Thickly bearded and shrouded beneath a floppy hat, Sir Richard Bishop warmed up the eager, Monday night crowd. Sort of an edgier Leo Kottke, after about thirty minutes of lighting-quick guitar instrumentals he lightheartedly lambasted the freak folk scene, trying to count the beards in the crowd. Then he broke…

Click the links for a slideshow of the event The Omens Hi-Dive Saturday, May 19th Yerkish and Red Cloud West Oriental Theater Friday, May 18th The BBC America Brit Bus Tour Civic Center Park Saturday, May 19th Bow Wow Vows Aspen Grove Saturday, May 19th…

The concept is great: a marathon on the longest non-highway street in America. It’s the reality that sucks, at least for those of us who subjected ourselves yesterday to the torture that was the Colorado Colfax marathon. The course is an uphill battle of Colfaxian proportions, with the majority of…

Red Room (along with seven other bars along East Colfax) 7:00 pm Saturday, May 19 My favorite memory from my first Colfax Crawl was my former German roommate being mistaken for a prostitute. We were sitting on the corner of Colfax and Williams stuffing Burger King in our drunken mouths,…

Enough already. Our local guardians of morals have been getting a lot of mileage out of being shocked, shocked, at the way a panel of randy “experts” from the World Affairs Conference were allowed to espouse sexual experimentation to Boulder High School kids last month. Vince Carroll has been turning…

Three of television’s biggest shows are wrapping up their seasons tonight -I have only watch one episode of this show (“Swag”). I like what I saw but I never get home in time to see it. Also the second half is on during the The Office. But I am getting…

Chief, I used some miles to upgrade to business class on the flight over here thinking I might cop a few z’s and arrive in Europe fresh. The only problem with this plan is my notorious penchant to abuse open bars. I am older and wiser now, so I thought…

Click here to view the slideshow It was disaster waiting to happen. In the second week of April, Aurora officials got some phone calls warning that the Blue Spruce Motel, a notorious dump on East Colfax, could be closing any day. On Friday, April 13, Aurora’s community development planner, Paul…

There has been big buzz about the Transformers movie coming out this July. Personally, I could care less. Wake me up when there is a ThunderCats movie. I am all about the hotness that is Lion-O. Michael Bay, the director of the Transformers movie, release high-resolution pictures of the robots…

Click here for the slideshow Space. Enough space for nine-year-old Charity Norwood to play. Space for her older sister, Essence, and space for her older brother. Micah. Space for her younger siblings: JoVaughn, Autumn and Majesty. And finally, some space for Lisa Norwood, the mother of the six children who…

“On my second night at Fruition, I lit my menu on fire. It wasn’t a big fire—just the sort one gets from an unfortunate proximity of a heavy-bond paper menu to a small candle on the dinner table. I put the fire out with the palm of my hand—thankful, in…

Former Westword staffer Tony Perez-Giese is now looking for stories around the globe, and will be sending us periodic dispatches. A final weekend in Vegas is just the last in what has proved to be a long string of bad decisions. It is slight comfort to know that I did…

Attention young, hip, creative-types of Denver! Need a photo to help launch your musical, acting, fashion, artistic, writing, dancing and/or modeling career? Look no further than local scenesterette Sarah Cass. The 21-year-old photographer from Grand Junction has been building quite a portfolio as of late by snapping promo pics for…

Image from Wikipedia The Glo Worm was a toy only the 80s could love. It had one function–glowing when it was hugged tight. But that one purpose made it one of the top selling toys during the decade. I was 7-years-old when I learned that the hard face of the…

Today Colorado senators Wayne Allard and Ken Salazar, along with congressional reps Mark Udall and Marilyn Musgrave, gathered with Long’s Peak as their backdrop and announced a “new” piece of legislation that was 33 years in the making. Allard spoke of the “immense tectonic forces” that shaped Rocky Mountain National…

Never heard of a Violet Crumble? Don’t worry, because neither has most of the rest of the world outside of Australia, Hawaii and parts of the U.K. But personally, I’m somewhat obsessed with the stranger extremes of the confectionery arts and have spent many an evening wandering around the dry-stock…

Okay, so after the totally less-than-smashing success of my last attempt at getting all you grubniks more involved in the day-to-day business of this blog thingamajig (my ill-fated “What’s your favorite taste of Colorado” question, posed just ahead of this year’s Best of Denver issue in a thinly-veiled and desperate…