If you didn’t get your three-wheeled fix from “Wheels of Fortune,” here’s even more of everything you wanted to know about pedicabs but were afraid to ask. I would’ve been remiss if I’d written the story without trying to interview Tony Wheeler, one of the global authorities on rickshaws. While…
Tim Blumenthal, executive director of Bikes Belong, a Boulder-based bicycle-advocacy group, has a dream for the Democratic National Convention, and it’s a big one: “I imagine Newsweek or Time, and on the magazine’s first photo spread of the convention, you see a sea of cyclists pedaling on the Cherry Creek…
Joe Polara and his four-year-old son, Luka, cruise through northwest Denver, past the Victorians topped with solar panels, the dogs yipping through the fence posts and the old men poking at their lawns — many of whom gape at Polara’s shiny black pedicab. “It’s definitely a good conversation-starter,” Polara says…
The sales pitches are assorted and relentless, shouted to an endless flood of pedestrians bedecked in Colorado Rockies attire streaming down the 16th Street Mall. “How about a ride to the game, folks?” “Lighten your load a little bit!” “Give your kids a thrill!” One man in a Red Sox…
If you want to work out in style, you head to the Denver Athletic Club. From the seafood medley served up in the club tavern to the shoe-shine stand, this 124-year-old institution is where the snobs go to sweat. It would seem obvious, therefore, that the DAC would be an…
The bouncer on stage did a decent Axl Rose impression — complete with bandanna. “All we need is just a little patience,” he sang into the karaoke mic. In the room next door, a DJ mixed Stevie Wonder’s “Uptight (Everything’s Alright)” with “Sweet Child O’ Mine.” It could only be…
We received a pajamas letter response in the mail! No, it didn’t come from our original pajamas lover. This one came from one of you, dear readers, someone who was obviously so inspired by our pajamas drawings that she just had to send us a depiction of her jammies. And…
If the super-charged computers that Boulder-based company Umbria uses to break down the blogs, message boards and online social networks into lucrative market research had feelings, they’d be blushing right about now. Over the past few days the blogosphere – which the company number crunches into a massive, constantly-updated focus…
While we wait with baited breath for the mysterious pajamas lover we accidentally discovered to respond to our creative renderings of our pajamas, we’ve been wondering: What’s up with pajamas? Why would someone be so obsessed with PJs they’d seek out random drawings of strangers’ nocturnal garments? Why not request…
Ah… the “Gay Boyfriend.” Where would the modern woman be without her favorite accessory? Take, for example, Grace’s Will (may they rest in peace.). Or Wilhelmina’s Marc. Or, of course, Carrie’s Stanford (That movie comes out in 63 days, by the way. I’m totally taking that day off). I, myself,…
Trey Deuce original gangster Brad Braxton had been locked up before. He’d been to jail for assault and to prison for selling crack and caught cases for weapons, too. But no one ever called him a sex offender, not until Denver Sheriff’s deputies arrested him last summer when he went…
Hold onto your hamburgers and tune up your drive-thrus, Denver: Steve Bigari is coming to town. Bigari, a Colorado Springs McDonald’s franchise owner who used one of his more ingenious fast-food inventions, a drive-thru call center, to break the drive-thru world record for number of customers served per hour in…
Da Vinci had his canvas. Michelangelo had the Sistine Chapel ceiling. We have snowboards. Yep, that sleek fusion of laminate and fiberglass streaking down the slopes has become the modern canvas for artistic prodigies everywhere. Don’t believe us? Check out an exhibition tonight of submissions for the second annual Design…
As you may remember, trusty readers, I recently came upon a mysterious, unsigned letter in the deposit-envelope receptacle of a downtown ATM machine requesting that I draw a picture of my “normal pajamas” and send it back in an included self-addressed stamped envelope. Since, as a rule, I always do…
Sunshine Megatron, the Donald Trump of online T-shirt sales (if Donald Trump were slightly mad, changed his name to that of a gay robot and didn’t have any furniture in his house), is still considering whether or not to stay in Denver after moving here on a whim several months…
Do you like green eggs and ham? I do not like them, Sam-I-am. I do not like green eggs and ham! It was September 28, 2003, Andrew Pogany’s second day in Iraq, and he was steering a Land Rover through the night toward Samarra with another Special Forces soldier on…
Outlandish name-changing T-shirt mogul Sunshine Megatron recently moved to Denver, but since so far he hasn’t liked what he’s seen, he may soon be pulling up his stakes and heading off to parts unknown. Since this town needs as many crazy Cristal-swilling millionaires as it can get, Westword is hoping…
Here begins the saga of the pajamas letter. One evening several weeks ago, I stopped by the Wells Fargo branch at 17th Avenue and Broadway to deposit the considerable amount of money I regularly make as a gainfully employed writer. Unfortunately, the deposit-envelope receptacle next to the machine appeared to…
As you may have heard, crazy millionaire Sunshine Megatron, creator of the notorious and highly successful website www.tshirthell.com, recently moved to Denver. Our newest celebrity may not stick around long, however, since he’s already growing weary of the Mile High City. To find out why, we gave Mr. Megatron a…
At first, employees at the new Ritz-Carlton downtown didn’t believe that a wealthy businessman named Sunshine Megatron had checked into the hotel for a long-term stay. Why would Megatron, who made millions selling offensive T-shirts through his website, www.tshirthell.com, be living in a Denver hotel? And what was up with…
On the all-important neighborhood catwalk, that Bugaboo stroller-wear is so 2007. To up your little one’s luxe factor, it’s best to drape him in this season’s hottest look: the Yummsie, crafted by maestro Ray Young Chu of the fashion-forward Denver art collective the Yummies. Here’s an effortlessly chic example from…
“It’s sort of a cliche: They don’t make independent films like they used to,” says local film curator extraordinaire Christopher May. Unfortunately, that cliche is true. That’s why May has helped organize the new Classic Arthouse Series every second and fourth Saturday of the month at Neighborhood Flix Cinema &…
