Carla Madison could have chosen a different place to meet. A more obvious location might have been St. Mark’s or Fluid or any of the numerous other coffee shops closer to where she lives in City Park West. City Council District 8, her district, encompasses new luxury high-rises in the…
If you are Steve Horner, quit reading. Right now. Because we’re going to talk about your favorite subject, ladies’ night, which is littering the national news, what with both the New Yorker and then an August 20 Nightline segment focusing on Manhattan lawyer Roy Den Hollander’s equally quixotic (and irritating)…
John Dicker and Joel Peach wanted their inaugural Geek Bowl to be a gala event, so they packed it to the gills with entertainment: music, short films, comedy. But the legions of Geeks who trekked across the state last January for this quiz-a-thon didn’t want entertainment. They just wanted trivia,…
Will the real Alex Emerson please stand up? This column is intended for one person and one person only: Alex Emerson. That’s right, I’m talking to you, Alex Emerson, 21-year-old male living in Denver, Colorado, who graduated from Conifer High School in 2004. Yes, you, Alex Emerson, who “loves to…
Do you have what it takes to win a quiz night? Denver’s three leading trivia companies have very different styles, as exemplified by both the questions they ask and the team names their players choose. Try these on for size: Trivia Face Off Favorite Team Names: Alpha Kenny Body (read…
“We don’t have a format,” Dave Navarro boasts about Spread Entertainment, his talk show for Mania TV!, the Denver-based Internet-television purveyor. “We don’t walk in and a band plays and there’s a monologue. But my favorite thing to do is, my partner, Todd Newman, and I go out and shoot…
Q. What is Mike Jones doing at the Irish Rover on a Monday? A. Not soliciting gay sex. Sort of. Mike Jones and the Jäger girls are getting along famously. The two scantily clad swag-peddlers get up periodically to make the rounds at the Irish Rover, with red, flashing medallions…
Although our August 23 interview with Tower of Power founding member Emilio Castillo mostly focused on the band’s new album, the sax player also talked about the early days of playing in Bay Area, coming in at the tail end of the psychedelic scene and having the group’s first record…
This charming machinima explains the essential differences between the Internet and real life, ostensibly for Internet novices. It is the work of Rooster Teeth. It’s “shot” in the Halo 2 multiplayer engine but it has nothing to do with the game. You don’t have to be a gamer to appreciate…
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean blew into Denver mid-day Wednesday to kick off the one-year countdown to the Democratic National Convention. He stood on the sweltering concrete outside the Pepsi Center, along with Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper and Gov. Bill Ritter to pump up hundreds of party loyalists, thank…
View larger image. An observant alleyway walker in Denver spotted this mysterious letter wheatpasted to a brick wall and snapped a pic. Might we declare this the most magnificent piece of street literature ever discovered? Like the reaction Mr. Terry Gold III described having upon smelling his lover’s natural perfume,…
Other than a short telephone conversation and a brief formal statement, Mary Louise Starkey, founder and head of the Starkey International Institute of Household Management, declined to answer further questions for “At Your Disservice,” which detailed allegations of shoddy management, questionable educational programs and other turmoil at this Denver-based butler…
Korn guitarist Munky appeared to be more than a little befuddled during a conversation with Westword for an August 24 profile. A sizable percentage of questions during the interview (which took place on August 1, the day after the release of Korn’s eighth studio disc, Untitled) seemed to confuse him,…
It was cruel and unusual to only list the answers to these trivial questions here, but here they are: Trivia Face Off Sample Questions • What team was defeated to bring Denver its first major sports championship? Florida Panthers • Alex Trebek provided the voice of “Alan Quebec,” a game-show…
The Dave Navarro who was interviewed by Westword for the August 23 Message column is very different from the one who chatted with the paper by phone in late 1990. During that conversation, he was slurring his words, sniffing loudly, bumping into furniture, losing track of his thoughts and otherwise…
Slide Show “This song is not a rebel song. This song is ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday!’” This song is beset by incorrectly tuned guitars. But let’s not get too nitpicky about local U2 tribute band Under a Blood Red Sky’s performance of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and the rest of their act…
Yesterday was supposed to be D-Day for Lost and Found, a Christian youth residential-treatment facility attempting to move their facilities into Clear Creek County, yet coming up against heated opposition by some NIMBY neighbors afraid of the type of children being transplanted into their community. Because yesterday, in a sweltering…
The debate over gas drilling on the Roan Plateau has become one of the most intriguing and critical environmental battles in the West since the days of Two Forks. The recent acceleration of political maneuvering over the issue deserves close scrutiny, since the outcome will tell us a great deal…
Judge Jane Tidball keeps a tight schedule in her Jefferson County courtroom, but because a couple of jurors showed up late on day two of Michael Tate’s murder trial, the start of testimony was delayed for more than twenty minutes. Once the jury was finally seated, the victim’s wife of…
With Howard Dean in town today to start the one-year countdown to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, I can finally reveal the secret that swung the DNC in this city’s direction: Swingers…
If you love making fashion, it’s time to crawl out from behind your sewing machine, because the Denver Public Library and Fabric Lab are teaming up for “Frock Out Denver: Independent Designers Challenge and Runway Show.” Twelve designers will be accepted for this year’s challenge, and the winner will receive…
So I went into the LoDo branch of everyone’s favorite independent bookstore today and found they’d rearranged the natural order of things. The bargain books section is gone, the remainder of the remainders are now sprinkled among the full retail titles in fiction, biography, etc. As an epic news event,…
