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Andrew Romanoff talks PAC money, house sale and running against Mike Coffman

To some Coloradans, the name Andrew Romanoff is synonymous with disappointment. After losing to incumbent Senator Micheal Bennet in a primary that attracted an almost unheard-of amount of attention, the ex-speaker of the Colorado House took a lower-profile job with the International Development Ente ... More >>

Hip-hop 101: Adam Bradley is revolutionizing education...one rap at a time

See also: The poetry of Jalon Martin, Adam Bradley's Montbello rap student

One Book, One Denver finally comes up with decent choices for next tome on the range

The ninth time's the charm. After years of serving up the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal for the One Book, One Denver program, the city finally has three great choices for 2012: Through June 22, you can vote for Denver, Enrique's Journey or The Worst Hard Time, Timothy Egan's book on the Dust B ... More >>

Gary Reilly: Prolific novelist's debut published year after his death

Once upon a time there was a Denver cabbie who wrote novels about a Denver cabbie who writes novels. Brendan Murphy, better known as Murph, tosses his manuscripts into a steamer trunk, with no expectation that they'll ever be read. But his creator, Gary Reilly, never abandoned his dream of becoming ... More >>

History Colorado Center: Are Coors bottles really part of the recycled floor?

"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that." So said Mark Twain, and after the first historic week of the History Colorado Center, we have a quick correction: You may not be walking on Coors bottles.

Q&A: William "Gatz" Hjortsberg speaks volumes about Richard Brautigan in Jubilee Hitchhiker

Richard Brautigan spent a few years basking in the celebrity sun as the author of such counterculture classics as Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar. But it was a short honeymoon, and the writer, who came up from poverty, fell into a trough of depression and alcoholism later in life. H ... More >>

Give ’Em Heller

One Book, One Denver goes to the dogs -- but why not take a bite of a Colorado book?

​When I equated the One Book, One Denver program with a McDonald's Happy Meal -- people-pleasing and easy to digest -- I didn't know that McDonald's had signed on to sponsor this year's celebration of reading, which will focus on The Art of Racing in the Rain. But hey, at least it's better th ... More >>

One Book, One Denver serves up the literary equivalent of a Happy Meal

Illboard: A diabetic artist takes to the streets

Brian Bradley's artwork reflects his struggles with diabetes and the health-care system

Ford Falcons and the Wright Brothers: a tour of the Forney Museum of Transportation

Amelia Earhart's Gold Bug Kissel. ​When I visited the Forney Museum of Transportation yesterday, the opening day for the Phenomenal Ford Falcon exhibition, I took an eight-year-old boy with me because no one is tougher to keep entertained. Upon leaving he turned to me and said, "That place was ... More >>

David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel tops our new-release picks for April 12, 2011

​If most authors leave an unfinished novel lying around, it doesn't really mean anything. It's usually unfinished because at best it's crap and at worst, unreadable. There have been exceptions: Kafka left behind The Castle, Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished, and Mark Twain's Mysteri ... More >>

Mike Rosen's use of racial slurs during KOA show appropriate, says Clear Channel exec

Mike Rosen.​Update below: An item on the DenverRadio.net message board reveals that last week, veteran KOA radio host Mike Rosen used a variety of racial slurs on the air -- and claimed that his new boss, Greg Foster, head of AM programming for Clear Channel's Denver cluster of stations, gave ... More >>

Yellow Cab controversy: Company president Brad Whittle slams Westword story in memo

​Brad Whittle, president of the company that operates Yellow Cab in Denver, refused to comment for last week's cover story, "Mean Streets," in which former taxi drivers described alleged abuse and discrimination at the operation. But after the story came out, Whittle apparently weighed in on t ... More >>

Carmelo Anthony to New Orleans trade rumors heat-up, if only in the internet echo chamber

Carmelo Anthony, sailing away?​There's a novel idea starting to get some online buzz: If the Nuggets can't get the entire league to negotiate a Rubik's Cube of perfect-storm, planets-aligned trade talks because they're dealing with Russian mogul and Michael Jordan types, they'll simply simpli ... More >>

Q&A with Lucas Field of Low Vs. Diamond

Lucas Field, the frontman for Low Vs. Diamond (the subject of a profile in Westword's November 27 edition), is a Seattle native -- but he spent his college years at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where he played in a jam band whose music has little in common with the tunes he's making with hi ... More >>

Best or Bust!

Native Americans thought the camera stole their spirit. But sometimes it just takes your story.

Delegating Denver #29 of 56: Missouri

Paint the Town Read

Jack Kerouac's back, and Denver's literary scene is on a scroll.

Year in Review: We’re Sorry, So Sorry

Regrets? We’ve had a few.

Tome, Tome on the Range

Kent Haruf stakes out the literary turf of Colorado.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of February 13, 2003

Devil May Care

Joshua Kane brings Gothic banter to the Arvada Center this weekend.

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 17, 2002

Toothy Smile

Columbine and a love of film give birth to a bucktoothed vampire.

Still Mortifying

Political comedy with veteran barb-slinger Mort Sahl.

The Beats Go On

How a kid from Boulder became an eyewitness to the passing of an era.

Trickle-Down Economics

Out on the plains, water is Colorado's most liquid asset.

Hot off the Presses

Printed matter papers the walls at the William Havu Gallery.

Star Hustlers

With the imminent release of The Phantom Menace, Fantastic Media prepares to blast off.

NIGHT & DAY1998 DECEMBER 3-9

Biting The Big One

Calendar

Jan. 29 - Feb. 4, 1998

Letters

THRILLS

THE CASTLE ON THE HILL

IT WAS MAN VERSUS MACHINE. AND THE ARISTOCRATS OF LABOR LOST.THE LAST OF THEIR TYPE RESIDENTS OF THE UNION PRINTERS HOME LEAVE A LASTING IMPRESSION.