a photo to help launch your musical, acting, fashion, artistic, writing, dancing and/or modeling career? Look no further than local scenesterette Sarah Cass. The 21-year-old photographer from Grand Junction has been building quite a portfolio as of late by snapping promo pics for…
Image from Wikipedia The Glo Worm was a toy only the 80s could love. It had one function–glowing when it was hugged tight. But that one purpose made it one of the top selling toys during the decade. I was 7-years-old when I learned that the hard face of the…
Traditional daily newspapers are shrinking fast. The comparatively featherweight May 15 editions of the Rocky Mountain News and Denver Post demonstrate why both papers are desperately trying to reduce staff through attrition and assorted buyout offers. Yet less than seven years ago, such a downturn was all but unthinkable to…
Today Colorado senators Wayne Allard and Ken Salazar, along with congressional reps Mark Udall and Marilyn Musgrave, gathered with Long’s Peak as their backdrop and announced a “new” piece of legislation that was 33 years in the making. Allard spoke of the “immense tectonic forces” that shaped Rocky Mountain National…
Never heard of a Violet Crumble? Don’t worry, because neither has most of the rest of the world outside of Australia, Hawaii and parts of the U.K. But personally, I’m somewhat obsessed with the stranger extremes of the confectionery arts and have spent many an evening wandering around the dry-stock…
Okay, so after the totally less-than-smashing success of my last attempt at getting all you grubniks more involved in the day-to-day business of this blog thingamajig (my ill-fated “What’s your favorite taste of Colorado” question, posed just ahead of this year’s Best of Denver issue in a thinly-veiled and desperate…
With buyout offers and other efforts at staff shrinkage taking place at the state’s two biggest newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post, little media attention has been given to happenings at Boulder’s main broadsheet, the Camera. However, sources inside the paper (which, like the Rocky, is owned…
Babylon Floral spiced up the evening with its wearable floral arrangements. Slideshow Cat crawled out from under her dive-bar rock on Saturday night to check out the 5 Degrees Warmer fashion show at, you guessed it, 5 Degrees. Now, this is the first time Cat has been out in LoDo…
While Colorado still grapples with its almost year-old smoking ban – Can we? Can’t we? What the hell is a cigar bar? Who the hell said they could be a cigar bar? What did that judge say? Oh, fuck all – the Motion Picture Association of America decided yesterday to…
