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Mark Twain

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    Give ’Em Heller

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    September 1, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • News

    August 4, 2011

    Illboard: A diabetic artist takes to the streets

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

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    July 3, 2008

    Best or Bust!

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

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2008

    Delegating Denver #29 of 56: Missouri

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

  • News

    January 4, 2007

    Paint the Town Read

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

  • News

    December 28, 2006

    Year in Review: We’re Sorry, So Sorry

    Regrets? We’ve had a few.

  • Calendar

    May 20, 2004

    Tome, Tome on the Range

    Kent Haruf stakes out the literary turf of Colorado.

  • News

    February 13, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of February 13, 2003

  • Calendar

    October 24, 2002

    Devil May Care

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

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of October 17, 2002

  • Calendar

    March 21, 2002

    Toothy Smile

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

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2001

    Still Mortifying

    Political comedy with veteran barb-slinger Mort Sahl.

  • News

    November 30, 2000

    The Beats Go On

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

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Trickle-Down Economics

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

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Star Hustlers

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

  • Film

    April 16, 1998

    Biting The Big One

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

  • News

    July 11, 1996

    Letters

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

  • Calendar

    September 27, 1995

    THRILLS

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

  • News

    May 11, 1994

    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.

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