Since time immemorial, we’ve liked our artists deceased. The fame, the money, you may experience those in your lifetime. But the respect, that only comes after you die–preferably young and in an unexpected way. From Vincent van Gogh to Robert Johnson, the list on artists who passed on to the…
Last week, we asked you to guess what Westboro Baptist Church might hate next after they declared their loathing for the American flag. Now, just in time for the Fred Phelps Traveling Circus’ threatened appearance in Fort Collins, here are the hilarious results…
You could say the Say So kind of sounds like the Killers in the aggressive drums and quick stabs of guitar, or you might say the band calls to mind At the Drive-In in the vocal acrobatics and the way it plays with tempo-changing breakdowns. You probably would not compare…
They just don’t make ’em like they used to. Tonight, the Denver Art Museum combats that slipshod rush of the efficient modern world with “Sloth,” the latest entry in its Untitled series, during which the museum hosts musicians, performers and activities centered around a theme on the last Friday of…
Julie Geller bills her latest release, You’re With Me, as “a unique blend of folk and Jewish music” — but unless you count one song that kind of sounds like a Yiddish version of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and a couple of pop numbers in Hebrew, it doesn’t really…
There’s one for every generation: the shock rocker. For those of us who grew up in the ’90s, it was Marilyn Manson. For our parents, it was Alice Cooper. For the current crop of young, impressionable minds, it’s, uh, Lady Gaga, apparently. As reported (and poorly sourced) by notorious U.K…
Like so many new albums from old dudes, it’s not that Ozzy Osbourne’s Scream, which was released today, is not good, per se — it’s that it’s not needed. While Osbourne’s new effort updates his shtick a bit — it sounds like he’s been listening to a long of Norwegian…
The best of today’s Denver blogs What’s Ted Haggard been doing lately? Well, for starters, he’s opened a new church, and 5280 reports that his recent tweets are reflecting some curiously liberal views on religion. A “concerned citizen” clues the Denver Egotist into a disparity between the talk that Downtown…
Last week, Governor Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that rigorously steps up consequences for “peeping Toms.” Drafted by state representative Joe Rice and sponsored by state senator Evie Hudak, the bill essentially makes invasion of privacy — or peeping — a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, which was…
We all know that every single weekend in Denver is like a confectionery of delicious shows: Too many choices, too little time. But if you have a hard time with that status quo, you’re going to be ripping your hair out with indecision this weekend, because it’s finally here, the…
A magnet for controversy since opening its doors last fall, Perky Cups, the Aurora coffee shop notorious for its teeny-weenie-bikini baristas, called it quits today. Reportedly, the closure was due to a rent dispute, but the shop’s case certainly wasn’t helped along by Aurora Councilwoman Molly Markert’s morally outraged letter…
Yesterday, we brought you a hilarious press release from the Westboro Baptist Church, Kansas’ most comical hate group, condemning flag day. Because God, evidently, really dislikes flags. Besides the Old Glory, God evidently also hates a variety of random things, like football, pop music, Catholics, communists and Ronnie James Dio…
Denver Health broke ground this week on a four-story building that by late next year will be home to an adolescent psychiatric facility. Although the psych ward’s new digs won’t be a whole lot bigger, Denver Health officials say they will be a lot better. In terms of hard numbers,…
The best of today’s Denver blogs Is Xcel using green sentiment to justify hiking its rates for “dirty” power? Face the State makes the case that the legislature is writing the power utility a “giant blank check.” 5280 congratulates Colorado schools for getting 29 schools on Newsweek’s list of its…
Perhaps you’ve heard by now about the “riot” that happened a few days ago in New York surrounding a free concert featuring Drake and Hanson. Weird that there was a riot at a concert featuring two of maybe the blandest performers ever to exist. Weirder still is that Hanson and…
Before James Mejia even announced he was running, “James Mejia for Mayor” was a Facebook page with a thousand fans (and no personal affiliation with Mejia). This morning, Mejia filed his formal candidacy for mayor of Denver, making him the first official candidate in the race, close to a year…
For 46 years, the National Center for Atmospheric Research has had a supercomputing center at its Mesa Laboratory headquarters in Boulder. This week, NCAR broke ground on a new facility. The center uses supercomputers — which can process 76 trillion operations per second, says NCAR head of Media Relations David…
Chalk up another one on the list of random things the Westboro Baptist Church hates: Flags. In honor of Flag Day, the WBC issued a (probably unintentionally) hilarious press release — which came a day late, because evidently it takes a little while to write a song about how “They’ll…
The best of today’s Denver blogs The Colorado Independent reports on Nestle’s ridiculous plan to drain millions of gallons from the Arkansas river near Buena Vista and drive it 120 miles to Denver. WhoSaidYouSaid says Andrew Romanoff said Michael Bennet won’t say what he stands for. Purple Row’s Jeff Aberle…
The homicide that took place yesterday afternoon two blocks east of Monaco on 39th Avenue, near Martin Luther King Park, is turning into a pretty open-and-shut case. Police responding to a call about two men in a loud argument arrived at the scene only to find one of the men…
The genius of Vince Offer’s sales-pitch send-up of Eminem’s Recovery — and of most parodies, really — is that it forces the record into a ridiculous context (a thing to “put on your hose,” among other uses). And though the video may or may not actually help Marshall Mathers’ sales…
As anyone who’s been in LoDo at closing time can attest, when 10,000 drunks pour into the street at the same time, it’s like the fan just waiting to get hit by the, well, you know what. So how do you stop shit from happening? With “nighttime economies” becoming major…
