With temperatures dropping again, people are warming to the thought of hot, hot food. BBQ, in short. Witness this recent plea from Jeff: Growing up in the Midwest, I have developed a predilection (or as my wife would call it, an obsession) for BBQ. I enjoy different regional sauces but…
As of nine this morning, the Denver Election Commission had received 40,039 ballots — and those are ballots filled out by voters, not returned by the U.S. Postal Service as undeliverable (another 30,000 or so), after the DEC had already given itself an A+ on its performance with this single-ballot…
To put it mildly, “The Crossing,” an ongoing Rocky Mountain News project penned by reporter Kevin Vaughan (pictured) is a mammoth undertaking. The story of a horrific 1961 train/schoolbus accident that killed twenty children, the series is scheduled to run in 33 parts, with the first appearing on January 23…
A cheerful sight on Sunday inspired this haiku: Winter is over! Pop the convertible’s top, It’s forty degrees! — Joel Warner…
This January 26 blog tells of an odd occurrence the previous night on Channel 9. During two sitcoms, Scrubs and 30 Rock, 9News logos briefly blinked on the screen several times, leading one observer to wonder if the station was engaging in subliminal gamesmanship. Definitely not, says Channel 9 news…
In this Miami Herald column, Dave Barry takes off after Colorado representative and perhaps presidential candidate Tom Tancredo. Among other things, Barry calls Tancredo (the subject of a recent blog) an “ignorant yokel blowhard” and a “xenophobic dimwit.” And I am not making this up! “Back in November,” Barry writes,…
Over the past month or so, some of the same folks who assemble the editorial material to be found in the Boulder Daily Camera have been delivering it, too. As noted in this December 9 article, execs at the Daily Camera recently decided to outsource delivery of its papers to…
Mark Seibel was, technically, a fugitive from justice when I met him at a westside Starbucks last summer. He was also the first fugitive I’ve met who had his own MySpace page. Homeless at age eleven, in and out of the juvenile and then adult prison system with diagnosed but…
The Heyday is still wet behind the ears. Nine. That’s the number of shows that the Heyday has actually played. In this week’s Beatdown, I speculated that number was fewer than fifty. And before the ink was even dry on that column, I received an e-mail from Heyday bassist Pete…
The Heyday is still wet behind the ears. Nine. That’s the number of shows that the Heyday has actually played. In this week’s Beatdown, I speculated that number was fewer than fifty. And before the ink was even dry on that column, I received an e-mail from Heyday bassist Pete…
There’s big news coming out of Cherry Creek, with the announcement that Elway’s is expanding to a second location inside the new Ritz-Carlton, Denver, which is currently under construction at 1881 Curtis Street. And I predicted this almost a year ago, in the April 20, 2006 Bite Me column where…
There’s big news coming out of Cherry Creek, with the announcement that Elway’s is expanding to a second location inside the new Ritz-Carlton, Denver, which is currently under construction at 1881 Curtis Street. And I predicted this almost a year ago, in the April 20, 2006 Bite Me column where…
Here’s how cool I am. Last night, I was at home with my family, watching 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s amusing sitcom (Alec Baldwin rules), on Channel 9. Suddenly, in the middle of the broadcast, my son, Nick, noticed something flash in the middle of the screen. Shortly thereafter, the rest…
Offense Report No: 07-5001573 Date: 1-15-2007 Location of Offense: South Denver Type of Premises: House Weapon/Tool used: Chemical Homeowner writes: “My garage door has been tagged by a ‘gay tagger.’ My white garage door has some moronic red spray painted ‘tag’ as these ‘artists’ like to think of themselves. I…
In today’s blog about Kevin Nealon, the comic noted that his wife was due to give birth around the time of his January 26 show at the Boulder Theater. Well, her doctor’s estimate proved mighty accurate. The performance was just postponed, and Sarah Coffeld, the venue’s publicist, confirms that labor…
Local pundits are a-twitter over the arcane mechanics of the country’s Electoral College as the Colorado legislature considers revising how the state awards its nine electoral votes in a presidential election. Some say the current proposal, which would award the state’s votes to whoever gets the most popular votes nationwide…
For the record, I liked much of the food (if not the service) at John Holley’s Asian Bistro, which makes the fact that they tossed the Westword rack after my review came out a little puzzling. No question, though, that the place has lots of fans, because letters like the…
For the record, I liked much of the food (if not the service) at John Holley’s Asian Bistro, which makes the fact that they tossed the Westword rack after my review came out a little puzzling. No question, though, that the place has lots of fans, because letters like the…
These 50-degree days aren’t just melting snowbanks. They’re going to make a new traffic jam disappear, too. The city has yet to decide on the final design of the new Justice Center, but work has already begun on that project, necessitating the closure of 14th Avenue east of Speer so…
The piece in this week’s Night & Day section about comic Kevin Nealon, who headlines at the Boulder Theater in a show now scheduled to take place on Friday, March 2 (see this blog for details), offers a taste of a conversation early this month with the Saturday Night Live…
For most of us, the closest we get to practicing medicine is telling a depressed co-worker, “Somebody’s got a case of the Mondays.” But that doesn’t stop us from living vicariously through TV doctors. Now, with Trauma Center: Second Opinion, you can take your surgical dreams one step further. Thanks…
Cocaine Cowboys (Magnolia) Slam! Bang! Pow! Snort! This tawdry and giddy documentary tells the story of Miami’s transformation from a place where old people go to die to a place with so much drug money that the Mercedes dealers were constantly out of stock, where the hit men would rather…
