Subject: Reality Shows

• Chairman of the Board

  January 12, 2007

• Va Va Room With a View

  January 5, 2007

• So You Think You Can Judge Dancing?

  September 14, 2006

• Reality Bytes

  June 24, 2006

• Vlog the Impaler, Numero Tres

  September 26, 2007

• Frock Out Denver Unveiled

  November 16, 2007

• The Worst TV of 2007

  December 28, 2007

• Fallen Idol

  May 2, 2008

• Design Star: Your Show Is (or Should Be) Cancelled

  June 20, 2008

• Chef and Tell!

  July 18, 2008

• That '60s Show

  Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

  March 6, 2003

• Jesus tells Colorado native Heidi Montag to love the mean people on her new reality show

  Denver pizza entrepreneur Mark Huebner isn't the only Coloradan scoring points for engaging in a "Verbal Fight/Physical Fight" on television these days. Crested Butte's Heidi Montag -- along with her fluffy-haired weenie of a husband, Spencer Pratt -- is a contestant on the lamely named NBC reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, which debuted last night. The show is like Survivor, only starring Lou Diamond Phillips, American Idol reject Sanjaya Malakar and Rod Blagojevich's wife,

  June 2, 2009

• Note to Top Chef: Stop sucking

  It's been three weeks since I wrote a word about this season's Top Chef on Bravo.  Know why?  Because it has been so boring and so contrived and so stupid that the episodes themselves were painful to watch -- making me less than excited about the notion of then rehashing them here. There was the bogus "Thanksgiving" episode that was filmed right in my hometown of Rochester, New York, of all places. Should've given me all sorts of fodder for a blog, right?  Wrong.  I

  December 23, 2008

• Backwash

  February 6, 2003

• Best Appearance by a Coloradan on National TV

  March 27, 2003

• Top Chef: Hosea Rosenberg

  Well, at least someone in the restaurant industry has some money now... You've all heard that Colorado's own Hosea Rosenberg (chef at Dave Query's Jax Fish House in Boulder, at least for now...) won this year's Top Chef prize.  He walked away with a slot at this year's Food Wine Festival in Aspen, a fat check for a hundred grand, magical underpants made out of Glad Bags (and other items from the "Glad family of products") and bragging rights forever.  As I said in my preview of the f

  February 26, 2009

• America's confidence still high, according to Next Top Model casting call

  See more photos at westword.com/slideshow. They say we're beaten down, beleaguered, ready to collectively empty our 401(k)s and slit our wrists with our sliced-in-half Visa cards. But if the several hundred high-heeled, high-smiled women standing in a line that stretched halfway around downtown Denver on Tuesday for an America's Next Top Model open casting call were any indication, then trust me: America still has the swagger of yesteryear. America is still bullish on itself. And mortgage cri

  March 11, 2009

• Boulder's Ace Young back on American Idol -- kind of, sort of, in a way

  The newly shorn Ace Young, now of "American Idol Extra." American Idol didn't prove to be a skyrocket to fame for Boulder's Ace Young, a 2006 Westword profile subject. But three years after finishing seventh in the contest -- remember how he equated that number with the one John Elway wore? -- he's still using the show to put bread on his table. Specifically, Ace has been named the co-host of American Idol Extra, a program on the Fox Reality Channel that debuts for the season on Thursday, March

  March 23, 2009

• Top Chef Hosea Rosenberg spreads the wealth

  A few weeks back, shortly after it was announced that Boulder chef Hosea Rosenberg had taken home the big prize and won this year's Top Chef prize on the Bravo reality show of the same name, Rosenberg mentioned in passing that he was already working with a local artisanal foods company, but wouldn't say exactly which company it was. Well, now we know.  It looks like the Top Chef has thrown in with Tellory, a Boulder-based company known for its pestos, dips, tapenades and spreads.

  March 26, 2009

• A Louse in the House

  Doug Bruce stars in the newest reality TV show.

  January 31, 2008

• Carrie Underwood

  Sunday, March 9, Pepsi Center, 303-830-8497.

  March 6, 2008

• Open Assault

  July 26, 2007

• Incredible Feet

  September 14, 2006

• Royal Flush

  February 15, 2007

• Room With a View

  TV or not TV? That was the question.

  January 4, 2007

• Brave New World

  Meet The Real World: Denver" cast before they join the collective.

  November 9, 2006

• Poison/Cinderella

  Sunday, July 16, Coors Amphitheatre, 303-830-8497.

  July 13, 2006

• Get Real

  A clipboard and a camera will get you anywhere -- even on The Real World.

  June 22, 2006

• David Gray

  Monday, March 13, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

  March 9, 2006

• Various Artists

  Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen (Hollywood)

  August 11, 2005

• Artbeat

  Brief sketches of what's happening in the Denver art scene.

  December 30, 2004

• Across State Lines

  A representative sampling of our congressional candidates.

  October 21, 2004

• Reality Bites

  It's the Colorado hillbillies!

  September 11, 2003

• Summer!

  June 12, 2003

• Win a dinner cooked by a Top Chef contender

  Melissa Harrison, a contender on last season's Top Chef, didn't win the big prize -- that went to Hosea Rosenberg, a fellow Big Red F chef -- but now you can win an eight-course dinner that Harrison will cook at your house.A Harrison-cooked meal is one of the auction items being offered at the April 18 benefit for Parenting Place, a Boulder non-profit celebrating its 25th anniversary. And how did Harrison get involved? The former Centro sous is now working at Happy Noodle House, and "I was appro

  April 16, 2009

• Jared Polis is having a tough year on TV

  May 28, 2009

• Huebner off the Bachelorette, back on pizza

  We've spent a lot more time looking at the home of the new Denver Pizza Company -- a few blocks away from the Westword office at 309 West 11th Avenue -- than we have watching The Bachelorette, even though one of the swains vying for Jillian Harris was from Denver: Mark Huebner, billed as a "pizza entrepreneur." Huebner got the kiss-off on Monday's episode of The Bachelorette -- and just in time, too, because it looks like the Denver Pizza Company will be opening next week. Which means you can

  June 19, 2009

• Denver Idol offers American Idol shortcut

  When I heard about the American Idol auditions set to take place here July 12-14, I began looking into flights out of town, in order to avoid being trampled to death by wannabe superstars who'd actually like to see Paula Abdul in person. (It can't be any worse than the video version. Is there any TV regular who looks more terrifying on HD?) No doubt those lusting for fame will be out in force, and they're also apt to turn up the previous week at tryouts for Denver Idol, Channel 31's homegrown

  June 19, 2009

• Highlights and lowlights from the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen

  Lori MidsonTop Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg and knifed cheftestant Fabio Viviani By the time the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen ended yesterday afternoon, I'd already seen a whole posse of amateurs puke; another man suffer a seizure just after chef Michael Symor ended a fantastic cooking demo devoted to pork belly; Top Chef winner Hosea Rosenberg locking arms with knifed Top Chef contestant, air-kisser, fan favorite, flirt and fabulous dresser Fabio Viviani; Giada De Laurentiis, who weighs all of

  June 22, 2009

• What's Cooking?

  June 25, 2009

• Days later, still chewing on Aspen Food and Wine

  Lori MidsonThe pea soup heard 'round the world. A few days after my return from Aspen Food and Wine, I'm still digesting the experience. The worst part of the event was listening to everyone's opinion about everything there. Opinions on food (if I heard one more person opine about pork belly I was going to lose it). Opinions on celebrities (I love Mario Batali, I hate Mario Batali). I've always lived by the quote, "Opinions are like assholes, everybody's got them." And boy, were there a lot of

  June 26, 2009

• American Idol auditions: It's all over but the regrets

  A Channel 31 photo of "American Idol" host Ryan Seacrest being quizzed by 2/31's Chris Parente. Yesterday's American Idol auditions took place out of the view of local news cameras, in order to save the good, the bad and the ugly for the talent contest's next season of broadcasts. But that didn't stop pros and amateurs alike from trying to document the hoopla. Click "Continue" to see coverage by Channel 31, the local Fox affiliate, which reveals that Mykal Hudson, much-ballyhooed winner of the

  July 15, 2009

• Another spot of genius from PETA

  Q: What's the highest rated television show in the history of everything? A: American Idol. Q: And who is the most high-profile judge on American Idol? A: Simon Cowell. That's right.  And if there's one organization in the world that knows how to exploit celebrity (even if it happens to be "celebrity" of the singing game show variety), it would be PETA--more specifically, it would be the marketing geniuses who slave away in PETA's evil Fortress of Solitude coming up with campaig

  July 22, 2009

• Meet Louisville Top Model hopeful Nicole Fox

  Editor's note: Catch up with Nicole Fox's journey to America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen victory by reading all our cycle thirteen recaps. Click to revisit episode two (with Lauren Conrad), episode three (when Nicole channels Gollum), episode four (the show Nicole barely survived), episode five (remember the "soulless fetus" reference?), episode six (with a Kim Karshasian sighting), episode seven (featuring the bizarre hapa challenge), episode eight (which was all about getting wet), epis

  November 19, 2009

• Top Model: Lauren Conrad loves Nicole Fox

  Nicole Fox.​On episode two of America's Next Top Model's thirteenth cycle, Louisville's own Nicole Fox, who we introduced you to last Thursday, was seldom in the spotlight, but was in no real danger of getting the heave-ho, as happened to not one but two contestants, Rachel and Courtney. She lost a head-to-head competition in which she was supposed to "smize" -- that's smiling with your eyes, people! -- but scored with a topless snapshot taken with a horse and jockey. Even though she finis

  September 17, 2009

• Top Model: The Nicole freak show (barely) goes on

  Nicole Fox, center, kinked her neck just enough.​Reality-TV watchers know early in nearly every show who's in danger of elimination -- and during last night's episode of America's Next Top Model, Louisville's Nicole Fox found herself smack in the middle of what that great philosopher Kenny Loggins once described as the "Danger Zone." She had plenty of talking-to-the-camera moments, with clips apparently chosen to make her seem as odd, dizzy, confused or just plain out of it as possible. In

  October 8, 2009

• Let's get real: Who are Denver's top ten reality TV stars?

  October 15, 2009

• Bravo is getting its Just Desserts, but Keegan Gerhard won't be the icing on the cake

  Lori Midson​Life is about to get a whole lot sweeter for sugar fiends. That's because Bravo, the network that airs Top Chef and Top Chef Masters (which got the green light for a second season), has just added the icing on the cake: a new show titled Top Chef: Just Desserts, which will pit confectionists and pastry chefs against one another to see who spins the last sugar standing. Like the Top Chef contestants, all the boys and girls will live together in a fancy compound during filming as

  October 27, 2009

• Top Model's Nicole can win this thing, bitches!

  Nicole is seen merging Japanese and Malagasy with fierceness.​Early on, Louisville's Nicole Fox seemed too quirky to have a real shot at taking the America's Next Top Model cycle thirteen crown. But over the past few weeks, she's become a force as unstoppable as her flame-colored hair, and her chances of becoming the first major reality-show champ from Colorado since Top Chef's Hosea Rosenberg grow with each episode -- even one as weird and frequently uncomfortable as last night's. Clue o

  October 29, 2009

• Reality bites for Colorado and Richard Heene

  November 19, 2009