In a lot of ways, the Internet is like a wormhole: There you are, just cruising along in your space module, playing pinochle with some commie chimpanzee and sipping on Tang when you see one — and oh, man, you’ve got to get a closer look. So you proceed with…
After Big Head Todd and the Monsters kicked off Senator Hillary Clinton’s appearance at Auraria in October, she added “Blue Sky” — the song that Todd Park Mohr and company had written at the request of members of the Space Shuttle Discovery for their 2005 mission, the first since the…
“After the Exit,” Michael Roberts, December 6 Pultide Carols Sheesh. Other than the Christm…oops!…holiday gift ideas, the December 6 issue of Westword was packed full of more tearjerkers than an economy-sized box of Kleenex. First there was the usual Ask a Mexican bitch about how the Mexican food here isn’t…
Forget peace on earth, good will to men and all that crap. Christmas, above all else, is about one thing: draping your house and shrubbery in excessive amounts of very, very small light bulbs to the envy and/or embarrassment of your neighbors. Two Coloradans have taken the pursuit to a…
When I moved to Colorado, I took a job as a server at Gunther Toody’s. I lasted one week. Why such a short-lived serving career, you ask? The answer to that question is two-fold. Reason one: Three days into my training, I was tested on the menu. One of the…
Jim Malec’s December 13 Rough Mixes piece focusing on Suzy Bogguss was based on the following interview in which the CMA Horizon Award winner also discussed everything from jewelry making to her shifting musical styles over the years to her thoughts on why radio programmers haven’t really embraced her music…
Despite official denials at the outset that gunman Matthew Murray had any connection to New Life Church, where he killed two young women on Sunday, a very different picture is emerging from Murray’s copious online postings. A 2004 visit by Murray to the New Life campus apparently drove a deeper…
You know Dasher, and Dancer, and Prancer, and Vixen, right? And Comet, and Cupid, and Donner, and Blitzen? And of course you recall the most famous reindeer of all: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Rudolph was invented by Montgomery Ward ad men, but immortalized by Rankin-Bass in 1964. It’s a beloved…
My waiter came by, brought me a warm towel for my fingers, a stack of menus, a beer. Then we started talking — about the menu, about the Izakaya concept, about how to order and what I should order and how much of everything I should order. “How hungry are…
My waiter came by, brought me a warm towel for my fingers, a stack of menus, a beer. Then we started talking — about the menu, about the Izakaya concept, about how to order and what I should order and how much of everything I should order. “How hungry are…
The documentary Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, which begins its Denver run on December 14 at the Starz FilmCenter, has a fine subject — the combustible, highly quotable shouter for the Clash, who died in 2002 — and a sympathetic, visually audacious director — Julien Temple, the onetime music-video…
Although the Hate Fuck Trio was one of the most popular and enjoyable Denver bands of the ´90s, the combo led by twisted siblings Sam and Jon DeStefano faded from the scene early into the new millennium. Now, the boys are back, sort of, and their explanations for their absence…
The land dispute between Boulder neighbors that’s at the center of the December 12 Message column just received its most prominent moment in the national spotlight to date: a four-minute spot heard by listeners to the NPR program All Things Considered on December 10. The piece stands out because it…
In 1993, Westword published its tenth Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from Best Place to Take the Pope When He Comes to Town to Best Explosion (the old Montgomery Ward building on Broadway) to Best Radio Talk-Show Host (Peter Boyles, whose ratings continue…
Moderators at an online forum for former Pentecostals have reposted the rantings of Matthew Murray, the gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs this weekend, on their website here. Joe Istre, president of the Association of Former Pentecostals wrote of the decision, “In the interests of…
The gunman who killed four young people in Arvada and Colorado Springs despised his own deeply fundamentalist upbringing but couldn’t quite escape it. Even while quoting copiously from the Web rantings of Columbine killer Eric Harris (“God, I can’t wait until I can kill you people”) in his own cyberspace…
In anticipation of tomorrow night’s new episode of Project Runway (looks like there will be drama, drama, drama!), here’s a quick recap of last week’s antics: In a challenge that Heidi Klum described as “thwee designers reinterpreting thwee outdated looks,” teams set out to make over the poodle skirt, overalls,…
Elizabeth Rose, Blue Light December 10, 2007 Larimer Lounge Better than: Fleetwood Mac (according to photographer Brian Carney) Kudos to the Larimer Lounge (and booker John Baxter) for making the commitment to bring live music to the venue seven nights a week. It is exactly that kind of dedication and…
“It’s a hotter issue than it ever has been before, all the presidential candidates are talking about it,” says Helen Krieble, a Colorado woman with a plan to solve the nation’s immigration trauma profiled in this Westword feature, “No candidate can step out in front of an audience without answering…
The Rocky Mountain News has invested an enormous amount of time and resources in “Beyond the Boom.” The four-day series, which debuted on December 10, is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the impact of the current uptick in energy-related projects on the state, complete with special, ad-free sections designed…
White House press secretary Dana Perino, a recent Westword profile subject, admitted to having had a bad week a few days back — and that’s not an example of spin. Perino, a Wyoming native who was raised in Colorado from age two, not only engaged in a heavily reported snipefest…
You may not be able to get up to Butte, Montana today for the memorial service of the late, and certainly great, Evel Knievel, but Denver punk band the S.O.B.s is here to help you celebrate the passing of this American legend with their new tune “Evel Knievel Is Dead.”…
