The Simpsons (TV Show)

Harry Shearer on New Orleans, media error, and not being the funnyman

Harry Shearer's new film uncovers what really happened in New Orleans. ​Harry Shearer may be best known as the comedian who voices a litany of characters on The Simpsons and makes mockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, but his new documentary is completely serious. The Big U ... More >>

Five weird Harry Shearer roles

​While Harry Shearer is most popular as the bassist from This is Spinal Tap and nearly half of the voices of on The Simpsons, he's also been extremely prolific in other areas during his half-a-century in showbiz. In advance of the screening of his documentary The Big Uneasy Thursday night at t ... More >>

Rocky Flats Cold War Museum: Memories of the first (surreal) Rocky Flats museum

​As recently noted in Westword, plans are heating up to build a permanent Rocky Flats Cold War Museum in a onetime Arvada post office. It won't be the first Rocky Flats museum, however. That distinction belongs to an operation that used to exist on the grounds of the nuclear weapons plant -- o ... More >>

Oil companies love horizontal drilling in Weld County: Simpsons' Mr. Burns would approve

​Weld County is undergoing an explosion in the number of oil and gas companies using a technique called "horizontal drilling" to get at deposits deep in the Denver Basin, according to the Greeley Tribune. Which puts us in mind of a certain Simpsons episode.

Bart Simpson turns 32? Probably not, but here's a look back

Ay caramba, the '90s!​Bart Simpson was arbitrarily declared 32 years old today by Twitter trends, a designation that had something to do with the release of the first episode of The Simpsons in 1989 plus Bart's age, which has always been ten years old. Except the show debuted on December 17, 1 ... More >>

The Simpsons and five other really disturbing porno parodies

Jaundice is the new sexy.​By some scientific estimates, over half the internet consists of pornography. That statistic is actually made up, but there's no doubt that there is a mind-boggling amount of porn out there -- so much of it, in fact, that there is a universal rule for it: "Rule 34: If ... More >>

Rick Griffith has designs on Denver. Bold ones.

Duff beer, brontosaurus ribs and gummiberry juice: top five cartoon foods we wish were real

We're glad spoo isn't real. ​There are quite a few cartoon foods we're glad aren't real: spoo, for example, a substance described as "meat jello," that's made an appearance on not one, but two cartoons. Other disturbing foods found in cartoons include the sawdust-y "powdered toast" from Ren a ... More >>

Twisted Pine seasonals keep things interesting

​"Gimme your best seasonal on tap," I request as I belly up to the handcrafted bar at Twisted Pine Ale House (3201 Walnut Street, Boulder). Bartender Jody Valenta slides a sample of her favorite seasonal, Hoppy Man, across the planks and I can see why she digs it. (Check back with Cafe Societ ... More >>

Ten TV bars at which we'd like to get wasted

How I Met Your Mother? By getting hammered every night, obviously.​ There are places to meet friends for drinks ... and then there are bars, my friends. Places where the drink is the thing, and the goal is drunk. That in mind, there are some TV bars where you just wouldn't want to be, lik ... More >>

Did the spontaneity-free climate-change rally in Greeley have a Mr. Burns touch?

As we pointed out yesterday, a climate-change rally in Greeley on Wednesday didn't exactly qualify as a grassroots uprising, given the participation of EnergyCitizens.org, an affiliate of the American Petroleum Institute, which opposes legislation to cap greenhouse gases recently passed by the U.S. ... More >>

One year ago today at the DNC: The New Orleans All-Star Jam-Balaya at the Fillmore Auditorium

Allen Toussaint.​This week marks the one-year anniversary of the Democratic National Convention, an event that made Denver the center of the media universe for several unforgettable days. To mark the occasion, we'll be offering selected flashbacks of Westword coverage. First up: An on-site cou ... More >>

I Am Curious, Yellow

D’oh! It’s a Simpsons extravaganza at Moe’s.

Wherefore art thou, Old Mexico?

The meaning of this curse word is all over the map

Bravery has no national boundaries

Delegating Denver #41 of 56: Oregon

Touch of Evel

The Simpsons Movie: Don't Worry, It Doesn't Suck!

The Simpsons Movie

Breathe easy, Simpsons fans: It doesn’t suck.

Cromulent Promo

Denver's a winner in the Simpsons lottery.

The Simpsons Go High Fashion

An Interview With Dana Gould

Smells Like Victory

Bard Simpson

MacHomer animates Shakespeare.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Brave Combo plays polka without borders.

Capitol Idea

Al Gore’s daughter, Kristen, lampoons the power of D.C. in her first novel.

Mambo Italiano

This festival dishes up an al fresco extravaganza

Off Limits

Burn, baby, burn

Naming Rights

Jump, Jive and Jingle

Brian Setzer and the gang ring those sleigh bells

That '60s Show

Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols

The A List

Lola's fans have discovered the joy of Mex.

Trouble by the Bay

Labor strife looms in a western outpost of Dean Singleton's media empire.

The Loner

Daniel Johnston ventures into the wicked world with a batch of new music and a blank slate.

It Happens

Ohmigod! Five seasons in, South Park's the funniest show on TV.

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely.

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low.

Vince Gill

Let's Make Sure We Kiss Goodbye
(MCA/Nashville)

Two Lips

The Lost Album
(Oglio)

The Squeaky Wheel

Leave It to Reruns

Without a Net

Flying high with Acrobat Down.

Playing the Anglicans

Big Bang Theory

Off Limits

Top of the Hill

B-Real says Cypress Hill's message is still blunt.

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