Edie Falco as Nurse Jackie.One of the best new television series of the summer season is Showtime's Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco, of The Sopranos fame. At first blush, the title character seems like a fairly typical medical-TV creation: She's a sassy wife and mother who's so fiercely devoted to the well-being of her patients that she's willing to get in their faces of doctors and administrators she feels have misplaced their priorities. But she's far from perfect. Jackie's addicted t
Crappy Razr photo by Michael RobertsSpike Lee, with relish.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. Today's entry: a Pepsi Center celebrity roundup.
In the few minutes before Bill Clinton spoke at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday night, I was inching along the peri
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, like Rosie's from M.A.S.H. (bad booze near the front of the Korean conflict) or the Bronze from Buffy (tough to drink and quip and fight vampires all at the same time), or Archie Bunker's Place (where yo
