Jell-O Desserts

Five retro foods and drinks that should be resurrected

There are certain snacks and sips that were just too good to last forever -- but they damn well should have! Some really great ideas didn't last much past their initial hype; the companies responsible hurled them almost as quickly as they'd unfurled them. And while discontinued items do, on occasion ... More >>

Photos: The fifteen best Jell-O wrestling scenes from Lucha-Rama at Beauty Bar

Jell-O is good for your fingernails -- so rubbing it all over your body can't hurt, right? Over the weekend, Beauty Bar brought in gallons of the snack food for the latest Lucha-Rama, an event that combines both pit wrestling and lucha libre wrestling in two separate (and messy) battles. Continue re ... More >>

Top sixteen mug shots of December 2012

Our roundup of December's most memorable mug shots may be weirder than all of those that preceded it in 2012. Featured posers include a student accused of assault for feeding unknowing people pot brownies, a DUI cop busted for DUI and -- a first -- the booking photo of a Westword contributor that wi ... More >>

Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace gets fifteen years for prostituion ring run through strip clubs

Back in May 2011, we told about accused procurer Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace, who was arrested along with four women who allegedly helped him run a prostitution ring through high-profile Denver strip clubs. He's now been convicted on a pair of charges that netted him a fifteen-year sentence in the Big ... More >>

Mysterious Jell-O mound turns out to be The Office-style invite from Aurora eco devo group

When we arrived at work this morning, we were greeted by a mound of yellow gelatin that was cold to the touch and sitting upon a black plastic food tray ringed with leafy green garnish like a church-picnic dessert gone horribly wrong. Lying atop the slimy heap was a DVD with a note made to look like ... More >>

Twenty messiest Jell-O wrestling moves at Lucha Rama

Lucha Rama mixes luchadores, Jell-O wrestling, dancing and drinking into some good, old-fasioned debauchery. Which means that on Saturday, minor minor mayhem ruled for several hours at Beauty Bar. Photographer Christopher Morgan captured the night in our full slide show, which raises some serious qu ... More >>

Fire fundraisers: Where to listen to music and support High Park and Waldo Canyon efforts

As firefighters continue to tackle the wildfires ravaging large portions of the state, local communities are searching for ways to provide aid, even from hours away. In Denver, a handful of local live music venues and companies have already stepped up to launch shows to benefit fire relief efforts - ... More >>

Videos: Top ten commercials you should skip on Dish -- or maybe not

In a rare interview, Dish Network's Charlie Ergen defends the satellite service's commercial-skipping device. Which made us wonder about the top ten commercials that most deserve to be skipped -- but the question's more complicated than we thought, since many spots on worst-ad lists like this one st ... More >>

Gobble, Gobble, Drink, Drink

Björk's Biophilia tops out music apps this week

​Music apps for smartphones are getting more complex, as evidenced by the release of the full version of Björk's Biophilia, which is beyond impressive. Other new offerings in this week's round-up include an app that turns your music into a planetary expedition, an idiotic but entertaining Jel ... More >>

Charles Phoenix on fried cereal, the genesis of the Cherpumple and molded gelatin

​If you know retro -- and particularly mid-century -- you know retro geek Charles Phoenix, a child of the endless car lots and fast food restaurants of Southern California who is famous across the nation for his mid-mod slide shows and modernist expertise. And you might even know about his sid ... More >>

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, June 17-19, 2011

Father's Day is Sunday. That's free.​While most of us will be enjoying our Saturday by getting rowdy at the Westword Music Showcase, that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of fun activities to get thrifty with around the rest of the city. Well, provided you're into things like Pride Fest, Star ... More >>

Sticking Together for Pride

Elitch's lights up the night...every night

Top 20 mug shots of May 2011

Big pics below.​In most of our monthly mug shot roundups, dudes far outnumber women -- but not in May. This time around, females narrowly take the prize in cases involving everything from a machete robbery at a medical marijuana dispensary to an alleged prostitution scheme run through high-end ... More >>

Germaine Wallace, aka Jell-O: Alleged pimp busted for hooker ring run through strip clubs

Big pics below.​Cops say Germaine "Jell-O" Wallace was livin' large, sharing a $1.3 million mansion with a bevy of beautiful babes and exotic animals like an African wild cat named Goldie. And how did he finance this lifestyle? Allegedly by running a prostitution ring through high-profile Denv ... More >>

Thursday is the new Friday: J Mascis at hi-dive, Chase and Status at the Gothic and more

In case you aren't going to see Chuck Sheen spit tiger blood all over the crowd tonight at Wells Fargo, there are plenty of other things to entertain you this fine evening. Not that Chaz isn't worth dropping a sizeable stack of loot to see if he WINS! or loses, but just in case you'd rather rock or ... More >>

Death to the brown bags: school lunches vs. homemade, a fight to the finish

​Is the concept of students bringing lunch from home dying a hideous death -- just like live social interaction and Gilbert Gottfried's career? At Little Village Academy on Chicago's west side, students are not allowed to bring lunches from home unless they have a medical excuse, so they have ... More >>

Very Hungry Bookworms

Top five foods to eat on Hump Day

​We've reached the middle of the work week, and as we all know, Wednesday has its own, well-earned nickname: Hump Day. Why? Maybe because from here, having gotten Monday and Tuesday out of the way, we can start contemplating the joys of the coming weekend, and some real hump days. In the mea ... More >>

Life in the post-Four Loko world: alcoholic whipped cream, like Whipped Lightning, becomes the next subject of FDA scrutiny

​It's only been a few weeks since we bid adieu to the Four Loko and friends, those caffeinated malt beverages that caused an uproar after a couple of idiots young people became severely intoxicated (which has never happened with any other alcohol in the history of mankind). Now, clearly deter ... More >>

Due Date is this week's most ridiculous movie trailer

​Making a movie starring Zach Galifainakis and Robert Downey Jr. is kind of like making Jell-O: The result is awesome, and it's pretty difficult to fuck up. And sure enough, for about its first half, the trailer for Due Date makes the movie look like what it should be: a laid-back, occasional ... More >>

Even more reasons to think pink: Five late summer rosés that rock

​Just because summer's winding down to its inevitable end doesn't mean that your rosé-filled days (and evenings) have to. Even if you aced this year's rosé-drinking challenge with flying colors and have flown through cases of the five best rosés of summer 2010, no need to remove those rosà ... More >>

Would you like a roach or rodent with your meal, sir? FDA finds those and more in airline catering company kitchens

​Jesus. It's not horrible enough cruising at altitude with a full two inches of legroom, a middle seater with flatulence and seat belts slimed with Jell-O. Now FDA inspectors are unearthing everything from fruit flies and ants to live roaches and dead rodents in the country's airline catering ... More >>

Popped for Jell-O pudding -- will Bill Cosby bail them out?

Pudding bandits Alexander and Christine Clement​A husband and wife were just popped by police in East Northport, New York, and charged with product tampering and petty larceny after they tried to peddle repackaged Jell-O pudding. Sixty-eight-year-old Alexander Clement and his 64-year-old wife ... More >>

There's always room for Jell-O (in court, at least)

​Two great tastes that go together got an Iowa tavern in trouble with the local police department. In Iowa City on January 31, 2009, the constables went out and did compliance checks at local watering holes with a couple of underage volunteers. When they got to the Union Bar, a bartender sol ... More >>

Paradise Asian Cafe may not take you to paradise, but close enough

Top ten grossest Halloween party foods

The meat skull. Yummy.​So you're headed to a friend's Halloween party or hosting one of your own and the pressure's on to find the perfect party food to delight and entertain. You've done cute mashed potato ghosts, are bored with spider web cheesecakes, and are so over doll hands reaching ... More >>

Culinary memo to IACP conference-goers: Eat ethnic

El Taco de MexicoBetween April 1 and 4, more than 700 professional foodniks -- writers, editors, columnists and critics, culinary directors, cookbook authors, food stylists, recipe developers, nutrition experts and food and restaurant PR flacks -- are expected to share in a little culinary cam ... More >>

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