The current issue of Westword sports an item about “Hell’s Guardian Angel” (pictured), an artwork that’s slated to go up for auction on eBay at midnight on November 5. But there’s a lot more to the story of this piece — enough to have filled an entire feature article. “Avenging…
The fate of Alimata, whose story was part of a 2005 Westword profile of immigration attorney Lilian Shea (pictured), is up in the air for at least another year. A former high school philosophy teacher and published novelist, Alimata is from the Ivory Coast. She is of the Dioula class,…
In early October, reports on assorted blogs declared that Woody Paige would soon be returning to the Denver Post, a paper he left a while back for a high-profile gig at ESPN. In this blog item, dated October 11, Paige dismissed these rumors, saying that although he had recently visited…
A blog entry posted yesterday chided the Rocky Mountain News for overplaying the argument between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry over a poorly delivered joke by the latter, and criticized the Denver Post for underplaying the same subject. Today, both papers tried to make amends for their…
The women do not look like they are having fun. Some are screaming in protest, while others stare fearfully at something beyond the edge of the computer screen. Sometimes their heads are sheathed in clear plastic bags, sometimes their mouths sealed with duct tape. And always, there is a weapon…
It’s a sunny fall afternoon at the rugby pitch in Denver’s Cook Park, and fans of the Denver Highlanders are restlessly watching their club fight a losing battle for possession of the ball. Shirtless twenty-somethings and their girlfriends stand on the sideline, sipping from cans of PBR and Bud Light…
“It’s not like we’re trying to create a television show every night,” comedian Tom Green says about Tom Green Live, the Internet program he hosts under the auspices of Denver-based ManiaTV! “We’re actually doing a web television show, and it’s different from what you’d see on regular television, just because…
Dress for Success Skinnies or boot-cut jeans? Is black really the new black? Getting stylishly dressed in the morning is hard enough, but what do you wear on election day if you’re vying for Colorado’s top job? The Cat’s Pajamas, Westword’s fashion blog, decided to help Bob Beauprez and Bill…
It’s a dog-eat-dog world. But while this story in no way involves a canine actually consuming another canine, it does involve a dog. And a diamond ring. Michael McCullough has been in Colorado for two months, having moved here from Michigan, where he attended Michigan State and at some point…
A Laugh Riot! Strike while the irony’s hot: I have always enjoyed the wit, satire, biting humor and irony of Westword. But with the October 26 “MyRace.com,” you really outdid yourselves. I can’t stop laughing! I will frame the pictures of Bob Beauprez and Bill Ritter, so whenever I need…
Thanks to Audrey Hepburn’s Gap commercial, skinny jeans are everywhere this fall. But, seriously, The Cat’s Pajamas knows that unless you actually want to exaggerate those child-bearing hips, these things should only be worn by the tiniest of bulimics — and then only if they’ve got waif legs, too. So…
Are the local dailies ideologically biased? And if so, in which direction? These questions get asked over and over again, and this morning provided ammunition for folks on either side of the political divide. The issue at hand centers upon a dustup between Massachusetts Senator (and 2004 Democratic presidential nominee)…
On innumerable occasions, I’ve tried to enjoy baklava and managed not to do so, always finding it too sweet or too sticky or too spiked with rosewater, too goopy or too stiff. Finally, I’d gotten to the point where I’d assumed baklava was just not to my taste — like…
Hugh Grant wears a cape, and Cat knew immediately that she would cotton to anyone who wears a cape. But then she got the director of the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art on the phone, and now she has a bit of an intellectual crush on him. He’s…
The Prestige, a Christopher Nolan-directed flick about turn-of-the-century magicians that stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, has received generally positive reviews from critics at area publications, including Westword; to read Scott Foundas’ take, click here. Somehow, though, such scribes have only made passing reference to the large chunk of the…
The sky continues to be the limit for Captain Energy Dan Mayer (pictured), the energy-drink guru-cum-reviewer-cum-designer whose August profile in Westword can be found here. The Associated Press recently penned a piece about the rise in popularity of energy drinks and their potential danger to youngsters who suck the sugary…
It can be tricky, running the toughest prison in the entire country, but it’s hardly ever dull. One day you’re getting blasted by lawmakers because security is too lax and convicted terrorists are managing to send letters out to new recruits. The next you’re in the doghouse with a federal…
In a March 2003 article, the Columbia Journalism Review declared Denver Post owner Dean Singleton to be a “newspaper surgeon” because of the trims he’s made at properties acquired under the auspices of MediaNews Group, the sprawling company he heads. Some of these procedures have saved patients such as the…
But you’re going to be cold, you say, in a strapless cocktail dress. Or maybe you need something a little edgier for that Halloween party than what The Cat’s Pajamas offered below. Problems solved: Just throw one of Lynne Bruning’s Wookie coats over your shoulders, and you’ll be ten feet…
The Cat’s Pajamas has always hated Halloween. She never liked having to dress up in some stupid-ass Tiger or Princess or Cheerleader costume. She was never much of one for make-believe, so the whole effort just somehow seemed pointless, even if candy was involved. There was this one time, however,…
After Rocky Mountain News photog Todd Heisler (pictured) won a Pulitzer Prize this year for his work on “Final Salute,” a sprawling piece that also earned a Pulitzer for reporter Jim Sheeler, there was no doubt that other publications would look to hire him. The only question, then, involved whether…
We’ve got to figure that The Milagro Beanfield War — a story as rare, joyful, mysterious and full of life as a Truchas sunset — was a real no-brainer pick by Mayor Hick as this year’s One Book One Denver read. But because the Southwest classic by John Nichols (pictured)…
