Pity the fool hired to scribble the DVD-jacket copy for Kurt Cobain: About a Son: The film sounds horrific on paper. It’s a 92-minute experimental documentary about the endlessly lionized “alternative” icon that doesn’t include a guitar lick of his music, a testimonial from anyone personally acquainted with the man,…
Wristcutters: A Love Story, a well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic, has to be the kewpie doll of current zombie flicks: Its walking dead are a bunch of attractive slackers whose wounds are largely internal. They’ve got attitude. Before the opening credits end, the movie’s glum protagonist has…
John Cusack, who more or less began his career sneaking a peek at Molly Ringwald’s panties in Sixteen Candles, has finally become an on-screen daddy — only took, what, 23 years? Except he’s not exactly the most fortunate family man on film: First, in Martian Child, he plays a widower…
American Gangster is a movie with obvious gravitas and a familiar argument: Organized crime is outsider capitalism. As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem dope king Frank Lucas in Hollywood heaven, heir to Scarface and the Godfather. Or, as suggested by the Mark Jacobson…
From the back yard of the house, Sean Hauze and Adam Rude can see the Washington Monument and the Capitol, but the thrill of that view wore off long ago. The University of Colorado students have been in Washington, D.C., for well over a week, scrambling with a dozen teammates…
On Channel 31’s October 28 late newscast, correspondent Leland Vittert presented a hard-hitting exposé on beer — specifically, the oceans of brew consumed by LoDo patrons during a weekend that saw the Colorado Rockies host the Boston Red Sox for two games of the 2007 World Series. After revealing that…
In the middle of a table in Konrad Steffen’s office at the University of Colorado at Boulder sits a strikingly beautiful globe made of hand-carved gemstones. Steffen, a geography professor, knows very well that sooner or later the globe will have to be revised. The coastline will shift, swallowing the…
Dear Mexican: How do I go to the Mexican grocery store and bakery to buy supplies for our Día de los Muertos party without looking like I’m doing the kitschy-goofy thing I’m doing? I walk up to the register and smile ingratiatingly, saying “Gracias” as usual — but a basketful…
If someone where to ask me, “What do you want on your tombstone, Adam?” I would make some hilarious joke about cheese and pepperoni and then say the actual epitaph, which would be this: He held up a mirror, and allowed us to see ourselves in a way that, while…
This month, Jack in the Box returns to Colorado with a new store in Golden, followed by locations in Arvada, Parker and Aurora. That’s big news, and not just for people who love greasy tacos and burgers on sourdough bread. The San Diego-based fast-food chain was fairly well represented here…
“Mr. Wizard,” Jason Sheehan, October 25 The Golden Rule If any restaurant reviewer is up to the task of appraising Westminster’s astounding O’s Steak & Seafood restaurant and its chef, Ian Kleinman, it’s your Jason Sheehan. Few, if any, critics have his mix of relevant traits: experience, fair-mindedness, honesty and…
Update: Click here and here for live blog coverage of the entire event. Chuck Morris is an icon. His legacy in this town has already been firmly established, and he’s really got nothing left to prove to anyone — except, perhaps, himself. And since he’s successfully promoted concerts here for…
The media’s coverage of the Colorado Rockies’ remarkable late-season surge is put under the microscope throughout the November 1 Message column. However, there wasn’t enough room in the petri dish to fully discuss the dubious performance of the team’s public-relations personnel, as well as past problems spelled out in a…
The mini-profile of Northern State that appears in the November 1 issue of Westword springs from the following maxi-Q&A with Julie Potash, one of three MCs in the sprightly hip-hop act. It’s her second interview with the paper, but the first one to actually appear in print; a previous article…
The conversation with Northern State’s Julie Potash found in this blog isn’t her first chat with Westword. She spoke with the paper in the fall of 2003 in advance of a planned performance in the Denver area, and the interview formed the basis of a full-length profile – but when…
Blake Mooney was recently laid off from his job at NewMediaCompany.com and has somehow found some time to give a glimpse into the week in the life of a man on the dole. This is his story. Monday Tuesday Wednesday: Everyone knows if you’re a male and you find yourself…
Nick Hutchinson recently had the chance to chat with legendary bluegrass purveyor Pete Wernick about his influences, how he got his nickname and the difference between playing with Hot Rize and with Flexigrass. We ran a few highlights from their conversation in the November 1 issue, and here, in the…
As noted in this blog, TV comics have been ripping the Colorado Rockies ever since the Boston Red Sox snuffed out their late-season winning streak in brutal (and widely televised) fashion. But Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, host of the regularly hilarious Colbert Report, deserves special praise for criticizing one…
The night after the Colorado Rockies were swept out of the World Series, the late-night comics started hitting the team out of the park. First Stephen Colbert took aim at the Rockies’ attempts to copyright “Rocktober,” and then David Letterman offered up his Top Ten Colorado Rockies Excuses: 10: “Even…
Bill Ward, the club guy behind Slim 7 at 1443 Larimer Street and owner of Denver’s new, and until recently unnamed, pizza restaurant in the alley between 14th and 15th streets on Larimer Square, has finally settled on a moniker: the Pie Hole. Ward had been fighting for his right…
Bill Ward, the club guy behind Slim 7 at 1443 Larimer Street and owner of Denver’s new, and until recently unnamed, pizza restaurant in the alley between 14th and 15th streets on Larimer Square, has finally settled on a moniker: the Pie Hole. Ward had been fighting for his right…
“Back to My Old Ways” Dr. Dog We All Belong Every time I hear the tinkly piano into to this song – the only one I like by this band – I think of Bobby Bare Jr. Bare is my favorite live performer touring these days, and I caught up…
