This week, Joel Warner gives us some insight as to what it’s like to be a part-time stay-at-home dad and a full-time neurotic obessessive with fantasies of prehistoric predators eating his young. Read his feature about the baby products industry here. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday: The doctor’s office doesn’t scare…
In 1986, Westword published its third Best of Denver issue, a celebration of the city that saluted everything from the Best Local Comic Made Good (Roseanne Barr, who’d been living in a trailer just a few years earlier and was now starring in her own sitcom) to the Best Bronco…
We are all products of our environment and it is scary to imagine what products stem from the environment of the sleazy East Colfax motels. But, in the face of homelessness, seven young boys and girls are being honored for the hardships they’ve overcome. The end of the East Colfax…
The first game of the 2007 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and YOUR Colorado Rockies started perfectly: With Fox’s Jeanne Zelasko giving Eric Byrnes shit for being a loud-mouthed douchenozzle. Byrnes committed the first broadcasting boner of the evening — and not the last — when he said…
I’m telling you right now, I’m not going to cry at the end of the World Series. No matter how it turns out. Sure, if the Rockies win I’ll be doing my silly celebration dance (which makes Jonathan Papelbon’s Riverdance look sane), and screaming wildly and jumping up and down…
In this space yesterday, I vigorously defended my fellow Red Sox fans’ honor against unfounded snipes by over-eager Rockies fans. The Red Sox are not the evil empire, I argued. Sure, we get a little crazy, a little annoying, but that’s love and it’s beautiful. Don’t hate us because we’re…
You’ve just spent most of the past four decades in one of the most thankless jobs ever: newspaper reporter. So what’s next? You attempt to land an even more thankless job: elected government official. That’s Charley Able’s mission, anyhow. The longtime scribe for the Rocky Mountain News is running for…
First, I have to watch that game. Then, this morning, I head to my driveway in search of newspapers that were missing yesterday, and my momentary elation at seeing them where they should be is promptly shattered by the main headline on the Denver Post’s up-front World Series section: “Darned…
The Disney Channel has perfected a four-part approach to tween marketing. Step A: Find a telegenic youth. Step B: Build her into a suburban superstar. Step C: Milk her until her udders are dry. Step D: Begin promoting her to a slightly older audience while introducing a similarly telegenic youth…
There will be no World Series game tonight, but that doesn’t mean you have to forgo an evening of fierce, hard-hitting competition. Lace up your skates and sharpen your elbows, because the Denver Roller Dolls’ all-star team, the Mile High Club, hosts the Cincinnati Rollergirls All-Stars in Denver’s first Women’s…
Victorians were obsessed with sex. Let’s review the evidence: clothing styles that covered women from chin to wrist to ankle, lest a glimpse of skin send a male onlooker into a frenzy; the invention of bland foods such as graham crackers to help smother the sex drive; the proliferation of…
Looking for something to do this weekend that doesn’t involve ghosts, ghouls or goblins? Then steer toward Barr Lake State Park, 13401 Picadilly Road in Brighton, for tonight’s Full Moon Hike: Tales of Migration and Folklore. During a short hike, park naturalists will explain how Barr Lake’s animals adapt and…
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around out there about dogs. We’re looking at you, self-proclaimed Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. And Colorado has its own answer to Millan: Jake Page, author of Dogs: A Natural History. “I don’t want my dogs rolling over on their backs and peeing on…
It’s Halloween, and there was a time when hanging out in the same space as Allen Iverson would have given you the evening’s requisite fright. But these days, Iverson is as likable as ever. He has embraced this city: His kids call it home, he has plans to move the…
From the psychedelic installation art, unusual costumes and hippie-dippy trade-and-barter mentality to the lunar-like panorama and oddly named camps and villages — not to mention the forty-foot pyrotechnic dude who inspired it all — everyone seems to know something about Burning Man. But how much do you really know about…
Chess is a serious game — but Colorado closed-chess champion Brian Wall knows it can be fun, too. That’s why he and co-author Anthea Carson wrote How to Play Chess Like an Animal, which they’ll introduce this afternoon. The book teaches kids and other novices strategy using examples literally drawn…
Whether they’re arguing over the greatest teams, defending their favorite players or inventing imaginary scenarios, sports pundits love a good debate. Sal Paolantonio’s new book, The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated & Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, & Moments in NFL History, is less a tome than an instrument for controversy,…
Even if you don’t care for the acrobatics and artsy-fartsy interpretive dance that goes into something like Cirque du Soleil, you may be inexplicably drawn to Theatre of the Vampires, showing tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For starters,…
If you love the macabre but crave a more sophisticated scare, then Capitol Hill Horror Stories at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion, 777 Pennsylvania Street, is just the trick for you. Historian Tom Noel, also known as Dr. Colorado, and a cast of famous and infamous characters from Denver’s past — including…
Voix de la ville means “voice of the city” in French, and promoters Pamela Dore Alford and Jenifer Kuntz took that voice very seriously when they created tonight’s Voix de la Ville: An Evening of Subculture Bliss extravaganza. “It was kind of a collaborative effort,” explains Kuntz. “We called on…
Sometimes late at night, when wind is the only sound in Capitol Hill, if you listen closely, you can hear running footsteps — even though there’s no one around. A dog is howling, even though that dog has been dead for many years. Damn right there are ghosts in Cap…
When was the last time you got to wear your pirate costume, get drunk and laugh out loud at someone? Don’t miss your chance to dress up, drink up and laugh it up, tonight at 8 p.m. at the inaugural Ha Ha Halloween Party at the Comedy Works. Kevin Fitzgerald…
