Consider this a warning to all parents of seven-year-old girls: The folks behind the Cheetah Girls, who plan to (sorta) rock this town tonight, have been targeting your beloved tot since before she was born — waiting oh-so-patiently to turn her into a rabid devotee of Cheetah music, DVDs and…
This photograph, snapped by Kenny Be at the corner of Stout and Park Avenue West in late December, inspired the following: A burned-out building Not a good advertisement For fire and safety…
Circusized Peanuts. What a great name for a record. And as I remembered it, Peanuts was also a pretty kick-ass album. Not quite as good as Deadly Kung Fu Action — the classic Warlock Pinchers album, which contained the immortal ditty “Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse” — but pretty kick-ass nonetheless…
Circusized Peanuts. What a great name for a record. And as I remembered it, Peanuts was also a pretty kick-ass album. Not quite as good as Deadly Kung Fu Action — the classic Warlock Pinchers album, which contained the immortal ditty “Morrisey Rides a Cockhorse” — but pretty kick-ass nonetheless…
Today’s Spotlight section of the Rocky Mountain News included a regular feature — one of David Letterman’s signature top-ten lists. In this instance, the topic was “Top 10 Signs You Watched Too Much College Football,” and the final item read, “In bed, your wife says, ‘Get a Trojan’ — and…
In The Graduate, a brain-dead fat cat famously advised Dustin Hoffman’s character to devote his professional career to “Plastics!” These days, however, up-and-comers would be well advised to stay away from this field — at least if they’d hoped to specialize in compact discs. Recently released 2006 sales figures from…
Another day, another Denver story in the national news. But at least the news was good early this morning — as opposed to yesterday’s prediction of another snowstorm snarling the country’s travel, and Sunday’s report of an avalanche at Berthoud Pass. As ABC wrapped up its news reports just before…
“It’s not exactly a secret that Bill Ritter’s people and John Hickenlooper’s people aren’t always filled with love toward one another. But maybe it truly was a coincidence that the inaugural 21-gun salute was fired toward city hall.” That’s the word on the front page — the front page! —…
Death Becomes You It’s death metal Tuesday at the Larimer Lounge. Okay, I made that crap up; there’s no official, on-going weekly theme at the Lounge. Nonetheless, that’s precisely what’s on tap — too much metal for one hand. Stop by tonight and have your ass handed to by Cryogen,…
Death Becomes You It’s death metal Tuesday at the Larimer Lounge. Okay, I made that crap up; there’s no official, on-going weekly theme at the Lounge. Nonetheless, that’s precisely what’s on tap — too much metal for one hand. Stop by tonight and have your ass handed to by Cryogen,…
Today, just before lunch, Bill Ritter was sworn in as the 41st Governor of the Colorful State of Colorado. As el jefe nuevo of our square state, Ritter would do well to take a cue from the behavior of his predecessor, the illustrious Bill Owens, during his last days in…
OpenStage’s Splitting Infinity, which I review in the January 11 issue, made me think about the one Nobel laureate I have had the privilege of meeting: Nigeria’s Wole Soyinka, a forceful critic of colonialism and winner of the prize for literature in 1986. Soyinka was attending a conference on the…
“There are hundreds and hundreds of books in this collection, enough to fill an entire storage unit, and almost all of them have some value beyond just being a used book,” says Dale Lashnits, who’s coordinated a Book Sale at the Aurora Central Library Community Room, 14949 East Alameda Parkway;…
The second item of the December 21 Message column concerned ESPN Radio’s shift from KLZ/560 AM to the former KCKK, at 1600 AM, as well as the break-up of Tim Neverett and Jim Armstrong, hosts of 560’s stellar a.m. gabfest The Press Box. At the time, Armstrong, a Denver Post…
The much-ballyhooed arrival in Denver of the scroll bearing Jack Kerouac’s On the Road manuscript brings back memories of the last great Beat convergence in these parts, a time when wacky Kerouacians crowded the University of Colorado campus in Boulder to revel in all things Jack. The year was 1982…
The sight of the Steve Canyon sculpture in Idaho Springs draped in lazy, yet effective, holiday festoonery inspired this haiku: Posed like a hero Who cares if you’re a cartoon? The sky’s the limit…
The People’s Republic of Boulder is all about life, liberty and the pursuit of self-esteem. So it’s not surprising that local bureaucrats would come up with the first-ever Pinnacle Awards, a way of recognizing Boulder County employees “who exemplify the county’s guiding values.” But check out their website here for…
On Monday, January 15, the Denver Election Commission will start collecting mail-in ballots for the special, one-item election that Denver City Council approved on December 26. But before Denver voters can start turning in those ballots that could make Denver the 63rd out of 64 Colorado counties with an elected…
The unofficial Darrent Williams shrine at 11th and Speer not only survived the most recent snowstorm, but it’s grown. Mourners who marched from the Shelter, the club at 1037 Broadway where Williams was partying on New Year’s Eve, to the site of the shooting left more flowers, more cards, more…
On Sunday night, I spotted a few helpful bums settling their very drunk friend into a trash-filled cart for a comfy nap. It inspired this haiku: Lights out, no one home Only booze in residence. A long winter’s night. — Amy Haimerl…
A common journalistic mistake? The assumption on the part of writers that their experiences mirror those of everyone in their readership. Rocky Mountain News classical music scribe Marc Shulgold made just such an error in “Too Many Let Fine Concert Slip By,” a generally benign January 6 piece that crimped…
Bad day for Denver on the national news. On Fox & Friends this morning, the five-minute hourly update included a piece on the Darrent Williams slaying, a segment on Denver’s third big blizzard (including a live report from the National Western Stock Show on the status of all those frozen…
