And then there was one. There are 46 people serving life without the possibility of parole in Colorado for crimes that they committed as juveniles. But, thanks to a law passed last year, those who commit first-degree murder before they turn 18 are now eligible for parole after 40 years…
NBC’s Chuck was picked up for the back-nine of a full-season order on November 26. That’s a very good thing, because it’s the best of NBC’s new shows this season. As part of TV Nerd-Rush 2007 (other notable entrants in this category include the CW’s Reaper and CBS’ The Big…
Here’s a new way to tell if there’s going to be a snowstorm: Wait for the Denver Post to run a story in which prognosticators suggest that such weather systems will be few and far between. Last year, as sketched out in this More Messages blog, a Post reader noted…
With a Chino Moreno interview, readers get two for the price of one. In the Q&A below, Moreno talks extensively about his side project, Team Sleep (an act profiled in the November 29 Westword), and draws the curtain back on his best known band, the Deftones, who are in the…
Remember last winter? Remember all the abuse that was heaped on city, county and state representatives in charge of road safety due to their poor preparation in advance of storms and tardy responses once precipitation started to fall? Remember how said government types swore they’d learned lessons from the debacle…
Why be fair and actually listen to five albums when you can be an ADHD smartass? Burial Untrue Hyperdub 00:48-1:32 of “Untrue” Boy was my assumption about this one wrong. I was positive I was going to get a Buck 65 style hip-hop deal but no, Burial had to go…
This past July, when Anti- Records announced it would be issuing DeVotchKa’s How It Ends in Europe, it almost seemed like a forgone conclusion that the imprint would also end up working with the outfit here in the States. (Uh, let’s see… DeVotchKa… Grammy-nominated, universally lauded by fans and critically…
Sigur Rós Hvarf/Heim (XL Recordings) In some ways, the new Sigur Rós CD isn’t all that new. Hvarf/Heim conflates a pair of EPs, with the first consisting of three previously unreleased tracks plus reworkings of two early numbers and the second spotlighting six live acoustic renderings of numbers familiar to…
When they use the “cow town” descriptor, what most folks mean is podunk, provincial, lacking in the sort of taste and culture found in the big cities on the coasts. They’re saying that while we, the people of Denver, may be urbane enough to understand that going out for a…
When they use the “cow town” descriptor, what most folks mean is podunk, provincial, lacking in the sort of taste and culture found in the big cities on the coasts. They’re saying that while we, the people of Denver, may be urbane enough to understand that going out for a…
View larger image Iowa Total Number of Delegates: 56 Pledged: 45 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize an Iowa Delegate: Iowa is the smartest state in the union, topping the annual list for national ACT and SAT scores. That’s only fitting, since the national ACT offices are in Iowa City, and…
Long before the Denver Crip set known as the Tre Tres became notorious for a link to the still unsolved murder of Denver Bronco Darrent Williams almost a year ago, they forever changed the life of Cathy Maestas for the worse. Maestas’s son, Geranimo, was 16 on this day in…
Slide show Primasonic, Get Three Coffins Ready, Jett Black Larimer Lounge November 23, 2007 Summation: In baseball, one for three is actually pretty good. An empty bar can be a double-edged sword. You don’t have to fight for elbow room when you belly up. But when it’s Friday night on…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: The clubs editor for one of our papers runs into an occupational hazard and thereafter has trouble exercising her critical faculty enough to muster a proper review of a DJ competition…
Denver-based attorney and past Westword profile subject Andrew Cohen is a rarity — a TV legal expert who brings class and smarts to a role that’s often filled by ranters and screamers. No wonder he’s been a regular presence on CBS’s weeknightly newscast through the equivalent of three administrations, regularly…
Hope the November 22 Evanescence profile or this extended Q&A with lead singer Amy Lee didn’t get you too revved up to see the combo in concert. Turns out that the show, scheduled to take place on November 25 at Magness Arena, was canceled at the last minute…
Is there anything capable of making Broncos’ fans feel better about the team’s November 25 overtime loss to the Chicago Bears, which has to rank among the most idiotic and unnecessary defeats in franchise history? Probably not — but this clip from NBC Sports comes close. In it, Keith Olbermann,…
Let’s give thanks that this past holiday weekend, Denver International Airport proved that it could handle crowds. (And what, exactly, was the airport waiting for? An engraved invitation from Mary Peters?) But for once, I was sorry that I wasn’t stuck in an endless line while waiting to go through…
I asked the Mexican what he wanted to eat during his visit to Denver. In addition to being the author of Ask a Mexican, a weekly column now published in 31 papers, Gustavo Arellano is the food editor at our sibling paper, OC Weekly, in Southern California. So finding the…
I asked the Mexican what he wanted to eat during his visit to Denver. In addition to being the author of Ask a Mexican, a weekly column now published in 31 papers, Gustavo Arellano is the food editor at our sibling paper, OC Weekly, in Southern California. So finding the…
The members of Fall Out Boy, who headline the Young Wild Things tour that stopped at DU’s Magness Arena on November 23, are new millennium anachronisms: musicians who became famous thanks to MTV video airplay. Of course, the video medium is currently the province of YouTube, while MTV prefers to…
This morning’s “Speakout” in the Rocky Mountain News features a curious little rant by one of the University of Colorado’s nuttiest professors, Michael Tracey, the dubious documentarian who made John Mark Karr a household name. The piece is remarkable on several levels, none of which have much to do with…
