Drunk dialing. C’mon, everyone’s done it at least once. And those who say they haven’t… well, those people are either full of fiction or hardline teetotalers who view abstinence as a virtue. Even if you do happen to fall into the latter category, chances are better than good that you’ve…
Drunk dialing. C’mon, everyone’s done it at least once. And those who say they haven’t… well, those people are either full of fiction or hardline teetotalers who view abstinence as a virtue. Even if you do happen to fall into the latter category, chances are better than good that you’ve…
Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Plotke of Campo de Fiore (300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek) announced that local business tycoon and big-time philanthropist Josh Hanfling had come on board as a partner at the restaurant, which opened back in 2001. Hanfling is allegedly the man who knows everyone, and I’m…
Two weeks ago, Elizabeth Plotke of Campo de Fiore (300 Fillmore Street in Cherry Creek) announced that local business tycoon and big-time philanthropist Josh Hanfling had come on board as a partner at the restaurant, which opened back in 2001. Hanfling is allegedly the man who knows everyone, and I’m…
Okay, I admit it, I didn’t shovel my walk. I did the first time, and the second time, and the third, fourth and fifth times, but somewhere after that there was a weekend morning when I didn’t shovel the two inches of fresh snow off of my walk. Fuck it,…
The Cat’s Pajamas is taking a much-needed stretch after a mid-winter cat nap. You see, Cat really hates the cold. Sure, the first day is all sledding and hot chocolate and weeee!, but by week six, nobody looks cute in stocking caps and knitted scarves. Everyone just looks disheveled and…
The Cat’s Pajamas is taking a much-needed stretch after a mid-winter cat nap. You see, Cat really hates the cold. Sure, the first day is all sledding and hot chocolate and weeee!, but by week six, nobody looks cute in stocking caps and knitted scarves. Everyone just looks disheveled and…
Why bicker about the nuances of President Bush’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, when you can create your own version of it! Using Westword’s cutting-edge text-processing technologies, we have created a Mad Libs version of parts of Bush’s speech (if you don’t know what Mad Libs are, feel…
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds… If this Herodotus quote was posted over the main Denver post office rather than the one in New York City, we’d have to delete “swift.” Because over the last…
The arrest yesterday of Scott Cortelyou, the veteran host of radio’s Business For Breakfast program, on suspicion of using the Internet to lure and sexually exploit a child was detailed in articles published today by the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News. However, neither of these pieces noted that…
In his State of the Union address, President Bush said that he wants to resolve the nation’s immigration woes without animosity and without amnesty. But for the millions of undocumented people in this country hoping for amnesty, there’s bound to be plenty of animosity if they don’t get their wish…
“Government is doing less, so the companies can do more — more cooking of the books.” That’s Bobby Maxwell, a former auditor for the federal Minerals Management Service, explaining how major oil and gas companies have been able to rip off the taxpayers for millions in underpaid royalties on energy…
Sterling Andrews Props to Hot IQs for being featured on Spin.com’s home page. The link, which has now moved below the fold after being front-and-center earlier this afternoon, features a photo of the band along with a short blurb urging visitors to download “Duck and Cover,” from the act’s latest…
Sterling Andrews Props to Hot IQs for being featured on Spin.com’s home page. The link, which has now moved below the fold after being front-and-center earlier this afternoon, features a photo of the band along with a short blurb urging visitors to download “Duck and Cover,” from the act’s latest…
As detailed in our recent article about local porn store yuckster Mike Wheeler of the Pleasures Dudes, bringing home the bacon as a bottom-feeding former child actor is hard work. But you don’t have to tell that to the man who put the “D” in D-list celebrity, Dustin Diamond. Better…
2052 Stout Street has been a bar for as long as matters. It was the Punch Bowl for damn near forever—an old boxing bar famous for the landscapes painted on all the booth-backs by wandering artist Noel Adams, who traded art for drinks and sandwiches, and for the number of…
2052 Stout Street has been a bar for as long as matters. It was the Punch Bowl for damn near forever—an old boxing bar famous for the landscapes painted on all the booth-backs by wandering artist Noel Adams, who traded art for drinks and sandwiches, and for the number of…
After the January 6 avalanche that buried cars near Berthoud Pass, Central City Parkway’s “NO ROCKSLIDES” ad campaign, currently gracing the sides of RTD buses, seemed in especially bad taste. Of course, since presumably the ads refer to the June 2005 rockslide that buried the Parkway’s competing thoroughfare, U.S. 6,…
The only messages Marshall gets on his MySpace page are from nubile, barely-legal girls who would like nothing better than to get to know Marshall. Some of them are horny. Some of them are lonely. Some send their Yahoo! instant message or MSN Messenger IDs so that Marshall can talk…
Governor Bill Ritter’s just-announced choice of Ron Binz for chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities ought to generate considerable buzz in the blessedly smoke-free back rooms of power this morning. It’s a modest move in a fresh direction–sort of like naming Ralph Nader to head General Motors, or putting Baron…
The new-look Rocky Mountain News debuted today, and there’s plenty to say about it; the design, and the reasons behind the changes, will be explored in a future edition of the Message. But lost amid the hoopla over the tabloid’s tweaked appearance (symbolized by the cover, seen here) was the…
News that MySpace.com is suing Westminster’s Scott Richter, once considered the third-largest producer of spam in the world, comes on the heels of recent articles in 5280 and elsewhere in which Richter insists his company is totally legit. But then, “Mr. Spam Man” was making such assertions three years ago,…
