The Writers’ Strike of 2007 looks to be going into 2008 as well; but late-night programming won’t be following it anymore. NBC has announced that on January 2, both Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show and Late Night with Conan O’Brien will return with new episodes. It’s being reported that David…
As documented in this September blog, John Scherer and his Colorado company, Video Professor, play hardball when it comes to criticism — hence the legal action it took against anonymous online gripes about the firm, which aggressively markets computer-training products via ubiquitous commercials and infomercials that screen nationwide. This time…
Longtime Denver artist Mark Travis died last week in his home and studio near downtown. In precarious health for many years, he is thought to have suffered a heart attack. Travis was born in Ohio in 1952. After moving out West, he became a noted contemporary artist in Denver during…
Monday Tuesday: The halls were empty today at our Dove Valley facility. Tuesday is an empty day in the NFL anyway, but on a Tuesday in late December, you can hear leaky faucets. Not that we have any. Our maintenance crew is excellent. In fact, everyone that steps into that…
This just in: Park County officials have agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a Mexican immigrant who lost his leg as a result of an infection he contracted in the county jail in 2003 while awaiting deportation. The grim saga of Moises Carranza-Reyes, who had…
Just received word from the fine folks at Soda Jerk Presents that the venerable Planes Mistaken for Stars will be playing its last show ever on Saturday, February 16 at the Marquis Theater in the company of friends Mustangs & Madras and Kingdom of Magic. Keep checking Soda Jerk’s site…
Each year before Keystone Chef Ned Archibald leaves to erect his chocolate village in the Keystone Lodge — a masterwork created entirely from chocolate and, in the case of the ornaments on the six-foot-tall white-chocolate Christmas tree, hand-blown sugar — his wife gives him a hug and tells him, “Just…
The following was filed with the Denver Police Department earlier this month: “A group of idiots apparently wants some attention so they used wonderfully colorful markers or paint and ‘tagged’ my garage with their very skillful scripted language that apparently no human being can come close to reading what it…
Your weekend may have been great. But, whether it was a lazy celebration of comfortable couch time or an action-packed journey deep into the heart of consumer-debt darkness at the mall, you missed out if you missed either of these two shows: On Friday, Westworder Jeremy Brashaw stepped a few…
Dinosaur Jr., Hate Fuck Trio and Awesome Color December 14, 2007 Ogden Theatre Better than: Reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for the tenth time. As I stepped off Colfax Avenue, and into the Way-Back Machine of the Ogden Theatre on Friday night, I took a second to reflect…
Monday: I don’t like the sound of morning radio show hosts. I can’t help but picture them as obnoxious party guests. Before I got injured in week 5 of this NFL season against the San Diego Chargers, I was lucky enough to sleep through this noise on a Monday morning…
Kneebody Saturday, December 15, 2007 Dazzle Better than: Watching High Noon with the sound turned off. “This is the crazy set,” Kneebody bassist Kaveh Rastegar alerted the audience before the band embarked on its second set with “High Noon,” a new song by trumpeter Shane Endsley, who was inspired by…
Here’s a selection of the best of last week’s music blogging from around the Village Voice chain: In case you didn’t hear, Ike Turner died last week. Here are some lurid remembrances of the hard-partying, wife-beating icon…
View larger image Louisiana Total Number of Delegates: 67 Pledged: 56 Unpledged: 11 How to Recognize a Louisiana Delegate: The surface of Louisiana may properly be divided into two parts: the swamplands, and the quagmires, which include the townships and parishes built on the bribes and embezzlements of organized political…
As noted in the December 13 Message, the Denver Post recently named two new metro columnists, Susan Greene and William Porter (pictured), whose charge is to write memorably about local doings without chaining themselves to any one ideological viewpoint. In their bows, which saw print on December 16 and 17,…
In recent days, both Denver dailies have published articles noting that a number of influential activists who also happen to be gay are backing former Senate president Joan Fitz-gerald in her 2nd Congressional District race against a prominent gay candidate, Jared Polis. The Rocky Mountain News’ piece on this topic…
The always awesome Onion AV Club has released their annual list of the worst band names of the year, and sweet nougaty center of fuck are there some unspeakable atrocities of names on it. Now, I could spend a few hundred words heaping my own dose of mockery on such…
Dearly Beloved, We are gathered here today to mourn the loss(es) of the Broncos 2007 season. When good teams are killed off at such an early stage, it’s tempting to look back with anger and bitterness. The shocking defeat at the hands of the Raiders leaves us confused and searching…
It’s been almost two months since the University of Colorado Solar Decathlon team, (profiled in the Westword feature “Partly Sunny,” on November 1), returned from the international competition in D.C. only to learn that the house they had built was not immediately welcome at their school. It was going to…
Where I walk into Tattered Cover and randomly select five books from the new release racks to read a random page for 45 seconds and rate the book accordingly. Blogging Heroes: Interviews with 30 of the World’s Top Bloggers By Michael A. Banks Page 35 Doesn’t it seem outmoded to…
This may be Jay-Z’s last year at Def Jam Right now Jay-Z is celebrating a pretty good year as CEO/President of Def Jam. His label garnered 26 Grammy nominations last week, his artists Rihanna and Ne-Yo are blowing up worldwide and his own project, American Gangster, is topping year-end lists…
The great hall of Denver’s Central Public Library had all the edgy tension of a drug stakeout shortly before noon today. Dozens of suspicious characters lurked by book displays or wandered about with an unconvincing air of casualness, eyeing each other balefully. You could feel the nervous energy building, building,…
