“Tag the Fag,” Adam Cayton-Holland, September 6 The Crying Game I always enjoy Adam Cayton-Holland’s writing, whether it’s his weekly column or another contribution. I don’t know how old he is, but his tone strikes a chord with me (I’m 28). The latest What’s So Funny? only further confirms that…
It’s a disaster in the making. “Since the terrible events of September 11, 2001, and with the increasing and widespread concern for pandemic influenza worldwide, Coloradans have been deluged with constant warnings about their ongoing safety,” reads the What If? Colorado program overview page prepared by the Office of Emergency…
Dear Mexican: I am addressing this to both you and Dan Savage, hoping one of you will have an answer: Why do Mexican chicks yell for their papi during sex? Daddy del Diablo Dear Readers: After getting the above query, Dan Savage, author of the pinche hilarious column Savage Love,…
Although the Democratic National Convention doesn’t open in Denver until August 25, 2008, press coverage in these parts makes it seem as if the balloons are just about to drop. There’s hardly an edition of a local daily newspaper or a nightly newscast that doesn’t include some tidbit of DNC…
With its 21-cents-a-mile fee, the E-470 tollway doesn’t exactly sound the siren song of the open road. Still, a new ad campaign features Coloradans waxing poetic about the thoroughfare. The promotion, dubbed “ME-470,” is the result of an American Idol-inspired contest that asked the toll road’s users to write stories…
Whatever grand plan developer Evan Makovsky comes up with for Block 162, construction won’t start for several years, at least. In the meantime, the Downtown Denver Partnership has launched the “Ultimate Urban Space” initiative. The non-profit organization is asking community members to e-mail suggestions for creative temporary uses — including…
Animal abuse is alive and well in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I learned this firsthand while strolling through that clustered web of streets and alleyways. It was Saturday, late morning, and Chinatown was hemorrhaging Asian hordes. I was floored. Denver just doesn’t have Asians like this. Sure, we have a few,…
Pedestrians are the key to downtown Denver’s future, which is why they’re such a big part of the new Downtown Area Plan, a twenty-year growth strategy released in July. “Every decision is focused on how to facilitate pedestrians and bicycle usage in downtown,” says John Desmond, vice president for urban…
Unpack your berets and bongos and prepare for a finger-snappin’ sit-in at the Denver City & County Building. Because on September 18, when the city reveals its choice for the next One Book, One Denver selection, it will not be On the Road. Again. Never mind that author Jack Kerouac…
One spring night in 2006, Evan Makovsky and his wife, Evi, walked the 16th Street Mall from the Residence Inn on Champa Street to California Street on their way to a fundraising dinner at the towering new Hyatt Regency Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. The couple, who live in…
Old people and young people have a natural rivalry, like cats and dogs. Except cats don’t turn into dogs eventually, so it’s not quite the same. Anyway, at least since lawns were invented, old people have been yelling at kids to get off theirs. And kids have been wishing old…
Rilo Kiley, Jonathan Rice and Grand Ole Party September 11, 2007 The Ogden Theater Better than: The next Denver show they play, which will undoubtedly be at the Fillmore and I’ll be that snob you know who says, “I saw them at the 15th Street Tavern on their first tour,…
The Wayne Coyne profile that appears in the September 13 edition of Westword represents the SparkNotes version of a recent interview. Below, find the original text of our conversation with the Flaming Lips frontman, appearing unabridged and in its entirety. Coyne talks amusingly and at length about his band’s 2006…
Space: When it comes to physical newspapers, there never seems to be enough of it. But on the web, there’s room aplenty – and that capacity allows us to expand a Now Hear This concert preview item about the Used that appears in the September 13 Westword to a full…
It’s weird how you people out there think. I mean, I can write the worst, most scurrilous things about some beloved local vegetarian restaurant and you let it go by without comment. I can pen a fawning crush note to some rinky-dink taqueria and if I hear anything from the…
Here’s a brief look at some of the items America is desperate to learn about today: Leave Britney alone Video blogger Chris Cocker completely loses it and goes on shrieking, sobbing, incoherent tirade inveighing people to just please, please leave poor Britney Spears alone. Looks like Britney’s remaining fans are…
A distinct odor greeted the visiting dignitaries as they donned hardhats and toured Alpine Waste’s spanking-new, $5-million recycling plant in Adams County this afternoon, a dumpster away from Furniture Row. A warm, ripe, garbagey odor, probably from the food residue clinging to the tin cans being sucked off a conveyor…
The Downtown Denver Partnership wants your ideas to gussy up Block 162, since most of the block will remain unoccupied for foreseeable future while Evan Makovsky decides what to build on it. And we can’t have an entire city block looking like Ground Zero on September 12 when the Democratic…
The Arcade Fire is one of the exciting and inventive acts to come out in the few years. Inventive instrumentation, and plugs from people like David Bowie, made their debut album Funeral a Cinderella success story and overnight they became the next it band. And they’ve capitalized on that success…
Josh Rouse cannot make a dark-sounding record to save his life. His latest offering, Country Mouse, City House, was supposed to contain the musical equivalency of a New England winter day: overcast and cold with a high probability for snow. Instead, the disc sparkles with sunshine, smiling melodies and enough…
Dodos and Jennifer Gentle September 11, 2007 hi-dive Better than: Wearing yet another hole in my Syd Barrett vinyl. Due to a late cancellation by one of the opening bands, the Jennifer Gentle show started late. As is usually the case when a show starts late, I arrived early which…
The letters section of Westword’s September 13 issue is absolutely jam-packed with missives from readers responding to the previous week’s Message column about the weakness of far too many current comics. Still, we couldn’t fit every worthy take in the print edition — so here are three more pieces of…
