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Ron White got personal in Denver about sex, pot and Osama Bin Laden on Friday

When a single spotlight illuminated the bottle of Black Grouse whiskey resting on a bar stool center-stage, the 2,800 people in the audience at the Temple Buell Theatre rose to their feet, their deafening applause seemingly cheering the bottle of booze itself until Southern sass-man Ron White casual ... More >>

Beau Jo's Pizza: After forty years, don't go changing....

I'm not at all sorry I missed being an adult in the 1970s. There were terrible fashion trends with bell bottom pants and clogs with heels, and worse hairstyles with that feathered look; the porn was all sweaty and hairy, and the food trends were...well, Irma Rombauer's Joy of Cooking came out and fo ... More >>

Sand Creek Massacre to be recreated on film in Soul of Silas

While the University of Denver explores the role that John Evans, its founder, had to the Sand Creek Massacre, some people have moved beyond study to action. Aaron Sears, for example, has written a script for a movie he plans to direct: The Soul of Silas. The film is far from a big-budget affair -- ... More >>

Tom's Urban 24: Is this upscale diner ready for prime time?

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Le Peep: The proof is in the powder

I hadn't been to Le Peep in well over a decade -- since I discovered eggs Bennie made from scratch are better -- but I noticed that the recent chain-restaurant survey in Consumer Reports put Le Peep among the most popular restaurants in the U.S., ranked on taste, value, service and mood. Whuh-huh?

Whatever floats your boat: Take a look at our first dip in the South Platte, twenty years ago

This week's cover story, "Water World," takes a look at the river that runs through Denver: the South Platte. Two decades ago, then-Westword staffer Robin Chotzinoff wrote her own cover story (with Kenny Be illustrations) about the Platte, a true piece of immersion journalism. For "I Cover the Wate ... More >>

Guns N' Roses guitarist Dj Ashba on that time his pal Neil Diamond urged him to join GNR

​Guns N' Roses (due Sunday, December 11 at 1STBANK Center) is a household name at this point and hardly needs an introduction. During the late 1980s, Guns proved that you could come out of L.A. and not have songs that were just thinly disguised paeans to sexual conquest. Guns didn't go for t ... More >>

Letters: Readers question Charles Farrar's sentence, but a judge won't reconsider it

Reader: Why can't you be both, a master wordsmith and a major jackass?

Morrissey: Jackass and wordsmith?​That's the question posed by Wade Sears, in reaction to Cory Lamz's piece published on Wednesday about Morrissey's comments comparing the shooting in Norway to slaughterhouses used by fast food chains. (Moz, as fans know, is a staunch vegetarian.) Read that fu ... More >>

The Denver County Fair's speed-sewing competition was sew intense

​Chances are good that you may have missed the most intense part of the Denver County Fair over the weekend. If it wasn't the animals (and the hipster animals), the floating hamster balls, the Sears representatives casting for a new commercial or eating fried Lucky Charms mixed with Cap'n Crun ... More >>

Letters: "If Robert Walters did these things to American women here, I can't imagine what he did in the war"

Readers: Suburbs versus city, SouthGlenn versus Wash Park

The Streets at SouthGlenn: no meal mecca?​The closing of Tarbell's and The Oven at the Streets at SouthGlenn continues to fuel a discussion of what kind of restaurants, exactly, will work in the suburbs, as opposed to the city. Here's the take from b/art: Wow. We actually would drive to the ... More >>

Top five machines to make better pasta at home

Ronco does it right.​If you've given up on finding great pasta at local restaurants, here are five mechanical contraptions that might help you make great pasta at home:

Tonight: The stakes get lyrical at the Poetry out Loud State Championships

Last year's finals: Woman? Whoa... man.​If we learned anything from Akeelah and the Bee, it's that spelling bees can be pretty exciting, even if the subject matter is boring -- who nedes speling anyway? That shit is for lossers. It's the do-or-die elimination format that give the bee its drama ... More >>

A Hooters deal that really flies on Valentine's Day

Will you be my Valentine?​It's 11:30 a.m. on Valentine's Day, and I am the only patron at Hooters, that mammary mecca on Parker Road. With a big beer in front of me and a server with cleavage to match, I inquire about today's special. It's all about the wings: buy ten boneless or traditional w ... More >>

Record Store Day: Black Friday Edition

​The super-official, absolutely real, Record Store Day might have been earlier this year, but there's no reason why we can't celebrate our favorite holiday twice. Instead of cutting each other's throats and arguing with old folks at the mall today, maybe you'd like to consider spending your Bl ... More >>

Beyond the Five Napkin Burger: Tarbell's rises to the occasion

Speaking in Rhymes

Yes, Sarah Palin is hotter in person — but not hot enough

El Toro Palomo

Better late than never.

Speak Now

Protesting is the official team sport of Boulder. So what happens when a new development owns the streets?

Flight of Fancy

This glossy combat epic offers a sanitized version of World War I.

Of Mice and Menver

Numbers don't lie, but guys in bars do.

Best People-Watching

Clayton Lane

The Message

Target: Tom

Merger Mania

The Nugs strive to prove that their Melo-Kmart blend is the ticket to glory.

Best Addition to the Denver Skyline

Clayton Lane

For the Record

For national releases, 2003 wonked as much as it rocked.

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Will Terry Baker survive? Fill in the blanks.

Old at Heart

Mainstream news offers little to the under-thirty crowd.

Off Limits

Is that a tuba in your pocket?

It's a Small World

Littletown gives Littleton a little history lesson.

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?

Good question. Try these answers on for size.

Card Sharps

Selling green cards in Denver is easy money.

Shine On

For more than twenty years, Philip Hamon has championed local music. Now he's got his own act together.

Calling All Guys!

Denver's Army & Factory Surplus had a surplus of everything -- including history.

Backwash

Radio Waves

Against the Grain

Architecturally speaking, Denver is getting uglier by the minute.

Backwash

This young whippersnapper is wise beyond his years.

Out of Tuna

Are you ready for a third visit to Tuna, Texas?

Diamond in the Rough

Better ways to spend your holiday cash than an evening with Neil Diamond.

Star Search

Off Limits

Middle-Age Modern

Letters

Roots

Visit to a Mall Planet

In the clearance sale of life, the emergence of Park Meadows has dumped Southwest Plaza in last season's closeout bin. But life goes on. You go, girls.

'Head of the Class

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